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 […]
2012 Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere! Dinner
Community Alliance for Global Justice’s 6th Annual SLEE Dinner Saturday July 14, 2012 5:00-9:30pm St. Demetrios Church, 2100 Boyer Avenue East, Montlake, Seattle Buy tickets online today at Brown Paper Tickets! JOIN US for this exciting Community Event and Annual CAGJ Fundraiser! The SLEE dinner brings together over 400 local advocates, farmers, food workers, and […]
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 […]
How the US Sold Africa to Multinationals Like Monsanto, Cargill, DuPont, PepsiCo and Others
The G8 scheme does nothing to address the problems that are at the core of hunger and malnutrition but will serve only to further poverty and inequality. By Jill Richardson, reposted by permission from the author from Alternet Driving through Ngong Hills, not far from Nairobi, Kenya, the corn on one side of the road […]
Industrial agriculture—“it’s been a bad month”, By Erick Haakenson
Reprinted with permission from April 22, 2012 Jubilee Farm Newsletter The season is so hard upon us that I don’t have time to share everything in this update I’d like too. So I’m going to have to abridge what I’d like to say here. But I just can’t fail to note that the assault on […]
SAT June 2: CAGJ Community Feedback Session
Come help Community Alliance for Global Justice develop a popular education series! Saturday June 2nd, 1pm to 5pm, Location TBD Please RSVP by May 24th to reserve your spot – or if you have any questions – contact Laura Titzer, Food Justice Project Co-Chair: laura.titzer[at]gmail.com Community Alliance for Global Justice receives many requests from organizations, […]
April 17 is International Day of Peasant Struggle!
La Via Campesina, of which CAGJ is a member through the National Family Farm Coalition, calls for April 17 to be commemorated every year as the International Day of Peasant Struggle, to mark the massacre of 19 peasants struggling for land and justice in Brazil in 1996. Every year on that day actions take place […]
CAGJ Director Heather Day’s Speech at March 16, 2012 Action Protesting Gates Foundation’s ties to Monsanto
AGRA Watch is a campaign of CAGJ that since 2007 has been working in solidarity with multiple partners in Africa and in the US to pressure the Gates Foundation and their “Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa” – AGRA – to not work with Monsanto nor promote chemically based, industrial agriculture. Following the lead […]
Saturday, April 28
10am – 3pm Hike from CAGJ’s office in the ID (606 Maynard Ave S) to Madison Valley 3pm – 5pm Celebration at MLK Community Center (come by even if you didn’t hike! 3201 E Republican St, Seattle) Fundraiser for 2nd Edition of “Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice” Register for the hike today! […]