SLEE IS ALMOST HERE! DID YOU GET YOUR TICKETS YET? THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS! Central Co-op, Equal Exchange, Farmer Direct Organic, Friends of the Earth, Loki Fish Company, Madres Kitchen, New Roots Organics, Northwest Harvest, PCC Community Markets, Real Change, Social Justice Fund, UAW 4121, UFCW 3000 TICKETS: Purchase on CAGJ’s website! Sliding scale […]
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4 Weeks to SLEE! Tickets on Sale + Call for Volunteers!
SLEE TICKETS ON SALE NOW! TICKETS: Purchase on CAGJ’s website! Sliding scale $40-$200: Please be generous in your support! We want to make this event accessible to everyone while also recognizing the need for us to raise crucial funds. Support a Farmer/Farmworker/Organizer: By purchasing a second ticket (at $50 or $100), you ensure that local […]
SAT OCT 14: 17th Annual SLEE Dinner! with Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
17th Annual SLEE Dinner at St Demetrios Church New Keynote Speaker: Malik Yakini, Detroit Black Community Food Security Network SAT OCT 14, 2023 5PM Happy Hour, 6PM Dinner Tickets on sale AUG 14! Due to an unforeseen conflict, Nisqually Chairman Willie Frank III is no longer able to join us as keynote speaker for this year’s SLEE […]
#ProtectWildSalmon Art Workshop Recap
Art & Activism Series CAGJ’s Art & Activism speaker and workshop series explores the connection between art and movements for social change. Through five guest-artist presentations and two art-making workshops, we inspire creativity, build relationships, and rouse the artist-activist in all of us. Learn more here. Last Saturday, we met at the CAGJ […]
May Day Events – Join us!
Join CAGJ to celebrate International Workers Day at two events: May Day Farmworker March: Sin Miedo! Without Fear! SUN April 30, 9 AM We will gather at Edgewater Park, 600 Behrens Millet Rd Mount Vernon at 9AM and start marching at 10AM. At 11 am, we will stop at the intersection of Riverside Dr E […]
Recap: Banner-Making and Block-Printing Workshop!
In April, CAGJ held our first Art-Making Workshop, where we made a stunning banner for the May Day Farmworker March – Marcha Campesina. Organized by Community to Community (C2C) and Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ), the Marcha Campesina celebrates farmworkers and their inspiring history of labor organizing, in honor of International Workers Day. […]
Art & Activism: Make Art with Us!
Come create art at our spring art-making workshops! These workshops are a part of our Art & Activism Series: from February to June 2023, each month we hear from an artist or artist group about their work and philosophy during our online Monthly Organizing Meetings. In April and May, we are hosting two in-person […]
TUES April 25: Rich Appetites Virtual Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Rich Appetites: The Corporate Capture of African Food Systems and the Hunger for Justice TUES April 25, 2023: 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm WAT/ 6pm SAST / 7pm EAT Virtual Film Screening and Panel Discussion Please register to receive the Zoom link: tinyurl.com/RichAppetitesVirtual2023 Help publicize: Share the Facebook event We will screen specific […]
SAT March 25: Rich Appetites Film & Discussion at Town Hall
AGRA Watch is thrilled to present our short film series, Rich Appetites, at Town Hall Seattle on Saturday March 25, 7-9pm PDT. Registration appreciated but not required. Rich Appetites is a short film series that explores how billionaire philanthropists are pushing US-style industrial agriculture around the globe—including in Africa. This model of agriculture is the […]
Report-back: Farm Visit to Cooperativa Tierra y Libertad
In September, CAGJ had the pleasure of visiting the Cooperativa Tierra y Libertad/Land and Liberation Cooperative farm. The farm, founded in 2017 by four members of Washington’s independent farmworker union, Familias Unidas por la Justicia, is an attempt at creating a workplace where the workers themselves have a direct say in the direction of the […]
