The Food Justice Project’s “Our Food, Our Right” (OFOR) committee is looking for some additional help!
“Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice” is a CAGJ Food Justice Project publication that combines hands-on tools for change with community recipes and political awareness to engage you in joining in the struggle for food justice! Our Food, [...]

Here are a couple more posts from the US Social Forum – still more to come!
6/25/10, by Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair
Workshops:
Social Movement Strategies and Tactics for Rebuilding Local Food Economies
Keeping it Real: Embodying Alliance in the Quest for Real Food
PMA: Food Sovereignty
I got an early start since I carpooled with Heather, [...]

The new Howell Collective P-patch is looking forward to a late summer launch in August and are hoping you will help us to prepare.  At this time we are looking for tool donations from those who can’t seem to find those loppers or that scuffle hoe because of the abundance of tools you own or [...]

From the Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network:
Hi Folks,
The Network is extremely concerned about the impacts that releasing GE alfalfa (ie. Round Up Ready Alfalfa) would have in this state.  Contamination from RRAlfalfa to organic farms could ruin the organic farming in this state.  International markets do not want genetically engineered alfalfa and [...]

Many thanks to independent journalist Martha Baskin for her great work interviewing Jos Ngonyo, last week’s guest of CAGJ’s AGRA Watch Campaign, for Green Acres Radio!
           
Airs on KBCS 91.3 FM on Thursday May 6 at 5:40PM and Friday May 7 at 7:40AM and 2pm.
GMO’s, Food Security and Misplaced Philanthropy, An Interview with Jos Ngonyo with [...]

Please see below for a message from Clean Greens Farm, and help out if you can!
PLEASE SEND THIS TO ANYONE YOU THINK MIGHT BE INTERESTED.
 
Hi Everyone, it is that time again that we need volunteers for the Clean Greens Farm. This Saturday May 8 and all Saturdays thereafter. A bus will leave 124 -21st Ave [...]

See below for the press release for the Global Food Security Act, of which CAGJ signed onto!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 13 April 2010
CONTACTS:
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, PhD, Pesticide Action Network North America, 415-981-6205, ext.325; mie@panna.org
 
Annie Shattuck, Food First/Institute for Food & Development Policy, 510-654-4400, ext.223; shattuck@foodfirst.org
Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition, 202-543-5675, kozer@nffc.net
Mariam Mayet, African Center for [...]

Hello friends!
Come one come all! Friday, April 23rd, for one night only, the P-Patch House (where I live) will turn into an underground restaurant and folk music venue. We’re doing this to fundraise for Spring Into Bed (springintobed.org), a grassroots, city-wide day of garden-bed building, including food justice gardens for low-income families. Here’s what you [...]

From PolicyLink:
In his 2011 budget, President Obama proposed $345 million for a Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) to dramatically improve access to healthy foods in underserved communities across the country. (HFFI is also one of the four pillars of The First Lady’s Let’s Move initiative to reduce childhood obesity.) With more than 23 million Americans [...]

See below for information about a new US Food Environment Atlas, created to gather and present statistical information on access to food in the US.
From the USDA Food Environment Atlas website:
The U.S. Food Environment Atlas
Food environment factors—such as store/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics—interact to influence food choices and diet [...]