By John Fawcett-Long, NW Farm Bill Action Group Steering Committee Member The Senate Version – A Mixed Bag The Farm Bill has been actively under consideration by Congress the last few months. Congress is under pressure to do something as the current version expires on October 1. There also have been many calls for Congress […]
Category Archives: Food Justice Blog Posts
Teach-Out! with Grateful Food Farm at Viva Farms
Saturday, August 18 Meet at 9:30am at CAGJ office, travel to Skagit Valley for Teach-Out Return at 4pm, optional Happy Hour at Agua Verde Cafe! RSVP (required) and get more details at fjp@cagj.org. Full schedule below. Viva Farms is a project of GrowFood.org, an international non-profit dedicated to recruiting, training and capitalizing the next generation […]
Farm Bill Passes Senate, Prompts Mixed Reactions
In a major step towards a new Farm Bill for the country, the huge omnibus legislation that largely dictates how we grow and eat our food in the United States, the bill passed the Senate in late June by a 2 to 1 ratio. Discussion on the House version has already begun, and the Senate […]
Report back from Rio+20 People’s Summit: “If they don’t let us dream, we won’t let them sleep”
By Dean Chahim, UW graduate, founder of Critical Development Forum, CAGJ volunteer who we supported in participating in the Rio+20 Summit with contacts. The official Rio+20 United Nations (UN) Conference on Sustainable Development and the simultaneous People’s Summit for Social and Environmental Justice (Cupula dos Povos para Justicia Social e Ambiental) had a surprising similarity […]
Rio+20: A Success for Multinational Corporations, a Failure for Everyone Else
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]