Free Film Screening with Co-Director Raj Patel! Co-Sponsored by 350Seattle Screening: 5:30 – 7PM Pacific Time Q&A with the co-director and co-producer Raj Patel: 7- 8 PM Pacific Time Free registration: https://bit.ly/3yjxs8E. Help publicize: Share the Facebook event hyperlink. About the film : “Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from […]
Category Archives: Food Justice Blog Posts
THURS 8/5: Vigil to Demand Better Protections for Agricultural Workers & Honor Honesto Silva Ibarra
THURS Aug 5, 11:30AM – 1:00PM Vigil to Demand Better Protections for Agricultural Workers & Honor Honesto Silva Ibarra Labor & Industries Department 7273 Linderson Way SW Tumwater, WA 98501 Announcement from Edgar Franks, Political Director at Familias Unidas por la Justicia On Thursday August 5, 2021 Familias Unidas por la Justicia will be holding […]
Report-back: Field Trip to Cooperativa Tierra y Libertad
Edgar (left) and Ramon (right) share their learning process with growing nopales in Washington state. Photo Credit: Mikhaila Gonzales Blog post by Mikhaila Gonzales, Spark Northwest Sweating after a few moments in their greenhouse, Mia, Quest and I, together with members of Community Alliance for Global Justice, listened as Ramon Torres, founding member of Cooperativa […]
Press Release: Hundreds of grassroots organizations to oppose the UN Food Systems Summit
Media contact Marion Girard, Media officer at the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSM) for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) [email protected] Civil society and Indigenous Peoples’ organizations launch a global counter-mobilization against the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit from 25 to 28 July 2021 in Rome and online. Rome, Italy. […]
TUES 7/27 Webinar: Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movements & the Role of Solidarity
Photo credit: Valerie Segrest TUES July 27, 6-7:30PM PDT Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movements & the Role of Solidarity Register to receive the Zoom link How is an Indigenous lens on Food Sovereignty unique, and what is the role of non-Natives to act in solidarity with Indigenous-led movements? We will hear from Pacific Northwest scholars and […]
Registration Now Open: Rise Up! Summer School 2021
Cultivating Care, Growing Movements CAGJ’s Rise Up! Summer School is a free, 3-month political education and leadership development program for community members, where we create space to collectively develop tools and analysis to strengthen the global food sovereignty movement. This year, we will dig into the root of movement building — creating more space for […]
THURS 4/29: CAGJ Trivia Night!
You are invited to join CAGJ’s Trivia Night! THURS April 29, 7 – 8:30PM CAGJ’s Members, Interns, Volunteers and Supporters are invited to join us for this fun event to celebrate Membership Month! Trivia will test your knowledge of CAGJ’s 20 years of history, and about the Food Sovereignty movement. If you give us your […]
Enter the Zine Raffle by Friday April 16th 12pm PST!
CAGJ Family and lovers of art, language, books, and more!! Exciting news! CAGJ is running a raffle to help us fundraise for our upcoming digital zine “Recipes for a New Normal”!! Don’t pass up this opportunity to help us in our grassroots fundraising efforts, focused on paying our zine contributors honorariums in order to make […]
Membership Month & 2020 CAGJ Annual Report!
APRIL IS CAGJ MEMBERSHIP MONTH! Soon you should receive CAGJ’s beautiful 2020 Annual Report in the mail. You can also check it out online! A letter from CAGJ’s Executive Director, Heather Day Happy Spring! I just came in from playing outside with my son Henry, after his first day back at school in over a […]
Call to Action: Oppose the Cap and Trade Senate Bill 5126 in solidarity with Got Green
Artwork from Got Green, a solidarity partner of CAGJ’s Food Justice Project. Blog post by Food Justice Project Intern Fotima Ibrokhim Sign to oppose Senate Bill 5126! Demand a real reduction in pollution and address the root causes of the climate crisis. The SB 5126 (Washington Climate Commitment Act) will create a cap-and-invest system, also […]
