Hello friends! Come one come all! Friday, April 23rd, for one night only, the P-Patch House (where I live) will turn into an underground restaurant and folk music venue. We’re doing this to fundraise for Spring Into Bed (springintobed.org), a grassroots, city-wide day of garden-bed building, including food justice gardens for low-income families. Here’s what […]
ACT NOW: Support the Healthy Food Financing Initiative
From PolicyLink: In his 2011 budget, President Obama proposed $345 million for a Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) to dramatically improve access to healthy foods in underserved communities across the country. (HFFI is also one of the four pillars of The First Lady’s Let’s Move initiative to reduce childhood obesity.) With more than 23 million […]
VIDEO: CAGJ Celebrates the International Day of Peasant Struggle – April 17th, 2010!
CAGJ had a great turnout and fantastic, fun action at the U-District Farmers’ Market in solidarity with the International Day of Peasant Struggle on April 17th, in response to a call from La Via Campesina! Via Campesina encourages organizations around the world to take action and unite against corporate control of the global food system. […]
“We Made a Devil’s Bargain”: Fmr. President Clinton Apologizes for Trade Policies that Destroyed Haitian Rice Farming
From Democracy Now!, April 1st, 2009. Check out Democracy Now! for more great coverage of Haiti and international economic news. President Bill Clinton, now the UN Special Envoy to Haiti, publicly apologized last month for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported, subsidized US rice during his time in office. The policy wiped out Haitian […]
A Future for Agriculture, a Future for Haiti
By Beverly Bell for Other Worlds We plant but we can’t produce or market. We plant but we have no food to eat. We want agriculture to improve so our country can live and so we peasants can live, too. – Rilo Petit-homme, peasant organizer from St. Marc, Haiti A peasant group meets to discuss […]
People’s Hearings on Big Agriculture – Farmers Speak Up!
Attorney General Eric Holder & The Department of Justice, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, Farmers, food activists, concerned citizens, and the public are gathered for Town Hall-style meetings and hearings on anti-trust issues in Big Agriculture, calling on the DOJ to “Bust the Trust”. “The night before, about 250 independent family farmers and community activists gathered […]
Bust the Trust to Take Back Control of Our Food
Many voices missing in ‘Dialogue’ with Justice Department By Siena Chrisman with WhyHunger Part IV, reported March 26 Read parts I-III of WhyHunger’s reports on the Department of Justice’s hearings on anti-trust issues in agriculture The March 12 workshop that the Department of Justice and USDA held in Ankeny, Iowa, was called “A Dialogue on […]
AGRA Watch Film Night April 3, 5 – 9pm: “Darwin’s Nightmare”
AGRA Watch’s third film night is Saturday April 3rd at Cascade People’s Center! Join us for a compelling film about Lake Victoria and discussion. 5 – 9pm, free. Please RSVP to [email protected] About the Film: Darwin’s Nightmare is a tale about humans between the North and the South, about globalization, and about fish. Some time […]
US Food Environment Atlas
See below for information about a new US Food Environment Atlas, created to gather and present statistical information on access to food in the US. From the USDA Food Environment Atlas website: The U.S. Food Environment Atlas Food environment factors—such as store/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics—interact to influence food […]
Alley Cat Acres
Check out this new project breaking ground in Beacon Hill: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011220435_urbanfarm01m.html?prmid=obinsite ALLEYCAT ACRES, among a handful of urban-farming efforts in the Seattle area, hopes to turn bits of unused land into food sources for low-income residents. More information at: www.alleycatacres.com/
