SAT April 28 Hike 10am-3pm; Celebration at MLK Community Center 3-5pm! A fundraiser for the 2nd Edition of Our Food, Our Right Calling all urban hikers and teams! Register today! Have you ever wanted to explore parts of our foodshed, by foot? Want to check out some urban farm & food justice projects, take action […]
Category Archives: Food Justice Blog Posts
Worldwide Mobilizations Against Monsanto Continue
Worldwide Mobilizations Against Monsanto Continue, by Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair If we should accept corporations as persons under U.S. law as the 2010 Citizens United ruling argued, then Monsanto would be among the most psychopathic persons on the planet. There’s no other way to describe one who intentionally contaminates the environment and global food supply […]
UFW Solidarity Action Friday, Jan. 27
2PM March from Westlake Park (401 Pine St) to Darigold Headquarters (1130 Rainier Ave S) 3PM Rally @ Darigold Headquarters Transportation will be provided for those who need it. Dairy workers at the Ruby Ridge dairy, which provides milk for the Darigold company are going through hell and need your help. Workers have repeatedly tried […]
Jan 25 CAGJ Book Group: Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight Back
Next Book Group Meeting Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight Back When: Wednesday, January 25, 2012; 6:30-8:30pm Location: Salvadorean Bakery, 1719 SW Roxbury St, Seattle, WA 98106 www.thesalvadoreanbakery.com Order the book from Powell’s for $7.95 Facilitated by John Fawcett-Long: A few years ago a small group of […]
2011 CAGJ Accomplishments
Organized Free, Public, Educational Gatherings & Farm Work-Parties Food Justice Project: Organizing for Food Justice & Food Sovereignty in Seattle & everywhere! Teach-Outs with Central Co-op, Cascadian Edible Landscapes, Seattle Youth Garden Works with Spring into Bed!, Clean Greens Farm (in photo: CAGJ activist Victoria Gibson on the Farm with Clean Greens Farmer Tom Willis, […]
CAGJ Members Report-Back from CFSC Conference
With our members’ support, CAGJ was able to help several CAGJ leaders attend the Community Food Security Coalition Conference in October, 2011 in Oakland, CA. Below are their reports on what they got out of the conference and US Food Sovereignty Alliance Assembly that followed. Chelsea Eickert, Membership Co-Chair The 2011 CFSC Conference nicely highlighted […]
Notes on a Global Occupation
By Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair The dominance of neoliberal policies has made our world a crony capitalist dystopia. Wall Street connected legislators give multi-trillion dollar bailouts to big banks and corporations (1) as war-profiteers continue to reap benefits of both a “War on Terror” and “War on Drugs” costing trillions more taxpayer dollars (2). Infrastructure […]
Take action for to stand up for farmworker rights in Washington!
Action Alert from the United Farm Workers: You can make “Darigreed” listen to workers. Sign the petition TODAY! Dairy workers at the Ruby Ridge dairy, which provides milk for the Darigold label are going through hell and need your help. More than a third of them have been fired after they dared asked to have […]
SAT Nov 12 – TUES 15 AGRA Watch welcomes Kenyan farmer Samuel Nderitu to Seattle
Honoring African Food Sovereignty! AGRA Watch welcomes Samuel Nderitu to Seattle, Kenyan Farmer & Director, Grow Biointensive Agricultural Center of Kenya (G-BIACK) Winner, 2011 Food Sovereignty Prize Honorable Mention 3 events: All events are free & open to the public SAT Nov 12: 11AM – 1PM Farmer Information Exchange at Marra Farm (more info below, […]
Lessons From Oaxaca to Occupy Movement: A Delegate Reports Back
By Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair and Delegate on joint CAGJ/Witness for Peace Delegation in September 2011, “Food, Farms, and the Roots of Migration: A journey for food sovereignty to Oaxaca, Mexico” See photos from Delegation here. Stay tuned to CAGJ’s Delegation page on our website for news of future CAGJ sponsored delegations, and for links […]
