I ask that you issue a statement condemning the hypocrisy of Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center (LVPAC). Executive Director Chris Carter claimed diversity, equity, and inclusion are important to them and a priority in their leadership. Unfortunately, any good done by the Livermore arts is overshadowed by LVPAC board members’ harmful lawsuits.
Board members Joan Seppala and Jean King helped fund and promote campaigns against affordable housing in Livermore and against a local solar farm. Housing justice is a matter of racial justice. The same is true of environmental justice, which impacts local people of color living near refineries in Hayward and Richmond, as well as indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest, where our crude oil is extracted.
The lawsuits supported by LVPAC board members are racist, iniquitous, and excluding. The arts commission has a duty to this community to demand better of LVPAC.
For more details you can read the recent article in The Vine.
I ask that you issue a statement condemning the hypocrisy of Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center (LVPAC). Executive Director Chris Carter claimed diversity, equity, and inclusion are important to them and a priority in their leadership. Unfortunately, any good done by the Livermore arts is overshadowed by LVPAC board members’ harmful lawsuits.
Board members Joan Seppala and Jean King helped fund and promote campaigns against affordable housing in Livermore and against a local solar farm. Housing justice is a matter of racial justice. The same is true of environmental justice, which impacts local people of color living near refineries in Hayward and Richmond, as well as indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest, where our crude oil is extracted.
The lawsuits supported by LVPAC board members are racist, iniquitous, and excluding. The arts commission has a duty to this community to demand better of LVPAC.
For more details you can read the recent article in The Vine.