Saturday, August 18 Meet at 9:30am at CAGJ office, travel to Skagit Valley for Teach-Out Return at 4pm, optional Happy Hour at Agua Verde Cafe! RSVP (required) and get more details at [email protected]. Full schedule below. Viva Farms is a project of GrowFood.org, an international non-profit dedicated to recruiting, training and capitalizing the next generation […]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Farm Bill Passes Senate, Prompts Mixed Reactions
In a major step towards a new Farm Bill for the country, the huge omnibus legislation that largely dictates how we grow and eat our food in the United States, the bill passed the Senate in late June by a 2 to 1 ratio. Discussion on the House version has already begun, and the Senate […]
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Under Cover of Darkness, a Corporate Coup Is Underway
The highly secretive pact, dubbed “NAFTA on steroids,” is so invasive it would even limit how governments can spend tax dollars. By Lori Wallach, AlterNet /June 29, 2012 To read the article with its many embedded links, go to Alternet here! Have you heard about the small U.S. government agency engaged in years of closed-door […]
Report back from Rio+20 People’s Summit: “If they don’t let us dream, we won’t let them sleep”
By Dean Chahim, UW graduate, founder of Critical Development Forum, CAGJ volunteer who we supported in participating in the Rio+20 Summit with contacts. The official Rio+20 United Nations (UN) Conference on Sustainable Development and the simultaneous People’s Summit for Social and Environmental Justice (Cupula dos Povos para Justicia Social e Ambiental) had a surprising similarity […]
Rio+20: A Success for Multinational Corporations, a Failure for Everyone Else
By Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair From June 20 to 22, approximately 50,000 delegates and 130 heads of state and ministers from 190 countries gathered for the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (also known as the Earth Summit). Unfortunately this massive effort, the largest conference ever organized by the U.N., amounted to very […]
