By Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair From June 20 to 22, approximately 50,000 delegates and 130 heads of state and ministers from 190 countries gathered for the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (also known as the Earth Summit). Unfortunately this massive effort, the largest conference ever organized by the U.N., amounted to very […]
Category Archives: Food Justice Blog Posts
Kickstarter: Help CAGJ publish “Our Food, Our Right” for July 14 SLEE! Dinner!
CAGJ is super excited to be on the verge of publishing our 2nd book, “Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice”, which will be the focus of the 6th annual SLEE dinner taking place July 14 – copies of the book will first be made available at the dinner, we’ll get to hear from […]
How the US Sold Africa to Multinationals Like Monsanto, Cargill, DuPont, PepsiCo and Others
The G8 scheme does nothing to address the problems that are at the core of hunger and malnutrition but will serve only to further poverty and inequality. By Jill Richardson, reposted by permission from the author from Alternet Driving through Ngong Hills, not far from Nairobi, Kenya, the corn on one side of the road […]
Industrial agriculture—“it’s been a bad month”, By Erick Haakenson
Reprinted with permission from April 22, 2012 Jubilee Farm Newsletter The season is so hard upon us that I don’t have time to share everything in this update I’d like too. So I’m going to have to abridge what I’d like to say here. But I just can’t fail to note that the assault on […]
SAT June 2: CAGJ Community Feedback Session
Come help Community Alliance for Global Justice develop a popular education series! Saturday June 2nd, 1pm to 5pm, Location TBD Please RSVP by May 24th to reserve your spot – or if you have any questions – contact Laura Titzer, Food Justice Project Co-Chair: laura.titzer[at]gmail.com Community Alliance for Global Justice receives many requests from organizations, […]
April 17 is International Day of Peasant Struggle!
La Via Campesina, of which CAGJ is a member through the National Family Farm Coalition, calls for April 17 to be commemorated every year as the International Day of Peasant Struggle, to mark the massacre of 19 peasants struggling for land and justice in Brazil in 1996. Every year on that day actions take place […]
Saturday, April 28
10am – 3pm Hike from CAGJ’s office in the ID (606 Maynard Ave S) to Madison Valley 3pm – 5pm Celebration at MLK Community Center (come by even if you didn’t hike! 3201 E Republican St, Seattle) Fundraiser for 2nd Edition of “Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice” Register for the hike today! […]
FRI March 16 ACTION: Demand that Gates Foundation Sever all Ties to Monsanto
Friday, March 16: A Global Day of Action – Shut Down Monsanto! In Seattle, 11AM – 1PM: Demand that Gates Foundation Sever all Ties to Monsanto Friday March 16 is an international day to bring attention to Monsanto’s countless bad deeds. There are over 1800 actions planned all over the world. In Seattle we’ll bring […]
Seattle Times Op-Ed: Bill Gates’ support of GM crops is wrong approach for Africa
AGRA Watch helped make this Op-Ed possible – One of our African colleagues, Glenn Ashton, became so incensed at Bill Gates’ recent annual letter that he worked with AGRA Watch to produce an Op Ed which we were able to get placed in the Seattle Times. This is probably the first occasion in which the […]
Eaters, beware: Walmart is taking over our food system
Reprinted from GRIST.org – Click HERE for article online! By Stacy Mitchell 30 Dec 2011 1:55 AM Yes it’s cheap but … (Photo by Walmart Stores.) Aubretia Edick has worked at a Walmart store in upstate New York for 11 years, but she won’t buy fresh food there. Bagged salads, she claims, are often past […]
