CAGJ Organizing Director Job Description Application Due: Friday, November 15th, 2013 Location: Seattle, WA Start Date: Jan 6, 2014 Salary: 15 – 18K for 20 hours/week, depending on experience About CAGJ: CAGJ is a volunteer led, membership-based organization founded in 2001 by Seattle-area activists who helped to organize the historic shutdown of the World Trade Organization […]
Category Archives: Agra Watch Blog Posts
The Real Food Prize – Small Farms, Not Monsanto, Are Key to Global Food Security
Reprinted from Union of Concerned Scientists Blog Doug Gurian-Sherman, senior scientist, Food and Environment October 17, 2013 In the land of humongous farms, the critical importance of small farms for food security is a counterintuitive message. But if we look at what most of the largest farms are growing in the U.S. Midwest, or Argentina […]
Fall 2013: Call for CAGJ Volunteers & Interns!
Happy Fall! This is the time of year we seek new interns, and we’re also looking for a few motivated individuals to join our team of organizers as volunteers leading important areas of our work. We will provide training and support, and you will contribute in significant ways to the global fight for food sovereignty! […]
Ecological ‘Wake-Up’ Call Counters Corporate-Friendly ‘Free’ Trade
Published on Monday, September 23, 2013 by Common Dreams – Andrea Germanos, staff writer Report from UN body on sustainable agriculture stands ‘in stark contrast to the accelerated push for new free trade agreements, including the TPP’ The world needs to “wake up before it is too late” and usher in a paradigm shift in […]
Real Change Editorial: Gates Foundation’s support of Monsanto reveals it has put ending hunger on the back burner
Saba Samadani and Bobby Righi, members of AGRA Watch, a campaign of Community Alliance for Global Justice, contributed this editorial as guest writers. This editorial appeared in Real Change: Jul 3, 2013, Vol: 20, No: 27 Last month, more than 2,000 people in Seattle joined protestors in more than 400 cities and 50 countries to […]
2013 Food Sovereignty Prize Honors Grassroots Initiatives in Haiti, Brazil, Basque Country, Mali and India
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – AUGUST 13, 2013 NEW YORK CITY—Five innovative grassroots groups from across the globe working for democratic access to land, seeds, water and food have been honored with the 2013 Food Sovereignty Prize, the US Food Sovereignty Alliance announced today. Winners of the fifth annual Food Sovereignty Prize were chosen from among […]
GMO’s & Initiative 522
By Vanessa Lopez, CAGJ Volunteer This coming November, Washington state citizens will get a chance to vote on yet another controversial issue, leading the US in progressive social change….at least we hope. Initiative 522 (I-522) was submitted to the state legislature on January 4th with 340,000 signatures representing Washington citizens who believe that they have […]
Sept 7: 7th Annual Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere Dinner!
7th Annual Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere Dinner! Saturday, September 7th, 2013 NEW Location: University Christian Church, 4731 15th Ave NE Tickets available AT THE DOOR TONIGHT STARTING AT 5PM! Tickets are sliding scale, $40-$100. Kids are only $10. We sell out, so get yours soon! Or be a Table Captain and organize a table of […]
Invitation: CAGJ July 26 Mid Summer House Party
This is a friend and fund-raiser, for people new to CAGJ. Kids are welcome! Please RSVP to our facebook page for this event or email us, [email protected]. Friday July 26, 6 – 8pm: Please join hosts Joe Szwaja and Debra Morisson and organizers from Community Alliance for Global Justice to learn why we need to […]
From the Arab Spring to a Global Summer: CAGJ Analysis
By Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair In 2011 the world witnessed a surge of protests largely concentrated in Middle Eastern countries suffering from widespread hunger, poverty, unemployment and political corruption. As I noted in an op-ed at that time, though the uprisings may have differences in specific characteristics and regional contexts, they are linked to a […]
