About CAGJ’s Publication: “Our Food Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice” Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice is a publication of the Food Justice Project of the Community Alliance for Global Justice. There are now two editions, combining hands-on tools for change with community recipes and political awareness to engage YOU in joining […]
Category Archives: Trade Justice Blog Posts
The 2008 Farm Bill Expires September 30 – Will we get a new one for 2012?
By John Fawcett-Long, Steering Committee Member, Northwest Farm Bill Action Group (NWFBAG) The 2008 Farm Bill expires September 30, at the end of the federal fiscal year. The US Senate passed its version earlier this year and the House’s draft has stalled after an ugly bill was passed by the House Agriculture Committee. Find NWFBAG’s […]
Educate & oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership – “NAFTA of the Pacific”
Trans Pacific Partnership FTA – TPP FTA Trade negotiators from the United States and eight other countries have been busily negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement. This currently includes Vietnam, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, Peru and Chile, but is also intended as a “docking agreement” that other Pacific Rim countries would […]
The Farm Bill works its way through Congress: Northwest Farm Bill Action Group Launches Campaign for a Fair Farm Bill
By John Fawcett-Long, NW Farm Bill Action Group Steering Committee Member The Senate Version – A Mixed Bag The Farm Bill has been actively under consideration by Congress the last few months. Congress is under pressure to do something as the current version expires on October 1. There also have been many calls for Congress […]
Farm Bill Passes Senate, Prompts Mixed Reactions
In a major step towards a new Farm Bill for the country, the huge omnibus legislation that largely dictates how we grow and eat our food in the United States, the bill passed the Senate in late June by a 2 to 1 ratio. Discussion on the House version has already begun, and the Senate […]
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Under Cover of Darkness, a Corporate Coup Is Underway
The highly secretive pact, dubbed “NAFTA on steroids,” is so invasive it would even limit how governments can spend tax dollars. By Lori Wallach, AlterNet /June 29, 2012 To read the article with its many embedded links, go to Alternet here! Have you heard about the small U.S. government agency engaged in years of closed-door […]
Report back from Rio+20 People’s Summit: “If they don’t let us dream, we won’t let them sleep”
By Dean Chahim, UW graduate, founder of Critical Development Forum, CAGJ volunteer who we supported in participating in the Rio+20 Summit with contacts. The official Rio+20 United Nations (UN) Conference on Sustainable Development and the simultaneous People’s Summit for Social and Environmental Justice (Cupula dos Povos para Justicia Social e Ambiental) had a surprising similarity […]
Rio+20: A Success for Multinational Corporations, a Failure for Everyone Else
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 […]
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 […]
CAFTA Ruling Continues Corporate Attack on Environmental Protection
June 2, 2012 Press Release: Public Citizen and Sierra Club Part of Attack on Mining Law Will Proceed at International Tribunal; El Salvador May Pay Millions in Tribunal, Legal Fees Even for Dismissed Claim WASHINGTON, D.C. – A tribunal constituted under the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) ruled that Pacific Rim Mining Corp. could […]
