ración Darigold con sus productos lácteos.

Despite actions from the UFW, Darigold continues to turn a blind eye to the abuses being suffered by the workers who labor to produce their milk and their profits. Therefore, we call on all people to join with the UFW and Decolonize/Occupy Seattle to demand justice. We will meet at Westlake at 2pm and march to rally at the Darigold Headquarters at 3 pm.

In case you missed the event with Eric Holt-Gimenez, you can hear him and Rosalinda Guillen speaking about their new book, Food Movements Unite: Strategies to Transform Our Food System on KUOW

Their interview starts at 15:55.

http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=25725

Re-scheduled for FRIDAY, January 20, 2012!

HAPPY HOUR 5 – 6:30PM AT COLLEGE INN PUB (same location)

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE 7 – 9PM AT UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CENTER, LOCATED AT 50TH & THE AVE, 5031 UNIVERSITY WAY. Buses 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 83, 48, 44 all run nearby

5 – 6:30PM: HAPPY HOUR – UNITED FOR FOOD JUSTICE!

Raise your glass together with our esteemed guest and community partners, at a Happy Hour on January 20, co-sponsored by WA Fair Trade Coalition, Lettuce Link/Solid Ground and Community Alliance for Global Justice. We will gather from 5-6:30pm at the College Inn Pub (4006 University Way NE) for a casual meet and greet with our guest, Eric Holt-Giménez of Food First. A remarkable advocate for food justice and food sovereignty, Eric edited Food Movements Unite!  He will introduce Food First’s work to build and unite a diverse movement to transform our food system. Please come to share about your work and learn from others working to bring about change in food systems around the world and in the Seattle area.

7 – 9PM: FREE PUBLIC LECTURE at University of Washington UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CENTER, LOCATED AT 50TH AND THE AVE IN THE U-DISTRICT (LOCATION OF FARMERS MARKET).  TAKE THE BUS! OR IF YOU DRIVE:  South parking lot open at 50th and University, but not plowed!

Sponsored by Community Alliance for Global Justice, UW Dept of Urban Design & Planning, UW Anthropology, UW African Studies Program

Co-sponsored by Alleycat Acres, Cascade Harvest Coalition, Cascadian Edible Landscapes, Central Co-op, CRAVE, The Danny Woo Community Garden, EcoPraxis, GroundUP Organics, Just Garden Project, Lettuce Link/Solid Ground, Readers to Eaters, Real Food Challenge-UW, Seattle Tilth, SHE, UFCW Local 21, WA Fair Trade Coalition, Yes! Magazine

Please help spread the word! Facebook event HERE.

Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food Systems

In communities around the world the power of the people is at work regaining control of our ailing food systems. According to the latest book from Food First, the global food movement is diverse, widespread, refreshingly creative and tremendously powerful. Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food Systems brings us the words, insights and vision of the remarkable farmers, workers and consumers from rural and urban communities around the globe as they address the critical question:

How can we unite to transform the global food system?

The 21 activists and practitioners contributing to this work write “from the trenches” of the food, fuel and environmental crises have much to say about our food future and the potential of this unprecedented “movement of movements.” From the writings of Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved and Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, to João Pedro Stédile of the Brazilian Landless Worker’s Movement, this insightful book is a window into the thinking and actions of the people committed to bringing us affordable, healthy food in ways that harm neither the planet nor its people.

Speaker Biography

Eric Holt-Giménez, Executive Director FoodFirst/Institute for Food and Development Policy
Eric Holt-Giménez is the executive director of FoodFirst/Institute for Food and Development Policy. Eric is the editor of the 2011 Food First book, Food Movements Unite! Strategies to transform our food systems, and the author of the 2009 Food First Book Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice. His earlier book, Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America’s Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture chronicles the development of this movement in Mexico and Central America over two and a half decades. Eric worked with farmers, participated in their farmer-to-farmer trainings, and recorded their triumphs with his camera and pen. This engaging book is the product of that longitudinal participatory research.

Rosalinda Guillén, Executive Director Community to Community Development
Rosalinda Guillén is no longer able to attend.

Directions

Architecture Hall is located just EAST of 15th Ave NE, and just past the main entrance to campus by car, at 40th. If you are outside Gould Hall at 15th Ave NE and 40th, cross 15th, walk up the street, with parking info/hut on your left, Architecture Hall is the first big building on your right, just past the Annex buildings and bus stop on your right. See UW maps link here: www.washington.edu/maps/

Food Justice Project: Organizing for Food Justice & Food Sovereignty in Seattle & everywhere!

• Teach-Outs with Central Co-op, Cascadian Edible Landscapes, Seattle Youth Garden Works with Spring into Bed!, Clean Greens Farm (in photo: CAGJ activist Victoria Gibson on the Farm with Clean Greens Farmer Tom Willis, and Teach-Out participant Chris Dunkle)  HUG-Hilltop Urban Gardens for Food Day!
• May 23: UW Food Justice event with Robert Gottlieb, Author of Food Justice
• Sept 10: hosted MST-Landless Workers Movement- Leader Janaina Stronzake, who spoke at Seattle Tilth Harvest Fair and at CAGJ event, “Food Justice from Brazil to Seattle”
• Nov 13: Occupy Seattle Food Justice Teach-in

AGRA Watch: Organizing to confront the Gates Foundation and Support Food Sovereignty in Africa!

• April 2: Fatou Batta event: Burkino Faso leader of Groundswell International and We Are the Solution Campaign, a women led campaign to resist the “green revolution”.  Speakers included Sara Mersha, Grassroots International and Marcia IshIi-Eiteman, PANNA.
• Nov 5-15:  AGRA Watch nominated Food Sovereignty Prize Winner, Kenyan Farmer Samuel Nderitu, Grow Biointensive Agricultural Centre of Kenya, who we accompanied and then hosted when he received the prize in Oakland (photo above left, Samuel); Farmer Exchange and visit to Marra Farm and public speaking engagements.

NW Farm Bill Action Group: Organizing to transform the Farm Bill!

• On March 1 NWFBAG hosted Dan Imhoff, author of CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories and Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill

• Strategy Meeting hosted by Councilmember Richard Conlin’s office; Reception attended by core NWFBAG members; Public Event at UW attended by close to 300

CAGJ’s first Delegation, to Oaxaca, Mexico

From Sept 21 through Oct 1 seven CAGJ members participated in a joint CAGJ/Witness for Peace Food Sovereignty Delegation to Oaxaca, Mexico.  On Nov 17 several delegates gave a report-back, along with one of the Mexican farming leaders they had met in Oaxaca, Eleazar Garcia.

CAGJ as a Community Resource

In 2011 CAGJ gave presentations to 15 community partners, educating and activating close to 1000 people.  Highlights included our first joint presentation with the Gates Foundation at the Hillel Hunger Banquet, multiple presentations to Gregg Shiosaki’s culinary students at Seattle Central Culinary Academcy, and an AGRA Watch presentation at the Green Festival with Organic Consumers Alliance. CAGJ also tabled at one major event every month in 2011 from the Green Festival to Farmer’s Markets to Town Hall and Seattle Tilth, and we reached over 1,500 people!

Represented CAGJ in Partners’ Speaking Engagements

• Feb 18: Heather speak on panel at Farm Together Now – Book Release and Discussion on Seattle’s Food System at Town Hall
• March 3: Heather Day speak with Gates Foundation representative at UW Hillel Hunger Banquet event
  • In the media: Tom Paulson Blog: Hunger Banquet and the Gates Fdn vs. food activists
• April 14: Chris Iberle present at USAS Sodexo Truth Tour event
• April 17: Bill Aal presents at League of Women Voters event, Sequim
• April 20: Bill Aal presents at Gleaning Food Justice in Tacoma
• April 21: Bill Aal and Nina Triffleman present AGRA Watch workshop, “Politics of Need” – UW Common Spaces NW
• April 26: Phil Bereano presents at National Organic Standards Board
• April 28: Maria Rodriguez presents at Novella Carpenter WA Hall event
• May 21 Janae Choquette presents, Claudia Navas attend Emerging Leaders Conference

• May 21: Bill Aal presents at Green Festival on AGRA Watch with Organic Consumers Alliance

• Oct 20: Chris Iberle presents on food justice on panel at Food Justice & Our Local Food System, Antioch
• Nov 1: Laura Titzer presents on food justice in Seattle Culinary Academy Classroom
• Dec 7: Phil Bereano How the 1% uses the ideology of technology to maintain power, Occupy Seattle/UW

CAGJ Outreach & Education through Tabling

• Jan 11: Helena Nordberg-Hodge at Town Hall (Heather & Travis host speaker)
• Feb 18: Farm Together Now at Town Hall
• March 3: Hunger Banquet Tabling
• April 41: Witness for Peace War on Drugs Town Hall event
• May 21-22: Green Festival Tabling
• May 29 and June 5: SLEE Tabling at Broadway Farmers Market

• June 1: Yes! Magazine 15^th Anniversary event at Town Hall
• Aug 22: Food and Water Watch Film Screening, Tabling

• Sept 10: Seattle Tilth Harvest Fair Tabling
• Oct 24: Central Co-op Food Day Tabling
• Nov 19: Highlight OFOR in Local Giving Fair, Greenwood Senior Center

CAGJ Taking Action for Justice in the Global Economy

CAGJ organized fun, creative and effective actions throughout the year!

• April 16: Celebrated La Via Campesina International Day of Peasant Struggle with street theater and outreach at Ballard Farmers Market
• April 22: Trade Justice Action with WA Fair Trade Coalition at Rep Smith event

• May 1: CAGJ Contingent in May Day Immigrants’ Rights March
• June 4: AGRA Watch protests Gates Foundation’s Headquarters opening
• June 11: Took photo at SLEE dinner reading “We Support Paid Sick Days for Food Workers” and helped to pass the Paid Sick Leave Ordinance!
• June 29: Trade Justice Banner hang over I-5 and downtown Seattle Rally & Street Theater targeting Jim McDermott with WA Fair Trade Coalition
• Oct 1: Delivered banner to Rep McDermott reading: “Rep McDermott: Free Trade Kills Farmers!  Vote No on US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement!”, with signatures collected on all summer at multiple events

• Oct 15: Occupy Seattle Food Justice Action
• Nov 21: Confronted WA Representatives who voted in favor of 3 new trade agreements at WA Council for International Trade, with WA Fair Trade Coalition

Created our own Media, and Making News!

• Created Independent Analysis – Articles by CAGJ Co-Chair Reid Mukai: Roots of Recent Uprisings, Raw Milk Gets Raw Deal From Feds, GMOs Coming to Parks and Lawns Near You, Lessons From Oaxaca to Occupy Movement: A Delegate Reports Back, Notes on a Global Occupation – read them on our website!
• Continued to create the debate about the Gates Foundation’s role in Africa through numerous articles and talks in national and international media, and at African Studies Conferences.
• Humanosphere Blogger Tom Paulson covered CAGJ’s presentation alongside the Gates Foundation in “Hunger Banquet and the Gates Fdn vs. food activists”, and our action at the Gates Foundation Headquarter’s opening, “Post-party news at the new Gates Foundation campus — Bono drops by to say hi and activists drop in to protest”.
• Yes! Magazine Online covered the story of African leader Fatou Batta and our other allies in “Women Farmers Feed the World”.  GreenAcres Radio also covered this story in “We Are the Solution: Women’s Farm Organizations Thrive in Africa”.
• Phil Bereano was interviewed by Dr. Philip Mercola, posted April 2 “Scientists Vigorously Objected to this Food, Are You Eating it?”

Building Local, Regional, National and International Alliances

In 2011 CAGJ participated in 8 coalitions/alliances including the Puget Sound Regional Food Policy Council, WA Fair Trade Coalition, WA Farmworker Coalition, Making Change at Walmart Coalition, National Family Farm Coalition, Community Food Security Coalition, US Food Sovereignty Alliance and Occupy Seattle.  In addition, the AGRA Watch campaign built relationships with African groups throughout the continent.  This work takes time and energy but the pay off is creating a wide base of support so that when we talk, politicians listen!

Participated in Conferences

CAGJ participated in and presented at 8 conferences in 2011, including Organicology, Emerging Leaders, two Community Food Security Conferences, and US Food Sovereignty Alliance, sharing and learning from activists all over the world.  One highlight was in November where CAGJ gave 3 presentations at the African Scholars Conference challenging the Gates Foundation’s investments in industrial agricultural practices in Africa.

CAGJ Organizational Development

We made great strides in 2011 building a strong, resilient organization with capacity to effect transformative change. We focused on Anti-Oppression thru focus groups, community meetings and workshops, began transition to an online database, engaged in Communications training, and raised enough funds to pay our Director full-time through fun events like our Food Justice Trivia Night, Café Justicia Dinner, Fair Trade for the Holidays and our 5^th annual SLEE dinner, with keynote by Detroit food justice leader Aba Ifeoma.  We won several grants for the Food Justice Project Community Education trainings, Our Food, Our Right publication and the NW Farm Bill Action Network.

You can make “Darigreed” listen to workers.

Sign the petition TODAY!

Dairy workers at the Ruby Ridge dairy, which provides milk for the Darigold label are going through hell and need your help. More than a third of them have been fired after they dared asked to have a union. They’re suing the dairy for wage and hour violations and even assault. According to workers, the dairy owner, supported by multi-million dollar loan from a major lender, carries a rifle in his truck and has threatened workers.

According to former employee Miguel Cuevas,  the owner told Cuevas, “This rifle is for those people with the union.” While most farm workers aren’t in the urban occupy actions, the fight they are in is the same fight against corporate greed that has led to the occupy movement. They are part of the 99%.

Workers and UFW supporters have repeatedly tried to appeal to Darigold about the reported abuses workers who labor to produce their product face, but Darigold remains silent. At the most recent delegation, Darigold greeted folks with security guards instead of coming out to talk.

Worker Rafael Munoz shared this thought: “By not showing their face, they are showing us that they support the mistreatment of workers. We need the support now of the consumer so that our struggle will become even bigger. The more time that passes, the bigger this will become.”

Help make this bigger. UFW has launched a petition drive. Please add your name to it: http://action.ufw.org/page/s/dgpetition. UFW will present the signatures to Darigold shortly after Thanksgiving

Why Darigold?

Ruby Ridge is part of the Darigold cooperative, a large dairy processing company headquartered in Seattle, WA. The milk the dairy produces is marketed under the Darigold brand.
http://consumer.darigold.com/locations.html

Darigold products include milk, butter, and yogurt. You can see where Darigold products are sold by visiting their website by clicking here.

Campaign Background

Ruby Ridge is a large dairy located in Eastern Washington. An overwhelming majority of workers employed at the dairy signed union authorization cards asking the UFW to represent them. Workers complained about not being allowed to take breaks, eat lunch, and having to drink water out of a hose used to wash cow manure off the dairy floor. They tell us they continue to not to have any benefits above and beyond an hourly wage. They report that owner Dick Bengen has often carried a rifle with him on his large dairy farm that he uses to scare the workers into line. Mr. Bengen made a point of explaining the special purpose of this rifle to worker Miguel Cuevas, when he told him, “This rifle is for those people with the union.”

When the UFW approached Ruby Ridge owners Dick and Ruby Bengen, their good faith offer was flatly rejected. Workers inform us that it was then the Bengens unleashed their retaliatory campaign against workers, firing over a dozen suspected union activists. With the support of the UFW, a number of those workers have filed suit against Ruby Ridge.

Ruby Ridge subsequently filed a SLAPP lawsuit (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) against both Ruby Ridge workers and the UFW in a blatant attempt to silence workers.

3 events: All events are free & open to the public
SAT Nov 12:
11AM – 1PM Farmer Information Exchange at Marra Farm (more info below, map here)
6 – 8PM Public Event at Southside Commons, 3518 S. Edmunds St., Columbia City (more info below, map here)

TUES Nov 15, 3:30-5:30PM Talk at UW Smith Hall, Room 304 (map here)
For more information, or to arrange a separate visit with Samuel, please contact CAGJ: 206-405-4600, agrawatch@seattleglobaljustice.org http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org/agra-watch/
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“The technologies that are promoted by the Gates Foundation in Africa are not farmer-friendly or environmentally friendly. Some of them have not been tested fully to determine their effects on the environment and consumers.  African farmers are seeking food sovereignty, not imposed unhealthy foods and GMOs!” – Samuel Nderitu
AGRA Watch welcomes Samuel as part of our effort to support African-initiated programs rooted in agroecological and indigenous farming practices, social equity, and food sovereignty. Samuel is visiting Seattle after receiving the Food Sovereignty Prize – Honorable Mention, awarded at the Community Food Security Coalition’s annual conference in Oakland, CA. AGRA Watch, a campaign of Community Alliance for Global Justice, nominated G-BIACK after visiting them in 2010 to learn more about the Gates Foundation-funded Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and indigenous alternatives.
About G-BIACK: Samuel and his wife Peris are the founders of G-BIACK, Grow BioIntensive Agricultural Centre of Kenya.  G-BIACK has trained thousands of small-scale farmers in agroecological methods in a region suffering from ongoing drought, high rates of HIV/AIDS, hunger and the effects of chemical-intensive agriculture. G-BIACK hosts a demonstration farm, community library, seed bank and classroom. They work with marginalized communities, including widows, people living with HIV/AIDS, orphans, women and poor farmers. G-BIACK’s programs empower communities to build food systems free from corporate control and rooted in self-determination, local knowledge and ecological sustainability. Learn more about G-BIACK on the web HERE, and watch this 12 minute video, “GROW”.
About The Food Sovereignty Prize: The Food Sovereignty Prize has been awarded annually at the Community Food Security Coalition Conference since 2009.  The recipients of this prize have contributed significantly to the food sovereignty movement through grassroots action, raising awareness,  and/or developing and implementing new programs and policies.   Winners recognize the importance of collective action in bringing about social change; they clearly prioritize the leadership of women, indigenous peoples,  people of color,  migrant workers and other food providers marginalized by the global food system.  CAGJ was honored to receive Honorable Mention in 2009.

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Join us SAT Nov 12, 6 – 8PM
Public Event with Samuel: Come give a warm Seattle welcome to Samuel, and to hear a presentation & see photos about his work with G-BIACK in Kenya.  AGRA Watch will give an update on our campaign challenging the Gates Foundation’s role in a “new green revolution” in Africa.  Free & open to the public at Southside Commons (3518 S. Edmunds St., Columbia City).  Fair Trade for the Holidays items also available for sale!

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Saturday Nov 12, 11am – 1pm
From Kenya to Seattle: Farmer Information Exchange at Marra Farm (map here)
Farmers, gardeners and eaters are invited to join us to share information about agroecological growing practices.

Featuring:
*Special guest Samuel Nderitu, visiting from Thika Kenya, will do a workshop on grow biointensive agricultural methods taught by his organization to communities in central Kenya
*Sue McGann, farmer at Solid Ground’s Giving Garden at Marra Farm, will share methods used at this urban community farm.
*David Feinberg, Bee Keeper at Marra Farm will share his experience keeping bees in King County.
*Come learn from Sue, David & Samuel, and bring your ideas to enable us to collectively develop a broader understanding of sustainable farming practices!

See photos from Oaxaca Delegation on Facebook here & here

Report from CAGJ Co-Chair Reid Mukai:

Lessons From Oaxaca to the Occupy Movement: A Delegate Reports Back, By Reid Mukai – click here!

http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org/2011/11/lessons-from-oaxaca-to-occupy-seattle-a-delegate-reports-back/

Report from CAGJ member Erica Bacon:

Today is day 7 of the delegation- updating is not as easy as I anticipated- our days are packed completely full of programming and activities!  We are learning so much about the history and political climate in Oaxaca and have been meeting and learning from many inspiring people.  So far we have visited with: Miguel from Educa Oaxaca, an organization working to defend democracy and the human rights of small farmers and indigenous peoples;  Amaranth farmers with an organization called Puente, who are reclaiming the cultivation of the nutrient-rich grain native to the diet of indigenous peoples in Mexico prior to Spanish conquest; several small farmers and gardeners affiliated with the Autonomous Network for Food Sovereignty here in Oaxaca (including an amazing women-run oyster mushroom growing project); a local homesteader right outside of the city with a spectacular apricot orchard; Wilfred from UNUSJO, an organization committed to working in the interest of democracy, indigenous rights, women’s rights and agro-ecology in the Sierra Norte region of Oaxaca; and today with 2 amazing women with Flor y Canto (which means flower and song) who are advocating for indigenous rights and educating about the impacts of neo-liberalism and globalization within the indigenous community, with a specific focus on water privatization and water rights.  Tomorrow we will be leaving the city for a 2 night home stay in the Central Valley, where much of the population of the campo (countryside) we will be visiting has migrated.  I look forward to being able to share more thoroughly the stories of the communities that we have been learning from and to help others to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the true causes of migration.

Report from CAGJ member Bobby Righi:

We heard from a young man named Wilfred Mendoza who works with the Union of Organizations of the Sierra Juarez (UNOSJO).  He began his presentation by saying that the green revolution had left the lands ruined and the people poor.  UNOSJO works actively against GMO corn and promotes sustainable rural economies and they organize workshops on the rights of women.  At the end I asked him what he would say to the authorities who tell people like us working in AGRA Watch that we are naive; He said, ¨They should look at the example of indigenous people in Oaxaca and indeed all over Latin America. They are crushed by policies from outside.  They should look and Oaxaca and see if the Green Revolution helped us.  We are the poorest part of Mexico.¨ He called these kinds of programs ¨low intensity warfare”.

A second small story from one of our visits.  This was to RASA, Red Autonoma para la Soberania Alimentaria.  We had a chance to sit in small groups at tables and discuss urban gardening with a group of four older men and women who grow mushrooms, tomatoes, celery, fruit, and so much more.  One of them, Laurentinea, grew so much celery that she was able to sell to her friends and neighbors for a bit of income and to develop new recipes for using it.  We pictured a small farm but it turned out that she grows her vegetables in containers on her small patio!   All of these urban farmers could all remember when the land in Oaxaca was much better and they said what ruined the land was the cutting of trees for houses for the rich. This was a common theme we were to hear often: the deforestation of huge areas of the state of Oaxaca. So, I thought to myself, this area was not always dry and arid in the mountains!  We later visited a village in the mountains where people have been replanting with native pine trees and also digging countour ditches to retain water.

When I asked Laurentinea if she had children, she told me about her son who left 13 years ago to work in California.  She has not seen him since.  He has married and has two children who are now in primary school but he and his wife get up at 4am to pick grapes and the children are alone a lot of the time.  She has never met her grandchildren.  There is no way for them to travel here nor for her to go to California. Despite the fact that her husband died the same year that her son left, she is a warm and cheerful person, finds solace in gardening, and maintains hope that her son will return with his family one day.   Just one example of the need to change immigration policy.

SAT Oct 22
10am – 1:30pm
Celebrating Food Day

Founded in 2009 by long-time organizer Dean Jackson, Hilltop Urban Gardens is a community-based urban agriculture and social justice organization. HUG partners with the community to grow healthy food, young people and neighbors. We seek to inspire our community to live with abundance while understanding and undermining the root causes of economic poverty & wealth accumulation and systems of oppression. We believe growing our own food independence is an important strategy in this process. We see food as a basic human right. Everyone deserves access and the ability to produce and distribute fresh, affordable, healthy, clean, sustainable, safe, and culturally appropriate food. We call this FOOD JUSTICE.
Learn more about HUG! www.hilltopurbangardens.com

**Please note, space is limited, so RSVP’s are required. To sign up email Chris at fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org. We will send you directions and details upon receiving your RSVP, as well as information about what to wear and bring. We will be carpooling. All activities will be appropriate for children and we can work out disability accommodations if needed.

Join CAGJ as we celebrate our 10 years of accomplishments & take stock of broader social movement victories & get psyched for the next 10 years!
…Share your favorite activist stories
…Enjoy tamales, rice & beans, horchata & spirits
…Dance the night away at Washington Hall
…CAGJ’s founding Director Jeremy Simer will join us on this special evening

Special musical guests Seattle Fandango Project & Gravity Kings!
The Fandango traditions of Veracruz, Mexico use music, singing, and dancing to generate a spirit of convivencia—of living and being in community. Seattle Fandango Project builds relationships and social activism through participatory music.

Gravity Kings are a New Orleans style groove-oriented funky soul band with West coast horn lines that make derrières move. Ain’t nothin’ but a party when Gravity Kings lay it down!

*Please help spread the word! Facebook event HERE! — Download the flyer! — Thanks!
**Volunteers needed! For more info, contact CAGJ: volunteer@seattleglobaljustice.org, 206-405-4600

Time: 2pm for a professional lesson and enjoy dancing until 4pm ($20) or come at 3pm just to enjoy dancing ($15). Only cash or check payments accepted .

Location: Yoga Den: 514 12th Ave Ste B (map)

RSVP by October 7, 2011 to vrgedu[at]gmail.com to reserve your spot today. Plus, learn more about CAGJ at www.seattleglobaljustice.org.

Learn more about the great dance instructor, Max Kepler, and other classes she teaches at dancekepler.com and queerseattletango.com .

Monetary Donations will also be accepted at the event. Check out the Facebook event page.

SAT Sept 10, 6 – 9pm
Location: Miller Community Center, 19th & Thomas on Capitol Hill
FREE, donations appreciated
**You can also hear Janaina speak at 2pm at Seattle Tilth’s Harvest Fair! Location: Meridian Park, behind the Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. Seattle, WA 98103

6pm Prepare dinner together with fresh Northwest produce
7pm Enjoy Capoeira Angola, Brazilian martial art and ritual combat dance & Learn about the MST from Janaina

Organized by Community Alliance for Global Justice & Grassroots International
Co-sponsors: Cascadian Edible Landscapes, Central Co-op, Community Kitchens Northwest, Community to Community, International Capoeira Angola Foundation (ICAF), The Just Garden Project, NW Farm Bill Action Group, The QuickSource for QuickBooks help, Seattle Tilth, Village Volunteers, WA Fair Trade Coalition

Help spread the word – Facebook Event here!

For more information, contact CAGJ: 206-405-4600, contact_us@seattleglobaljustice.org,www.seattleglobaljustice.org