A message from CAGJ Director, Heather Day Please make a year-end gift to CAGJ today! Dear CAGJ’s Members & supporters, Living through this past year has been incredibly challenging, even more so for some than others. To fight off despair and find hope, it helps that we defeated a white supremacist facist on election day! […]
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Sam Shafer: The Purpose of Solidarity & Why I organize with CAGJ
A message from CAGJ Volunteer Member Sam Shafer Please make a year-end gift to CAGJ today! Dear Friend of CAGJ, If this year has taught me anything (and woah boy, has it), it is that community organizing is it. To put it plainly, when you invest in the people doing the nitty gritty work, you […]
“CAGJ Nurtures Food Justice Activism”
CAGJ Intern Lisa Colligan on Why We Must Take Action against GE Salmon Please make a year-end gift to CAGJ today! Dear readers, My name is Lisa Colligan, and CAGJ has become a home for my grassroots activism. After co-organizing CAGJ’s RiseUp! Summer School 2020, I joined CAGJ and Uprooted and Rising’s joint Block Corporate […]
Appeal: “CAGJ is the best ‘return on investment’ for social change!”
Dear CAGJ supporters, I’ll get straight to it. I’m writing to ask you to consider donating whatever you can to CAGJ this holiday season. If you care about food sovereignty, CAGJ is the best “return on investment” for social change that you make this season. Let me take a step back and tell you who […]
Take Action: CAGJ stands in solidarity with India’s farmers!
Farmers in India have been organizing massive, sustained, historic protests against proposed neoliberal reforms Scroll to the bottom to take action! CAGJ acknowledges the assistance of comrades all across the world who we consulted to create this alert. What is happening in India right now? History is being made. Millions of Indian farmers are protesting […]
Navdanya & Vandana Shiva Launch New Report & Webinar: Gates to a Global Empire
Summary by AGRA Watch Intern Connor Nakamura AGRA Watch’s research on the Cornell Alliance for Science was featured recently in the “Gates to a Global Empire” report published by Navdanya. The report includes contributions from a variety of leading experts and civil society movements leaders, aiming to highlight “the dangers of philanthrocapitalism, which is boosting […]
Give thanks, and TAKE ACTION for Salmon and NW Tribes
By Momo Wilms-Crowe, Food Justice Project Co-Chair Hello to my amazing FJP family! Most of you are likely taking today to celebrate so-called Thanksgiving with your family and loved ones in some capacity or another (with perhaps varying degrees of Zoom). I hope you are leaning into rest and celebration and gratitude — all such […]
Call for submissions: CAGJ’s Food Justice Project announces “Recipes for a New Normal”
CAGJ’s Food Justice Project is calling for submissions to the 3rd edition of our iconic food justice zine: Our Food, Our Right. Purchase a copy of our previous editions here! This digital zine will bring together the voices, wisdom, and dreams of food-loving creatives of all genres to share reflections on food sovereignty and movement building […]
New Report: Food for All or Feeding the Data Colossus? The Future of Food in a Digital World
Blog post by AGRA Watch Intern Connor Nakamura “The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the global resource grab in our food and agriculture systems. The encompassing digitalization of the core ecological and social components of these systems is the new means of making vast profits. Approaches that claim precision through efficient utilization of resources are, in […]
Virtual SLEE Builds Community! Thank you!
THANK YOU for a beautiful SLEE! SLEE was beautiful! CAGJ wishes to warmly thank everyone who contributed to making CAGJ’s 14th Annual SLEE and 1st virtual gala a great success! If you missed it, not to worry, you can join the one hour of festivities by clicking here! And below we share links to several […]
