CAGJ has a large contingent of activists at the US Social Forum in Detroit this week! The Forum started on Tuesday with an opening march and ceremony. All day workshops and plenaries and music and daily protests and meeting people began in full force Wednesday. Today we send some reflections from our journey, and notes […]
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ACTION ALERT: Say NO to Genetically Engineered Alfalfa!!
From the Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network: Hi Folks, The Network is extremely concerned about the impacts that releasing GE alfalfa (ie. Round Up Ready Alfalfa) would have in this state. Contamination from RRAlfalfa to organic farms could ruin the organic farming in this state. International markets do not want genetically engineered alfalfa and would not […]
Call to Action: June 4th, Stand with Haiti’s Farmers!
CALL TO ACTION! Join AGRA Watch Friday June 4, 2010, as we march in solidarity with Haitian farmers, who have committed to burning Monsanto’s incoming donation of hybrid maize and vegetable seeds, which have been treated with highly toxic pesticides. The Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) has condemned the shipment, and has insisted that Haiti’s […]
AGRA Watch releases position paper
“Standing Up for Food Sovereignty: AGRA Watch Position Paper on Lugar-Casey Global Food Security Act, Genetic Engineering, and the Gates Foundation” By AGRA Watch members Ashley Fent, Phil Bereano, and Katie Talbot May 18, 2010 Download the PDF here! Full text: AGRA Watch formed in 2008 to challenge the Gates Foundation’s participation in the problematic […]
June 5: Join CAGJ at Green Festival & for AGRA Watch Film Night!
June is a busy time for CAGJ. We hope you can join us at one of the following events June 5th! All day/1pm presentation at Green Festival All day June 5 and June 6 CAGJ will be tabling at the Green Festival: Email [email protected] if you can help out with tabling for a few hours! […]
GMO’s, Food Security and Misplaced Philanthropy: An Interview with Jos Ngonyo
Many thanks to independent journalist Martha Baskin for her great work interviewing Jos Ngonyo, last week’s guest of CAGJ’s AGRA Watch Campaign, for Green Acres Radio! Airs on KBCS 91.3 FM on Thursday May 6 at 5:40PM and Friday May 7 at 7:40AM and 2pm. GMO’s, Food Security and Misplaced Philanthropy, An Interview with […]
April 29! Dysfunctional Aid and Misplaced Philanthropy: African Farmers’ Responses to the Green Revolution in Africa
Thursday, April 29th 7:00-9:00pm FREE Gowen Hall Room 201 at the University of Washington, just north of Suzzallo Library Josphat Ngonyo Executive Director of African Network for Animal Welfare, a lead organization in the Kenya Biodiversity Coalition, is coming to Seattle! Kenya is currently at a crossroads between burgeoning organic movements, and its participation in […]
140 groups & scientists urge Senate to oppose GM clause in Global Food Security Act
See below for the press release for the Global Food Security Act, of which CAGJ signed onto! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 13 April 2010 CONTACTS: Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, PhD, Pesticide Action Network North America, 415-981-6205, ext.325; [email protected] Annie Shattuck, Food First/Institute for Food & Development Policy, 510-654-4400, ext.223; [email protected] Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition, […]
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. […]
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 […]
