Tickets to CAGJ’s July 18 dinner are going fast! Buy yours today!
Sat. July 18, 2009, 3pm – 11pm
New Location! St. Demetrios Church, 2100 Boyer Avenue E, in Montlake neighborhood
Fair, 3- 6pm (Free), DInner 6 - 9pm, Dancing 9 -11pm
$35 regular admission
$65 Buy a ticket for yourself and ensure that a local farmer or food worker can be one of our honored guests!
$12 low-income/student/senior
$5 kids
In the face of intersecting food, climate and economic crises, we all feel the ever more urgent need to build a strong, global movement for just and sustainable economies. We invite you to join CAGJ in our effort to build community solidarity, while also connecting local and global struggles for justice, through this fun, engaging and inspiring event.
Volunteer! You can participate in many other ways! We need donations for the dessert and silent auctions, volunteers the day of the event (volunteers get in for free), and other help! Please contact Heather: hrd99@igc.org, 206-405-4600
Fair 3 - 6pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. This year’s Fair will involve multiple organizations presenting their work to the public in addition to hands-on workshops and opportunities to learn about food and farming directly from farmers and food-workers. Participants will also enjoy live music, hors d’oeuvres and libations!
Free Workshops: Ask the Farmer, Bee-keeping, Low impact food preservation & more to come!
Dinner 6 - 9pm
As with past years, volunteer chefs will prepare the dinner with contributions from Fair Trade partners as well as local food producers. We will also have the privilege of tasting the fine foods of Portage Bay Cafe and
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Community Alliance for Global Justice
606 Maynard Ave. S. #252
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 405-4600
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STEERING COMMITTEE MEETINGS:
Interested in seeing what we're working on at CAGJ? Come to our monthly Steering Committee meetings on the First Tuesday every other month, 6:30pm at our offices. All members and visitors are welcome. The next one is May 5th!
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Throughout much of the world, village markets not only play a crucial role in economic development, but they are also the social center of daily life. Although they do not play as important of a role in much of the developed world, farmers markets do provide [...]
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Tuesday, 09 June 2009 08:22
View full article here.
A federal judge in Greensboro, NC, has set a hearing for Monday, June 22, to hear a coalition of growers’ organizations’ argument that Secretary of Solis acted illegally in temporarily suspending the Bush-Chao changes to the H-2A guestworker program. Farmworkers have filed a request [...]
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