You are invited to join CAGJ’s Trivia Night! THURS April 29, 7 – 8:30PM CAGJ’s Members, Interns, Volunteers and Supporters are invited to join us for this fun event to celebrate Membership Month! Trivia will test your knowledge of CAGJ’s 20 years of history, and about the Food Sovereignty movement. If you give us your […]
Category Archives: Food Justice Blog Posts
Enter the Zine Raffle by Friday April 16th 12pm PST!
CAGJ Family and lovers of art, language, books, and more!! Exciting news! CAGJ is running a raffle to help us fundraise for our upcoming digital zine “Recipes for a New Normal”!! Don’t pass up this opportunity to help us in our grassroots fundraising efforts, focused on paying our zine contributors honorariums in order to make […]
Membership Month & 2020 CAGJ Annual Report!
APRIL IS CAGJ MEMBERSHIP MONTH! Soon you should receive CAGJ’s beautiful 2020 Annual Report in the mail. You can also check it out online! A letter from CAGJ’s Executive Director, Heather Day Happy Spring! I just came in from playing outside with my son Henry, after his first day back at school in over a […]
Call to Action: Oppose the Cap and Trade Senate Bill 5126 in solidarity with Got Green
Artwork from Got Green, a solidarity partner of CAGJ’s Food Justice Project. Blog post by Food Justice Project Intern Fotima Ibrokhim Sign to oppose Senate Bill 5126! Demand a real reduction in pollution and address the root causes of the climate crisis. The SB 5126 (Washington Climate Commitment Act) will create a cap-and-invest system, also […]
CAGJ Joins Clean Greens for Food Justice Youth Workshops
By Lisa Colligan, Food Justice Project Intern Last October, the usual passing of summer to fall was shuffling along; temperatures were cooling, trees were losing their leaves, and gardens were offering up their final harvests. But at Clean Greens Farm and Market, the excitement for food justice was just heating up! Over the course of […]
Fighting Despair with Community, Organizing, Poetry
A message from CAGJ Director, Heather Day Please make a year-end gift to CAGJ today! Dear CAGJ’s Members & supporters, Living through this past year has been incredibly challenging, even more so for some than others. To fight off despair and find hope, it helps that we defeated a white supremacist facist on election day! […]
Sam Shafer: The Purpose of Solidarity & Why I organize with CAGJ
A message from CAGJ Volunteer Member Sam Shafer Please make a year-end gift to CAGJ today! Dear Friend of CAGJ, If this year has taught me anything (and woah boy, has it), it is that community organizing is it. To put it plainly, when you invest in the people doing the nitty gritty work, you […]
“CAGJ Nurtures Food Justice Activism”
CAGJ Intern Lisa Colligan on Why We Must Take Action against GE Salmon Please make a year-end gift to CAGJ today! Dear readers, My name is Lisa Colligan, and CAGJ has become a home for my grassroots activism. After co-organizing CAGJ’s RiseUp! Summer School 2020, I joined CAGJ and Uprooted and Rising’s joint Block Corporate […]
Appeal: “CAGJ is the best ‘return on investment’ for social change!”
Dear CAGJ supporters, I’ll get straight to it. I’m writing to ask you to consider donating whatever you can to CAGJ this holiday season. If you care about food sovereignty, CAGJ is the best “return on investment” for social change that you make this season. Let me take a step back and tell you who […]
Take Action: CAGJ stands in solidarity with India’s farmers!
Farmers in India have been organizing massive, sustained, historic protests against proposed neoliberal reforms Scroll to the bottom to take action! CAGJ acknowledges the assistance of comrades all across the world who we consulted to create this alert. What is happening in India right now? History is being made. Millions of Indian farmers are protesting […]