FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ames Contact: Hannah Dankbar 515-867-1731 Seattle Contact: Heather Day 206-724-2243 Salk Institute Contact: David Schubert 858-453-4100 x1528 Over 57,000 Express Concern with Human Feeding Trials of GMO Bananas Simultaneous demonstrations in Ames and Seattle highlight controversy surrounding Gates Foundation-funded Transgenic Banana Study at Iowa State University Ames, IA and Seattle, WA: On […]
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From the WTO to the Cop21: People’s Movements Demand Justice
Blog post by Food Justice Project Co-Chair Chris Iberle, and Director Heather Day
PRESS RELEASE: Costco, Red Lobster will not sell GMO salmon
Coalition demands labeling in wake of FDA approval Image is flyer from CAGJ’s March 2015 action at SODO Costco For Immediate Release: November 24, 2015
10/27/15 CAGJ Lecture: CART Notes (Communication Access Realtime Translation)
CART NOTES: Eric Holt‑Gimenez & Jill Mangaliman, Climate, Food & Race: Challenges for the Food Movement, October 27, 2015 NOTE TO READER: This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a verbatim record of the proceedings. […]
Giving Tuesday: Social Media giving in 2015
On #Giving Tuesday, December 1st, 2015, CAGJ will use Good World’s new platform for making donations using Facebook and Twitter. We will encourage this method of giving through our Facebook and Twitter accounts. What is Giving Tuesday? #GivingTuesday was founded in 2012 by 92nd Street Y, based in NYC, in partnership with the United Nations […]
NOV 15 Film Screening: “Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley” with Honduran Resistance Leaders & Film-maker Jesse Freeston
Join Honduran Resistance Leaders and Film-maker Jesse Freeston for a special evening & Film Screening: “Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley” Cost: $10 at the door. TRAILER: resistenciathefilm.com/trailer
CAGJ participates in US Food Sovereignty Alliance Assembly and Prize in Iowa
On October 12 – 15, 2015 CAGJ’s Director Heather Day and members Ross Kirshenbaum, Jenny McIntosh and Emma Shorr traveled to Iowa to participate in the 3rd national Assembly of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, and to witness the Food Sovereignty Prize being awarded to the Federation of Southern Cooperatives and Black Fraternal Organization of […]
CAGJ Celebrates the Food Sovereignty Prize!
The 2015 Food Sovereignty Prize will be awarded on WED October 14 in Des Moines, Iowa, and CAGJ will be there to celebrate with the winners! Director Heather Day is traveling to Iowa with CAGJ activists Jenny McIntosh, Emma Shorr and Ross Kirshenbaum. The ceremony will be live-streamed, starting at 5pm PST – watch at […]
Take Action for Farmworker Justice!
TEACH-OUT ACTION SHEET: Sept 19, 2015 Call PCC and Driscoll’s Headquarters PCC Business Office: 206-547-1222 Sample script: I’m calling because I am extremely concerned that PCC continues to sell Driscoll’s berries despite the fact that there is an ongoing labor dispute between farmworkers in Skagit Valley and Sakuma Brothers Farms. As Driscoll’s is the largest […]
Resource List to support Familias Unidas por la Justicia
Stay connected with Familias Unidas por la Justicia Website – Watch the campaign unfold here with updates on the negotiations by the farmworkers. Facebook – Stay involved in boycott actions to support the farmworkers no matter where you live! You’ll see events and actions to take posted here. Boycott Sakuma Committee, Seattle Facebook – If […]
