by TEAM APEN | Dec 9, 2025 | Blog, Events, Issues, Location, Los Angeles, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
Download the report here After years of asthma, sickness, and death for nearby residents, Los Angeles’ Phillips 66 refinery is on its way out. Now, frontline communities are counting on elected officials and responsible agencies to clean up refinery sites and ensure...
by Ann Alexander | Dec 5, 2025 | Blog, Location, Los Angeles, Standing Up to Big Polluters, Statewide, Stories
.By Ann Alexander, Author of “Before the Last Drop: Lessons from the Phillips 66 Los Angeles Refinery Closure” Sacramento has seen significant sturm and drang this year about the prospect of California oil refinery closures and the impact they could have...
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 TEAM APEN | Feb 26, 2024 | Statewide, Stories
At the beginning of 2023, we decided we were going to do something different. Instead of focusing our energy on big external campaigns, we were going to dig deep with our membership, articulating a vision for the future rooted in our members’ lived experiences and...
by TEAM APEN | Jul 13, 2023 | Climate Resilience, Statewide
Exploring Potential Resilience Hubs in California Overview The Candidate Resilience Hub Mapping Tool (beta) allows users to explore opportunities for resilience hubs in communities throughout California. This interactive map contains information about: potential...
by TEAM APEN | Feb 2, 2023 | Statewide, Stories
In 2022, we organized and hit the streets demanding justice. We won real changes for neighborhoods like ours throughout California. We expanded our organizing in working-class Asian immigrant and refugee communities, including to a new base in Los Angeles, while...
