​

 

Central Valley Partnership

 

The Central Valley Partnership has set the emulative example of how smart organizing and facilitation can break down barriers and create alliances where none previously existed. Candidate Forums, Income Inequality actions, Bus Rapid Transit testimony, Healthcare Forums to enlist disadvantaged communities in the AHA, farmworker food drives and community organizer trainings are a few of the 2013-2018 Partnership activities. 

 

​Cannabis Removal On Public Lands

 

The CROP Project seeks to remove illegal cannabis grows, known as "trespass grows", from California's federal public lands. These grow sites harbor copious amounts of EPA-banned and restricted pesticides, like Carbofuran, Sarin-based Malathion and Brodifacoum, that actively contaminate watersheds and soil, and poison various populations of wildlife, as well as unsuspecting users. Trespass grows divert egregious amounts of surface rivers, significantly reducing surface flows to communities and further imperiling native fish populations.

 

CROP is actively working to:

​

1. Secure and increase state and federal resources for trespass grow reclamation, including training for nonprofit and tribal reclamation crews

 

2​​​. Increase criminal penalties for those bringing toxicants onto public lands

 

CROP seeks to make the environmental and public health impacts of trespass grows widely understood by educating regional, state, and federal decision makers and communities, and in doing so unite bipartisan interests to cooperatively tackle this multi-faceted issue.