Events
From the Grassroots: Reports from Kenya & Uganda on Food Sovereignty, Agricultural Development and the Gates Foundation
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 Travis and Heather English Day of CAGJ, who will report back on their travels to Kenya and Uganda, where they are learning about the new “green revolution” in Africa and the alternatives, including a visit to Joshua’s program. You can read more about Heather and Travis’s experiences on their blog.
Common Ground Program works in many areas, with a special focus on increased food security, crop diversification and the protection of natural resources. Their sustainable agriculture projects provide families and communities with vital technical and material resources for improving nutrition and increasing income generation. The projects also enable rural farming communities to adapt and survive in the face of challenges to their livelihoods, including globalization, commercialization of food production and climate change.
Heather and Travis had the opportunity to meet over 50 farmers in their visits with Common Ground and four other programs around the country. They will share images and stories from the thriving organic farming movement in Kenya, as well as the ongoing push for GMO’s and chemically dependent agriculture by the Gates Foundation and others.
Co-sponsored by Village Volunteers. Event is free. Eritrean food available for purchase, full bar available. All ages welcome to attend! For more info, contact agrawatch@seattleglobaljustice.org; Or call 206-405-4600.
Come celebrate the publication of Our Food, Our Right!
Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice Publication Party
Date: February 26th, 7-10 pm
Location: Hidmo 2000 S Jackson St. Seattle, 98144
The Food Justice Project of the Community Alliance for Global Justice (CAGJ) recently published their first food justice resource guide and recipe book, Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice. The guide combines hands-on tools for change with political awareness to engage YOU in joining in the struggle for food justice! Plus, it features beautiful illustrations and photographs by local artists and delicious recipes submitted by community members and friends of CAGJ.
Please come support the release of CAGJ’s first ever publication!! Join us for food, music (featuring Ghanaian artist Mohammed Shaibu, guitarist, drummer, vocalist and leader of the band Soyaya, and Quetzal, a dynamic group mixing Mexican and Afro-Cuban rhythms with rock, R&B, and jazz), raffle prizes, and good times! A handful of recipes from the guide will be sampled, and copies of Our Food, Our Right will also be available for purchase for $5-$20, on a sliding scale. This event is free and open to the public, please bring your friends, family members and join us in the celebration!
For any questions for more information, please email Maria Rodriguez: rodriguezme08 [at] gmail.com
Save the Date! SLEE Dinner & Fair August 7!
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, and to help with publicity. This is a great way to learn valuable event organizing skills while having fun with other folks dedicated to food justice.
Contact volunteer@seattleglobaljustice.org if you want to get involved!
Viva N30! Activists in Seattle take to the streets demanding climate, trade, and immigrant justice
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 of Action at Westlake Park in Seattle multiple groups rallied, demonstrated, and took action at noon for climate justice. Street theater lampooned the current regime’s failure to include or empower people in solutions to the climate crisis, as the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen loom large, highlighting the need to organize globally and make those voices heard.
Much of the focus was on Chase and Bank of America, two of the major funders of the coal industry and the controversial practice of mountain top removal mining, and two were arrested after a lock-down civil disobedience protest at the Westlake branches of each bank, calling out both banks as “Climate Criminals” (for more information, see Rainforest Action Network’s great resources here). The Yes Men supported an action exposing the truth of Bank of America’s stance on coal and mountain-top removal funding, as two official-looking bank representatives addressed the cameras and the crowd promising clean coal while reaffirming a commitment to their shareholders’ bottom line.
At 1:30, a contingent of fair trade activists marched to Rep. McDermott’s office with hundreds of signed postcards from constituents, encouraging him and other congresspeople to take a stand for workers’ rights worldwide by supporting the TRADE Act. The TRADE act is an alternative to the failed NAFTA model of free trade, envisioning what a truly just trade agreement might encompass.
After more music and performance from the stage at Westlake, the Washington Immigrant Rights Action Coalition held a march to Pacific Place mall in support of about 100 janitorial workers who are being unfairly treated and fired by Seattle Building Maintenance. People entered Pacific Place to chant, sing, and express their disgust with the mistreatment of workers, and were escorted out by mall security.
You can see video of the climate justice actions here, here, and here, and some great pictures of the whole day’s events can be seen here and here.
Happy N30! Join us in the Streets & at UW at 7pm!
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 AGRA Watch campaign, speaking about his new book, co-authored with Raj Patel & Annie Shattuck, “Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice”.
Eric is an incredible speaker – don’t miss this chance to hear him in person!
Gould Hall at University of WA, Seattle
On the corner of NE 40th St and 15th Ave NE
Admission free of charge
News
From the Grassroots: Reports from Kenya & Uganda on Food Sovereignty, Agricultural Development and the Gates Foundation
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 Travis and Heather English Day of CAGJ, who will report back on their travels to Kenya and Uganda, where they are learning about the new “green revolution” in Africa and the alternatives, including a visit to Joshua’s program. You can read more about Heather and Travis’s experiences on their blog.
Common Ground Program works in many areas, with a special focus on increased food security, crop diversification and the protection of natural resources. Their sustainable agriculture projects provide families and communities with vital technical and material resources for improving nutrition and increasing income generation. The projects also enable rural farming communities to adapt and survive in the face of challenges to their livelihoods, including globalization, commercialization of food production and climate change.
Heather and Travis had the opportunity to meet over 50 farmers in their visits with Common Ground and four other programs around the country. They will share images and stories from the thriving organic farming movement in Kenya, as well as the ongoing push for GMO’s and chemically dependent agriculture by the Gates Foundation and others.
Co-sponsored by Village Volunteers. Event is free. Eritrean food available for purchase, full bar available. All ages welcome to attend! For more info, contact agrawatch@seattleglobaljustice.org; Or call 206-405-4600.
Mining and Indigenous Rights – The Struggle for Self-Determination in Central America
A panel discussion featuring
Guatemalan indigenous community leader
Pascual Bernabe Velásquez
Assembly of Huehuetenango in Defense of Natural Resources Friday, March 5, 2010 | 6:30 – 8:30pm
Ethnic Cultural Center at the UW
3931 Brooklyn Ave NE, Black Room
FREE EVENT
Maya-Q’anjob’al women vote to express their opposition to mining in a community consultation in Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala in August, 2006. (Phil Neff photo)
Let the Communities Decide!
- More than 600,000 people participating in community consultations have voted NO to the expansion of harmful mining projects in Guatemala.
- In his presentation, Pascual Bernabe Velásquez will speak about the consulta movement and civil resistance against the expansion of mining projects in Guatemala.
- At the same time, mining companies are using DR-CAFTA to sue the government of El Salvador for refusing to approve mining projects.
With a photo exhibit by James Rodriguez
Hosted by the UU Central America Network and Seattle CISPES. Co-sponsored by the University of Washington Center for Human Rights, the UW Student Labor Action Project, Casa Latina, and the Community Alliance for Global Justice.
Speaking tour organized by Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA)
Come celebrate the publication of Our Food, Our Right!
Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice Publication Party
Date: February 26th, 7-10 pm
Location: Hidmo 2000 S Jackson St. Seattle, 98144
The Food Justice Project of the Community Alliance for Global Justice (CAGJ) recently published their first food justice resource guide and recipe book, Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice. The guide combines hands-on tools for change with political awareness to engage YOU in joining in the struggle for food justice! Plus, it features beautiful illustrations and photographs by local artists and delicious recipes submitted by community members and friends of CAGJ.
Please come support the release of CAGJ’s first ever publication!! Join us for food, music (featuring Ghanaian artist Mohammed Shaibu, guitarist, drummer, vocalist and leader of the band Soyaya, and Quetzal, a dynamic group mixing Mexican and Afro-Cuban rhythms with rock, R&B, and jazz), raffle prizes, and good times! A handful of recipes from the guide will be sampled, and copies of Our Food, Our Right will also be available for purchase for $5-$20, on a sliding scale. This event is free and open to the public, please bring your friends, family members and join us in the celebration!
For any questions for more information, please email Maria Rodriguez: rodriguezme08 [at] gmail.com
Save the Date! SLEE Dinner & Fair August 7!
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, and to help with publicity. This is a great way to learn valuable event organizing skills while having fun with other folks dedicated to food justice.
Contact volunteer@seattleglobaljustice.org if you want to get involved!
“Our Food, Our Right” on Sale Now!
These make GREAT gifts! Order yours now!
Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice is a new CAGJ Food Justice Project publication (72 pages) 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, Our Right promotes community knowledge sharing, self-sufficiency, accessibility, and food justice through a food sovereignty framework.
Our Food, Our Right takes you on a journey through many of the current food system’s failures, and showcases creative solutions that communities are designing to regain control over their food, and the health of their bodies and neighborhoods. This guide has the tools you need to take back your food choices and stand up for all people’s right to good, healthy, and culturally appropriate food!
Topics include:
- Composting and container gardening
- Effects of NAFTA and the WTO on farmers and food
- Basics of food preservation: canning, pickling, freezing, and drying
- Stories of Change: Food Justice Around the World
- Farmworker Organizing in Washington State
- CSA’s, farmers’ markets, and community kitchens
- Local community resources for getting involved in strengthening local food economies, everywhere!
…..and MUCH more! Also features illustrations and design by local artists!
How much does it cost?
In an effort to make this guide as accessible as possible, we are offering Our Food, Our Right for $5 – $20, sliding scale donation! Bulk discount: Buy 5 for $50!
The guide is valued at $15; if you are able to pay $20 or more, you help us subsidize 100 free copies that will be distributed to local food justice organizations serving disadvantaged communities, as well as food banks, shelters, and community centers.
How can you get Our Food, Our Right? (more…)