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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! 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.

What we do:

Teach-outs: supporting local farms & food sites, and presenting the Food Justice Urban Hike-a-thon 2013

Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice - CAGJ's book

Educate for Action: Community-based workshops for food justice & sovereignty

Solidarity Campaigns: mobilizing our members and the public for a fairer food system to support:

  • Food chain workers
    • Supporting UFCW Local 21's campaign Making Change at WalMart and supporting OUR WalMart
  • Food Justice Everywhere
    • CAGJ and WFTC's campaign to halt the new NAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Campaigns to be chosen in 2013:

  • Local Family Farmers
  • Right to Good Food
  • Farmworkers

Get involved to support these campaigns, and help decide what we take on next!

 

Food Justice Links

  • Agricultural Justice Project
  • Cascade Harvest Coalition
  • Cascadian Edible Landscapes
  • Central Co-op
  • Clean Greens Farm
  • Community Kitchens NW
  • Community to Community
  • Danny Woo Garden
  • Declaration of Nyéléni
  • Domestic Fair Trade Association
  • Farmworker Housing Trust
  • FEEST Seattle
  • Food Chain Workers Alliance
  • GroundUp Yesler
  • Growing Washington
  • IATP Food Justice Principles
  • La Via Campesina
  • Lettuce Link
  • National Family Farm Coalition
  • Northwest Farm Bill Action Group
  • Puget Sound Food Network
  • Puget Sound Regional Food Policy Council
  • Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United
  • Seattle Tilth
  • The Just Garden Project
  • Tilth Producers of Washington
  • UFCW Local 21
  • UmojaFest Peace Center
  • US Food Sovereignty Alliance
  • Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network

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FJP Volunteer Opportunities

  • Teach-Out Committee
    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.
  • Educate for Action Committee
    Help develop and present a popular education series that will inform and activate the public about food justice and food sovereignty.
  • Solidarity Campaign Point Person
    Track developments and actions for one of the campaigns we support, develop fliers, print pieces, newsletter articles, blogposts, or email alerts about the campaign, help mobilize members and organize actions to further campaigns led by allied organizations.
  • 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.

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

 

CAGJ is proud to be a Central Co-op Community Partner

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Trans-Pacific Partnership International Day of Action & Global Fair Trade Day

Saturday, May 11th 2-5pm Central CO-OP Annex, 1900 E. Madison, Seattle Find out Why TPP matters to YOU …and what YOU can do about it! Join the Central Co-op, Washington Fair Trade Coalition, Washington State Labor Council, Sierra Club, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Philippine-US Solidarity Organization, Sol Fair Trade, Backbone Campaign, IAM 751, SPEEA [...]

Teach-Out! with Greenbank Farms & Good Cheer Food Bank

Saturday, June 1 Meet at 8:30am at CAGJ office, 606 Maynard Ave S – travel to Whidbey Island for Teach-Out Return between 4:30 & 5pm CAGJ’s Food Justice Project invites you to a Teach-out on Whidbey Island, exploring Greenbank Farms, an organic farm, agricultural training center, and natural preserve, and Good Cheer Food Bank, an [...]

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