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! […]
Category Archives: Food Justice Blog Posts
FRI March 16 ACTION: Demand that Gates Foundation Sever all Ties to Monsanto
Friday, March 16: A Global Day of Action – Shut Down Monsanto! In Seattle, 11AM – 1PM: Demand that Gates Foundation Sever all Ties to Monsanto Friday March 16 is an international day to bring attention to Monsanto’s countless bad deeds. There are over 1800 actions planned all over the world. In Seattle we’ll bring […]
Seattle Times Op-Ed: Bill Gates’ support of GM crops is wrong approach for Africa
AGRA Watch helped make this Op-Ed possible – One of our African colleagues, Glenn Ashton, became so incensed at Bill Gates’ recent annual letter that he worked with AGRA Watch to produce an Op Ed which we were able to get placed in the Seattle Times. This is probably the first occasion in which the […]
Eaters, beware: Walmart is taking over our food system
Reprinted from GRIST.org – Click HERE for article online! By Stacy Mitchell 30 Dec 2011 1:55 AM Yes it’s cheap but … (Photo by Walmart Stores.) Aubretia Edick has worked at a Walmart store in upstate New York for 11 years, but she won’t buy fresh food there. Bagged salads, she claims, are often past […]
Food Justice Urban Hike-a-thon!
SAT April 28 Hike 10am-3pm; Celebration at MLK Community Center 3-5pm! A fundraiser for the 2nd Edition of Our Food, Our Right Calling all urban hikers and teams! Register today! Have you ever wanted to explore parts of our foodshed, by foot? Want to check out some urban farm & food justice projects, take action […]
Worldwide Mobilizations Against Monsanto Continue
Worldwide Mobilizations Against Monsanto Continue, by Reid Mukai, CAGJ Co-Chair If we should accept corporations as persons under U.S. law as the 2010 Citizens United ruling argued, then Monsanto would be among the most psychopathic persons on the planet. There’s no other way to describe one who intentionally contaminates the environment and global food supply […]
UFW Solidarity Action Friday, Jan. 27
2PM March from Westlake Park (401 Pine St) to Darigold Headquarters (1130 Rainier Ave S) 3PM Rally @ Darigold Headquarters Transportation will be provided for those who need it. Dairy workers at the Ruby Ridge dairy, which provides milk for the Darigold company are going through hell and need your help. Workers have repeatedly tried […]
Jan 25 CAGJ Book Group: Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight Back
Next Book Group Meeting Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight Back When: Wednesday, January 25, 2012; 6:30-8:30pm Location: Salvadorean Bakery, 1719 SW Roxbury St, Seattle, WA 98106 www.thesalvadoreanbakery.com Order the book from Powell’s for $7.95 Facilitated by John Fawcett-Long: A few years ago a small group of […]
2011 CAGJ Accomplishments
Organized Free, Public, Educational Gatherings & Farm Work-Parties Food Justice Project: Organizing for Food Justice & Food Sovereignty in Seattle & everywhere! Teach-Outs with Central Co-op, Cascadian Edible Landscapes, Seattle Youth Garden Works with Spring into Bed!, Clean Greens Farm (in photo: CAGJ activist Victoria Gibson on the Farm with Clean Greens Farmer Tom Willis, […]
CAGJ Members Report-Back from CFSC Conference
With our members’ support, CAGJ was able to help several CAGJ leaders attend the Community Food Security Coalition Conference in October, 2011 in Oakland, CA. Below are their reports on what they got out of the conference and US Food Sovereignty Alliance Assembly that followed. Chelsea Eickert, Membership Co-Chair The 2011 CFSC Conference nicely highlighted […]