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 […]

Black US Farmers, Honduran Afro-Indigenous Share 2015 Food Sovereignty Prize

​FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Des Moines, Iowa, United States – September 1, 2015 Black US Farmers, Honduran Afro-Indigenous Share Food Sovereignty Prize In this moment when it is vital to assert that Black lives matter, the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance honors Black and Afro-Indigenous farmers, fishermen, and stewards of ancestral lands and water. We especially commemorate […]

July 9th- Costco: No GMO Salmon National Call-in Day of Action

Despite our demands, Costco isn’t listening. GMO salmon is a risk to our environment, especially wild salmon, and to our health. But Costco wants to leave the door open, and still hasn’t made a firm commitment to not sell GMO salmon if it’s approved by the FDA. Costco is a major retailer of salmon and […]

March Against Monsanto- May 23, 2015

CAGJ was excited to participate in Seattle’s March Against Monsanto rally at Westlake Park this past Saturday- May 23, 2015- to say NO to the terrible biotech/bigAgra models presented by Monsanto. Heather Day, CAGJ’s ED, spoke to the crowd about the strong ties between the Gates Foundation and Monsanto. From her speech, “ In 2010, […]