Community Alliance for Global Justice

05/30/2026

Trump touts bringing back manufacturing but seems willing to throw farmers under the bus with tariffs, wars and our food coming from who knows where.

05/30/2026

05/30/2026

November 2024 marked twenty-five years since a global movement called “Globalize Liberation, Not Corporate Power” successfully took mass direct action to shut down the World Trade Organization in Seattle on November 30, 1999. Out of that powerful week of protest, CAGJ was born.

Facing police repression of nonviolent action, 1999 WTO protesters chanted, “Whose Streets? Our Streets!” Twenty-five years later, veterans of the movement shared their vision for how the Battle in Seattle is remembered.

In partnership with the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), CAGJ created multiple opportunities in 2025 for Seattlelites to learn from the inspiring legacy of the WTO protests. Building on MOHAI’s exhibit, “Teamsters, Turtles, and Beyond: The Legacy of the Seattle WTO Protests” CAGJ co-hosted an interactive WTO story-telling event featuring one of the luminaries of the global justice movement, Walden Bello, visiting from the Philippines!

This year is CAGJ’s 25th anniversary, and your support will allow us to continue to bring movement history to the people! As we celebrate our own history, we also look to the future - here’s to another 25 years!

Make a donation today (tinyurl.com/FundCAGJ) or simply fill out CAGJ’s Member form (tinyurl.com/joinCAGJ) - Thank you!

05/29/2026

Philanthrocapitalism attempts to use market processes to do good, but markets are ill-suited to being socially constructive.

Social justice philanthropy is a great alternative! It offers an important way to sustain the food sovereignty movement and support community self-determination. Be invested in CAGJ! Our Members inform, shape, and lead our work in the struggle for and .

During these unprecedented times, we are grateful every day for how our community has shown up for the causes we care so deeply about. Throughout all the challenges, we have been reminded that power lies in people, resilience in community, and hope in the world we are building.

You can help ensure that CAGJ has the resources to continue to grow and amplify food justice movements around the world. Join us today and become a Member (or renew) by filling out this form - tinyurl.com/joinCAGJ - or donate: tinyurl.com/FundCAGJ

✨Donate $25 or more to receive our Food Justice Poster

Give $125 or more to receive our Food Justice Apron

All new Monthly Sustainers will receive our Food Justice Tshirt

Donate up to $25 & receive Our Food, Our Right: CAGJ’s Zine✨

05/26/2026

In April 2025, CAGJ co-organized the weekend-long Art & Revolution Convergence, starting with a hands-on workshop at MOHAI after which participants created a beautiful community mural in South Seattle reading “Fund Communities, Not War!” The next day, 60 people gathered at Vashon Green School to learn how to use art to invigorate activism and organizing with creative signage, puppets, theater, poetry, and more.

Now we are preparing for a deeper dive Art & Revolution Convergence to take place in August of 2026! Participants will experience 5 days of arts-organizing workshops, skills sharing, and public action focused on building skills, strategies, networks, and imagination to spread and deepen the use of arts and culture in direct action campaigns and movements.

The Convergence brings CAGJ together with:

La Resistencia-dedicated to shutting down the NW Detention Center
Jewish Voice for Peace, in support of their Cut Ties with Genocide campaign
Seattle art collective who created beautiful installation CAGJ has helped mobilize over past year
Our arts facilitators: David Solnit, Jo Redline Christian and Dana Schuerholz.

CAGJ aims to make large-scale art to animate our protests at the Gates Foundation, and to celebrate our work in solidarity with the African Food Sovereignty movement.

Movement building would not be possible without the support of our community. Please consider becoming a CAGJ Member either by donating (tinyurl.com/FundCAGJ) or filling out the Member form today (tinyurl.com/joinCAGJ)!

05/25/2026

In January, CAGJ participated in the 13th Annual Farmworker Tribunal, organized by Community to Community (C2C) Development and Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ)! CAGJ was honored to witness Farmworkers advocating for themselves to our electeds!

The legislative priorities this year were union recognition (SB 6045) and collective bargaining rights for farmworkers (HB 2409). Although the bills did not become law this legislative session, the strong turnout from farmworker organizations and their allies, and the passionate testimony of workers, highlight the momentum and determination behind the effort to secure these rights. The bills will be re-introduced in 2027, and we will be ready to fight so that these basic rights finally gain the legal recognition long denied to Farmworkers.

Throughout the year, CAGJ stood with our Farmworker partners to pressure ICE to FREE LELO, and all detained immigrants. Lelo is a beloved Farmworker leader and FUJ member who was violently detained by ICE in 2025. After several months at the Tacoma detention center, he opted to self-deport to Mexico, where he is organizing in his family’s community.

Urban-rural solidarity is critical in these times of increased repression of Farmworkers, with H2A expanding guestworker programs, harming migrant workers, and taking jobs away from local farmworkers.

Last summer C2C recognized CAGJ’s Director Heather Day with the Seeds of Justice Cultivating Movement award for “never tiring of the struggle”, a huge honor. Your support today of CAGJ helps to ensure that we can continue to amplify our Farmworker partners’ needs, and celebrate their victories together!

Please consider becoming a CAGJ Member either by donating (tinyurl.com/FundCAGJ) or filling out the Member form today (tinyurl.com/joinCAGJ)!

05/25/2026

05/25/2026

05/23/2026

Come see us today at Northwest Folklife in the Kuleana Corridor celebrating food and land justice! Grab our new Zine! Get a free No ICE bumper sticker!

05/23/2026

We need each other!

As a grassroots, member-led organization, CAGJ depends on the generosity of all of our supporters to continue advocating for global food justice and food sovereignty for all people. To thrive and grow, we need supporters at every level of involvement, including both volunteers and donors.

You can become a Member and support CAGJ by volunteering your time or skills, boosting outreach by sharing our posts, attending events, and more! When you become a Member of CAGJ, you sign on to be part of our community in the fight for food sovereignty. The direction of our organization is shaped by and held accountable to our Members.

Please sign up to become a Member of CAGJ, even if you can’t donate! All you have to do is fill out our online Member form (tinyurl.com/joinCAGJ), and we will share how you can support CAGJ and help us deepen our impact in 2026!