Join us for seed exchange, cooking demonstration & readings Location: Central Co-op Rochdale Room, 1900 E Madison St (3 blocks East of store) THURS April 17, 6:30 – 8:30pm FREE: RSVP’s appreciated to [email protected] Join us for a night of good food and good activism to celebrate our collective movement for food sovereignty, celebrated […]
Category Archives: Food Justice Blog Posts
Starting to unpack the TPP, NAFTA and food sovereignty
By Allison Mountjoy CAGJ’s Food Justice Project I recently traveled to New Orleans for the first time and where did I find myself on the first day but the New Orleans food co-op. For my sister, who was traveling with me, it was not surprising when I spent thirty minutes looking through produce and taking […]
Sign the Petition: Food for Good? Good for Whom?
The Gates Foundation claims to be promoting food for good (#Food4GoodSEA). We are asking the question: good for whom? (#Good4who) Join us on SAT April 5th, 11-1PM. We will be passing out flyers at the Gates Foundation’s Visitor Center Food for Good event to educate folks about the Gates Foundation’s involvement in Africa. To RSVP or […]
Good Food to the People – Our Food, Our Right
Hosted by CAGJ and Community Kitchens Northwest. Come network with other food activist organizations and get the inside story on the 2nd edition of “Our Food, Our Right” published by CAGJ. Date: Saturday, March 29 Time: 4-7pm Location: Union Cultural Center – 803 S. King St. Seattle, 98104 (accessible by bus route # 7, 14, 36, or light rail […]
SLEE 2014 Kick-off!
We are very excited to announce the 8th Annual Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere (SLEE) dinner. Every year dozens of volunteers help organize this important awareness-raising event for CAGJ. We bring together over 300 farmers, food workers and activists for a dinner featuring the Pacific Northwest’s amazing bounty of food and Fair Trade ingredients. We invite […]
Project Database Update!
Volunteers Needed: A One-Time, Easy Way to Help CAGJ! Exciting news! CAGJ has a new database! A good database is vital to a non-profit organization. It will help us communicate better with our volunteers and members and ultimately do our work better! So now we need help updating it. Anyone can do it! A short […]
CAGJ’s Annual Planning Meeting
YOU ARE INVITED! CAGJ’s Annual Planning Meeting to dream about and plan 2014 and beyond! Please RSVP to [email protected], and let us know if you plan to participate in part or all of the meeting: DINNER – Friday March 7th, 6 – 9:30pm Location: Bill Aal’s home, 2408 Valley on Capitol Hill Join us Friday […]
Rev. Jeffrey Speech on NAFTA & TPP
This speech was given by Reverend Robert L. Jeffrey Sr. of Seattle WA at the No More NAFTAs, Stop the TPP (TransPacific Partnership) Rally on January 31, 2014, and is reprinted here with permission. Reverend Jeffrey is Executive Director of Black Dollar Days Task Force and Clean Greens Farm & Market. One of the major problems […]
CAGJ kicked off 2014 with two successful events!
CAGJ Kicks-off off 2014 at January Community Meeting Thank you to everyone who attended and helped organize our latest Community Meeting and the Stop the TPP Rally. Click here to see pictures of the Community Meeting and the Rally on our Facebook page. We had over 40 people attend our Community Meeting including core activists […]
No More NAFTAs: Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership! International Day of Action
Friday, January 31st 2014 Noon Westlake Center 400 Pine St, Seattle The rally is part of an Inter-Continental Day of Action, in solidarity with our trade justice allies in Mexico, Canada and across the U.S. Community Alliance for Global Justice grew out of the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, and has continued to oppose […]
