11/11/2025
In 2024, following a historic victory against Big Oil to protect California's oil drilling setback law, a new awareness campaign was launched to highlight the health impacts of neighborhood oil drilling in South Los Angeles & the communities fighting for change.
Black Women for Wellness and STAND–L.A. (Stand Together Against Neighborhood Drilling – Los Angeles) launched "Bad Neighbors," an advertising and organizing campaign, near the Inglewood Oil Field in South Los Angeles. The campaign featured six billboards, digital ads, radio ads with KBLA, and a variety of grassroots marketing tactics including placemats, coffee sleeves, mirror decals, street posters, and sticky notes, totaling over 170,000 individual materials, distributed to local small businesses. The effort also included phone banking, text banking, and door-to-door canvassing with over 17,000 households outreached to - all with the aim of reaching our community members where they are. The goal was to educate and mobilize residents while centering the voices of those most affected by the pollution generated by urban oil drilling.
Take an inside look into the campaign’s impact in this video, produced by Waverley Street Foundation.
For more information about the campaign or to get involved, please visit bwwla.org/no-drilling.
