Central Valley Partnership General Meeting

We will meet on Tuesday, August 18th starting at 5:30pm via Zoom webinar.  (Use this registration hyperlink or register via the link in the agenda below) 

 

As the summer ends, we enter one of the most important elections in memory. After finishing a successful candidate training workshop last month, the Partnership now turns toward an educational process to increase voter turnout and ensure that the public is informed about the propositions that will be on the ballot.

 

With the Central Valley of California becoming one of the most intense Covid-19  “hotspots” in the entire United States, we will open this meeting with a discussion of the inadequate pandemic response in San Joaquin County (with an understanding that other counties are similarly struggling under leadership challenges to address the public health emergency). Please reference the two attached comment letters to learn more about these issues prior to the meeting.

 

An economic crisis of unprecedented proportion has also followed upon the pandemic’s outbreak. The most severe recession in the country’s history is still rippling out and we turn in our second panel presentation to hear from labor unions, nonprofit organizations and community leaders on ways to meet the emergency with progressive policies looking to invest rather than cut services, especially to the most vulnerable in our communities.

 

The final presentation will focus on ways to expand the right to vote to the thousands of California’s on parole, with particular attention to how historic and institutionalized racism is implicated in the current policy prohibiting the enfranchisement of parolees. 

 

Please note that there will be Central Valley Agroecology Reimaging Sessions on the weekend of August 22nd and 23rd from 10am-12noon each day, as we imagine a more just and regenerative agricultural system for the region. Please register for the sessions here and see the flyer below.