CAGJ seeks an intern who will do research co-coordinated by the Puget Sound Regional Council’s Regional Food Policy Council on other cities’ strategies for engaging diverse communities in their Food Policy Councils. HOW TO APPLY: Please send an email to CAGJ’s Director, Heather Day ([email protected]) briefly summarizing why you are interested, and describing any relevant […]
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FRI March 16 ACTION: Demand that Gates Foundation Sever all Ties to Monsanto
Friday, March 16: A Global Day of Action – Shut Down Monsanto! In Seattle, 11AM – 1PM: Demand that Gates Foundation Sever all Ties to Monsanto Friday March 16 is an international day to bring attention to Monsanto’s countless bad deeds. There are over 1800 actions planned all over the world. In Seattle we’ll bring […]
Seattle Times Op-Ed: Bill Gates’ support of GM crops is wrong approach for Africa
AGRA Watch helped make this Op-Ed possible – One of our African colleagues, Glenn Ashton, became so incensed at Bill Gates’ recent annual letter that he worked with AGRA Watch to produce an Op Ed which we were able to get placed in the Seattle Times. This is probably the first occasion in which the […]
Eaters, beware: Walmart is taking over our food system
Reprinted from GRIST.org – Click HERE for article online! By Stacy Mitchell 30 Dec 2011 1:55 AM Yes it’s cheap but … (Photo by Walmart Stores.) Aubretia Edick has worked at a Walmart store in upstate New York for 11 years, but she won’t buy fresh food there. Bagged salads, she claims, are often past […]
Worldwide Mobilizations Against Monsanto Continue
Worldwide Mobilizations Against Monsanto Continue, by Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair If we should accept corporations as persons under U.S. law as the 2010 Citizens United ruling argued, then Monsanto would be among the most psychopathic persons on the planet. There’s no other way to describe one who intentionally contaminates the environment and global food supply […]
Jan 25 CAGJ Book Group: Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight Back
Next Book Group Meeting Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight Back When: Wednesday, January 25, 2012; 6:30-8:30pm Location: Salvadorean Bakery, 1719 SW Roxbury St, Seattle, WA 98106 www.thesalvadoreanbakery.com Order the book from Powell’s for $7.95 Facilitated by John Fawcett-Long: A few years ago a small group of […]
2011 CAGJ Accomplishments
Organized Free, Public, Educational Gatherings & Farm Work-Parties Food Justice Project: Organizing for Food Justice & Food Sovereignty in Seattle & everywhere! Teach-Outs with Central Co-op, Cascadian Edible Landscapes, Seattle Youth Garden Works with Spring into Bed!, Clean Greens Farm (in photo: CAGJ activist Victoria Gibson on the Farm with Clean Greens Farmer Tom Willis, […]
CAGJ Members Report-Back from CFSC Conference
With our members’ support, CAGJ was able to help several CAGJ leaders attend the Community Food Security Coalition Conference in October, 2011 in Oakland, CA. Below are their reports on what they got out of the conference and US Food Sovereignty Alliance Assembly that followed. Chelsea Eickert, Membership Co-Chair The 2011 CFSC Conference nicely highlighted […]
Notes on a Global Occupation
By Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair The dominance of neoliberal policies has made our world a crony capitalist dystopia. Wall Street connected legislators give multi-trillion dollar bailouts to big banks and corporations (1) as war-profiteers continue to reap benefits of both a “War on Terror” and “War on Drugs” costing trillions more taxpayer dollars (2). Infrastructure […]
