A Special Joint Meeting of the Oakmont Democrats and Progressives
Thu, Jun 15
|Oakmont Central Rec Center Patio
What goes into the bottle of wine you drink with your dinner? The hidden side of the multi billion dollar wine industry. Join us on the Central Rec patio for food and a special presentation by Standing for Justice.
Time & Location
Jun 15, 2023, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Oakmont Central Rec Center Patio, Oakmont, Santa Rosa, CA 95409, USA
About the event
We will meet in the patio of the Central Activity Center. 6:30 socializing; 7:00 program. No zoom available for this meeting. This meeting will replace the regular monthly meeting of the Oakmont Democratic Club in June.
Max Bell Alper from North Bay Organizing Project/ Jobs with Justice will put a human face on the vineyard workers’ struggles for fair wages and safe working conditions. Some vineyard workers will be here to share their own stories. We sip our favorite wines with a greater understanding of the “overtones” and “undercurrents” or the “fruit forward” taste of the wines than with an appreciation of what it takes for the wine to get onto our tables and into our glasses. Before the wine makers do their magic… whose hands tend the vines? Whether it's wildfires, floods, or extreme heat, farmworkers are the first impacted by climate-change fueled disasters. Our Sonoma County farmworkers are…