On Free First Thursday – THURS September 4th – come see MOHAI’s Mandela exhibition with CAGJ’s Director Heather Day – and then join discussion and fun over dinner nearby, at Babar Green (500 Terry Ave North)! RSVP: contact_us@cagj.org As an organization dedicated to solidarity with African social movements, it’s exciting to have the opportunity to engage […]| Community Alliance for Global Justice
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Watch the Webinar on YouTube! While you’re there, please subscribe to CAGJ’s YouTube channel! On June 26, AGRA Watch co-hosted a fascinating and powerful webinar, which included a program we’ve dreamed of for years, bringing together movement leaders across education, public health, climate justice, and food sovereignty to critically examine Gates’ legacy—and strategize how to […]| Community Alliance for Global Justice
May is CAGJ’s Membership Month! Every year we launch Membership Month with our Annual Report, and we are proud to share the 2025 edition with you! TODAY we hope you will include CAGJ in your #GiveBIG gifts: Thanks to UFCW 3000 and generous CAGJ donors, all gifts up to 10K will be matched during May! […]| Community Alliance for Global Justice
Join CAGJ in demanding the immediate release of Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, a dedicated and long-time farmworker leader and organizer. On March 25, 2025, Lelo was violently detained by ICE while driving his partner to her workplace. ICE agents broke his car window when Lelo tried to exercise his rights. He is currently detained inside the […]| Community Alliance for Global Justice
This month (Feburary 2025) CAGJ celebrated a huge historic win with representatives of the many organizations who collectively stopped genetically engineered salmon! The company who attempted to manufacture the frankenfish, AquaBounty, is closing its operation. The battle against GE salmon was waged for over three decades – from 1994-2025! We want to honor all of […]| Community Alliance for Global Justice
An Invitation to Help Lead CAGJ into the Future Join CAGJ Volunteer Collective & Board TUES JAN 21, 6:30 – 8PM Register to receive Zoom link You are invited to help steward CAGJ into the New Year! Soon our longtime director, Heather Day, is stepping down from her role as CAGJ’s lead organizer. Thus […]| Community Alliance for Global Justice
Happy New Year! This is an end of year fundraising appeal, the last one I will write in my role as ED, which is hard to believe. I am just going to ask right now, here at the beginning, that you consider a generous gift to CAGJ to #FundtheCollective, this beautiful organization of people who […]| Community Alliance for Global Justice
In the fall of 2019, I moved back to Seattle after graduating college and pretty immediately got involved with CAGJ. I felt compelled by Food Sovereignty’s call for a full transformation, an overhaul, a promise of a way out of the neo-liberal food system, entirely. Food sovereignty rejects assimilation into capitalism. Instead, it beckons a […]| Community Alliance for Global Justice
I first got involved in CAGJ twenty years ago, when I was 20. I remember cheering on the WTO protests on TV when I was still in high school. Then a couple of years later I heard about CAGJ after attending a talk at Seattle University on the Zapatistas and EZLN. I jumped at the […]| Community Alliance for Global Justice
Genetically Engineered Salmon Production Ends as AquaBounty Shutters Last Facility JOINT PRESS RELEASE December 12, 2024 First Commercialized GE Animal a Market Failure Following Rejection by Largest Food Retailers, Food Service Companies and Court Challenges WASHINGTON – Following decades of controversy, widespread market rejection and legal and regulatory challenges, U.S.-based biotechnology and aquaculture company AquaBounty […]| Community Alliance for Global Justice
Report-back: Spring 2024 “Embracing LOVE in the Food System” By Tessa Baker From early April through May, CAGJ, along with Olympia-based Everyone’s Food Sovereignty Alliance (EFSA), co-hosted an eight week intensive that led participants to reimagine the food system through the lens of food sovereignty. This program entitled “Embracing LOVE in the Food System” was […]| Community Alliance for Global Justice
