The Food Justice Project is currently developing an overarching analysis for CAGJ of the global food economy, as well as strategizing about what our outcomes should be for this organizing. Building a coherent analysis is the first step in providing the base for building a campaign, or multiple campaigns, that remain committed to the goal of strengthening local economies everywhere.

Our initial analysis identifies the multiple impacts of the industrial model of agriculture on our local communities. Industrial Agriculture is analyzed to encompass Neoliberal Economic Policy, Corporate Consolidation, Monoculture, and Commodification, with clear impacts to the environment, human health, and individuals who are oppressed and displaced by this system. In particular, we are concerned with making just and sustainably produced food accessible to many, and not just those with privilege. All those involved in the production and distribution of food should benefit in equitable ways, not an elite few in the global industrial food system. We are also working to understand the role of immigrants in our local food system and are committed to ensuring that organizing on labor and immigrant rights issues will be integral to future campaigns. We seek to understand the ways race, gender, ethnicity, and class impact and exacerbate the situation of both food workers and food consumers in Washington State. Our analysis also situates our work in the context of global social movements for food sovereignty as well as the local work being done to create an alternative vision of agriculture. We aim to work in solidarity with other organizations on concrete projects which seek to create justice in the food system.

The Food Justice Project plans a number of community engagement activities to educate ourselves and the community about the costs of the industrial food system, while also providing examples and opportunities for change. We are planning a fall teach-in, a food justice film series, and community potluck discussions to begin our work in these areas. In this way we aim to partake in educating and invigorating a local food justice movement in and beyond Seattle.