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, [...]

Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice Publication Party
Date: February 26 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 [...]

AGRA Watch’s first film night is Sunday, Feb. 7th, 5 – 8pm at Bobby Righi’s house (please RSVP to agrawatch@seattleglobaljustice.org for directions and address).
About the film: “A Thousand Suns” tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region. This isolated area has [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

The Council of Parties 15 (COP15) UN Climate Change Conference was reminiscent of many alphabet soup economic summits: World Heads of State came together in a mid-sized city to discuss pressing issues of the day, a clamoring from marginalized civil society organizations for a stronger voice (or from being barred entry), met with mass demonstrations [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

 
Few questions, more praise, for Siddiqui at confirmation hearing
Monday November 09 2009
Volume: 51 Issue: 36
 
Food Chemical News
 
No fewer than 80 chiefly environmental advocacy groups have issued a statement painting Islam Siddiqui as too pro-pesticide and biotech to be chief agricultural negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative. Regardless, most of the Senate Finance Committee members at [...]

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 [...]