Our People’s Participation Labs are a space for people to learn how to build community power towards system change! Join for fun, community-building, and collaborative conversations.

During this week’s Peoples Participation Lab we will look at the results of the August primary election and celebrate the good work we are doing together. By meeting neighbors through Bienestar and our precinct project, voter turnout in one of the lowest participation areas of our community increased by 4% while similar areas saw the same or lower voter turnout. While we recognize that voting is only one of many tools we need for systemic change, we are proud to see the power of our organizing reflected through increased participation. 

Join us Thursday as we continue to build a just food system and economy in Whatcom and Skagit Counties!

RSVP here!

Thanks for your interest in joining our cooperative volunteer work parties each month. We are especially looking for volunteers with skills in carpentry, construction, landscaping and physical/manual labor to support with ongoing projects.

Please remember to dress appropriately for the weather and bring a pair of work gloves if you can (if not, we will provide some).
Please rsvp here.

NOTE: Squarespace events require us to list a time as part of the event, but the time listed in not accurate. Please rsvp to get a specific time for each work party (weather and other variable dependent!) and to receive location address.

Our People’s Participation Labs are a space for people to learn how to build community power towards system change! Join for fun, community-building, and collaborative conversations.

During this week’s PPL we will reflect on Honesto’s life and take action together to unmask corporate greed and push back against the expansion of the H-2A program in Whatcom and Skagit Counties.

The H-2A program cannot be changed by filing legal cases against a few growers.  Calling for reforms and better enforcement is ineffective. The abuse is built into the program. It is systemic, not just a minor problem that can be fixed. 

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Our People’s Participation Labs are a space for people to learn how to build community power towards system change! Join for fun, community-building, and collaborative conversations.

Voting together is one way we can exercise our collective power. We will spend the evening in community together sharing food and learning together about the races on our ballots. Then we'll walk over to the ballot drop box together to make sure our votes count!

If you won't be receiving a ballot or are not eligible to vote, you're still more than welcome to attend! Our vision is to create spaces where people can participate in civic processes regardless of voting status.

RSVP here!

¡Baila con nosotros! 💃🌈 The wait is over

🫵 You're invited to join us at Maritime Heritage Park for an afternoon of cumbia, reggaeton, and salsa.

This is an all-ages celebration rooted in joy, culture, and community. Come play games, enjoy aguas frescas, learn about C2C, meet your neighbors, and build solidarity together.

Bring your family, your friends, and your dancing shoes. Let's celebrate our community, care for one another, and keep building a future where everyone belongs.

See you on the dance floor! 🌈💛

¡Baila con nosotros! 💃🌈 ¡Se acabó la espera!

🫵 Estás oficialmente invitado a una tarde de cumbia, reguetón y salsa en Maritime Heritage Park.

Este evento es para todas las edades en el que centraremos nuestra comunidad, cultura y felicidad. Ven a jugar juegos, aprender sobre C2C y conocer a nuestros vecinos.

Trae a tu familia, amigos y no te olvides de tus zapatos pa’ bailar. A qué celebrar nuestra comunidad, cuidarnos unos a otros y seguir creando un futuro en donde todos pertenezcan.

¡Nos vemos ahí! 💃🌈

Thanks for your interest in joining our cooperative volunteer work parties each month. We are especially looking for volunteers with skills in carpentry, construction, landscaping and physical/manual labor to support with ongoing projects.

Please remember to dress appropriately for the weather and bring a pair of work gloves if you can (if not, we will provide some).
Please rsvp here.

NOTE: Squarespace events require us to list a time as part of the event, but the time listed in not accurate. Please rsvp to get a specific time for each work party (weather and other variable dependent!) and to receive location address.

Our People’s Participation Labs are a space for people to learn how to build community power towards system change! Join for fun, community-building, and collaborative conversations.

This week we will reveal C2C’s new 2026 Primary Election Zine complete with the beautiful community art we made together at our last PPL! Reading the zine and researching the candidates together will help us learn about the people on the primary ballot in August so we can determine if they are aligned with our movement values and priorities. Doing this together will help us vote together at our July 30th Voting Party!

RSVP here!

Our People’s Participation Labs are a space for people to learn how to build community power towards system change! Join for fun, community-building, and collaborative conversations.

This week's PPL will focus on our approach to electoral politics, looking at the way they function as a necessary tool to build systems that meet community needs. We will talk about what is coming up on the primary ballot in Whatcom County and work toward a shared analysis around electing champions for working people locally. We'll also have art supplies so that you can contribute creative work to our upcoming Voter Information Zine! Please RSVP if you can join so we can be sure to have enough snacks and beverages!

RSVP here!

Thanks for your interest in joining our cooperative volunteer work parties each month. We are especially looking for volunteers with skills in carpentry, construction, landscaping and physical/manual labor to support with ongoing projects.

Please remember to dress appropriately for the weather and bring a pair of work gloves if you can (if not, we will provide some).

Please rsvp here.

NOTE: Squarespace events require us to list a time as part of the event, but the time listed in not accurate. Please rsvp to get a specific time for each work party (weather and other variable dependent!) and to receive location address.

Our People’s Participation Labs are a space for people to learn how to build community power towards system change! Join for fun, community-building, and collaborative conversations.

We hope you can join us this Thursday for an important People’s Participation Lab (PPL)- the third in our series of learning about the federal H-2A visa program, how it displaces local farmworkers, and moves our food system towards slavery. This PPL is important as we will look directly at H-2A contracts and have a chance to commit together to taking action to oppose the expansion of H-2A contracts in our community later this summer!

This week we will look directly at H-2A contracts so we can deepen our knowledge of the conditions H-2A workers face. Building our understanding will give us the words to tell more people in our community why everyone should oppose the H-2A program.

Even if you were not able to join us at either of our last two Participation Labs we hope you can join us Thursday!

Please RSVP if you can join so we can be sure to have enough snacks and beverages!

RSVP here!

Our People’s Participation Labs are a space for people to learn how to build community power towards system change! Join for fun, community-building, and collaborative conversations.

In our second H2A PPL we will hear from farmworkers whose communities are facing displacement as a result of the H2A program. We'll look at proposed federal legislation that seeks to expand H2A. Knowing these laws will help us, our friends, and family to take action together later this summer!

Please RSVP if you can join so we can be sure to have enough snacks and beverages!

RSVP here!

Our People’s Participation Labs are a space for people to learn how to build community power towards system change! Join for fun, community-building, and collaborative conversations.

Our next PPL will give us a chance to learn about the status of the H-2A Visa program. Across the US, including in Skagit and Whatcom Counties, the H-2A visa program has dramatically expanded. H-2A workers have fewer rights and protections against exploitation on the job than local workers do. This year a record number of local farms are seeking H-2A contracts in Washington State, displacing local workers and their families from their jobs and housing, and deepening the crisis of food insecurity.

When farmworkers are uprooted from their homes and pushed out of work at local farms our food system becomes less secure and a huge strain is put on farmworker families as they seek new work and new places to live. We refuse to accept the expansion of H-2A in Whatcom and Skagit counties and we invite you to join us to learn more at our People’s Participation Lab and push back together!

Please RSVP if you can join so we can be sure to have enough snacks and beverages!

RSVP here.

Thanks for your interest in joining our cooperative volunteer work parties each month. We are especially looking for volunteers with skills in carpentry, construction, landscaping and physical/manual labor to support with ongoing projects.

Please remember to dress appropriately for the weather and bring a pair of work gloves if you can (if not, we will provide some).

Please rsvp here.

NOTE: Squarespace events require us to list a time as part of the event, but the time listed in not accurate. Please rsvp to get a specific time for each work party (weather and other variable dependent!) and to receive location address.

Our People’s Participation Labs are a space for people to learn how to build community power towards system change! Join for fun, community-building, and collaborative conversations.

This Thursday (5/7) we have a field trip PPL! We will join some of our friends from the Secretary of State’s office for a Trivia Night at the Sedro-Woolley Public Library. There will be games! There will be snacks! There will be trivia! Please RSVP below if you plan to join or if you would like to car pool with some of our team members from Bellingham.

Bellingham Carpool: Leaves 1319 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham, WA, 98225 at 5:20 pm

Returns between 8 and 8:15 pm

Meet us at the Trivia Night : 110 W State St, Sedro-Woolley, WA, 98284 from 6 to 7:30 pm

RSVP here

Our People’s Participation Labs are a space for people to learn how to build community power towards system change! Join for fun, community-building, and collaborative conversations.

During this week’s lab we will learn about how music plays an important role in activism. Music in movements can be traced back decades and centuries in so many different cultures. Music can truly inspire change! We will talk about the presence of activism in music, play music trivia, and connect with each other!

Please RSVP

Every spring on April 22nd Evergreen State College, Familias Unidas Por La Jusitica and C2C honor José Gómez, a farmworker and professor at Evergreen State College who was a life-long activist for farmworker justice, LGBTQ+ justice and labor organizing. This year we will host a livestream and watch party of the event at our Downtown Bellingham Centro.

José Gomez Day is an opportunity to hear directly from farmworker leadership about the issues farmworkers face and the changes needed to build a justice food system. This event will be drop in between 10 AM - 2 PM, with the panel happening from 11 AM - 1 PM. Please join us if you can!

RSVP now

Thanks for your interest in joining our cooperative volunteer work parties each month. We are especially looking for volunteers with skills in carpentry, construction, landscaping and physical/manual labor to support with ongoing projects.

Please remember to dress appropriately for the weather and bring a pair of work gloves if you can (if not, we will provide some).

Please rsvp here.

NOTE: Squarespace events require us to list a time as part of the event, but the time listed in not accurate. Please rsvp to get a specific time for each work party (weather and other variable dependent!) and to receive location address.

Our People’s Participation Labs are a space for people to learn how to build community power towards system change! Join for fun, community-building, and collaborative conversations.

Artificial Intelligence or AI is a general term for increasingly complex computers that do a lot of things that can look like human thinking. In this lab, we will learn about what AI is, the billionaires who are rapidly building it, and the impact that this popular technology has on land, water, and workers.

Please RSVP

This Thursday our People’s Participation Lab will be a Spring Skill Up! It will be a chance for all of us to gather and build up our skills as we head into the spring and summer including tabling, door knocking, reviewing public records, and writing our legislators. We would be so glad to see you at this week’s PPL! As always we will have a game, snacks, and a chance to meet new people!

Please RSVP now so we can plan ahead.

PPL Field Trip!

We envision a food system in which farmworkers and all people not only have access to culturally relevant and healthy food but co-create a food system without exploitation of workers or the land. The Whatcom Food Network Shares this vision and on Thursday they are hosting a community gathering that will give us all a chance to shape the Whatcom County Food System Plan. Because we are in solidarity with the Whatcom Food Network our People’s Participation Lab Thursday will be a field trip to the gathering!

Note on the time change: We will meet at our Downtown Bellingham Centro (1319 Cornwall Ave) at 5 pm, briefly check in, and carpool together to the convening.

Please  RSVP so we can let our siblings at the Whatcom Food Network know how many snacks and drinks to provide. Please note if you can drive a carload of people or if you would like to join a carpool when you RSVP. If you want to meet us directly at the gathering the details are below:

When: Thursday 3/12 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Where: Squalicum Boathouse 2600 Harbor Loop, Bellingham, WA 98225

The H-2A Visa program is an agricultural labor visa designed to allow farms to hire temporary foreign farmworkers. In practice, this program is deeply harmful to farmworkers and our food system, with legacies of exploitation, abuse, and wage suppression. Tuesday, Sahara Valentine, one of our supporters and a WWU student, will present their senior research project on the H-2A visa program with support from our team!

When: Tuesday March 3rd 4:30 to 5:30 pm

Where: C2C’s Centro in Downtown Bellingham 1319 Cornwall Ave 

Please rsvp

Join us in Olympia to tell your representatives that you expect them to stand up for farmworker justice!

Familias Unidas Por La Justicia, our local powerful independent farmworker union, wrote SB 6045, that will enshrine farmworker's intrinsic right to build and form unions in our state law. This law will be a powerful tool to strengthen and expand farmworker organizing across Washington by ensuring they have the same rights as other workers! Vanpool transportation is available. Details will be provided upon RSVP.

Please RSVP here.

Join us Sunday for a Dignity Dialogue centered on the history of immigration enforcement in Whatcom County.

This participatory event invites voters, allies, and community members to gather and discuss this critical human rights issue impacting us locally and nationally, eroding our community safety and local food system. We will explore the history of immigration enforcement and actions in Whatcom County over the past 20 years and then commit to taking actions to stand up against unmitigated enforcement happening here.

Together, we will strategize on collective messaging, and amplify our non-consent to the targeting and disappearing of immigrants in our community.

Please rsvp

During this week’s lab we will dive into learning about how our state legislature works. The legislature can be confusing but we will figure it out together and identify ways each of us can take action to support Collective Bargaining Bill SB 6045/ HB 2409! Along the way we will get to know one another, play a game, and eat a few snacks. Join for any amount of time if you can!

We will provide snacks and beverages. Please RSVP so we can be sure to have enough for everyone.

This Thursday during our PPL we will reflect on the Farmworker Tribunal, educate ourselves on HB 2409 / SB 6045, and take a simple action together to support these bills.

About the Tribunal: On January 20th Farmworkers from across Washington State traveled to Olympia to speak truth to power about their working conditions in the fields, the impacts their families have felt from recent flooding and ICE, and their inherent pride and dignity as organizers, as workers, and as the builders of a just food system. Thank you to the many people who joined us in Olympia or online to witness the Farmworker Tribunal. If you haven't had a chance to listen to the testimonies from the Tribunal yet you can access a recording on our Facebook and our Instagram.

Familias Unidas Por La Justicia, the powerful independent farmworker union in Skagit County, put forward a bill, SB 6045/HB 2409, that will enshrine farmworker's intrinsic right to build and form unions in our state law. This law will be a powerful tool to strengthen and expand farmworker organizing across Washington. All throughout the legislative session we will share ways for you to support SB 6045 and its companion bill HB 2409.

Please rsvp! We will plan snacks and beverages based on how many are planning on attending.

Details including schedule can be found on the Tribunal webpage.

Our next People’s Participation Lab will take place on January 15, 2026. This People's Participation Lab is an opportunity to learn the context and history of the Farmworkers Tribunal as we prepare for the 13th Annual Farmworkers Tribunal on January 20, 2026

Please rsvp! We will plan snacks and beverages based on how many are planning on attending.

Come learn about the HEAL Act and environmental justice with us! At C2C we believe that low income individuals, communities of color, and farmworkers, disproportionately experience pollution, climate disasters, and environmental hazards. This is a key concept of environmental justice. 

The HEAL Act or Healthy Environment for All Act was a law passed in Washington state in 2021, spearheaded by Front and Centered and supported by C2C. The HEAL Act seeks to address environmental justice issues and health disparities among low income people and POC. It mandates that several governmental agencies incorporate environmental justice principles into their work. 

If you want to learn more about how we can use the HEAL Act in our communities, what environmental justice is, and about the steps we can take as individuals to protect the HEAL Act, come join us on December 6th from 10am-12:30pm! 

 To prepare for the content of the HEAL Act workshop we recommend watching this 15 minute video that looks at environmental justice and the history of the environmental justice movement: 

The Intersectional History of Environmentalism

We hope to see you on December 6th! Please RSVP.

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. Food and drinks will be provided! 

This week’s PPL will focus on how C2C engages in international solidarity with farmworkers, pastoralists, fisherfolk, and others in the global food system to challenge the interlocking injustices of capitalism, racism, climate change, and patriarchy. It will feature reflections from C2C organizers who recently traveled to the third Nyéléni Global Forum on food sovereignty in Kandy, Sri Lanka and the People’s Summit [Directed at COP30]. COP30 is the UN’s 30th annual climate change conference which occured this year in Belém, Brazil. Please RSVP if you can join us so we can prepare snacks and drinks.

Many thanks to everyone who has joined our People's Participation labs in 2025 and brought your creativity, curiosity, and joy to the PPLs. C2C's staff will take a break from December 15th to January 4th where we will be out of our offices and not responding to most messages or emails. We hope that you can take some of the time you might have spent attending a PPL in the second half of December and use that time to rest or reflect or do something you love.

Our People's Participation Labs will be back in 2026 starting on Thursday January 15th!