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Group
Contact, Phone, Email, Website About Us
"When Latinas Vote, We Change the World" Together, a Powerful Voice for
Latina Democrats and their Families. To engage, educate, motivate, Register
CA Latina
Lourdes Oliva 559-908-4692
Voters and elect Democrats with Democratic values. A large activist
Democrats [email protected] organization, we support Progressive Issues And Democratic Candidates that
Fresno County/
facebook.com/CALatinaDems/ support Women's Issues, Families, Children, Civil Rights/Equal Access, and our
Central Valley
Communities.
California
Alliance for
Retired
Americans
Gene Roza 559-905-3521
[email protected]
www.californiaalliance.org
Mission: To advance public policy that protects the health and economic
security of older Americans. Our Goal: To educate, energize, & mobilize
seniors to make a difference through activism. Meetings: 4th Tuesday – 10am –
Noon at I.A.M Hall – 544 W. Olive – Open Meeting.
Central
California
Environmental
Justice
Network
Central California Environmental Justice Network (CCEJN) works with other
networks to end environmental racism and achieve economic justice through
Nayamin Martinez 559-351-6398
sustainable solutions. Our goals are to preserve natural resources now and in
www.ccejn.wordpress.com
the future, by seeking better ways to minimize or eliminate degradation in
Central Valley communities.
Central Valley
Partnership
Central Valley Partnership is a coalition of organizations dedicated to restoring
Daniel O'Connell 559-967-1940 local government to the purpose of operating in the public interest. We
[email protected] promote civic engagement toward progressive ideals in the southern San
Joaquin Valley.
Central Valley
Progressive
Political Action
Committee
Pam Whalen 559-994-9390
[email protected]
www.cvppac.org
facebook.com/cvppac
We work to advance human/civil rights for all Central Valley residents. CVPPAC
recruits, endorses and supports candidates for office committed to a living
wage for all workers, clean air, public safety, affordable housing, adequate
public transportation & bike paths, police accountability, improved public
education, marriage equality, and health care for all.
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Community
Alliance
Hannah Brandt 559-492-0253
[email protected]
[email protected]
fresnoalliance.com
Community Alliance is an independent media voice for progressives in the
Central Valley. This monthly newspaper exposes injustices and links our
community's diverse network of activists to help build a powerful progressive
movement that supports social, environmental and economic justice;
immigrant rights; and a living wage for all people.
Community
United Church
of Christ
Marilyn Wall 559-435-2690
[email protected]
Facebook: Community United
Church of Christ
As a progressive and acknowledged Just Peace Church, Community United
Church of Christ welcomes you no matter where you are on life's journey.
Grounded in a theology of grace, we are committed to the alleviation of
injustice and advancing universal human rights, leading to a more just and
peaceful world.
Earth Day
Fresno
Amy Haener 559-860-9640
[email protected]
www.earthdayfresno.org
www.facebook.com/
EarthDayFresno
Earth Day Fresno are enthusiastic individuals committed to preserving the
Earth, and sharing knowledge and information about preservation of the Earth
and its resources to our local community.
Faith in the
Valley Fresno
Sukaina Hussain 847-924-9592
[email protected]
www.faithinfresno.org
Faith in the Valley - Fresno is a faith-based grassroots community organization
consisting of 20 congregations in Fresno and is connected to a larger network
throughout the Central Valley. Our work for racial, economic, and
environmental justice is led by volunteer leaders who are among the people
most impacted by issues of inequity.
Frente
Indígena de
Organizaciones
Binacionales
Leoncio Vásquez 559-367-1017
[email protected]
www.fiob.org
FIOB is a group of organizations, communities and individuals (men and
women) from various backgrounds who fight for respect for their rights and
identity as indigenous people. We focus on the economic, political, social and
cultural factors that our indigenous brothers/ sisters (migrants and nonmigrants) face in Mexico and the United States.
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Fresnans
Against
Fracking
Fresno Brown
Berets
Ron Martin 559-222-5524
[email protected]
Facebook: Fresnans against
Fracking
Opposes extreme oil well treatments poisoning water, releasing CO2, causing
climate change. A Sierra Club committee. Statewide actions against fracking
and oil trains led by Californians against Fracking, Food and Water Watch, the
Center for Biological Diversity, California Environmental Justice Coalition.
Meetings 7:00 P.M. third Thursdays, Marie Callender's on Cedar.
Ralphy Avitia 559-977-4247
[email protected]
The Fresno Brown Berets are a community grass roots organization who work
to achieve justice by organizing, educating, and mobilizing our community. We
believe in cultural awareness, self sufficiency and self defense by any means
necessary. We pledge to fight, in solidarity with other progressive groups, the
hate of a fake president, Donald J. Trump!
The FCNV fosters a community of spirit among people who desire peace and
reduced violence at all levels. The Center acts as an educational resource-Fresno Center
Angela Price 559-304-9183
organizing activities, maintaining a library and co-sponsoring events that
for
[email protected]
commemorate the way of peace. We endeavor to bring nonviolence into civic
Nonviolence
www.centerfornonviolence.org
discourse, and to provide resources for other organizations with shared
perspectives.
Michael Evans 559-495-0606
Fresno County [email protected] A Democratic Central Committee (DCC) is a political entity that conducts the
om
Democratic
California Democratic Party’s affairs within a specific county. There are 58
www.fresnocountydemocrats.org
Central
DCCs in California, one of which is the Fresno County Democratic Central
facebook.com/FresnoCounty Committee. facebook.com/FresnoCountyDemocrats
Committee
Democrats
Fresno
Immigrant
Youth in Action
Aracely Rodriguez 559-668-8511
Fresno Immigrant Youth in Action is an immigrant youth led community
[email protected]
organization dedicated to empowering immigrant youth to advocate for
wearefiya.org
immigrant rights. We are undocumented and unafraid.
facebook.com/wearefiya
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Fresno
Progressives
Vicki Jones
[email protected]
Facebook Group: Fresno
Progressive
We are a non-partisan organization committed to issues/candidates dedicated
to benefiting the 99%. Through information dissemination, direct action, and
association with other like-minded groups, our goal is to multiply our efforts in
order to have a real impact on issues that affect all of us in and around
Fresno, the San Joaquin Valley and beyond.
Fresno
Stonewall
Democrats
Chuck Krugman 559-266-9237
[email protected]
www.fresnostonewalldemocrats.
org
Fresno Stonewall Democrats is a chartered club of the California Democratic
Party. FSD supports equality for all with emphasis an on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
and Transsexual rights. facebook.com/Fresno-StonewallDemocrats-184645821574588/
Dr Su Kapoor 559-435-2212
[email protected]
The Human Rights Coalition of the Central Valley is a non-partisan, non-profit,
grassroots organization promoting networking, coalition building on issues,
policies and practices affecting human rights in the valley.
Human Rights
Coalition
Secular Humanism is a rational philosophy informed by science, inspired by
art, and motivated by compassion. Free of theism and other supernatural
beliefs, humanism derives the goals of life from human need and interest and
asserts that humanity must take responsibility for its own destiny. We meet
every third Sunday for a potluck and discussion.
Humanists of
the San
Joaquin Valley
David Vorous 209-742-5526
[email protected]
http://fresno.humanists.net
facebook.com/SJVHumanists/
Kennedy Club
of the San
Joaquin Valley
Carole Laval 559-435-4043
[email protected]
http://
fresnocountydemocrats.org
Kennedy Club of the San Joaquin Valley was founded 1997. Mission: To
activate interest in governmental affairs; increase the efficiency of popular
government; foster and perpetuate the ideals and principles of the Democratic
Party; provide for all people through its administration the highest degree of
justice and social welfare.
KFCF/Fresno
Free College
Foundation
Rychard Withers 559-233-2221
[email protected] www.kfcf.org
facebook.com/KFCF881 Twitter:
@KFCF881fm
KFCF at 88.1 FM is a listener sponsored radio station with a signal covering the
six counties with alternative news, music and more. We feature Democracy
Now! at 6 and 9 AM Our program schedule is available at www.kfcf.org We
rebroadcast programming from KPFA in Berkeley with local programming too.
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Kings County
“Jimmy
Carter”
Democratic
Club
Law Students
for Community
Advancement
Mi Familia Vota
Move to Amend
Barbara Hill 559-259-7771
[email protected]
Facebook: Kings County Jimmy
Carter Democratic Club
Raquel Busani [email protected]
facebook.com/groups/
LawStudentsFor
CommunityAdvancement
Samuel Molina 559-473-6096
[email protected]
www.mifamiliavota.org
Facebook: Mi Familia Vota CA
Robert Pethoud 559-438-7705
[email protected]
National
Women's
Political
Caucus Fresno
Cathy Brass 559-288-8973
[email protected]
www.nwpcfresno.org
Palestine
Freedom
Project
Layla Darwish facebook.com/
palestinefreedomproject
We are a progressive club aligned with the Democratic Party. We originally
founded the club to work on social justice issues but November's election has
changed our focus to fighting against and resisting the Trump presidency. We
are working to keep the ACA, and other necessary Social Safety nets.
Law Students for Community Advancement (“LSCA”) seeks to invigorate a
culture of engagement at San Joaquin College of Law and in the local
community, through inquiry, dialogue, and action. We believe that as future
legal professionals, we have a duty to advocate for social justice in our
communities. We oppose all forms of oppression.
Mi Familia Vota is a national non-profit organization uniting Latino, immigrant,
and allied communities to promote social and economic justice through
increased civic participation by promoting citizenship, voter registration, and
voter participation. Mi Familia Vota is one of the country’s premiere Latino
civic engagement organizations with operations in Arizona, California,
Colorado, Florida, Nevada, and Texas.
Move to Amend is a national, non-partisan, grass-roots movement which seeks
to pass a 28th amendment to the U.S. Constitution to (1) end constitutional
rights for corporations and (2) make it clear that money is not speech. Learn
more at MoveToAmend.org and contact MTA’s Fresno Affiliate by email at
[email protected]
The National Women's Political Caucus Fresno is a non-partisan, pro-choice,
multicultural, intergenerational, and multi-issue grassroots organization
dedicated to increasing women’s participation in the political process to
achieve equality for all women. We recruit, train and support pro-choice
women candidates for elected and appointed offices at all levels of
government regardless of party affiliation.
Palestine Freedom Project (PFP) believes the Palestinian people must
ultimately decide their future in Palestine. We therefore support the
Palestinian people’s struggle for ending the current illegal Israeli occupations.
PFP welcomes individuals of all backgrounds to join in the struggle for justice
in Palestine.
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Peace Fresno
Progressive
Democrats of
America (PDA)
Reedley Peace
Center
Dan Yaseen 559-251-3361
[email protected]
www.peacefresno.org
Judy Hess 559-907-0279
[email protected]
www.pdamerica.org
Don Friesen 559-638-3091
[email protected] http://
reedleypeacecenter.org
James Williams 559-312-3925
[email protected]
www.sanjoaquinvalleydemocrats.
org
facebook.com/groups/
103875809859
Social Justice
Committee of
Bev Fitzpatrick 559-355-9717
the Unitarian
[email protected]
Universalist
Church of
Fresno
San Joaquin
Valley
Democratic
Club
Trans-E-Motion
Zoyer Zyndel 559-464-5806
[email protected]
http://transemotion.com/
facebook.com/Transemotion/
Peace Fresno is an education, advocacy, and activist organization. Our goal is
to abolish war. We oppose militarism. Our motto is "Action for social justice
and alternatives to war." We work to build the peace movement and
collaborate with other groups working for peace and social, economic, and
environmental justice.
We’re a PDA chapter, a (small) federal pac, founded to reform the Democratic
Party on the inside (the insurgency in the party) and to join coalitions for
peace and justice on the outside. In 2013 we decided to convince Bernie
Sanders to run, and were highly instrumental in his decision.
Reedley Peace Center meets every Friday evening. 6:30 potluck meal; 7-8:30
program centering on peace and justice issues, both local and global. Affiliate
of Fellowship of Reconciliation; co-sponsor of Reedley Peace Building
Initiative; participant in Campaign Nonviolence. Meetings in Fellowship Hall of
First Mennonite Church, 1208 L Street, Reedley. Everyone welcome.
We are the most progressive Democratic club in Fresno Co. We believe
healthcare is a human right, the death penalty should be abolished and war is
not the answer. Our monthly meetings are held on the Third Wednesday at
Denny's 1110 E. Shaw Ave. beginning at 6:30 pm.
We live out our covenant of love by working for social justice. Congregants are
active members of our committee, most of the members of our church
participate in Social Justice Committee projects through donations of their
time/money. We welcome all to Sunday Service at the Unitarian Universalist
Church of Fresno, 2672 E Alluvial Ave, Fresno.
Trans-E-Motion is a community benefit organization whose goals are to provide
support and education to transgender persons and to their family and friends.
Trans-e-motion hosts the Transgender Day of Remembrance and Transgender
Day of Visibility every year. We hold monthly socials, support groups, and art
nights and provide cultural sensitivity trainings.
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Vickie M Fouts
[email protected]
We work towards racial justice in our community on personal, institutional and
systemic levels with a special focus on involving white people in understanding
and challenging systemic racism. We strive to make visible the foundational
and ongoing role racism plays in the structure and the impact of the
institutions that shape all of our lives.
Wesley United
Methodist
Church Social
Justice Action
Team
Robert Pethoud 559-438-7705
http://wesleyfresno.org/
wesleys-social-justice-actionteam/
The Social Justice Action Team at Wesley United Methodist Church is dedicated
to keeping everyone informed and active regarding issues of social justice and
environmental sustainability. Visitors are welcome at our meetings, in the
church library following worship on the second Sunday of each month.
Women's
International
League for
Peace and
Freedom Fresno
Teresa Castillo 559-360-8054
[email protected], Patty
Bennett [email protected]
facebook.com/Wilpf-Fresno
Established in 1915, WILPF unites and empowers to achieve through peaceful
means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice,
an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and
psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all.
See our monthly page in the Community Alliance, www.fresnoalliance.com 56
Uprooting
Racism Project
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