Archive for August 2008

Movies in the Park!

Aug 26th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Events

Community Alliance for Global Justice (CAGJ) and Lettuce Link invites one and all to our annual Movie in the Park!
Featuring “The Greening of Cuba” and “Zapata’s Garden”

When: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 7:00 PM Rain or Shine!

Where: Marra Farm 9026 4th Ave S. (Located in the South Park Neighborhood, just south of S. Cloverdale and 5th [...]



WTO Talks Fail Again

Aug 6th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Food Justice Blog Posts

Another round of World Trade Organization talks collapsed on July 29th, largely due to India’s insistence that they be able to protect farmers from a surge of agricultural imports from rich nations. Efforts to complete the “Doha” Round of negotiations, begun in 2001, have continually failed, as countries of the Global South have insisted [...]



Derailing Doha and the Pathway to a New Paradigm

Aug 5th, 2008 | By Chris | Category: Trade Justice Blog Posts, Uncategorized

How WTO’s collapse clears the way to solve today’s food, fuel, and financial crises
By Victor Menotti, International Forum on Globalization
July 30, 2008
Seeing the Sweep of History
As experts dissect the collapse of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Doha round of global trade talks to explain its causes and effects, many are missing how it signals a [...]