Our allies at Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch posted a revealing piece on U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk’s recent visit to Seattle to meet with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) trade ministers and business executives.  Not wanting to defame the U.S. position as the harbinger of all-things-commerce, Kirk somehow suggested that our state [...]

June is a busy time for CAGJ. We hope you can join us at one of the following events June 5th! All day/1pm presentation at Green Festival All day June 5 and June 6 CAGJ will be tabling at the Green Festival: Email volunteer@seattleglobaljustice.org if you can help out with tabling for a few hours! [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Teach Out! Engaging our Local Food Cycle Sat. May 8, 10 – 3pm optional celebration 4-8pm AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT AND WORK FOR A LOCAL COMMUNITY GARDEN – JOIN THE GUIDED BIKE RIDE, OR CAR-POOL!  Coordinated by the Food Justice Project of the Community Alliance for Global Justice First Teach-out Event of 2010! Spring [...]

Thursday, April 29th 7:00-9:00pm FREE Gowen Hall Room 201 at the University of Washington, just north of Suzzallo Library Josphat Ngonyo Executive Director of African Network for Animal Welfare, a lead organization in the Kenya Biodiversity Coalition, is coming to Seattle!  Kenya is currently at a crossroads between burgeoning organic movements, and its participation in [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

CAGJ had a great turnout and fantastic, fun action at the U-District Farmers’ Market in solidarity with the International Day of Peasant Struggle on April 17th, in response to a call from La Via Campesina! Via Campesina encourages organizations around the world to take action and unite against corporate control of the global food system.  [...]