Central Valley Freedom Summer

CVFS is a community-action research project by UCSC and Merced students in investigating non-partisan voter engagement and grassroots. Earlimart-McFarland

[Central Valley Freedom Summer @cvfreedomsummer]

661 Are y’all ready?!?! We’ve heard y’all are hungry for some power! Come thru and learn on Saturday, August 9 to Delano High School and join the 661 Youth Power Summit. Don’t forgot you are NEVER too young to change your community! ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿Registration link in our bio

[Sociology at UCSC @SociologyatUCSC]

Why are we (NOT) Voting?

Join UCSC Central Valley students at a film screening and discussion
October 22 7:00pm
Merrill Cultural Center

[LOUD For Tomorrow @loud4tmrw]

🗣FOUR DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER TO VOTE! .
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Let’s get it together and get everyone we know register for November 6th! We are not letting our community miss this midterm. ALL OUR VOICES MATTER!✊🏾🗳
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#vota #DelanoRising #661rising

[Central Valley Freedom Summer @cvfreedomsummer]

#559YouthRising Youth speaking about why young people don’t go out to vote and why they should!!

[Roxanna Villalobos @RoxVilla7]

Check out this amazing @cvfreedomsummer poster made by our CVFS Leader Crystal Gómez for voter reg presentations in Fresno high schools. Our leads teach youth about the important historial legacy of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, which is the inspiration for CVFS 2018!

[zhakeila c. @shaakelaa]

LOUD 4 Tomorrow aims to create a welcoming environment where youth can shape their voices through civic engagement and advocacy. This voter resolution will allow high school students to express not only their own voices but other voices that are suppressed within our community.

[Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment @CRPE_EJ]

#KernBudget2018 should prioritize investments that directly improve the #health, #safety, and quality of life for #families in the most underserved areas of #KernCounty. #ArvinIsKern #WeedpatchIsKern #LamontIsKern #SouthKern @CRPE_EJ @CountyofKern

[Lali @ci_marti]

Walking to school on Timmons St. seems more and more like a hassle. Delano, CA deserves decent roads and street. Let’s consider investing in the well being of this community. @CRPE_EJ @MickGleason2012 @CountyofKern @KernCAO @Team_Leticia

[Central Valley Freedom Summer @cvfreedomsummer]

Yesterday CVFS Delano team members introduced “Empowering & Preparing Youth for a Stronger Democracy” to the Delano Joint Union High School Board. The resolution would help increase… https://t.co/Cv0K9qnKGG

[Roxanna Villalobos @RoxVilla7]

So proud of the Fresno CVFS Leaders Crystal and Gustavo for registering McLane students to vote today! They’re rockstars! ALSO - Stay tuned for more info on our local Parlier/Sanger/Fresno #559YouthRising Summit! We’re planning an amazing day as we speak ✊🏾✨ #youthpower

[Roxanna Villalobos @RoxVilla7]

@99_Rootz & @cvfreedomsummer youth from the 559 rural communities gathered today to plan our #559YouthRising Summit! By youth for youth! #Parlier #Sanger #Fresno

[Brown Issues @brown_issues]

Pull Up ✌🏾The Pop Up and join @cvfreedomsummer + loud4tmrw food, friends, and festivities 🎉 .
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#BrownIssues #Delano #WakeTheGiant @ Delano, California https://t.co/4RDAsaOkgk

[Brown Issues @brown_issues]

Delano! Save The Date + Let us know where we should Pop-Up (park, community center, etc.) with our Peoples @cvfreedomsummer for the Brown Issues Migration Butterfly T-Shirt Giveaway and… https://t.co/frlTeCw7ja

[Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment @CRPE_EJ]

Check out the sequence of photos! #KernChallenge #KernCounty #KernBudget2018 #KernRoads #Care4Kern @CRPE_EJ @CountyofKern @BHCSouthKern @CCEJN @cvfreedomsummer @LCJandA

[Center on Race, Poverty, & the Environment @CRPE_EJ]

100 people signed #petitions asking the #Arvin City Council to grant the appeal. Residents remember Nelson Court. People care about the real #HealthImpacts.” @JuanFloresEJ @CRPE_EJ @CCEJN

[Central Valley Freedom Summer @cvfreedomsummer]

ONE WEEK AGO TODAY some of our CVFS team members from Bakersfield, Fresno, Porterville, Richgrove, and Delano were in Sacramento for Advocacy Day where they have the opportunity to talk to… https://t.co/vgdH1lqCis

[Offx2025 @Offx2025]

Events in the Central Valley focused on voter registration, education & #grassroots organizing efforts for youth of color as part of the @cvfreedomsummer project: https://t.co/otNtIgEufF

[Central Valley Freedom Summer @cvfreedomsummer]

Team leaders Crystal and Gustavo started registering students to vote in Fresno county at McLane high school. Their goal is to register and pre-register 500 students before the mid-term election and help catalyze the central valley movement. #heartofcali #559youthrising

[EdSource @EdSource]

Following in the footsteps of #CesarChavez & #DoloresHuerta a new generation of activists are working to effect change in the Central Valley & beyond #YouthVoice #TellEWA @vocdavid https://t.co/m9vfbUxHlZ

[Roxanna Villalobos @RoxVilla7]

“Youth from CA’s Central Valley are reclaiming region’s activists roots” and leading social justice efforts this summer! Check out this article by @EdSource which covers @99_Rootz and @cvfreedomsummer efforts to mobilize youth in our rural communities. Thank you @EdSource!

[Roxanna Villalobos @RoxVilla7]

Check out @cvfreedomsummer interns Jose Orellana and Kathy Delacruz Cerros, both @UCSC students, as they share the value of organizing in the Central Valley. Thank you @KVPR for giving us a platform to share the important work of all the Central Valley Freedom Summer interns.