Developing organizers capable of replicating PLRCAWG's initiatives statewide — scaling the social movement infrastructure necessary for a genuine agrarian reform from the base.
Technical tools and market infrastructure mean nothing without the organized political force to sustain and defend them. Political education is the engine that makes the other three initiatives scalable — it develops the organizers who can replicate territorial markets, engineering brigades, and land acquisition work in new communities.
Our approach rejects both top-down training models and purely spontaneous organizing. We develop structured curricula rooted in the real conditions facing campesin@ communities in California — connecting agroecology, political economy, land tenure history, and movement strategy into a coherent formation program.
The goal is not just informed individuals but capable organizers: people who can facilitate, teach, recruit, and build durable institutions in their own communities.
Understanding the historical and structural forces — monopoly capital, financialization of land, labor exploitation — that shape the conditions campesin@s face today.
Agroecology understood not as a science or methodology but as a living mode of social reproduction — the way campesin@ communities sustain and strengthen life itself through a particular set of social relations with land, labor, and each other.
How land is owned, controlled, and transferred in California — and the legal tools available to communities seeking to secure or reclaim tenure.
Drawing from the experiences of indigenous-peasant movements in Bolivia, Guatemala, Chile, and Mesoamerica — the tactical lessons of plurinationalism in practice.
Concrete skills: how to build coalitions, run meetings, develop new leaders, sustain organizations, and navigate conflict without dissolving.
Training organizers in the specific methods and structures of PLRCAWG's four initiatives — so they can plant them in new territories.
If you want to deepen your political understanding and become a more capable organizer, fill out this form. We run cohort-based formation programs and will be in touch about the next one in your region.