rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/fundraising/sponsor-the-rural-justice-summit?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-fundraising-area-sponsor-the-rural-justice-summit' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network https://actionnetwork.org/groups/pesticide-action-network https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/fundraisings/photos/000/191/114/normal/open-uri20240917-345-xib21r In November 2025, the Rural Justice Summit will bring together and center farmers/land ecosystem tenders in both rural and urban areas of California. The Summit seeks to secure relationships with rural and urban farmers, land tenders and food producers, to increase our knowledge on the importance of connections as it pertains to our watershed, foodshed, energy shed, social justice shed and beyond. The Rural Justice Summit is designed to uplift current issues facing historically underserved communities that steward the land in California, and bring together local leaders innovating solutions to those challenges. Similar to past Rural Justice Summits, we will focus this year’s strategic conversations around a set of key food systems issues that Summit participants have decided need intentional attention. These can include issues of citizenship, immigration reform and response, farmer justice, labor rights, climate change in California, incarceration’s impacts on communities, building political power and voice among youth, accessibility and disability justice, water rights and land access. Through these tracks, the Summit will facilitate the sharing of diverse stories, struggles and resources from herbalists, cooks, farmers, aggregators, distributors, specialty crop cultivators, youth, activists, disabled land tenders, artists and accomplices. We are seeking sponsorship donations for the 2025 Rural Justice Summit. Funds will go towards compensation for the Summit’s Event Designer, Event Producer, communications support, stipends for workshop facilitators, artists and performers, community care kits, and event operating expenses (tech, venue, production supplies). Our current fundraising goal to support these expenses and the successful organization of the 2025 Rural Justice Summit is $150,000. We are grateful to collaborate with you on bringing this valuable community event to life! https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/sponsor-the-rural-justice-summit/