Democracy Action Movement Now! (D.A.M.N.)
We are launching a new model for our monthly meetings—a change from traditional top-down programs to something more powerful: convening a regional assembly where we vote with our bodies to realize our values through action.
We are piloting the first convenings in Fall 2025 with a focus on testing formats, building facilitation teams, and fine tuning the model by inviting residents, leaders and communities to shape the space.
Hosting information and educational forums, with diverse audiences and relevant stakeholders, is a central function of the CVP. As a regional network that spans six counties and includes more than 1000 individuals, one of our primary responsibilities to the region is to bring residents, activists and leaders together around a variety of social causes. Our most successful events have included non-partisan candidate forums and issue advocacy forums with elected officials.
We build regional capacity across the Central Valley to provide training opportunities for activists, community organizers and engaged residents. Our past trainings have included – Represent! A Nonpartisan Candidate Training Workshop, Govern! A Workshop for Community Leaders, Board/Commission Members and Elected Officials; Bystander Intervention Trainings; Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training, Community Organizer Training, and Labor 101 Trainings. We emphasize local knowledge but also bring experts when needed for specific events. We aim to exponentially build a movement base to transform the region.
Through partner organizations, we facilitate and support educational and recreational outings to the valley’s public lands, farms and ranches, partner organizations, historic sites and institutions. A center point of this work has been in collaboration with the Alianza Ecologista in Tulare County to introduce and bring families into our region’s public lands. We have also initiated, promoted and propelled agroecology as an alternative food system across the valley.
Land is foundational to our regional economy, collective well-being and goal of achieving environmental justice in the valley.
The CVP advocates in defense of public lands (from local parks to federal lands); conservation of farms, rangeland, and natural ecosystems through smart growth policies; and promotion of agroecology as an alternative integrated model to industrialized agriculture in the region.
The Partnership has helped to initiate the Alianza Ecologista, based in Tulare County, in its efforts to create a strong social and political base for the protection of public lands, water and the environment. The Alianza provides access to public lands through outings and events, extends education to expand community awareness, and builds advocacy networks from a shared sense of responsibility and cultural connection.
The conservation of nationally important resources linked to local economic development and re-building regional supply chains is a strategic path that the CVP looks to realize for a more sustainable future.
From medical insurance to a living wage and everything in between, unions are on the frontlines of the struggle for workers rights. The Central Valley Labor Movement is a growing regional force just beginning to catalyze and expand its organizing strength.
The CVP stands as an ally to Labor in the many causes aimed at delivering economic justice.
