by Sandy Saeteurn | Aug 7, 2023 | Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
11 years ago, the Chevron refinery exploded. It wasn’t a surprise. Eleven years ago today, a massive fire at the Chevron Richmond refinery clouded the skyline and sent 15,000 Richmond residents to the hospital. APEN’s Contra Costa Political Manager Sandy Saeteurn, a...
by TEAM APEN | May 11, 2023 | Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
Flowers for our Families Chanh and Manh’s family pose together for a photograph in Richmond, California. Chanh stands second to top right; her brother Manh stands closer to center, holding his son. This May, APEN elders and youth will unveil a mural that pays tribute...
by Ashley Phuthama, APEN Youth Intern | Oct 7, 2022 | Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
Why I got on a bus at 6am to go to Sacramento This June, I left my house at 6am on a Thursday morning to get on a bus to Sacramento. I wasn’t going on a school trip – at my high school in Contra Costa County, summer break had started weeks earlier. I was going to a...
by TEAM APEN | Jan 15, 2021 | Issues, Location, Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
We are honoring the lives of Mr. Thongsoun Phuthama and his wife, Boua Vanvilay, who passed away from COVID-19 on December 22 and 25th respectively. Thoungsoun and Boua were both active leaders in Richmond’s Laotian community, and their passing, amidst so much other...
by TEAM APEN | Dec 16, 2020 | Climate Resilience, Issues, Location, Richmond, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Stories
A New Generation in Richmond by Denny Khamphanthong, Richmond Community Organizer, APEN I still remember the first time I learned about APEN. It was a cold, drizzly September morning in San Francisco during the People’s March for Climate, Jobs and Justice in 2018. I...
by Marie Choi | Aug 13, 2020 | Richmond, Safe, Stable, and Affordable Housing, Stories
Over the past year, APEN member leaders Brandy Khansouvong and Sary Tatpaporn interviewed Laotian Americans in Richmond through the RichmondLAND Building Power Fellowship. Richmond is Home: Preventing a Second Displacement of Laotian Americans documents their...
