CAGJ Report-back from Kenya & Uganda!

Saturday, March 27, 6:30 – 9:00 PM
Hidmo Eritrean Restaurant, 2000 S Jackson St. Seattle, 98144

Come to hear from Kenyan Farmer & Community Organizer Joshua Machinga, Director of Common Ground in Kenya, and Heather English Day, CAGJ’s Director, who will report back on travels to Kenya and Uganda, where she was [...]

Article by Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair
On January 13, Michael Taylor was officially named deputy commissioner for foods, making him in effect the Food and Drug Administration’s new food safety czar. Last July Taylor was appointed as senior adviser to FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg, but that wasn’t his first job in government. His long “revolving door” [...]

Article by Ashley Fent, Co-Chair of CAGJ’s AGRA Watch Campaign. The first part of this article, including ways you can take action, was published in CAGJ’s February 2010 newsletter, and is re-printed below the list of citations.

Pou w konprann sa k pase joudi a, fók ou konnen sa ka pase anvan, “To understand today we [...]

Saturday August 7, 2010
Strengthening Local Economies, Everywhere!  Dinner & Fair
Same great location! St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, in Montlake
Volunteers make this annual community event and CAGJ fundraiser happen.  We are currently seeking volunteers to help organize the Silent and Dessert Auctions, to do outreach to friendly organization and businesses,  farmers and potential food worker guests, [...]

CAGJ joined the farmers of Island Meadow Farm – Chandler Briggs, Caitlin Henry and Roby – in an awesome heart wrenching, gut wrenching chicken slaughter during the September Teach out to Vashon Island.  Here is a juicy snapshot of our journey.
By CAGJ Intern, Valentina de la Fuente
Something I learned about chickens today is that they [...]

SEE LINKS TO PHOTOS & VIDEOS BELOW!

On November 30th, 2009, 10 years after the historic shut-down of the WTO meetings in Seattle, people again made their voices heard on many of the pressing issues we face today.  As protests, teach-ins, and civil disobedience took place around the country on Mobilization for Climate Justice’s Day [...]

Climate-Trade-Immigrant Justice NOW
Westlake Plaza, south end of park, 12 – 5
12noon-1245: Cimate! Justice! Assembly Street Theater
1245-1pm: Jack Chernos, Singer, Songwriter
115-130: WA Fair Trade Coalition
130-2pm: Climate Justice speaker
2-230: People’s Assembly
230-250: Jim Page, Folk Troubadour
250-320: Street Theater
4pm-5pm WA Immigrant Rights Action Coalition
Hear Eric Holt-Gimenez tonight at UW, 7pm!
Eric Holt Gimenez,  Director of Food First, ally in our [...]

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 [...]

CAGJ is honored to have been awarded the Food Sovereignty Honorable Mention Prize, along with the Toronto Food Policy Council and the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (Kenya). La Via Campesina – the international movement of peasants who introduced the idea of “food sovereignty” – won the prize.   Central Co-op’s Madison Market nominated [...]