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Food Justice Project

Food Justice is the right of communities everywhere to produce, distribute, access, and eat good food regardless of race, class, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, ability, religion, or community. Good food is healthful, local, sustainable, culturally appropriate, humane, and produced for the sustenance of people and the planet.

Our Community Education focus includes Teach-Outs supporting and visiting local food sites, and publication of Our Food, Our Right, a handbook combining hands-on tools for change with community recipes and political awareness to engage YOU in joining in the struggle for food justice!

Through community education, political action, and anti-oppressive organizing and community-building, CAGJ's Food Justice Project seeks to challenge and transform the globalized, industrial, corporate-driven food system and promote existing alternatives as we join the global struggle for food sovereignty for all!

The Food Justice Project meets the 3rd Wednesday of the month. Please contact Chris at fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org to find out more and help organize!

You can add yourself to the listserv (and receive meeting & event announcements, and a few food justice resources/articles, 1-2 posts a week) by clicking here!

Food Justice Links

  • A Growing Movement
  • Cascade Harvest Coalition
  • Cascadian Edible Landscapes
  • Central Co-op
  • Clean Greens Farm
  • Community Kitchens NW
  • Community to Community Development
  • Danny Woo Garden
  • Declaration of Nyéléni
  • Family Farm Defenders
  • Farmworker Housing Trust
  • FEEST Seattle
  • Food Justice Resources
  • Food Sovereignty People's Movement Assembly Resolution
  • GroundUp Yesler
  • Growing Washington
  • Lettuce Link
  • National Family Farm Coalition
  • Puget Sound Food Network
  • Puget Sound Regional Food Policy Council
  • Refugee Farming Project of SE Seattle
  • Seattle Tilth
  • Seattle Youth Garden Works
  • The Just Garden Project
  • Tilth Producers of Washington
  • UFCW Local 21
  • UmojaFest Peace Center
  • US Food Sovereignty Alliance
  • US Working Group on the Food Crisis
  • Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network

About the Food Justice Project

The Food Justice Project works to connect the local food and sustainable agriculture movements to broader struggles for justice. We have two overarching objectives: (1) Making local, sustainably and humanely produced food accessible to everyone regardless of race, class, ethnicity, ability, religion, citizenship, or community. (2) Working in solidarity with small farmers and immigrant workers in strengthening the Washington state food system.

We can always use more help if you’d like to be a part of our work! Email fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org for ways to get involved or attend an upcoming meeting.

FJP Volunteer Opportunities

  • Urban Hike-a-thon Coordinators
    Help coordinate this fun urban hiking event visiting urban farms, food justice, sites, and political action to change our food system while raising funds for the second edition of Our Food, Our Right.  Multiple positions and roles available in advance and the day of the event on April 28!
  • Teach-Out Coordinators
    Help reach out to potential Teach-Out sites, recruit participants, and help coordinate logistics and program
  • Our Food, Our Right Committee
    Support the publication of the second edition of CAGJ’s publication “Our Food, Our Right” featuring essays, analysis, growing, cooking, and eating skills, and more.
  • Food Justice Project Intern
    We are currently looking for a Food Justice Project intern to work throughout the project by and large. Main intern projects may include organizing Teach-Outs/Ins, outreach for events and meetings, tracking participation at Teach-Outs/Ins, updating the webpage, prepping for meetings, and representing CAGJ at events in the community.
    The intern will work with a team of CAGJ activists and directly with the two project co-chairs.  Some office hours may be required, and the ability to work well independently will also be very important.  In general, the CAGJ work environment is casual and friendly, but expects accountability and dependability from its volunteers to get things done! CAGJ is a volunteer run organization with one full-time staff.  Interns play critical roles within and outside of the organization.
  • Many more opportunities available!  Contact fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org for more info or attend an upcoming FJP meeting to get signed up.

What we do:

Teach-outs: supporting local farms & food sites!

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Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice – CAGJ’s Publication

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Community Education (more info coming soon)


See a YouTube video slideshow on Teach-Outs and Our food, Our Right

 

 

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Industrial agriculture—“it’s been a bad month”, By Erick Haakenson

Reprinted with permission from April 22, 2012 Jubilee Farm Newsletter The season is so hard upon us that I don’t have time to share everything in this update I’d like too. So I’m going to have to abridge what I’d like to say here. But I just can’t fail to note that the assault on [...]

SAT June 2: CAGJ Community Feedback Session

Come help Community Alliance for Global Justice develop a popular education series! Saturday June 2nd, 1pm to 5pm, Location TBD Please RSVP by May 24th to reserve your spot – or if you have any questions – contact Laura Titzer, Food Justice Project Co-Chair: laura.titzer[at]gmail.com Community Alliance for Global Justice receives many requests from organizations, [...]

April 17 is International Day of Peasant Struggle!

La Via Campesina, of which CAGJ is a member through the National Family Farm Coalition, calls for April 17 to be commemorated every year as the International Day of Peasant Struggle, to mark the massacre of 19 peasants struggling for land and justice in Brazil in 1996. Every year on that day actions take place [...]

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