Food Justice Project

food_justiceThrough 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

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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!

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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:

Call to Action: Support Farmworkers’ Legislative Priorities

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Call to Action: You can support Farmworkers in this historic moment!

THANKS to Community to Community Development for this overview of WA State Farmworkers’ 2026 Legislative Priorities and Call to Action!

  • HB 2409 / SB 6045: Collective Bargaining Bill grants collective bargaining rights for agricultural employees in Washington State. The State must administer these rights in a linguistically and culturally appropriate manner;
  • HB 2105 / SB 5852: Immigrant Worker Protection Act would require employers to provide 72 hours’ notice in the event of I-9 inspections by federal agencies. In addition, they may not interfere with, restrain, or deny workers’ ability to exercise their rights, regardless of immigration status.
  • HB 1903: Low Income Energy Assistance Bill would reduce the financial energy burden for low income households.
The Agricultural Worker Collective Bargaining Act SB 6045/HB 2409 is facing heavy opposition from the agricultural industry. As our community of supporters, we hope you will understand the importance of this historic legislation and stand with us in demanding yes votes from WA State Legislators. Especially if you live in the district of the members on the Senate Ways & Means Committee, please call or write to them today and urge them to VOTE PRO.

TAKE ACTION

1. Look up your Legislative District here
2. Find their phone numbers here: (scroll down to find the full list of names, districts, and phone numbers, click on their name to see email addresses)
3. Call / Write to them today and tell them to support SB 6045, Agricultural Worker Collective Bargaining Act

Our local Independent farmworker union Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) and their legal team co-authored this legislation in order to secure farmworkers the same legal rights to collective bargaining and unionization guaranteed to nearly all other worker groups.

Farmworkers, the overwhelming majority of whom are from Mexico, and are Indigenous Mixteco, Triqui, brown people and immigrants, are currently and always have been one of the most exploited and undercompensated labor groups. When the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was drafted in the 1930s, farmworkers were intentionally excluded to appease politicians who opposed labor protections for Black workers. Legislation to rectify this racist exclusion in the agricultural industry is long overdue.

The Agricultural Worker Collective Bargaining Act SB 6045/HB 2409 would give farmworkers the same rights other employee groups have under employment law by:

  • Creating a process for farmworkers to organize and elect representatives
  • Requiring employers (i.e. agro-businesses) to bargain union contracts with workers.
  • Providing clear oversight and enforcement through the Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC), which is prepared to take on this role.
  • Reducing reliance on prolonged boycotts, strikes, or federal claims that don’t protect farmworkers.

Read more : why the WA State Labor Council supports this effort.

Thank you & Solidarity!