New Consumer Resource from Domestic Fair Trade Association By Colette Cosner, Executive Director, Domestic Fair Trade Association If you are anything like me, you can feel overwhelmed when you walk into a grocery store. You try to be a responsible consumer, seeking out ethical products when you can, but there are so many claims to […]
Category Archives: Food Justice Blog Posts
Singing for Justice! Seattle Labor Chorus Benefit for CAGJ
Join CAGJ, the Seattle Labor Chorus, and our allies for a fun and inspiring evening of movement story-telling and songs to celebrate our collective struggles for justice! Singing for Justice! Seattle Labor Chorus Benefit for CAGJ SAT May 10, 7 – 9:30PM Location: Hillman City Collaboratory 5623 Rainier Ave S, Seattle WA 98118 FREE admission – […]
New Report on Food Sovereignty & Saving Seeds in the US
CAGJ is a founding member of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance and is proud to have contributed to this report! The U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance today released A Preliminary Report on Seeds and Seeds Practices in the US in celebration of La Vía Campesina’s International Day of Farmers’ and Peasants’ Struggles – April 17. The […]
April is Membership Month! Renew your Membership or become a Member today!
It’s Membership Month and we need your support! CAGJ is funded by the community: 85% of our funding comes directly from our Members. Please consider renewing your Membership or become a Member today! Together, we are funding a vital movement to transform unjust trade and agricultural policies and practices while creating and supporting alternatives that […]
Cooking up Justice in the Food System: Central Co-op and CAGJ Celebrate Our Food, Our Right!
Join us for seed exchange, cooking demonstration & readings Location: Central Co-op Rochdale Room, 1900 E Madison St (3 blocks East of store) THURS April 17, 6:30 – 8:30pm FREE: RSVP’s appreciated to ofor@cagj.org Join us for a night of good food and good activism to celebrate our collective movement for food sovereignty, celebrated […]
Starting to unpack the TPP, NAFTA and food sovereignty
By Allison Mountjoy CAGJ’s Food Justice Project I recently traveled to New Orleans for the first time and where did I find myself on the first day but the New Orleans food co-op. For my sister, who was traveling with me, it was not surprising when I spent thirty minutes looking through produce and taking […]
Sign the Petition: Food for Good? Good for Whom?
The Gates Foundation claims to be promoting food for good (#Food4GoodSEA). We are asking the question: good for whom? (#Good4who) Join us on SAT April 5th, 11-1PM. We will be passing out flyers at the Gates Foundation’s Visitor Center Food for Good event to educate folks about the Gates Foundation’s involvement in Africa. To RSVP or […]
Good Food to the People – Our Food, Our Right
Hosted by CAGJ and Community Kitchens Northwest. Come network with other food activist organizations and get the inside story on the 2nd edition of “Our Food, Our Right” published by CAGJ. Date: Saturday, March 29 Time: 4-7pm Location: Union Cultural Center – 803 S. King St. Seattle, 98104 (accessible by bus route # 7, 14, 36, or light rail […]
SLEE 2014 Kick-off!
We are very excited to announce the 8th Annual Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere (SLEE) dinner. Every year dozens of volunteers help organize this important awareness-raising event for CAGJ. We bring together over 300 farmers, food workers and activists for a dinner featuring the Pacific Northwest’s amazing bounty of food and Fair Trade ingredients. We invite […]
Project Database Update!
Volunteers Needed: A One-Time, Easy Way to Help CAGJ! Exciting news! CAGJ has a new database! A good database is vital to a non-profit organization. It will help us communicate better with our volunteers and members and ultimately do our work better! So now we need help updating it. Anyone can do it! A short […]