COALITION OVERVIEW

CPR is a statewide coalition of more than 190 organizations, founded in 1996 to fundamentally shift the way pesticides are used in California. CPR has built a diverse, multi-interest coalition to challenge the powerful political and economic forces opposing change. Our member organizations include public health, children’s health, educational and environmental advocates, clean air and water organizations, health practitioners, environmental justice groups, labor organizations, farmers and sustainable agriculture advocates.

With more than 20 years of successful movement building and collaborative advocacy experience, CPR is a unique example of cooperation and an elder among coalitions. Founded by eight organizations on the belief that we can get more done by working together than by working separately, CPR now has over 190 member organizations across California.

CPR approaches the need to reduce pesticide use as a critical environmental health and environmental justice issue. We prioritize building leadership in communities living on the front lines of pesticide exposure. CPR has a long history of supporting and linking community leaders, mostly low-income communities and communities of color, to successful local and statewide policy advocacy solutions. Since pesticides lie at the intersection of many issues and movements – from air and water quality to children’s health to reproductive justice to food justice – developing community leadership around pesticide issues simultaneously builds the power of the pesticide movement and all of our movements for health and justice.