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Advocates are pushing for a health equity and racial justice fund in California. Here’s what it would do.

April 22, 2022 Roots of Change

Genoveva Islas stood at the steps of the state Capitol Friday morning facing a crowd of dozens. She shouted: “El pueblo unido avanza sin partido.” The crowd echoed her back: “The people united advance without parties.” Islas founded the organization Cultiva La Salud, which is part of a coalition of 25 legislators, 11 co-sponsors and almost […]

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We are transforming the food system: $1.3 billion in the CA budget!

September 15, 2021 Roots of Change

It takes a movement to transform the food system and ours leaped forward this year. ROC and our AB 125 coalition partners worked closely with Assembly Ag Committee Chair, Robert Rivas (Salinas) to drive home a historic budget request. The list of programs that will be funded by the $1.3 billion in the 2021-22 budget […]

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