[TheUWfarm] Aug 7: CAGJ's Annual Dinner coming up!!

Some of the many reasons you & your friends will greatly enjoy this year's event: Beautiful, soulful and energetic Fandango music performed live, along with dancing at Happy Hour while sipping libations and complimentary hors d'oeuvres including oysters....fun street theater about unholy alliances.....delicious, fresh, locally sourced, healthy, organic and fair trade foods.....vegetarian and vegan entrees.....the wisdom and warmth of Ben Burkett, 4th generation African-American Mississippi farmer connecting local and global food politics....goat grown and prepared with love.....chance to support CAGJ by bidding on quilts, trip on a sailboat, CSA box of produce, garden consultation, massage, cheese-tasting on a farm, and much much more...Loki salmon....great brews and wines....red velvet cake, lemon lavender cake, chocolate mousse....followed by gorgeous West Guinean music that will make you want to celebrate! dance the night away! Joy! See you there!

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Community Alliance for Global Justice presents our 4th Annual

STRENGTHENING LOCAL ECONOMIES EVERYWHERE! DINNER

Community Event and Annual CAGJ Fundraiser

Saturday, August 7, 2010

St. Demetrios Church, 2100 Boyer Avenue East, in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle

Join Community Alliance for Global Justice and over 400 local advocates, farmers, food workers, and allied organizations at our 4th annual Strengthening Local Economies, Everywhere! Dinner to raise awareness about pressing social, economic, and environmental justice issues—as well as to celebrate our own vast pool of resources locally to create lasting change! Help us build community solidarity while also connecting local and global struggles for justice through this fun, engaging and inspiring event!

The Strengthening Local Economies, Everywhere! Dinner plays a pivotal role in CAGJ's organizing and fundraising efforts. This year, we are thrilled that Ben Burkett will join us as keynote speaker on the topic "Globalize Hope! Globalize Struggle! Connecting US and African Farmers for Food Sovereignty".  Burkett is a 4th generation Mississippi farmer, leader in the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, President of National Family Farm Coalition and active in La Via Campesina, the international movement of peasants struggling for food sovereignty. His talk will address the role of the Gates Foundation in African agriculture, and how farmers are organizing across borders for sustainable, democratic alternatives to the "green revolution" promoted by the foundation.

Sunday August 8th - Farm Bill 2012 Campaign Kick-off! Join us for a Special Workshop with Ben Burkett to discuss how we can make the next US Farm Bill work for all of us!  Time 4 - 6:30pm, potluck following. Workshop is free.  Location: New Hope Baptist Church: 116 21st Avenue, 98122 - Just north of Yesler in Central District of Seattle

Schedule of Events: Happy Hour 4:30-6:00: Enjoy libations, live music with Seattle Fandango Project, complimentary hors d'oeuvres, a Silent Auction, and the opportunity to acquaint yourself with featured food justice organizations and groups promoting community development, food sovereignty and Fair Trade in Africa.  Dinner 6:00-9:00: Enjoy a scrumptious meal featuring dishes from Portage Bay Café,and Kaspar's, in addition to plates prepared by CAGJ's in-house chefs using the bounty of Northwest farmers, ranchers and fisherfolk and select Fair Trade ingredients.  The Dessert Auction featuring 40 different desserts will make your mouth water!  Dancing 9:00 – 11:00 Celebrate the global food revolution with African music and dancing by Naby Camara, & his Band Lagni Sussu!

Tickets: $35 Regular Price, $60 "Support a Farmer/Food Worker": Gives you entry and also ensures that a local farmer or food worker can be one of our honored guests at the event! $10 Kids

Buy tickets online at Brown Paper Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/107571

 *A limited number of "volunteerships" are available: work trade for tickets to the dinner.  In addition, many volunteers are needed the week of the event, and those assisting the night-of will enjoy a complimentary meal! To sign up, call 206-405-4600, or email volunteer@seattleglobaljustice.org

EVENT SPONSORS: Central Co-op's Madison Market, Equal Exchange, Full Circle Farms, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PCC Natural Markets, Real Change, Seattle CISPES, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 21, Washington Fair Trade Coalition

COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Adorable Seattle, Agua Verde Café and Paddle Club, Alter-Eco, American Friends Service Committee, Art & Architecture, Art of Subtlety Photography, Barsuk Records, Big Dipper Wax Works, Bill Seidel's Underground Tour, Black Dollar Days/Clean Greens Farm, Cafe Flora, Canlis, Center for Wooden Boats, Chinook Book, Choice Organic Teas, City Fruit, Clover Toys, Cooper the Photographer Cat, Creativitea, DRY soda, Eat Local, Elizabeth Chaison LMP, Endangered Species Chocolate, Experience Music Project, F/8.3 Photography, FireFly Kitchens, Forest Life Creations, FreeRange Cycles, FRESH, Gluten-Free Girl, Got Soup?, Grand Central Baking Company, Great City, Growing Things Farm, Hoodsport Winery, Hot Cakes, Kaspars Special Events & Catering, Le Gourmand, Lettuce Link/Solid Ground, Local Roots, Loki Fish Company, Mark Isakson, Methow Dog Treats, Mickey McReynolds, Morning Glory, Moving Images, Nash's Organic Produce, Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance, Nettletown, Newground Social Investment, Not A Number Cards & Gifts, NW Film Forum, On the Boards, Organically Grown Company, Oxbow Farm, P-Patch Program, PaddyWag Photography, PCC Farmland Trust, Pike Place Brewing, Portage Bay Café, Portage Bay Goods, Puget Sound Sage, Re-Store, Reclaim the Media, Rural Roots, Salish Sea Trading Cooperative, Samish Bay Creamery, Sara Koopman, Schocolat, Seattle Aquarium, Seattle Audubon Society, Seattle CISPES, Seattle Food Tours, Seattle Good Business Network, Seattle Tilth, Sightline Institute, Slow Food Seattle, Sno-Valley Tilth, Sol Colibri. Sound Home Performance, Sugarlump Shop, Sustainable Seattle, Tahoma Farms, Tall Grass Bakery, Taylor Shellfish Farms, Ten Thousand Villages, The Bikery, The Charity Stripe, Tools for Change, Urban Goat Justice League, Victrola Coffee, Village Volunteers, Washington Fair Trade Coalition, Washington State Unitarian Universalist Voices for Justice, Washington Sustainable Food and Farming Network, Witness for Peace, Yes! Magazine, Yoga Life, Zipcar

For more information, or to get involved with organizing, please contact CAGJ: 206-405-4600, contact_us@seattleglobaljustice.org

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Heather Day, Director
Community Alliance for Global Justice
www.seattleglobaljustice.org
206-724-2243
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