Through community education, political action, anti-oppressive organizing and community-building, the Food Justice Project seeks to challenge and transform the globalized, industrial, corporate-driven food system and promote existing alternatives.
Food Justice Project meetings are on the 3rd Tuesday of the month, 6:30 - 8:30pm Pacific Time on Zoom. Contact [email protected] for more info.
New to the Food Justice Project?
Volunteer orientations are held from 6pm-6:30pm on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, right before Food Justice Project (FJP) meetings. Come to learn more about the Food Justice Project, our current campaigns, and ways you can get involved. The 6:30pm FJP meeting directly after gives you an opportunity to meet current organizers and get involved straight away!
Please RSVP to a future orientation by emailing us first at [email protected].
What We Do
Educate for Action
Community-based workshops and "teach-outs" educating people on food justice & sovereignty issues and encouraging people to take action.
"Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice" is CAGJ's educational book in two editions, with recipes, how-to, and essays on food politics, justice, and sovereignty. A great teaching resource!
Solidarity Campaigns
Mobilizing our members and the public for a fair food system.
Take action to support these campaigns and food sovereignty everywhere!
We organize and support campaigns in solidarity with local family farmers and food producers, farmworkers, for the right to good food, food chain workers, and food justice globally!
Subscribe to our FJP listserv (in box below) and get meeting & event announcements, and a few food justice resources/articles from around the region and around the world (1-2 posts a week)!
Still need to know more? Check out this YouTube video slideshow about Food Justice Project Teach-Outs and CAGJ's publication, "Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice"
Recent updates and actions:
Action Alert: Demand the immediate release of Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez
Join CAGJ in demanding the immediate release of Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, a dedicated and long-time farmworker leader and organizer.Lelo has been a farmworker and community leader in Washington since he was 12 years old, and has worked tirelessly for immigrant and farmworker rights. He was one of the initial founders of the independent union Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ), where he helped agricultural workers win paid breaks and overtime. As an organizer with Community to Community Development (C2C), he has been involved in multiple campaigns, most recently working on educating the community and legislators about the exploitative H-2A program.
We believe that ICE may have targeted Lelo for his leadership in standing up for farmworkers and immigrants in his community. The Trump Administration’s mass deportation plan is not only harming individuals and families, but being used as a tool to silence dissenting union and worker leader voices like Lelo’s. It is essential that our community makes itself heard if we want to ensure Lelo’s release.
TAKE ACTION
1. Please take a moment to send a letter today, and call your elected representatives (this link will connect you with the following electeds)! We are calling on U.S. Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, Representatives Rick Larsen and Pramila Jayapal, WA Governor Bob Ferguson, and WA State Attorney General Nick Brown to do everything they can to get Lelo free now, and to investigate the potential political motivations for his detention.
2. Individuals can support by donating to Lelo’s legal defense and following Community to Community Development (C2C) on Instagram and Facebook to stay up-to-date on this case.
3. Organizations can sign onto this organizational sign-on letter, launched by Food Chain Workers Alliance.
Thank you!
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