“SLEE” is CAGJ’s annual community celebration of our work to Strengthen Local Economies Everywhere!

SAVE THE DATE FOR 2012: JULY 14, 2012!

Volunteers are needed to help organized the 6th Annual SLEE Dinner!  Contact us if you have or want to acquire event organizing experience!  We also need lots of volunteers the day of the event – cooks, servers, artists, people to set up etc.  Contact us at volunteer@seattleglobaljustice.org to find out how you can help out! Thank you!

MONTHLY ORGANIZING MEETINGS OPEN TO ALL:  4th Tues every month at CAGJ office in Intl District!

SAME GREAT LOCATION! St Demetrios Church

Thank You 2011 Event Sponsors

Thank You 2011 Community Partners!

Alleycat Acres, Black Dollar Days Task Force/Clean Greens Farm Project, Cascadian Edible Landscapes, City Fruit, Community Kitchens Northwest, Creatives for Community/GroundUP, EcoPraxis, FEEST Program at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, Hilltop Urban Gardens (HUG), Just Garden, Lettuce Link/Solid Ground, Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance, Readers to Eaters, Seattle CISPES-Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, Seattle Good Business Network, Seattle Tilth, Tools for Change, U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration, Village Volunteers, Washington CASH, Washington Farmworker Housing Trust, Witness for Peace Northwest, Yes! Magazine

Thank You 2011 Farm & Food Donors!

Chef Ryan Miller, Community Kitchens NW & FEEST Youth
41 Legs Urban Farm, Alm Hill Gardens, Alter Eco, Equal Exchange, Alvarez Organic Farms, Beechers Handmade Cheese, Café Flora, emmer&rye, Essential Baking Co., Field Roast Grain Meat Co., Fremont Brewing Company, Gabrielle Roesch & Joe McNally, Golden Harvest The Bee Ranch, Growing Washington, Kaspar’s, Local Roots Farm, Loki Fish Co., Lyall Farm, Madres Kitchen, Magaña Farm, Mt. Townsend Creamery, Nash’s Organic Produce, Organically Grown Company, Oxbow Farm, Preston Hill Bakery, Tahoma Farm, Tall Grass Bakery, Terrie’s Berries, Tony Miles, Willie Green’s Organic Farm

Thank you for making the 4th annual Community Alliance for Global Justice dinner a great success in 2010!

See and hear the key-note, Ben Burkett, 4th generation Mississippi farmer, leader in the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, President of National Family Farm Coalition and active in La Via Campesina, the international movement of peasants struggling for food sovereignty:

Youtube video of 8/7/10 KEXP Mind Over Matters interview here

Pirate TV video of Ben Burkett’s Keynote,  “Connecting US and African Farmers for Food Sovereignty”, at CAGJ’s 8/7/10 Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere Dinner, Aired Monday 8/16/10 8-9pm PST.  Find link here

Thanks to our 2010 Event Sponsors!

Thanks to our 2010 Community Partners!

Adorable Seattle, Agua Verde Café and Paddle Club, Alter-Eco, American Friends Service Committee, Art & Architecture, Art of Subtlety Photography, Barsuk Records, Big Dipper Wax Works, Bill Seidel’s Underground Tour, Black Dollar Days/Clean Greens Farm, Cafe Flora, Canlis, Center for Wooden Boats, Chinook Book, Choice Organic Teas, City Fruit, Clover Toys, Cooper the Photographer Cat, Creativitea, DRY soda, Eat Local, Elizabeth Chaison LMP, Endangered Species Chocolate, Experience Music Project, F/8.3 Photography, FireFly Kitchens, Forest Life Creations, FreeRange Cycles, Fremont Brewing Company, FRESH, Gluten-Free Girl, Got Soup?, Grand Central Baking Company, Great City, Growing Things Farm, Hoodsport Winery, Hot Cakes, Kaspars Special Events & Catering, Le Gourmand, Lettuce Link/Solid Ground, Local Roots, Loki Fish Company, Mark Isakson, Methow Dog Treats, Mickey McReynolds, Morning Glory, Moving Images, Nash’s Organic Produce, Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance, Nettletown, Newground Social Investment, Not A Number Cards & Gifts, NW Film Forum, On the Boards, Organically Grown Company, Oxbow Farm, P-Patch Program, PaddyWag Photography, PCC Farmland Trust, Pike Place Brewing, Portage Bay Café, Portage Bay Goods, Puget Sound Sage, Re-Store, Reclaim the Media, Rural Roots, Salish Sea Trading Cooperative, Samish Bay Creamery, Sara Koopman, Schocolat, Seattle Aquarium, Seattle Audubon Society, Seattle CISPES, Seattle Food Tours, Seattle Good Business Network, Seattle Tilth, Sightline Institute, Slow Food Seattle, Sno-Valley Tilth, Sol Colibri. Sound Home Performance, Sugarlump Shop, Sustainable Seattle, Tahoma Farms, Tall Grass Bakery, Taylor Shellfish Farms, Ten Thousand Villages, The Bikery, The Charity Stripe, Tools for Change, Urban Goat Justice League, Victrola Coffee, Village Volunteers, Washington Fair Trade Coalition, Washington State Unitarian Universalist Voices for Justice, Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network, Witness for Peace, Yes! Magazine, Yoga Life, Zipcar

THANK YOU 2009 Co-sponsors!

Madison Market, KBCS 91.3fm, Equal Exchange, New Roots Organics

BALLE Seattle, Cascadian Edible Landscapes, Central Co-op’s Madison Market, Chef’s Collaborative, Earthwise, Equal Exchange, Food Not Bombs, Growing WA, iLEAP: The Center for Critical Service, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Lettuce Link/ Solid Ground, Organically Grown Company, Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity, Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance, Nepalese Paper, New Roots Organics, NW Energy Coalition, PCC Farmland Trust, Reclaim the Media, Seattle CISPES, Seattle East Timor Relief Association, Slow Food Seattle, Sustainable Cascadia, Tools for Change,  Umojafest P.E.A.C.E. Center, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 21, U.S. Women & Cuba Collaboration, Village Volunteers, Washington Fair Trade Coalition, WA State Food and Nutrition Council, Witness for Peace, Yes! Magazine.

THANK YOU to everyone who donated food & drink in 2009!

See this link for for a map showing the location of all donors! http://bit.ly/SLEEfood

FARMS:
Alm Hill Gardens, Growing Washington, Hedlin Family Farms, Skagit Fresh, Mother Flight Farm, Silvana Crossing, Garden Treasures, Growing Things, Oxbow Farm, Local Roots, Full Circle Farm, Jubilee Biodynamic Farm, Nature’s Last Stand, Island Meadow Farm, Rockridge Orchards, Kirsop Farm, Sidhu Farms, Billy’s Garden, Jessie’s Berries, Taylor Shellfish, Loki Fish Co., Blong Cha, Trixie Bakes

RESTAURANTS:
Portage Bay Café, Madres Kitchen, Kaspar’s

CREAMERIES:
Appel Cheese, Golden Glen Creamery, Estrella Creamery, Beechers Cheese

BAKERIES:
Tall Grass Bakery, Great Harvest Bread Company, Essential Bakery

FAIR TRADE:
Equal Exchange, Alter Eco

BEER: Pike Place Brewery

THANK YOU 2008 Farm & Food Donors!

Farm Donations – Willie Greens Organic Farm ~ Nash’s Organic Produce ~ Billy’s Gardens ~ Stoney Plains Farm ~ Blong Cha’s Garden ~ Alm Hill Gardens ~ Growing Things ~ Full Circle Farm ~ Oxbow Farm ~ Lyall Farms ~ Tonnemaker Orchards ~ Jubilee Biodynamic Farm ~ Rock Prairie Herb Garden ~ Growing WA

Fish – Wilson Fish ~ Loki Fish Co. ~ Taylor Shellfish

Cheese – Estrella Family Creamery ~ Samish Bay Creamery ~ Port Madison Creamery ~ Mt. Townsend Creamery ~ Golden Glen Creamery

Bread – Essential Baking Company ~ Tall Grass Bakery

Restaurants – Kaspars ~ La Medusa ~ Portage Bay Cafe ~ Chef Seth Caswell, President, Seattle Chefs Collaborative

Fair Trade – Grounds for Change ~ Alter Eco

Libations – Pike Pub & Brewery ~ Red Barn Cider ~ Tulip Valley Winery ~ Eagle Haven Winery ~ Hoodsport Winery