Teach Out! at Jubilee and Local Roots A Reflection by Valentina de la Fuente At today’s Teach Out to Jubilee and Local Roots farms in Carnation, we hear from farmers on their experiences farming in the Snoqualmie Valley, one of the last remaining regions in King County designated specifically as farm land. Some themes that [...]

WTO+10: Global Justice Forward The Climate is Changing – It’s Time for Solutions! See www.seattleplus10.org for lots more info! CAGJ IS SELLING T-SHIRTS WITH THIS LOGO HERE! $15 FUNDRAISER…RED & WHITE STANDARD T-SHIRTS; RED AND LIGHT BLUE FITTED T-SHIRTS, & RED KIDS T-SHIRTS! CALL FOR MORE INFO, GET YOURS AT THE PEOPLE’S SUMMIT, OR BUY [...]

CAGJ members and supporters will join other great people for food and community-building at FEEST’s November Community Potluck: Wednesday, November 25th 3:30pm join us for cooking in the kitchen 5:30pm The potluck begins 7:00pm Clean up of space *please plan to stay and clean up. Its an important part of our community agreements. At the [...]

Will you help protect our family fishermen and our oceans? Wednesday, October 28th Between 10:30am and 2:30pm, Ballard Town Square (Between Leary and Ballard Ave.) On October 28th, people across the country, from Washington to Maine will be standing up to support family fishermen, healthy oceans, and sustainable seafood. Here in Seattle, we will be [...]

An Action Alert from Mary Embleton of the Cascade Harvest Coalition: Dear Friends, This is a call to action.  We need your help and support to draw attention to King County’s budget process and the Executive’s proposed elimination of all funding for Puget Sound Fresh, WSU King County Extension and core elements of the County’s [...]

Today’s plenary addressed how to resist and/or engage with corporate power in ways that advance the struggle for a just food and health system. One of the speakers, Eduardo Sanchez,  brilliantly connected the food system to the health care system, and suggested that following the current “reforms” of US health care only replicate the same [...]

Today Travis English, Ashley Fent and Heather Day of CAGJ participated in ‘From People Power to Public Policy: A Gathering of Local and State Food Policy Councils’, our first day in Des Moines, Iowa.  We’ve been following the success of Seattle’s Acting Food Policy Council (FPC), and its recent homelessness and limbo, due to budget [...]

By Valentina de la Fuente, CAGJ Intern Today is the “Teach Out!”, an event organized through the Food Justice Project.  Today our urban garden tours will lead us from the Umojafest Peace center in the Central District, to the Danny Woo Garden in the International District. These visits are an opportunity for community members to [...]

So read a circular banner on a locked-down street in San Francisco on Sept. 21st.  Organized by the Mobilization for Climate Justice West, a coalition of groups calling for urgent, direct action in response to climate change, the action comes as a part of a week of activity around the G20 meetings in Pittsburgh.  There, [...]

By Valentina de la Fuente, CAGJ Intern Today’s “Teach Out!” consists of a visit to the Fisherman’s Terminal to hear the rich stories of some of the last family fisherman left in Seattle, and then a bike ride to the newly burgeoning farm at the UW where we will be making pizza in a cob [...]