by TEAM APEN | Oct 7, 2025 | Los Angeles, Media, Press Releases, Uncategorized
Contact: Isa Flores-Jones, ifloresjones@apenaction.org Blake Marquez, blake.marquez@sunstonestrategies.org El Segundo, CA – On Thursday, residents of the South Bay felt their homes rocked by an explosion of heat and flames from the El Segundo Chevron refinery....
by TEAM APEN | Feb 24, 2025 | Statewide, Stories
Right now, billionaires and their cronies are dismantling our federal government; taking aim at working families, immigrants and LGBTQ people; and giving big corporations free rein to pollute our air and water. With this backdrop, it can be easy to forget to celebrate...
by Jessica Aquino, APEN LA Member | Dec 16, 2024 | Los Angeles, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
We deserve gardens, not refineries When I think about what I love about my city, the first thing that comes to mind is my grandparents’ garden. Some of the fondest memories of my childhood were playing with the seeds and plants in my grandparents’ backyard in Carson,...
by Janielle Torregosa | Oct 4, 2024 | Los Angeles, Stories
Land is Life: Three Lessons from Bai Bibyaon Ligkayan and the Lumad Community October 2024. Here we are: one full year since the genocide in Gaza ignited, the presidential elections are a month away, and people across the country are grieving and rebuilding in the...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 17, 2024 | Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
Our 2024 Ballot Measure Endorsements This election, the stakes couldn’t be higher. While the presidential election is top of mind for many voters, in California working-class communities of color are leading bold campaigns for a better future – a future where all of...
by TEAM APEN | Sep 6, 2024 | Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
“It was always our intention to set a precedent.” Richmond refinery communities made the front page of the internet this week with a Politico feature on our Polluters Pay campaign and the local organizing that made it possible. Read that article here....
