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 […]
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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 […]
Join us for a Community Meeting!
Wednesday, Jan 29th, 2014 6:30pm-8:30 pm Location: University Christian Church – 4731 15th Ave NE, Seattle (where 2013 SLEE Dinner was held) Food provided! ALL are welcome! CAGJ is kicking off 2014 with a Community Meeting to discuss and share all of our upcoming work. This year promises to be a busy year–from our ongoing […]
NAFTA & the Zapatista Uprising: 20 Years Since, 20 Years Next
By Chris Iberle, Food Justice Project Co-Chair We stumble upon two intertwined anniversaries on this New Year’s Day, 2014. With the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) looming, a new trade pact based on the broken model of corporate globalization, we mark 20 years since NAFTA went into effect. The Zapatista uprising, timed to coincide with the implementation […]
Donate to CAGJ this Giving Season
You care about food sovereignty, in Seattle, the US, Africa & everywhere. You are a fighter for food justice. You expect social justice to be woven into the fabric of the food movement. You know that a just economy means workers’ rights are respected, throughout the food chain. You have seen the power of social […]
Gaining Ground on Fight to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
By Ronnie Cummins Reposted with permission from EcoWatch. “The ground we gained in Washington, in the form of votes, is nothing compared with the ground—in the form of soil and farms and fields—we plan to take back from Monsanto in the months and years ahead. Watch out, Monsanto. We have plans. And those plans include taking […]
