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Richmond Progressive Alliance Celebrates 20 Years

"To all of our community past, present, and future, I hope you are renewed in your commitment to the movement and our organization for the future. To our candidates; keep the tradition strong. Run like our futures depend on your integrity and love for Richmond." — BK Williams, Co-Chair, RPA.

 

Mission

The RPA is an independent progressive organization that seeks to unite Richmond’s diverse communities and form alliances with other community-based organizations to actively promote social justice, economic equality, health, environmental protection, and democracy. We work to elect government officials who share these progressive values, and who do not accept corporate donations.

Core Values

  • One Richmond. A better Richmond is possible only through our working to achieve unity of the different populations that make up our diverse city. We need a united community effort to take on the problems of economic inequality, crime and violence, and the environmental crisis, which are destroying our children’s future, our infrastructure, and our safety nets.
  • Democracy is about people, not corporations. Large corporations have too much power in our society. In all our activities and campaigns, we refuse contributions from corporations and try to answer their power with the voluntary activity of large numbers of people.
  • Democracy is about government being transparent, the public making the important decisions, working with elected officials, holding them accountable. It also requires ending the back-room politics of corporations using their power, pulling strings, or buying support through contributions.
  • Diversity and respect for each other's ideas. We don't all agree on every issue and invite discussion in our newsletter. We are people who live, work, or are active in Richmond, some for many generations and some who are recent immigrants. We are registered to many parties, or as independents, “declined to state,” and are sometimes not voters. We all agree on the need to build a strong progressive movement where people support each other.

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What We Do

Democracy Is About People, Not Corporations

We refuse contributions from corporate donors. Instead, we mobilize large numbers of people to fight for social justice, economic equality, health, environmental protection, and democracy.

 

Power to the People

Corporate-free candidates, fair elections and taxes, equitable representation

Affordable Housing

Rent control, just-cause eviction, no corporate housing

Arts and Culture

Safe, accessible public spaces for all individuals and their families

Environmental Justice

Holding polluters accountable, investing in a sustainable future economy

Public Safety

Holistic, community-based crisis prevention and de-escalation

Worker's Rights

Living wages, benefits for local workers, small businesses, and entrepreneurs

Youth Empowerment

Training and empowering the future generation of civic and community leaders

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Building a Better Richmond Together

February 10, 2025

Hello, District 6 residents! It has been an eventful January, and I hope you are taking time to care for one another in the face of many difficult challenges our community faces from the new presidential administration. In this month’s newsletter, I will share...

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Latest News from Richmond City Hall

February 03, 2025

Groundbreaking at Boorman Park On Thursday, January 30, 2025, Richmond broke ground on Boorman Park. City Manager Shasa Curl thanked the Public Works and Community Services staff for integrating public feedback as well as securing state and federal funding to create a new vision...

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