Community Alliance for Global Justice presents our 4th Annual

STRENGTHENING LOCAL ECONOMIES EVERYWHERE! DINNER

Community Event and Annual CAGJ Fundraiser

Saturday, August 7, 2010

St. Demetrios Church, 2100 Boyer Avenue East, in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle

Buy tickets online at Brown Paper Tickets:

Volunteer! Contact us at volunteer@seattleglobaljustice.org if you want to help in advance or the day of – and get in for free!  Upcoming Organizing Meetings: June 9, July 21 – contact us for location details.

Donate to the Silent Auction or Dessert Auction! We are seeking desserts for 10 people, or experiences from CAGJ members for the Silent Auction!  Can you donate a trip in your sailboat, gardening lessons, a week-end in your cabin, a kayak tour, massage, or other experiences?  Please contact Charity! charity.lynne [at] gmail.com

Join Community Alliance for Global Justice and over 400 local advocates, farmers, food workers, and allied organizations at our 4th annual Strengthening Local Economies, Everywhere! Dinner to raise awareness about pressing social, economic, and environmental justice issues—as well as to celebrate our own vast pool of resources locally to create lasting change! Help us build community solidarity while also connecting local and global struggles for justice through this fun, engaging and inspiring event!

The Strengthening Local Economies, Everywhere! Dinner plays a pivotal role in CAGJ’s organizing and fundraising efforts. This year, we are thrilled that Ben Burkett will join us as keynote speaker on the topic “Globalize Hope! Globalize Struggle! Connecting US and African Farmers for Food Sovereignty”.  Burkett is a 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. (Read an interview with Ben here). His talk will address the role of the Gates Foundation in African agriculture, and how farmers are organizing across borders for sustainable, democratic alternatives to the “green revolution” promoted by the foundation.

Schedule of Events: Happy Hour 4:30-6:00: Enjoy libations, live music, complimentary hors d’oeuvres, a Silent Auction, and the opportunity to acquaint yourself with featured food justice organizations and groups promoting community development, food sovereignty and Fair Trade in Africa.  Dinner 6:00-9:00: Enjoy a scrumptious meal featuring dishes from Portage Bay Café,and Kaspar’s, in addition to plates prepared by CAGJ’s in-house chefs using the bounty of Northwest farmers, ranchers and fisherfolk and select Fair Trade ingredients.  The Dessert Auction featuring 40 different desserts will make your mouth water!  Dancing 9:00 – 11:00 Celebrate the global food revolution with African music and dancing!

Tickets: $35 Regular Price, $60 “Support a Farmer/Food Worker”: Gives you entry and also ensures that a local farmer or food worker can be one of our honored guests at the event! $10 Kids

*A limited number of “volunteerships” are available: work trade for tickets to the dinner.  In addition, many volunteers are needed the week of the event, and those assisting the night-of will enjoy a complimentary meal! To sign up, contact volunteer@seattleglobaljustice.org

2010 Event Sponsors:

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

For more information, or to get involved with organizing, please contact CAGJ: 206-405-4600, contact_us@seattleglobaljustice.org

THANK YOU to our 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

2009 DESSERT AUCTION DONORS

See this link for a map of locations of all dessert donors -  http://bit.ly/SLEEdesserts

Agua Verde Cafe, Art of the Table, Bakery Nouveau, Blackbird Bakery, Chaco Canyon Café, Dahlia Bakery , Diane’s Market Kitchen, Eat Local, Essential Baking Co., Little Rae’s Bakery, Mighty O Donuts, Montlake Mousse, Scandinavian Specialties, TASTE Restaurant, The Green Bean Coffeehouse, Theo Chocolate

2009 SILENT AUCTION DONORS:

Agua Verde Café & Paddle Club, Art of the Table, Baby Diaper Service, Balancing Branch Tree Service, Ballard Organics, Beecher’s Handmade Cheese, Café Flora, Campaign to Make Seattle a Fair Trade City, Center for Wooden Boats, Chef Becky Selengut, Choice Organic Teas. Cooks World Cooking School, Diane’s Market Kitchen, Earthwise, EcoMetro (Chinook books), Elements Massage, El Quetzal Project for Sustainable Community Development, Ethletic Sneakers, Hoodsport Winery, Jerry Mader, Le Gourmand, Market Street Traders, Metamorphic Massage, Monster Art and Clothing, Pete’s Perfect Butter Toffee, Seattle Audubon Society, Ten Thousand Villages, Third Place Books, Tilth Restaurant, Yes! Magazine, Woodland Park Zoo

THANK YOU to everyone who donated food & drink in 2008!

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