- What is the “food system”?
- Current state of the food system & defining the problem
- Sexism, Classism & Racism and our food system
- Farm Bill
- Food Justice & Food sovereignty: What would an equitable food system include?
- Political change vs. Consumer choice
- Solutions/Taking Action: Models/projects vs. movements/action
SAT June 2: CAGJ Community Feedback Session
Come help Community Alliance for Global Justice develop a popular education series!
Saturday June 2nd, 1pm to 5pm, Location TBD
Please RSVP by May 24th to reserve your spot – or if you have any questions – contact Laura Titzer, Food Justice Project Co-Chair: laura.titzer[at]gmail.com
Community Alliance for Global Justice receives many requests from organizations, student groups, academics, individuals and businesses who are interested in food justice issues, and want to learn more. We also see a huge need not only to increase food literacy, but to teach the step-by-step skills for organizing food justice campaigns. In response, CAGJ’s Food Justice Project is developing a Community Education program, and we would be honored if you would participate in shaping it.
CAGJ’s objective is to develop a popular education series to inform and activate a varied public about food justice and food sovereignty. To help us develop this workshop series, we are seeking input from our allies and our community. We hope to create a series that motivates and inspires the public through the inclusion of all your voices.
We invite: CAGJ members and volunteers; CAGJ’s ally organizations and businesses (or designated representatives); and any individual interested in moving food justice organizing forward.
If you are able to attend, we request that you participate in the entire workshop, which will be based on the World Café model, and last 4 hours. We will provide snacks and beverages. At the end of the workshop we will request willing participants to join a work group to finalize the educational series based on the information collected from this workshop.
Topics of discussion will include themes such as:
Please feel free to call CAGJ as well, if you have any questions! 206-405-4600
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Community Alliance for Global Justice
606 Maynard Ave. S. #252
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 405-4600
Our Projects
Food Justice
Food Justice is the right of communities everywhere to produce, distribute, access, and eat good food regardless of race, class, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, ability, religion, or community. Good food is healthful, local, sustainable, culturally appropriate, humane, and produced for the sustenance of people and the planet.
Through community education, political action, and anti-oppressive organizing and community-building, CAGJ's Food Justice Project seeks to challenge and transform the globalized, industrial, corporate-driven food system and promote existing alternatives as we join the global struggle for food sovereignty for all!
AGRA Watch
AGRA Watch's objectives are to monitor and question the Gates Foundation's participation in the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). Upon researching this initiative and its historical precedents, AGRA Watch finds the current approach politically, environmentally, socially, and ethically problematic. We support sustainable, socially responsible, and indigenous alternatives in Africa, and connect these movements to those occurring in our local communities.
Trade Justice
CAGJ works for Trade Justice by organizing to reform the current US trade model that prioritizes profits over people and the environment, while offering viable alternatives through democratic engagement. Through CAGJ’s Trade Action Network, and membership in the WA Fair Trade Coalition, CAGJ continues our historic organizing to halt future so-called Free Trade Agreements, including the pending Trans Pacific Partnership, and to monitor existing policy including NAFTA, CAFTA and bilateral agreements with Peru, Colombia, South Korea and Panama. We seek to increase public understanding of trade by educating and advocating about the links to our food system, food sovereignty, immigrant rights, climate justice and economic justice.
News
10am - 3pm Hike from CAGJ's office in the ID (606 Maynard Ave S) to Madison Valley 3pm ...
Friday, March 16: A Global Day of Action - Shut Down Monsanto! In Seattle, 11AM – 1PM: Demand that Gates Foundation ...
SAT April 28 Hike 10am-3pm; Celebration at MLK Community Center 3-5pm! A fundraiser for the 2nd Edition of Our Food, ...
2PM March from Westlake Park (401 Pine St) to Darigold Headquarters (1130 Rainier Ave S) 3PM Rally @ Darigold Headquarters Transportation ...
Eric Holt-Giménez, Editor and Food First Executive Director In case you missed the event with Eric Holt-Gimenez, you can hear ...
Get Involved With CAGJ
There are many ways you can get involved in the projects of CAGJ. For example, you can:
- Become a member, intern or volunteer
- Donate to help sustain CAGJ
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Find out more on our Get Involved page!
Blog
Industrial agriculture—“it’s been a bad month”, By Erick Haakenson
Reprinted with permission from April 22, 2012 Jubilee Farm Newsletter The season is so hard upon us that I don’t have time to share everything in this update I’d like too. So I’m going to have to abridge what I’d like to say here. But I just can’t fail to note that the assault on [...]
April 17 is International Day of Peasant Struggle!
La Via Campesina, of which CAGJ is a member through the National Family Farm Coalition, calls for April 17 to be commemorated every year as the International Day of Peasant Struggle, to mark the massacre of 19 peasants struggling for land and justice in Brazil in 1996. Every year on that day actions take place [...]
Seattle Times Op-Ed: Bill Gates’ support of GM crops is wrong approach for Africa
AGRA Watch helped make this Op-Ed possible – One of our African colleagues, Glenn Ashton, became so incensed at Bill Gates’ recent annual letter that he worked with AGRA Watch to produce an Op Ed which we were able to get placed in the Seattle Times. This is probably the first occasion in which the [...]
