Join CAGJ in demanding the immediate release of Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, a dedicated and long-time farmworker leader and organizer. On March 25, 2025, Lelo was violently detained by ICE while driving his partner to her workplace. ICE agents broke his car window when Lelo tried to exercise his rights. He is currently detained inside the […]
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Victory against GE Salmon! CAGJ Photo Album
This month (Feburary 2025) CAGJ celebrated a huge historic win with representatives of the many organizations who collectively stopped genetically engineered salmon! The company who attempted to manufacture the frankenfish, AquaBounty, is closing its operation. The battle against GE salmon was waged for over three decades – from 1994-2025! We want to honor all of […]
TUES Jan 21, 6:30PM: Help Lead CAGJ into the Future
An Invitation to Help Lead CAGJ into the Future Join CAGJ Volunteer Collective & Board TUES JAN 21, 6:30 – 8PM Register to receive Zoom link You are invited to help steward CAGJ into the New Year! Soon our longtime director, Heather Day, is stepping down from her role as CAGJ’s lead organizer. Thus […]
Heather’s New Years Wish: Let’s Stick Together & Have Dinner Parties!
Happy New Year! This is an end of year fundraising appeal, the last one I will write in my role as ED, which is hard to believe. I am just going to ask right now, here at the beginning, that you consider a generous gift to CAGJ to #FundtheCollective, this beautiful organization of people who […]
Support CAGJ: Plant a Sapling of Justice – Donate Today!
In the fall of 2019, I moved back to Seattle after graduating college and pretty immediately got involved with CAGJ. I felt compelled by Food Sovereignty’s call for a full transformation, an overhaul, a promise of a way out of the neo-liberal food system, entirely. Food sovereignty rejects assimilation into capitalism. Instead, it beckons a […]
PRESS RELEASE: GE Salmon Production Ends as AquaBounty Shutters Last Facility
Genetically Engineered Salmon Production Ends as AquaBounty Shutters Last Facility JOINT PRESS RELEASE December 12, 2024 First Commercialized GE Animal a Market Failure Following Rejection by Largest Food Retailers, Food Service Companies and Court Challenges WASHINGTON – Following decades of controversy, widespread market rejection and legal and regulatory challenges, U.S.-based biotechnology and aquaculture company AquaBounty […]
Support CAGJ: Fund the Collective!
Dear CAGJ Community, As the outgoing Executive Director of Community Alliance for Global Justice, I am grateful to our community for continuing to believe that this organization has an important role to play in promoting food sovereignty and food justice both locally and transnationally. I am crossing the threshold, leaving behind what has been much […]
WTO 25th Anniversary: Events Calendar
Seattle marks the 25th Anniversary of when We Shut-Down the World Trade Organization Twenty-five years ago, a global movement called “Globalize Liberation, Not Corporate Power” successfully took mass direct action to shut down the World Trade Organization in Seattle on November 30, 1999. Out of that powerful week of protest, Community Alliance for Global Justice […]
CAGJ’s Director Heather Day Says Farewell!
Farewell Letter from Heather Day Dear beloved community, It has come time for me to step down from my Director role at Community Alliance for Global Justice. My heart is heavy, as this organization has been my life’s work in many ways. I feel incredibly proud of what we’ve collectively accomplished, and very fortunate to […]
SLEE Gratitude! Member Wisdom & What’s Next
CAGJ’s SLEE Dinner on October 19th was a fantastic gathering! Thank you so much to everyone who came, and supported through food, dessert and silent auction donations! It was nourishing as always to come together, have fun, and engage in thought provoking conversations. We felt a renewed sense of hope and connection, needed now more […]
