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! Volunteers get [...]

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, 202-543-5675, kozer@nffc.net
Mariam Mayet, African Center for [...]

From Democracy Now!, April 1st, 2009.  Check out Democracy Now! for more great coverage of Haiti and international economic news.
President Bill Clinton, now the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, publicly apologized last month for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported, subsidized US rice during his time in office. The policy wiped out [...]

Many voices missing in ‘Dialogue’ with Justice Department
By Siena Chrisman with WhyHunger

Part IV, reported March 26
Read parts I-III of WhyHunger’s reports on the Department of Justice’s hearings on anti-trust issues in agriculture
The March 12 workshop that the Department of Justice and USDA held in Ankeny, Iowa, was called “A Dialogue on Competition Issues [...]

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 Heather English Day, CAGJ’s Director, who will report back on travels to Kenya and Uganda, where she was [...]

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  [...]

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 [...]

From the Via Campesina website, head there to find out more!

17 April 2010 – Join the International Day of Peasant Struggle
To commemorate the International Day of Peasant Struggle on April 17th 2010, the international peasant movement La Via Campesina calls upon member organisations, allies and supporters to unite against transnational corporations (TNCs), which seek complete [...]

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 [...]

The World Economic Forum started this week.  For a gathering of critics and advocates for alternatives to the WEF, a World Social Forum in Brazil also began (you can check out some coverage here and here, and other WSF events are happening in other areas throughout 2010).
But thanks to some slick website design and camera [...]