Join us for Embracing LOVE in the Food System program, launching April 1!

CAGJ is pleased to announce we are co-hosting “Embracing LOVE in the Food System,” in April & May 2024, with Everyone’s Food Sovereignty Alliance Registration is required; please sign up here by March 29 What is “Embracing LOVE in the Food System”? Today’s food systems often treat food and its production process as if they […]

Happy New Year: Make Art Not War!

End of Year Appeal from Heather Day, CAGJ Director Make Art Not War! Donate today to help CAGJ receive a matching grant! My favorite poem, by Salvadoran revolutionary Roque Dalton, includes the beautiful line, “Poetry, like bread, is for everyone”. One of my favorite CAGJ moments this year was during our poetry workshop in May […]

Valerie Costa: “We need more of CAGJ” Your donation matched!

End of Year Appeal from Valerie Costa: “We need more of CAGJ” Donate today and your gift will be matched! November 1999. I was a freshman in college in Boston and a friend invited me to make puppets for a WTO solidarity protest. I wanted to be there because my father had just lost his […]

Support CAGJ, our valued urban partner!

An Appeal from Rosalinda Guillen & C2C Support CAGJ, our valued urban partner! Greetings CAGJ Community: I’m asking all supporters of movement building and food sovereignty to support our urban partner Community Alliance for Global Justice by contributing dollars this Holiday Season!  Community to Community Development (C2C) has partnered with Heather Day and CAGJ since […]

Support CAGJ: Everyone deserves food sovereignty!

My name is Lisa Griffith, and I’m the Outreach and Communications Coordinator of National Family Farm Coalition. I first met Heather Day at the 2009 Community Food Security Coalition conference in Des Moines when CAGJ was recognized with an Honorable Mention for the first US Food Sovereignty Prize. CAGJ soon joined the National Family Farm […]

WED Dec 6: Tim Schwab on The Bill Gates Problem, Town Hall Seattle

CAGJ/AGRA Watch & Town Hall Seattle Present Author Tim Schwab: The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire WED December 6, 7:30 – 9PM: Get your sliding-scale tickets In his new book The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire, investigative journalist Tim Schwab finds that Bill […]

New AGRA Watch Report: Corporate-Led Climate Adaptation

New AGRA Watch Report:  “Corporate-Led Climate Adaptation: How the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, and AGRA are enabling the digital capture of African Food Systems” AGRA Watch has released a new report (15 pages) detailing the intersections between the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, and AGRA on digital agriculture in Africa. Featuring extensive research by AGRA Watch intern Emma […]

What An Honor! SLEE 2023!

A warm and wide THANK YOU to everyone for being part of our 17th Annual Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere Dinner! The room was buzzing! – our first full, in-person dinner since 2019! From all the many volunteers, to silent auction and dessert dash donors, to sponsors, community partners, table captains, attendees, and everyone in between […]