A Snapshot of 2025 Highlights
Justice for All VC began in 2017 as a ragtag group of volunteers, who spontaneously came together to organize that year’s Women’s March in Ventura County. But JFAVC has since grown into far more — and 2025 in particular was a banner year of community accomplishments.
As our coalition of allies ranging from Indivisible Ventura to Planned Parenthood Central Coast continues to grow, it’s time that we look back, and acknowledge what that coalition achieved in 2025 alone. If you feel inspired to collaborate, email us at info@justiceforallvc.org.
January 2025
Our Annual Women’s March!
Since 2017, JFAVC has staged its signature event every year in January. And while the spread of misogynist policies in Washington DC was the impetus for our first march, our march’s themes have since broadened to highlight other social justice issues that intersect with women’s rights.
February 2025
Our First-Ever Book Club!
We launched our very first Book Club, themed around democracy, women’s rights and intersectionality, with Democracy in Retrograde as our first book. We even began supporting other activist book clubs by providing them with access to free books via A Library for All.
Our First-Ever Volunteer Committee!
After years of help from informal volunteer networks that make our events possible each year, we finally incorporated these enthusiastic volunteers into a formal committee in 2025. And it’s proven instrumental in initiating, planning and staffing JFAVC’s undertakings since 2025.
Our Annual Youth Essay Contest!
With democracy in the USA under greater threat than ever, JFAVC launched that year’s annual Youth Essay Contest by posing two questions to Ventura County’s students: How can youth influence local government, or motivate peers to participate in community action?
March 2025
Our First St. Patrick’s Day Parade ☘️
Not only did JFAVC walk in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Ventura County for the first time, but we even won an award from County Ventura St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee for Best Walking Entry! Maybe it was because our theme was “Irish Women in History”. 😎
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
In our first-ever collaboration with Ventura County Library, we hosted a screening for the 2014 documentary She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, followed by a community discussion around the documentary’s continued relevance to today’s struggle for women’s rights.
Our Women’s History Month Proclamation
Every March, Ventura County’s Board of Supervisors honors women who’ve paved a path for women’s progress in our community. In 2025, our own Shane Meserve accepted that year’s proclamation on JFAVC’s behalf and shared these words with the Board of Supervisors during her acceptance.
April 2025
Our Remove, Reverse, Reclaim Rally
Hosted in collaboration with 50501 Ventura, Indivisible Ventura and others, we rallied in defiance of an increasingly autocratic White House brazenly seizing control of our healthcare, our data, our jobs and public services. We sent a message: This is a crisis, and the time to act is now.
May 2025
Our Youth Essay Contest Winners!
JFAVC honored the winners of our 2025 Youth Essay Contest, including First Place winner Diana Martinez (pictured) of Fillmore High School and Second Place winner Graceldy Tau of Thousand Oaks High School. Third Place winner Gabriel Aversa and Honorable Mention Maisie Hatler hail from Ventura High School.
June 2025
Our Bodies, Our Choices: Moving Beyond Dobbs
With the appalling Dobbs decision of 2022, we knew it would create havoc and hurt women across Ventura County. On this third anniversary of that decision, we stood with our community and hosted a discussion on what’s next for activists fighting for reproductive justice.
Ventura County Kicks Out the Clowns 🤡
On June 14, President Donald honored himself with a four-mile military parade in Washington DC, inspired by the dictators he idolizes. No Kings Day was a march we cohosted with 50501 Ventura and Indivisible Ventura to lampoon the absurdity of the MAGA regime — and the clowns leading it.
July 2025
Our Good Trouble Protest
On July 17, the anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’s 2020 passing, we rallied in Ventura to defend democracy and highlight Lewis’s legacy of “Good Trouble” as a civil rights advocate. In America, power still lies with the people, and we rose up to prove it.
September 2025
Ventura County Labor Day Protest
As billionaires continued waging war on working people, supported by their cronies in the White House, JFAVC chose on Labor Day to stand with countless partners throughout Ventura County to show we would keep fighting for public schools over private profits, healthcare over hedge funds and shared prosperity over corporate politics.
October 2025
NO KINGS Ventura County
Back in June, almost 7,000 allies across Ventura County stepped up for No Kings Day. In October 2025, we assembled once again to show our movement had only grown — because in the USA, we don’t have kings and we won’t back down against fascist chaos, corruption and cruelty.
November 2025
Made in L.A. Documentary Screening
With support from our cosponsors at The Acorn Project and Ventura County Women’s Forum, we organized a screening of Made in L.A., a documentary about immigrant women fighting for their labor rights in the 2000s. Afterward, a panel of experts engaged with attendees about how we could make a difference like these brave women had.
December 2025
Saving the Date: 10th Annual Women’s March
When we announced the date for our 10th Annual Women’s March, we wanted a message of courage to bring together advocates across Ventura County. In the end, that message united almost 30 local organizations as they marched together, connected with each other, and planted the seeds for how the community would fight back in 2026.