CAGJ Organizing Director Job Description Application Due: Friday, November 15th, 2013 Location: Seattle, WA Start Date: Jan 6, 2014 Salary: 15 – 18K for 20 hours/week, depending on experience About CAGJ: CAGJ is a volunteer led, membership-based organization founded in 2001 by Seattle-area activists who helped to organize the historic shutdown of the World Trade Organization […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Vote YES on I-522!
Please share this info to counter the onslaught of misinformation big business is putting out about labeling! VOTE YES ON 522! Click here for more organizing resources, including social media and email avatars. Thank you! I522’s exemptions were carefully crafted to be in compliance with federal and international laws. It ensures that our exports will […]
The Real Food Prize – Small Farms, Not Monsanto, Are Key to Global Food Security
Reprinted from Union of Concerned Scientists Blog Doug Gurian-Sherman, senior scientist, Food and Environment October 17, 2013 In the land of humongous farms, the critical importance of small farms for food security is a counterintuitive message. But if we look at what most of the largest farms are growing in the U.S. Midwest, or Argentina […]
Sat Oct 19: Teach-Out! Join Duwamish Alive for healthy waterways and fishing rights!
Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:30am – 3:00pm Teach-Out: Join Duwamish Alive for healthy waterways and fishing rights! Join CAGJ’s Food Justice Project as we join Duwamish Alive, an organization working in the Duwamish River watershed to preserve and enhance habitat for people and wildlife, towards improving the health of Puget Sound. We will volunteer, and […]
Fall 2013: Call for CAGJ Volunteers & Interns!
Happy Fall! This is the time of year we seek new interns, and we’re also looking for a few motivated individuals to join our team of organizers as volunteers leading important areas of our work. We will provide training and support, and you will contribute in significant ways to the global fight for food sovereignty! […]
SAT Oct 12, 3 -5pm: Traditional Foods of the Americas: Why I-522 & Labeling Genetically Engineered Food Matters!
SAT October 12, 3-5pm Sabado, 12 de Octubre, 3 – 5pm – Evento bilingue Location/Lugar: Seola Gardens (11215 5th Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98146) Community Alliance for Global Justice presents: Traditional Foods of the Americas: Why I-522 & Labeling Genetically Engineered Food Matters! Miguel Robles, co-founder of the Biosafety Alliance and Field Organizer for Proposition […]
Ecological ‘Wake-Up’ Call Counters Corporate-Friendly ‘Free’ Trade
Published on Monday, September 23, 2013 by Common Dreams – Andrea Germanos, staff writer Report from UN body on sustainable agriculture stands ‘in stark contrast to the accelerated push for new free trade agreements, including the TPP’ The world needs to “wake up before it is too late” and usher in a paradigm shift in […]
The Struggle Continues for Workers in Bangladesh
By Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair On Saturday 9/21, Garment Sramik Samannay Parishad, a federation of garment trade unions, organized a rally of over 50,000 workers to demand improved working conditions and an increase to the minimum monthly salary to about $100. Bangladesh’s apparel industry, which supplies many Western brands such as Walmart, Gap and Macy’s, […]
Real Change Editorial: Gates Foundation’s support of Monsanto reveals it has put ending hunger on the back burner
Saba Samadani and Bobby Righi, members of AGRA Watch, a campaign of Community Alliance for Global Justice, contributed this editorial as guest writers. This editorial appeared in Real Change: Jul 3, 2013, Vol: 20, No: 27 Last month, more than 2,000 people in Seattle joined protestors in more than 400 cities and 50 countries to […]
