May 7 & 8: GiveBIG to CAGJ! Greetings CAGJ Community! It’s that time of the year: CAGJ’s Membership Month! We are so excited to share our beautiful 2023 Annual Report with you! Some of you are getting back out to your gardens to plant seeds for vegetables and flowers that will feed you and your […]
Join CAGJ’s New Monthly Book Club
Eat the Rich, Feed Food Sovereignty: A Book Club for Anti-corporate Food Systems Join Community Alliance for Global Justice for monthly book discussions! Register today! On Monday May 13th we are launching a new book club for CAGJ supporters and members of the public! We will focus on themes related to our work and campaigns, […]
Take Action for Farmworker Justice in the Tulip Fields!
Action Alert This action alert was distributed at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival during La Marcha Campesina, organized by Community to Community and Familias Unidas por la Justicia farmworker union. Welcome to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival! This message is brought to you by the farmworkers that are part of creating the beauty you see […]
SUN April 21 Farmworker March: Support Peasants Everywhere!
Support Farmworkers Everywhere! March for Farmworker Justice April 21! TUES April 16, 5PM: Make signs for the Farmworker March in Seattle! WED April 17: International Day of Peasant Struggles SUN April 21, 10AM: March for Farmworker Justice in Mount Vernon! __________________ March for Farmworker Justice! SUN April 21, 10AM in Mount Vernon La Lucha Sigue […]
Join us for Embracing LOVE in the Food System program, launching April 1!
NOTE: Registration is now closed. We may offer the program again in 2024. If interested, please fill out this Interest Form. Thank you! CAGJ is pleased to announce we are co-hosting “Embracing LOVE in the Food System,” in April & May 2024, with Everyone’s Food Sovereignty Alliance Registration is required; please sign up here by […]
Happy New Year: Make Art Not War!
End of Year Appeal from Heather Day, CAGJ Director Make Art Not War! Donate today to help CAGJ receive a matching grant! My favorite poem, by Salvadoran revolutionary Roque Dalton, includes the beautiful line, “Poetry, like bread, is for everyone”. One of my favorite CAGJ moments this year was during our poetry workshop in May […]
Valerie Costa: “We need more of CAGJ” Your donation matched!
End of Year Appeal from Valerie Costa: “We need more of CAGJ” Donate today and your gift will be matched! November 1999. I was a freshman in college in Boston and a friend invited me to make puppets for a WTO solidarity protest. I wanted to be there because my father had just lost his […]
Support CAGJ, our valued urban partner!
An Appeal from Rosalinda Guillen & C2C Support CAGJ, our valued urban partner! Greetings CAGJ Community: I’m asking all supporters of movement building and food sovereignty to support our urban partner Community Alliance for Global Justice by contributing dollars this Holiday Season! Community to Community Development (C2C) has partnered with Heather Day and CAGJ since […]
Support CAGJ: Everyone deserves food sovereignty!
My name is Lisa Griffith, and I’m the Outreach and Communications Coordinator of National Family Farm Coalition. I first met Heather Day at the 2009 Community Food Security Coalition conference in Des Moines when CAGJ was recognized with an Honorable Mention for the first US Food Sovereignty Prize. CAGJ soon joined the National Family Farm […]
Malik Yakini “This has just all become too complex!” shared at SLEE 2023
Malik Yakini concluded his 2023 SLEE keynote with this short humorous essay, which became an instant classic! This has just all become too complex! I long ago gave up eating meat and fish for health reasons. I later developed a sensitivity for the environmental impact of corporate meat production and overfishing. I gave up eating […]
