Fighting for Food Justice While Fighting Cancer To my beloved CAGJ Community: This has been a really tough year for me and my family. I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer on March 31, and started 5 months of chemotherapy in May, followed by surgery in November, and 7 weeks of radiation, which began […]
Category Archives: Food Justice Blog Posts
CAGJ Appeal from FJP Member Janna Lafferty
“CAGJ is a model for decolonizing solidarity and food activism in the U.S.” Please donate today CAGJ Empowers Individuals while Growing a Global Movement Hello CAGJ supporters, For over a year now, I have worked as a lead volunteer on CAGJ’s Food Justice Project campaign to stop genetically engineered (GE) salmon. This campaign has been […]
Thoughts on Intimacy with Food, Land, and Women from South Africa: “Where there are women you can never go wrong.”
By Alsie Parks, Field Organizer for Southeastern African American Farmers Organic Network (SAAFON) Third in the South Africa-US Agroecology Exchange Article Series Black women possess knowledge that comes from a deep place of knowing and nurturing. “Innate agrarian artistry is the womanist praxis of using deep-rooted knowledge as a creatively healing, ancestrally honoring, and community […]
CAGJ’s End of Year Appeal & 2017 Accomplishments
Many of you will will receive our end of year letter in the mail this week. If not, here is what you missed! Thank you for donating generously to CAGJ during this giving season, to help us continue to build the global food sovereignty movement! Dear Friend of CAGJ, We are still basking in the […]
Restoring my Indigeneity: Reflections on South Africa Agroecology Exchange by a Queer Black Urban Farmer, Dean Jackson
First in the South Africa-US Agroecology Exchange Article Series Dean Jackson is Executive Director of Hilltop Urban Gardens in Tacoma, Washington In October I was honored to join seven other delegates on a US-South Africa Agroecology and Food Sovereignty Learning Exchange. As a Black queer and non-binary person who is working to remember and restore […]
THURS 11/30 Film Screening: This Is What Democracy Looks Like
Join CAGJ on 18th Anniversary of WTO Shut-Down! Film Screening: This Is What Democracy Looks Like THURS November 30, 8 – 10pm Attend Anakbayan Delegation Report-Back 6-8pm Location: Hillman City Collaboratory 5623 Rainier Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98118 Please help us publicize! Share the Facebook event. On November 30th 1999, a people’s rebellion shut down […]
CAGJ’s Annual Fair Trade for the Holidays Fundraiser
Every year CAGJ offers Fair Trade and local gifts you can feel good about buying, especially because your purchase helps CAGJ continue the good fight! Click here to purchase Nikki McClure’s beautiful 2018 Calendar and CAGJ’s New Tshirts. See below for more gift ideas! 2018 Nikki McClure Calendar: $18, or 3 for $45 Purchase online […]
Article Series on South Africa-US Agroecology Exchange
Media Contact: Simone Adler, Organizing Director, Community Alliance for Global Justice | [email protected] | 215-873-4672 International Agroecology Exchange – Reflections from the US Delegation to South Africa Article Series November 2017 through January 2018 November 20, 2017 Update: Links to published articles: Restoring my Indigeneity: Reflections on South Africa Agroecology Exchange by a Queer Black […]
SLEE Dinner almost sold out!
CAGJ is excited to announce that the 11th annual SLEE Dinner is almost SOLD OUT! UPDATE: We have closed online registration. A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. A great way to get into SLEE (for free!) is to VOLUNTEER! We still need Servers and Kitchen Prep help on Saturday, and […]
SLEE is October 21!
Join CAGJ for 11th Annual SLEE Dinner! SAT Oct 21, 5pm Happy Hour, 6:30pm Dinner Keynote by local farmer Ari de Leña, “Farming for Cultural and Ecological Resilience” Tickets $40-$100 sliding scale: Purchase online, or at the door CAGJ’s annual SLEE Dinner (Strengthening Local Economies, Everywhere!) is soon! Join us Saturday, October 21 at University […]
