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January 22, 2021

By Sue Wilson The Richmond City Council is now setting the terms for the Safe Parking Pilot Program, a one-year pilot program that will provide a secure, professionally-managed location for those living in RVs or cars in Richmond. The project is funded by in-lieu...

November 14, 2020

Following Contra Costa County’s semi-official Election Night final results (which showed RPA-backed candidates winning by margins of 13 to 20 percent), BK Williams, Chair of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, offered this statement: The Richmond Progressive Alliance acknowledges and thanks all the candidates who ran...

August 16, 2020

Transportation is a human right.  Whether you choose to drive a car, ride a bike or take the bus, your ability to safely get to school, work or the doctor is right up there with food, clothing and shelter as one of the basic...

August 01, 2020

RPA 2020 Voter Guide Richmond City Council Endorsements District 1: Melvin Willis District 5: Gayle McLaughlin District 6: Claudia Jimenez WCCUSD Board Endorsements Area 1: Jamela Smith-Folds Area 2: Otheree Christian Area 4: Demetrio Gonzales-Hoy Area 5: Leslie Reckler Other Endorsements for Local Races...

June 23, 2020

Suggested talking points Urge the Council to reallocate funding from the police budget to prevent the city from reducing or closing services, especially the Richmond Public Library. Call for a task force to be created, with Black youth and people impacted by policing, to...

June 18, 2020

The Richmond Progressive Alliance stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in imagining and creating a world free of anti-Blackness, where every Black person has the social, economic, and political power to thrive. We support the demand to defund and divest from...

June 01, 2020

The founding of America and its freedom, or illusion of freedom, has been described as "revolutionary, contagious and incomplete."  Our society and even our politics permit the detrimental and dehumanizing treatment of certain people. Our freedom does not allow us as individual citizens to...

March 03, 2020

Vote for: Bernie Sanders For many folks, voting for Bernie for the Democratic nomination may be the most exciting vote you’ll cast this March. Months ago, the RPA membership voted to endorse Bernie Sanders (for those voting in the Democratic primary), for all the...

February 16, 2020

Vote for: Bernie Sanders For many folks, voting for Bernie for the Democratic nomination may be the most exciting vote you’ll cast this March. Months ago, the RPA membership voted to endorse Bernie Sanders (for those voting in the Democratic primary), for all the...

January 18, 2020

The scrappy industrial city of Richmond took a bold step toward a fossil fuel-free future on Tuesday night when its city council passed an historic land use ordinance banning the storage and handling of coal and petroleum coke in a three-year phaseout. This means...