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Stockton Stands

📌 Non-profit organization based in Stockton, CA advocating for criminal justice, combating poverty, and pushing for educational change.

03/27/2026

Dear Community,

We’d like to thank you for your feedback on our recent petition for the removal of Cesar Chavez on public facilities in Stockton. Our intention of the petition was to stand in solidarity with the Survivors who have come forward about Chavez’s sexual assault, including to minors. We want to highlight the importance of creating shared safety for victims & survivors to be believed and accounted for to be safe in their own bodies. Our work in abolition is to address intergenerational healing from interpersonal and systemic abuse. No abuse should be tolerated by any figure in a movement. We wanted to stress the importance of this issue to the Stockton community as this issue of sexual violence needs to be addresed more by our local power to support victims of crime, especially in marginalized communities. We’d like to take ownership of any impact on how our petition was received and would like to change the petition title and mobilization to the removal of Chavez’s name and instead have an open floor to mobilize and highlight other movement milestones from Stockton. As a petition can be an oversimplification of mobilization for this issue, we aim to affirm our long term desire of building sustainability for trauma informed care to promote intergenerational healing to create a better world. We’d also like to highlight the importance of examining how our local institutions can better serve victims of crime, and stress the importance of allocating a budget that is representative of the needs of our most vulnerable community members. Currently, the city council is debating on giving law enforcement more money from an already 75% budget. We look forward to listening, holding space in grief, working to destigmatize addressing harm towards all survivors, and mobilizing our elected officials with you at San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton Unified School District, and Stockton City council.

In Radical Love and Solidarity, Stockton Stands

Cosigned by Tina Rocha ASDC Senator of College Relations
(This signature reflects the views of my own per my first amendment right. This does not represent the views of ASC Board)

03/19/2026

Stockton Stands calls for renaming our Stockton schools and facilities from Cesar Chavez to Dolores Huerta.

Dolores Huerta has suffered in silence for over 60 years, carrying the weight of a truth that she feared may break the farm workers movement that she helped build. Unfortunately, her story is not unique and reflects the broader pattern experienced by countless women across organizing spaces, including those in our very own community. For far too long, women have endured harm, erasure, and silencing at the hands of men within movements that claim to fight for liberation. The patriarchy forces this fear to become a political mechanism. Speaking out against violence risks destabilizing the movement, discrediting its leadership, or providing ammunition to its opposition. Silence becomes a strategy of survival.

The patriarchy doesn’t disappear in liberatory spaces- it adapts. The same gendered hierarchies and misogyny of the outside world presents itself in subtler but equally harmful ways. Leadership becomes male dominated, women’s labor becomes invisible and undervalued, and credibility is unevenly distributed. Men are seen as visionaries and decision makers, while women are expected to organize, nurture, and sustain- without recognition or power. When harm occurs, it’s minimized as a distraction from “the real work.”

This creates a painful reality for women: spaces meant to liberate reproduce oppression. Women are asked to prioritize the collective over themselves, endure discomfort or abuse for the “greater good,” and to protect movements that don’t always protect them in return. Accountability is sacrificed in the name of unity and liberation exists only for men.

To truly build liberatory spaces, movements must confront the patriarchy within, not just the systems outside of them. Stockton Stands urges all organizations to disrupt harmful dynamics internally, center the voices of women, and redefine what leadership, safety, and accountability look like.

We urge everyone to sign the petition to rename our schools and facilities to Dolores Huerta. By doing so, we signal our community’s commitment to building a culture that prioritizes the social, emotional, and physical safety for every member of our community. We demand our elected officials to build a more trauma informed and inclusive city for the dignity of human rights in Stockton, CA.

bit.ly/HDPetition

12/04/2025

No child or young adult should have to fear the loss of their life, especially during such momentous occasions.

Unfortunately, this is the harsh reality for our youth here in Stockton. Our city needs drastic change.

Please connect with us if you were impacted and in need of any support services regarding this tragedy. Rest in peace and love from the Stockton Stands team to those affected.

04/19/2023

On Monday April 17th, members of Stockton City Council and Stockton Unified School District held a joint Public Safety Meeting for the first time to address the recent violence at Unity Park. Unfortunately, we believe this was another publicity stunt by the city to gloss over doing any tangible work to address the roots of violence and crime within the city - lack of youth intervention, a heavily corrupted political scene, destabilized housing, historical marginalization, and much more. Instead of working to show the community preventative measures that would absolve us of the constant trauma, we are once again left fighting for a seat at the table to materialize the world we continue to dream of.

12/10/2022

This week, Stockton’s City Council voted 6-1 AGAINST community input to annex land and build more warehouses on the south side of Stockton perpetuating decades long of explicit policy choices to suppress those already struggling for a voice.

After over an hour of conversation on this single item, Mayor Lincoln and Councilmember Warmsley showed major hypocrisy in citing their acknowledgement for environmental concerns as well as sustainability programs needed while ignoring the very same partners they work with to mitigate injustice in tracts that rank in the top 90-percentile of environmentally disadvantaged within the state.

Councilmembers Jobrack and Canepa were astonishingly arrogant in prioritizing their thoughts over the needs of vulnerable communities. This has been a common theme in U.S. imperialism, but now we see our own local elected officials willing to take land from working class families who’ve provided blood, sweat, and tears to developing our city this far.

The name we’re hearing behind the Greenlaw Partner LLC who is pushing for this development is the Grupe family who have been known to push profit over the community. What we’ve gathered from the council meeting and further research is that this is a viable area filled with students, hardworking parents, and undersupported business.

The further lack of transparency to add a police substation in an area that lacks the necessities for a thriving quality of life shows the disconnect and lack of remorse that these officials have for anyone that doesn’t fit their micro-perspective of problems that proliferate south of Harding Way.

Our elected officials need to be held accountable.

12/05/2022

What is Stockton Stands working on?

Our org has a few different projects we are excited to introduce. Our team of organizers have been working diligently and we’d love for more of our community to get involved. Swipe through to see what Stockton Stands is working on and contact us if you’re interested in helping 👀

If you have any questions, send us a message today!

09/06/2022

VOLUNTEERING AT BUFA: 09.03.2022

Stockton Stands had a great first time volunteering at the Black Urban Farmers Association We spent an hour working on the garden and got to feed the goats after 🌱🐐The Black Urban Farmers Association started off in 2015 with 12 founding members and grew a sustainable and small-crop pesticide-free farm that shows the power in community work. They are committed to promoting healthy eating through education and promoting nutritious food to underserved communities. Learn more about BUFA and their team at www.stocktonbufafarm.com 🌿

BUFA is looking for volunteers every Saturday from 7am-11am. Catch Stockton Stands there at 580 W. Bowman Road and support a local farm! Can’t make it to the farm? Give them a follow and click on their link to see other ways you can support!

08/17/2022

If some Trustees cannot handle two hours of community feedback, they're in the wrong line of work.

https://www.recordnet.com/story/news/politics/government/2022/08/16/stockton-unified-board-president-says-no-town-halls-susd-grand-jury-report-clouds-accountability/10343941002/

07/29/2022

It started off with an idea.

This project wouldn’t have existed without and his idea👏🏽 Two years ago, Harpreet Chima reached out to Stockton Stands proposing a project based off of CAHOOTS in Eugene, Oregon. We collaborated with Toni McNeil ( ) from Faith in the Valley and without her, this project would have remained an idea. After two long years of work, this project has become a reality.

Stockton city council voted 7-0 this week on approving a pilot program for Care Link Teams. These teams will consist of trained mental health professionals that are there in any non-emergency crises from mental wellness to addiction. We’d like to thank Public Health Advocates, Faith in the Valley, Be Smooth Inc., and the North Valley Labor Federation for contributing to this project. We’d like to give a special thank you to Community Medical Centers for accepting to pilot this program to better the lives of our community members.

This project was accomplished by community members like you- not our elected officials. Of course, we’d like to thank City Manager Harry Black for hearing his constituents voices and we appreciate city council approving the project. However, realize that to accomplish change, only WE hold the power. There is no stronger power than people power. We’d like to thank YOU, the community, for supporting us. For Stockton Stands, this is only the stepping stone to reimagine public safety and what police alternatives will look like. We look forward to continuing our work.

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