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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 25th, 2010
Contact:
Travis English, AGRA Watch
(206) 335-4405
Brenda Biddle, The Evergreen State College & AGRA Watch
(360) 878-7833
http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org/agra-watch
GATES FOUNDATION INVESTS IN MONSANTO
Both will profit at expense of small-scale African farmers
Seattle, WA – Farmers and civil society organizations around the world [...]

CAGJ-U.S. Social Forum Report-Back
Wed August 25th,
6:30-9:00pm
Location: Hidmo Eritrean Restaurant (20th & Jackson in Central District, 2000 S. Jackson St.)
Six of CAGJ’s members who traveled to Detroit in June for the US Social Forum will share their experiences and highlight the critical national organizing strategies they encountered in areas of food justice, food sovereignty, media justice, [...]

Teach Out! Engaging our Local Food Cycle
AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT AND WORK FOR A LOCAL COMMUNITY FARM
Coordinated by the Food Justice Project of the Community Alliance for Global Justice
Laughing Crow Farm – Bainbridge Island, WA
Fourth Event of 2010! This Sunday, August 22nd, 10am-3pm, with potluck after!
CAGJ’s Food Justice Project invites our members and others [...]

By Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair
On July 19, right-wing ideologue Andrew Brietbart released a video of out-of-context snippets of a speech given by Shirley Sherrod, effectively distorting a personal story of empathy and redemption into an inflammatory account of reverse discrimination. Just hours after media began spreading the doctored evidence of racism, Sherrod (who served as [...]

by Erica Bacon
June 19, 2010
On one of many cool, rainy June Saturday mornings a few weeks ago, five committed CAGJ members met to carpool to our Teach-out at the Clean Greens Farm.  We drove out of the city hopeful that the clouds might lift for our day of farm work; they didn’t, but it did [...]

Join the Food Fight!
Did you know that there is one federal bill that affects the food you eat, health, renewable energy, farms, the environment, the economy, immigration, and world hunger?
It’s called the Farm Bill. And together, we can make it work better for everyone!
The day after the SLEE dinner…..
Join us for a community Farm Bill [...]

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, [...]

CAGJ members participated in the US Peoples Movement Assembly (PMA) on Food Justice and Sovereignty at the US Social Forum that produced this statement, and we are excited to share it with you today!  It includes the very exciting development of the new US Food Sovereignty Alliance ( a re-working of the former US Food [...]

Please read more reports from US Social Forum by CAGJ and others below!
1. Report on “Detroit Highlighted: Detroit Black Community Food Security Network / Earthworks Urban Farm”, by Heather Day (below)
2. 2nd report on the US Social Forum by Mark Engler, “Social Forum Moments to Combat Cynicism” (below)
3. Democracy Now interviewed legendary Detroit activist, Grace [...]

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, [...]