http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full2014-11-12T12:58:33.000ZUpcoming CAGJ meetings and eventsCAGJ EventsGoogle Calendar222125http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/od3svaoik9vbubu24um5hn6f6c2014-11-08T00:29:38.000Z2014-11-08T00:30:26.000ZIn the past 2 months, Walmart associates in over 2000 stores across the US (including workers in over 30 stores in WA state) have signed a petition calling for $15/hr and fulltime, reliable hours. These courageous workers have called on their communities across the country to stand with them the week of Thanksgiving, through hundreds of actions across the country, culminating in the largest action on Black Friday (Friday, Nov 28). They want to know their community supports them and their colleagues in demanding that all Walmart associates (and all workers) deserve $15 & fulltime! Let’s send a strong message to Walmart that everywhere they are paying their workers poverty wages, we will be there to demand better! Join us for a fun leafleting solidarity action. For more info, contact Food Justice Project at fjp@seattleglobaljustice.orgDanielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/jepc5bfhigg6hvg0h3jv6ql8pk2014-11-06T18:42:11.000Z2014-11-06T19:27:52.000ZThis is What Democracy Looks Like with discussion with filmmaker Jill Friedberg SUN Nov 30, 2014 2:30pm-5:30pm Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave, Seattle (corner of Union and 21st in the Central District) Enjoy food and drink while shopping CAGJ's Fair Trade for the Holidays gifts, then see the most important documentary about the 1999 protests, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker! About the film: Cut from the footage of over 100 media activists, This is What Democracy Looks Like captures the historic events of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle. The film marks a turning point in collaborative filmmaking and achieves a scope and vision possible only through the lenses of over 100 cameras. With a driving soundtrack by Rage Against the Machine, DJ Shadow, and Anne Feeney,This is What Democracy Looks Like, delivers an intensely political and emotional account of a week that changed the world. The film is a co-production between Corrugated Films founder, Jill Freidberg, and Big Noise Films founder, Rick Rowley. Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/4fs54idnkqeqhhr2a58itgftms2014-08-19T18:48:43.000Z2014-09-17T21:43:47.000ZJoin African food leaders and farmers for an important and timely discussion about building a movement to stop the push of industrial agriculture and promote farmer-led solutions to hunger and climate crises. Big multi-national players like Monsanto, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the G8 Alliance are increasingly controlling our connection to our food. From GMO’s to the patenting of seeds, industrial farming and pro-corporate policies are making things worse for small farmers, for the hungry, consumer health, and the environment around the globe. African farmers and activists are fighting for “food sovereignty,” the right of all people everywhere to control their food systems. On October 12th, hear first-hand from African food leaders and farmers about how corporate “philanthropy” is transforming the very face of African agriculture to a more problematic American-style agribusiness and what we can do to change it. 5-7pm Reception: Join Community Alliance for Global Justice/AGRA Watch and our guests, food sovereignty leaders from throughout Africa and the US, for a special Reception. Food and beverage complementary with purchase of ticket; beer and wine also available for sale. Entrance to Grand Hall included in price of reception. Buy tickets at the door or in advance - $15/$20/$25: http://africanagriculture.brownpapertickets.com/ 7 - 9pm: Public presentation upstairs in Grand Hall. $5 suggested donation at door. Expected African participants: Mercia Andrews, Trust for Community Organization and Education, South Africa Marian Bassey, Friends of the Earth-Africa, Nigeria Fatou Batta, We Are the Solution, Burkina Faso Million Belay, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa and MELCA-Ethiopia Ndiakhate Fall, La Via Campesina Africa, Senegal Daniel Maingi, Kenya Biodiversity Coalition and the Kenya Food Rights Alliance Mariam Mayet, African Centre for Biosafety, South Africa Herschelle Milford, Surplus People Project and Agrarian Reform for Food Sovereignty Campaign, South Africa Elizabeth Mpofu, ZIMSOFF, La Via Campesina Africa, Zimbabwe Bridget Mugambe, Southern and Eastern African Trade, Information, and Negotiations Alliance, Food Rights Alliance, Uganda To learn more, please email AGRA Watch at agrawatch@seattleglobaljustice.org or call 206-405-4600. Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/07981r6g9mko04lh6k1fo3psro_20140917T013000Z2011-04-06T22:54:45.000Z2014-09-15T16:16:37.000ZOrganize for food justice & sovereignty here and abroad! Volunteers, new members, everyone welcome at the Food Justice Project meetings. Contact us at fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org to RSVP or for more info, or just come and find out what we're working on currently and how you can be involved. Our meetings are usually a potluck, if you are able please bring a dish to share!Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/bp7sm2rbunnrp5qcoi5f3v07ss2014-08-19T18:29:49.000Z2014-08-25T18:30:36.000ZAGRA Watch Open House Thursday September 4, 6:30 - 8:30pm Location: Central Co-op Rochdale Room: 1900 E Madison St RSVPs appreciated but not required - email us! - or call us for more info: 206-405-4600. Are you interested in learning more about AGRA Watch and CAGJ's work to challenge the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for their promotion of industrial agriculture, GMO's and other unsustainable practices in Africa? This is a great time to get involved, as we are hosting an exciting strategy retreat with our US and African partners this October! To learn more details, including who is committed to coming from Africa, see this link! 

Join us to get more in depth information about our work and how you can get involved in holding the Gates Foundation to its commitments to transparency and accountability. We will share with you our understanding of how food sovereignty networks in Africa and across the US are coming together to oppose the Foundation's policies. There are opportunities to help with: *research *to connect with our partners on the continent *to organize public events when our African Partners come to the US in October, and *to help organize protests at the foundation’s headquarters. We hope you can join us to get involved in this important and enjoyable project! If you can’t make the event on the 4th, and would still like to know more, please let us know and we will arrange to connect with you in other ways. Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/4bp371ndah5rt76e3ribv6qies2014-07-01T19:45:11.000Z2014-07-15T06:44:34.000ZThis event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date. If you are interested in learning more about AGRA Watch, e-mail agrawatch@seattleglobaljustice.org. Find out more about AGRA Watch and our work to challenge the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and their partners accountable for their promotion of industrial agriculture, GMO's and other unsustainable practices in Africa. Come to this informational meeting to get more in-depth information about our work and how you can get involved in holding the Gates Foundation to its commitments to transparency and accountability. There are opportunities to help in research about the foundation, to connect with our partners on the continent, organize public events when our African Partners come to the US in October and to help organize protests around the Gates Foundation Head quarters. For more information or to RSVP, please contact agrawatch@seattleglobaljustice.org. Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/07981r6g9mko04lh6k1fo3psro_20140319T013000Z2011-04-06T22:54:45.000Z2014-07-09T19:05:16.000ZOrganize for food justice & sovereignty here and abroad! Volunteers, new members, everyone welcome at the Food Justice Project meetings. Contact us at fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org to RSVP or for more info, or just come and find out what we're working on currently and how you can be involved. Our meetings are usually a potluck, if you are able please bring a dish to share!danielle@seattleglobaljustice.orgdanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/07981r6g9mko04lh6k1fo3psro2011-04-06T22:54:45.000Z2014-07-09T19:05:16.000ZOrganize for food justice & sovereignty here and abroad! Volunteers, new members, everyone welcome at the Food Justice Project meetings. Contact us at fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org to RSVP or for more info, or just come and find out what we're working on currently and how you can be involved. Our meetings are usually a potluck, if you are able please bring a dish to share!Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orgDTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140121T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140121T203000 RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;BYDAY=3TU BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/t0if2hjf3830gvl3r1q397t9ls2014-06-26T22:10:32.000Z2014-06-26T22:10:32.000ZEste anuncio es bilingüe, la versión en castellano está más abajo. TIME TO MOVE ON THE SAKUMA BOYCOTT: SEATTLE-WIDE STRATEGY SESSION WITH LAS FAMILIAS UNIDAS POR LA JUSTICIA Sunday July 13, 4 - 6pm New Hope Baptist Church, 116 21st Avenue, Seattle 98122 Please RSVP and let us know if your organization can co-sponsor (Co-sponsors help do outreach, and, if you are able, contribute a small amount to help cover costs of venue and snacks): Email CAGJ's Food Justice Project: fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org Las Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) is a union of hundreds of farmworkers in Skagit County that is at the forefront of the farm worker labor movement. FUJ needs your support to help them win their campaign for fair working conditions at Sakuma Brothers Berry Farm! Last summer, in protest of racist taunts and low wages, berry pickers at Sakuma Brothers Berry Farms formed FUJ to organize for better pay, housing and working conditions. Though Sakuma Brothers pushed hard to bust their campaign, FUJ gained significant ground. (Check out the Stranger's great coverage in the links.) They prevailed against Sakuma Brothers in numerous wage and hour violations (the largest settlement for farmworkers ever in Washington State), defeated an attempt to hire guest workers in place of the workers of FUJ, and secured a Judge's order to stop Sakuma Brothers from retaliating against striking farmworkers. These cases are exciting developments but FUJ still has no guarantees their gains will be protected. Sakuma Brothers still refuses to bargain with the workers of FUJ. Because the farm workers are excluded from laws that protect their rights to collectively bargain, FUJ's ultimate victory depends upon community support and pressure to force Sakuma to the bargaining table. FUJ is seeking support in a boycott of Sakuma Brothers products as they prepare to secure a contract detailing better pay, housing and working conditions. Join Community Alliance for Global Justice on July 13 at 4pm to learn more from FUJ President Ramon Torres about this group's amazing work and join in planning a Seattle-wide Sakuma Boycott. This is an important, urgent opportunity to keep the momentum in favor of improved working conditions for farm workers. Please invite friends and members of your organizations. We want to develop a comprehensive strategy to get Sakuma's products pulled from your local grocer's shelves. Together let's stand in solidarity with the families of FUJ and the farm worker movement. Additionally, you can support FUJ by rallying for FUJ’s one-year anniversary march on Friday, July 11 at 10am. Meet in Burlington, Washington off exit 232 on I-5. Head East and look for the banners! Si se Puede! Heather Day Community Alliance for Global Justice ******** TIEMPO DE AVANZAR EL BOICOT SAKUMA: SESIÓN DE ESTRATEGIA CON LAS FAMILIAS UNIDAS POR LA JUSTICIA PARA ABARCAR TODO SEATTLE Domingo 13 de julio, 4 a 6pm New Hope Baptist Church, 116 21st Avenue, Seattle 98122 Por favor RSVP y avísenos si su organización puede copatrocinar (Los co-patrocinadores ayudan con la divulgación y, si les es posible, contribuyen un pequeño monto para ayudar a cubrir los gastos de sede y aperitivos). Nos puede email al Proyecto de Justicia Alimentaria de CAGJ: fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org Las Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) es un sindicato de cientos de trabajadores agrícolas en el Condado de Skagit que está a la vanguardia del movimiento obrero trabajador agrícola. FUJ necesita su apoyo para ayudarles a ganar su campaña para obtener condiciones de trabajo razonables en la granja Sakuma Brothers Berry Farm! El verano pasado, en protesta por los insultos racistas y los bajos salarios, los recolectores de bayas de Sakuma Brothers Berry Farms formaron FUJ para organizarse y mejorar sus salarios, viviendas y condiciones de trabajo. Aunque Sakuma Brothers trató con mucha fuerza de reventar su campaña, FUJ ganó importantes concesiones. (Eche un vistazo a los excelentes artículo en el Stranger en los siguientes enlaces.) They prevailed against Sakuma Brothers in numerous wage and hour violations (el mayor acuerdo de pago a trabajadores agrícolas en el estado de Washington), defeated an attempt to hire guest workers in place of the workers of FUJ, y secured a Judge's order to stop Sakuma Brothers from retaliating against striking farmworkers. Estos casos son acontecimientos muy importantes pero FUJ todavía no tiene garantías de que sus logros serán protegidos. Sakuma Brothers todavía se niega a negociar con los trabajadores de FUJ. Debido a que los trabajadores agrícolas están excluidos de las leyes que protegen sus derechos a negociar colectivamente, la victoria final de FUJ depende del apoyo y presión de la comunidad para forzar a Sakuma a la mesa de negociación. FUJ está buscando apoyo en el boicot a los productos de Sakuma Brothers mientras se preparan para asegurar un contrato que contemple mejoras de salario, vivienda y condiciones de trabajo. Únase a la Alianza Comunitaria para la Justicia Global, el 13 de julio a las 4pm para escuchar al presidente de FUJ Ramón Torres sobre el trabajo increíble de este grupo, y participe en la planificación de un boicot de Sakuma que abarque todo Seattle. Esta es una oportunidad importante y urgente para mantener la tendencia favorable a mejorar las condiciones de trabajo para los trabajadores agrícolas. Por favor invite a sus amigos y a los miembros de sus organizaciones. Queremos desarrollar una estrategia global para conseguir que los productos de Sakuma se saquen de los estantes de su supermercado local. Juntos vamos a solidarizarnos con las familias de FUJ y con el movimiento campesino. Si se Puede. Heather Day Community Alliance for Global JusticeDanielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/gqaqdhsamvaca434kkpd43f3kc2014-06-04T04:49:11.000Z2014-06-04T04:49:11.000ZCAGJ’s Food Justice Project invites you to a Teach-out at Seattle Tilth's Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands, an urban community learning farm where people learn to grow food in the city! The farm used to be called the Atlantic City Nursery and is owned by Seattle Parks and Recreation. Seattle Tilth was granted co-operatorship of the site in 2011 along with Friends of Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands. We will get a tour of the farm, and then help with early summer harvesting and planting, followed by discussion. Space is limited, so RSVPs are required - please email us, thanks! When we receive your RSVP, we will send you directions, more details on what to wear and bring and coordinate carpools. All activities will be appropriate for children and we can work out disability accommodations if needed. About Teach-Outs: CAGJ’s Food Justice Project invites our members and others to learn about and build connections with key players in the local food region through monthly visits to farms, community kitchens, and community gardens! The site visits include hands-on work that is needed by or is appropriate to the sites, opportunities to debrief and reflect at the end of the site visit, and calls to action! Through these visits, CAGJ hopes to facilitate a place for the voices of our local food producers to be heard and their knowledge and skills to be recognized and celebrated. Questions? Give us a call (206.405.4600) or email us at fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org.Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/bj9bhfrjp2j1dholo7ediggbu42014-04-30T18:55:10.000Z2014-05-12T23:37:56.000ZThursday, May 22 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm Central Co-op's Rochdale Room - 1900 E Madison Street Delve into understanding how oppression and privilege affect our food system. Through popular education and reviewing the facts, we’ll unpack how racism, classism, and sexism create an unjust food system, are ingrained in the current way we grow and eat our food, and can manifest themselves in food system “alternatives” as well. About Educate for Action The Food Justice Project of Community Alliance for Global Justice is offering this participatory workshop as part of its new Educate for Action program. Location & How to RSVP This event is held in Central Co-op's Rochdale Room. Learn more and get directions. It's free! RSVPs are appreciated: E-mail fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org to say you're coming. Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/l291f4n5btuidkq5c0l8gkgmok2014-05-12T18:09:08.000Z2014-05-12T18:09:08.000ZLove sharing your passion for good food? Become an Educate for Action facilitator! Join CAGJ for a FREE Train the Trainer Workshop Thursday June 12 6:30-9:00pm The Boeing Room, Lemieux Library Seattle University, near 12th & Columbia (Entrance located on the East side of the library at ground level) A professional trainer will give you the tools to create fun, informative, and participatory activities that build on collective knowledge. As a future volunteer facilitator, you will have the opportunity to educate, lead discussions, and inspire diverse groups of all ages while promoting a more just food system. To RSVP email fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org For more information on Educate for Action workshops visit www.seattleglobaljustice.org/food-justice/community-education/ Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/cske3853det2apkav5ii8turbs2014-03-11T22:45:25.000Z2014-04-30T21:30:44.000ZWe 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 a leader from the food justice movement as a keynote speaker to inspire us to take action. The funds we raise are central to our organizing efforts, and the fun we have organizing it develops new CAGJ leaders every year. Join the fun! Save the Date! SAT JULY 26th, 2014 University Christian Church- 731 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105 5:30-9:30PM Help Organize! Are you are interested in volunteering or helping coordinate the event? Attend our monthly SLEE Organizing meetings to learn about opportunities to get involved! Central Co-op’s Rochdale Room - 1900 E. Madison Street, Seattle 6:30-8:30PM To RSVP or for more information, contact Danielle at slee@seattleglobaljustice.org. Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orgDTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140414T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140414T203000 RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;UNTIL=20140715T013000Z;BYDAY=2MO BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/k46o5n9etc04dfu9njll5moe6o2014-03-12T23:13:16.000Z2014-04-17T03:31:28.000ZJoin CAGJ and The Seattle Labor Chorus for a fun and inspiring evening of movement story-telling and songs to celebrate our collective struggles for justice! We will share the evening with our allies at Our Walmart/UFCW Local 21, local farmer/fisherfolk, and others. This event is part of MayWorks, an annual celebration of workers’ culture. Inspired by the Canadian labor movement, MayWorks was launched in 2011 at the Washington State Labor Council Convention. The Seattle Labor Chorus is the musical voice of labor in Seattle. For more info, please e-mail contact_us@seattleglobaljustice.org. 206.405.4600.Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/24u44hqopndll1f8c9di8ahk902014-04-02T22:05:16.000Z2014-04-02T22:05:16.000ZJoin 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 for more information contact: agrawatch@seattleglobaljustice.org or 206-405-4600. Background info: The Gates Foundation claims to be promoting food for good (#Food4GoodSEA). We are asking the question: good for whom? (#Good4who) In 2006, the Gates Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). AGRA’s primary goal is to alleviate poverty and reduce hunger in Africa through agricultural development that targets small-scale farmers. Unfortunately, the Foundation promotes industrial farming, inappropriate technologies, and pro-corporate policies that will make things worse for the hungry, for small farmers, consumer health, and the environment in Africa. The Gates Foundation and AGRA claim to be “pro-poor” and “pro-environment,” but their approach is closely aligned with transnational corporations, such as Monsanto, and foreign policy actors like USAID. They take advantage of food and global climate crises to promote high-tech, market-based, industrial agriculture and generate profits for corporations even while degrading the environment and dis-empowering farmers. Feeding the world and preserving the environment requires moving away from industrial agriculture and techno-fixes (like genetic engineering), and towards proven small-scale agroecological farming. A growing international movement of peasant farmers, fisherfolk, rural women, landless workers and indigenous peoples are calling for food sovereignty—the right to define their food and agriculture systems—as a solution to hunger, poverty and the climate crisis. Come to the action on Saturday to pressure the Gates Foundation to support African-initiated programs rooted in indigenous farming practices, social equity and food sovereignty.Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/kifv7k2grafo32j1poi8c07ovs2014-03-26T15:36:33.000Z2014-03-26T15:36:33.000ZCooking 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 Madision St, (3 blocks East of store) THURS April 17, 6:30 - 8:30pm FREE: RSVP's appreciated to ofor@seattleglobaljustice.org Join us for a night of good food and good activism to celebrate our collective movement for food sovereignty, celebrated in CAGJ's 2nd publication, Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice. Every year on April 17, La Via Campesina marks the International Day of Peasant's Struggle. In honor of their call for a global day of action in defense of peasants' and farmers' seeds, we invite you to bring seeds to exchange! Come to learn about CAGJ's book and to hear from contributors, who will read from chapters about African food sovereignty and Trade Justice struggles. Enjoy a cooking demonstration and a sampling of recipes from the book! Help us publicize - please forward widely and invite your Facebook friends! For more information, email CAGJ's Publicity Intern Lauren at l.l.kronebusch@gmail.com or call 206.405.4600.Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/0k7kt1pbovf0gcqtjrb17ug98c2014-03-04T05:46:58.000Z2014-03-04T05:46:58.000ZJoin Community Alliance for Global Justice (CAGJ) Community Kitchen Northwest (CKNW) for a night of good food and good activism! Learn more about CAGJ's second publication, Our Food, Our Right (OFOR), a book about hands-on tools for change with community recipes and political awareness to engage YOU in joining in the struggle for food justice! OFOR promotes community knowledge sharing, self-sufficiency, accessibility, and food justice through a food sovereignty framework. The product of over 50 contributors’ collected efforts and wisdom, this guide has the tools you need to take back your food choices and stand up for all people’s rights to good, healthy, and culturally appropriate food! If you're interested in food justice, food politics, activism, eating locally, and healthy, or just want to learn more about CAGJ, this is an event for you. We will be hosting a cooking demonstration and sampling of recipes from OFOR, a discussion on global food justice with audience participation and a presentation by CAGJ on its mission and agenda for the upcoming year. Come to discuss, eat, learn, read, and celebrate. Date: Saturday, March 29 Time: 4-7pm Location: Union Cultural Center – 803 S. King St. Seattle, 98104 Admission: Free! Contact: Lauren Kronebusch, l.l.kronebusch@gmail.com, for more information *Childcare can be provided upon requestDanielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/vonflrsskukhp4k2mfopkio9es2014-02-19T06:48:55.000Z2014-02-24T05:21:18.000ZWe 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 a leader from the food justice movement as a keynote speaker to inspire us to take action. The funds we raise are central to our organizing efforts, and the fun we have organizing it develops new CAGJ leaders every year. Join the fun! Save the Date! SAT JULY 26th, 2014 University Christian Church- 731 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105 5:30-9:30PM Help Organize! Are you are interested in volunteering or helping coordinate the event? Attend our SLEE 2014 Kick- off to learn about opportunities to get involved! MON March 10th, 2014 Central Co-op’s Rochdale Room - 1900 E. Madison Street, Seattle 6:30-8:30PM To RSVP or for more information, contact Danielle@seattleglobaljustice.org. Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/b1p59pofdsi9se87e02p53rrd02014-02-19T18:12:22.000Z2014-02-24T00:32:26.000ZVolunteers 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 training will be provided. Do you have a few hours to come into the office (606 Maynard Ave. S. #102, Seattle in the International District) and add info to our new database? Available office hours (come for part or all): · Monday, Feb 24th, 10am-4pm or 6:30-8:30pm · Tuesday, Feb 25th, 10am-4pm · Thursday, Feb 27th, 12-3pm · Monday, March 3rd, 10am-4pm · Tuesday, March 4th, 10am-4pm · Wednesday March 5th, 5-8pm Please RSVP to Danielle@seattleglobaljustice.org if you are able to come and help out! If you would like to come in at another time not listed, please contact us to arrange! Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/1r4qil84koj7vacog9vmu6k3u82014-02-19T01:14:46.000Z2014-02-19T18:26:58.000ZJoin us for our 8th Annual SLEE 'Strengthening Local Economies Everywhere' dinner! If you are interested in volunteering or helping coordinate the event, contact Danielle@seattleglobaljustice.org! Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/cbjs1qkr95abft2embvb39bb082014-02-04T21:25:15.000Z2014-02-18T06:27:13.000ZYOU ARE INVITED! CAGJ's Annual Planning Meeting to dream about and plan 2014 and beyond! Please RSVP to contact_us@seattleglobaljustice.org, and let us know if you plan to participate in part or all of the meeting: DINNER - Friday March 7th, 6 - 9:30pm Location: Bill Aal's home, 2408 Valley on Capitol Hill Join us Friday night for dinner, political conversation and a time to reflect on our involvement with CAGJ. MORNING & AFTERNOON Saturday March 8th, 9:30 - 5pm Location: Heather Day's home, 403 29th Ave E, in Madison Valley WHO should come? Open to all active members/volunteers of CAGJ. WHAT WILL WE EAT? Central Co-op kindly provides food for all CAGJ events! OVERVIEW OF AGENDA: Looking back at last year's accomplishments Looking forward to where we want CAGJ to be in 3-5 years Setting direction for our anti-oppression work, leadership development, and member engagement Setting concrete goals for the next year Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/6r6gkdeajp5kjdp2n7rh6tidfo2014-02-18T04:53:19.000Z2014-02-18T04:53:19.000ZBiopiracy and Seed Sovereignty: AGRA Watch Educational THURS, March 20, 6:30 - 9pm: Location TBD Join AGRA Watch members including visiting activist scholar Carol Thompson who has partnered with a Southern African farmers’ organization to publish articles and books, including Biopiracy of Biodiversity – Global Exchange as Enclosure. Their most recent article analyzes how international policy may be more threatening to smallholder farmers than climate change, including new policy instruments for appropriating Africa's genetic wealth. All are welcome! For more information, contact agrawatch@seattleglobaljustice.org.Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/vm581lg2i6evm552su24jdjdqg2014-02-12T20:48:49.000Z2014-02-12T20:48:50.000ZLearn about Work and Living Conditions for Farm Workers in NW Washington State! Public Book Club Panel and Discussion (with CAGJ!) Tuesday, March 4th, 6:30-8:30PM Location: Casa Latina, 317 17th Ave S. Seattle, WA 98144 BOOK: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States by Dr. Seth Holmes Sponsored by Community Health International Medicine Projects for Sustainability (C.H.I.M.P.S.) and RESULTS Seattle Chapter This book describes the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants and the social forces and structures that normalize their oppression and make it appear “natural” in US society and health care. Based on 5 years of research in the field (including illegally crossing the Border, berry-picking in the Skagit County of WA state and traveling with migrants back and forth from Oaxaca up the West Coast), Holmes, an anthropologist MD shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care. He planted and harvested corn, picked strawberries, accompanied sick workers to clinics, participated in healing rituals, and mourned at funerals for friends. The following panel discussion promises to be both engaging and educating. Panel for Book Club on “Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies”: Facilitator – Dr. Joe Sherman with C.H.I.M.P.S. Flor Alarcon Avendano: Seattle based Community Advocate in Education, Health and Social Justice. Matt Canfield: Community Alliance for Global Justice seeks to transform unjust trade and agricultural policies and practices while supporting alternatives that embody social justice, sustainability, diversity and grassroots democracy. Colleen Pacheco: Program Manager for Sea Mar's Promotores Program in Skagit & Whatcom Counties. Volunteer promotores help to reduce barriers to health care for migrant families while providing interpretation of language/culture: Representative from: Community to Community, a Bellingham based, grassroots organization working for a just society and a healthy community and active in support of local farm workers in their struggles: The event will be bilingual in Spanish and English. The book is currently available on the shelf from the Bothell Branch of the UW Bookstore. Other local bookstores will order it on request or you can purchase it online. For more information about the book club, contact Ellie Graham: elinoragraham@gmail.com. To contact the local RESULTS group in Seattle, email Bob Dickerson, resultsbob@yahoo.com, or go to their national website: www.results.org Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/kgiqa2g25hnluq9vtecmp8akpc2014-01-13T22:58:57.000Z2014-01-24T01:02:38.000ZJoin us for "No More NAFTA's - Stop the TPP" Rally, 1/31 at Westlake Center at NOON! The rally is part of an Inter-Continental Day of Action, in solidarity with our trade justice allies in Mexico, Canada and across the U.S. Community Alliance for Global Justice grew out of the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, and has continued to oppose the corporate agenda of privileging its power and profits over the rights of labor, the environment, small farmers and consumers. We have had 20 years of NAFTA, with its clear and undeniable effects on jobs, food security, income inequality and environmental protection. CAGJ has worked to expose these injustices and to unite with activists everywhere to build opposition to so-called “trade” pacts. Now our current crop of corporate-bought politicians are negotiating – in secret, of course – their newest attempt to enhance the rights of investors, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would make it even harder for nations and communities to make decisions about their food, their climate, their future. Local allies such as unions and social justice organizations, and international organizations of workers and citizens throughout the TPP area, are mobilizing to make it harder to pass this investor – rights agreement. In particular, for us here in the U.S., we have to make sure the administration’s effort to pass “fast-track” legislation, attempting to bypass any democratic citizen say on the TPP, has to be stopped. As a start, join us for a noon rally in Westlake Park, next Friday, the 31st. We will go on from there to get fast track halted. And CAGJ will intensify its work among food justice advocates to demonstrate why deals like the TPP stand in the way of reimagining and building a fair and sustainable food system. What: Press Conference/Action to honor Rep. McDermott’s leadership in pledging to Vote No on fast-track and to call on every member of the WA State delegation to do the same! This is an International Day of Action! When: Friday, January 31st 12 pm Where: Westlake Center, 400 Pine St Seattle Who: Sierra Club, 350.org, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Plant for the Planet, Backbone Campaign, Occupy Bellingham, Spokane Move to Amend, Expose the TPP, the Washington Fair Trade Coalition & You! RSVP & help share the word on Facebook and by forwarding widely - Thanks! Please join us to show the Obama Administration and our Congressional Representatives that we demand an open and fair accounting of the TPP before any decision is made. We need a 21st Century trade agreement that protects worker rights and environmental laws. Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.orghttp://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/f0gf5dtihf0ge7jmtoqss2ap4c%40group.calendar.google.com/public/full/3i82svcm2ofeccqq978734jogs2014-01-13T23:06:09.000Z2014-01-13T23:12:31.000ZALL are welcome! Food provided! Location: University Christian Church - where CAGJ's SLEE dinner took place in September! 4731 15th Ave NE: near the University of Washington Seattle campus. CAGJ is kicking off 2014 with a Community Meeting to discuss and share all of our upcoming work. This year promises to be a busy year--from our ongoing work in solidarity with Sakuma Brothers farmworkers, to our struggle against the Trans Pacific Partnership, to our upcoming AGRA Watch Summit. The Community Meeting will be an important opportunity to learn about our plans for the year and hear about opportunities to plug in through volunteering, interning, or other organizing opportunities. While we will give an overview of CAGJ's 3 main areas of organizing, we will highlight our AGRA Watch campaign's work to pressure the Gates Foundation to support agroecological farming in Africa. RSVP's appreciated but not required to volunteer@seattleglobaljustice.org. Feel free to call us with any questions - 206.405.4600, or shoot us an email - thanks!Danielle Friedmandanielle@seattleglobaljustice.org