Sign-up/Renew your CAGJ Membership in May, and your gift will be DOUBLED Every year in the Spring we rally our community to support CAGJ by pledging money or time. In celebration of CAGJ’s 15th anniversary, your membership gift to CAGJ in May will go twice as far, helping us hire a second organizer to confront […]
Category Archives: Agra Watch Blog Posts
Huff Post: Yes, We Need No GMO Bananas
Our campaign is highlighted by our friends at Food First on Huffington Post in this great article co-written by our ISU student allies, Ahna Kruzic, Angie Carter and Rivka Fidel. Please comment at Huff Post and please share widely! Posted March 18, 2016 on Huffington Post by Eric Holt-Gimenez, with Ahna Kruzic, Angie Carter and […]
ISU Student Analysis: When a banana is much more than a banana
Originally posted to FOOD FIRST BLOG By Ahna Kruzic, Angie Carter and Rivka Fidel | 03.07.2016 The authors are currently graduate students at or recently graduated from Iowa State University. CAGJ’s AGRA Watch campaign coordinates closely with the students on our GM Banana campaign. Ames, Iowa – A recent controversy about an upcoming genetically engineered […]
Berta Cáceres, Presente!
It is with a heavy heart that we share the devastating news of the assassination last night of Berta Cáceres, Honduran indigenous leader and winner of the 2015 Goldman Prize and Romero Prize. CAGJ hosted part of her visit to Seattle in November, with Miriam Miranda, whose organization, Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (OFRANEH), won the […]
AGRA Watch Action Report: Petition signed by over 57,000 delivered to Gates Foundation and ISU
February 15, 2016: Petition calling for halt of GMO banana human trials delivered to Gates Foundation and Iowa State University Photos -See professional photographer Jonathan Lee’s photos on Facebook here. -See CAGJ’s photos on Facebook here. Pictured in photo: Emma Shorr, Bill Aal and Phil Bereano of AGRA Watch deliver petitions to Gates Foundation. Photo […]
AGRA WATCH PRESS RELEASE: Over 57,000 Express Concern with Human Feeding Trials of GMO Bananas
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ames Contact: Hannah Dankbar 515-867-1731 Seattle Contact: Heather Day 206-724-2243 Salk Institute Contact: David Schubert 858-453-4100 x1528 Over 57,000 Express Concern with Human Feeding Trials of GMO Bananas Simultaneous demonstrations in Ames and Seattle highlight controversy surrounding Gates Foundation-funded Transgenic Banana Study at Iowa State University Ames, IA and Seattle, WA: On […]
Petitions pressure Iowa State University to cease testing of GM Banana on humans
PHOTO: ISU graduate student Jackie Nester hands over 950 petitions to Dean Wintersteen’s administrative staff. CAGJ’s AGRA Watch campaign is pleased to announce that the students we have worked closely with at Iowa State University on the issue of human trials of the GM banana delivered their petition today to the administration, with close to […]
From the WTO to the Cop21: People’s Movements Demand Justice
Blog post by Food Justice Project Co-Chair Chris Iberle, and Director Heather Day
We call on the Gates Foundation to divest from fossil fuels AND agribusiness!
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Give Fair Trade & Local Gifts this Season!
CAGJ’s Annual Fundraiser: Fair Trade for the Holidays! Support food sovereignty here and around the world by choosing our gifts which are all locally and fairly made. Support CAGJ, Support Local Farmers, Fisherfolk and Artists and Support Fair Trade! All proceeds go directly to CAGJ! Available this year: All gifts can be ordered online. Nikki […]
