bay area Anti-Chevron Week
May 2026
Richmond, California ~ huchiun
Bay Area anti-chevron week
Join us from May 13 to 17, for a special Anti-Chevron week of action, strategy, and celebration rooted in this year’s theme: Joyful Resistance to Chevron.
Bay Area Anti-Chevron Week will culminate with the Fossil-Free Future Festival on Sunday, May 17th in Richmond.
Click below for the week’s full event schedule.
Fossil-Free Future Festival:
Joyful Resistance to Chevron
When: Sunday, May 17 from 11:00am - 3:00pm
Where: Judge Carroll Park, W. Cutting Blvd & S. Garrard Blvd, Richmond, CA
Join us for a day of art, music, and community power to confront corporate abuse, uplift frontline leadership, and build toward a fossil-free future!
Schedule of events:
11:00am - Indigenous Opening Ceremony at Keller Beach
12:00pm - Festival at Judge Carroll Park
1:00pm - Rolling festival march and concert
For more information, visit our festival webpage.
What’s happening?
Chevron has been in the news A LOT this year. It’s one of the six “oil majors” - a company that has a decades long history of entering communities around the globe, sucking up the oil, and leaving communities polluted and sick. Now Chevron is poised to make nearly a billion dollars annually from Trump’s invasion of Venezuela. Chevron is also the largest provider of energy to Israel and is complicit in the genocide of the indigenous Palestinian people.
We are frontline communities impacted by Chevron’s extractive supply chain from unceded native lands from Ecuador to Alaska and the Alberta Tar Sands and Trans Mountain pipeline in Canada, to the pipelines and tankers that transport crude through the Salish Sea and Pacific Northwest, brought to the refineries in California.
We are fed up! We are calling communities across the Americas to join us in the Bay Area this May for a 5 day series of events and peaceful actions to call out Chevon’s crimes, take action, and strengthen our community of resistance. You can learn more about the history of Anti-Chevron day here.
What is a “Confluence”?
A confluence is the meeting of multiple streams. We are holding a “Confluence” because like our waters, we have been polluted by a greedy corporation. We hold reverence to the waters that connect us in a global water cycle. We come together as communities organizing against Chevron to share lessons, grow our solidarity and networks, and to build strategies in a multiple day gathering at the place where the waters bring oil from around the globe.
why chevron?
Chevron has a lengthy history of human rights violations that have led to it being found liable for at least $55 billion in judgments, interest, and seizure claims globally for environmental damages and human rights violations.
They are currently requesting to expand refining capacity at their Gulf coast refineries in what is known as “cancer alley” to refine more Venezuelan oil, adding to the highest pollution burden for local communities in the US.
Chevron is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than any other investor-owned oil company in history and its deliberate contamination of the Ecuadorian Amazon remains the largest oil related environmental disaster ever.
Chevron entered the Israeli energy market in 2020 and are the largest provider of fossil gas and energy to Israel and their campaign of destruction against the Palestinian people. They are a key target of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
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