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CAGJ's "Sustaining Local Economies Everywhere" Fair and Dinner

06/29/2008 - 3:00pm
06/29/2008 - 9:00pm
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Community Alliance for Global Justice presents its 2nd Annual
'Strengthening Local Economies, Everywhere' Dinner & Fair!
Sunday June 29, 2008(please note change in date!)
Garfield Community Center: 2323 East Cherry Street, Seattle, WA 98122, in the Central District of Seattle

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/34497
3 – 6pm Fair: Free & Open to the Public
6-9pm Scrumptious Local Dinner: Buy tickets below

Learn more: http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org/

Fair 3 – 6pm: Free & Open to the Public
Want to learn more about supporting local and global alternatives to corporate-led globalization? Meet local organizations, small businesses, and food producers dedicated to food justice, fairer trade and farm policies, urban gardening, and immigrants' rights. Also enjoy Live music, Local Farmer Meet & Greet, Community art project, and food and beverages from local wineries and breweries!

Dinner 6-9pm: Buy tickets below
Join us for a delicious dinner prepared by local chefs and restaurants, including La Medusa, Portage Bay Café and Stumbling Goat Bistro, using Fair Trade products and ingredients produced sustainably by small growers in the Pacific Northwest. Local wineries and breweries also represented. Dinner program features keynote by Carlos Marentes, who works with Via Campesina and Committee for Immigration Reform and Social Justice, and discussions at each table with local food producers and farmworkers. Music with Sin Fronteras.

Tickets:
*Individual tickets on sale now at brownpapertickets.com: $10 Low-income, $30 Regular Admission, $50 Support a Farmer/Farmworker: Buy a ticket for yourself and ensure that a local farmer or farmworker can be one of our honored guests!

***Volunteers are needed now & the day of the event (& will get in for free)! Please contact Jen Mullen at jenfaymullen@yahoo.com if you are able to help out!

This dinner is a fundraiser for CAGJ's organizing: please bring cash and checks to participate in the silent auction and dessert auction! The event is wheelchair accessible and child-friendly. Childcare and fun activities provided.

Current Co-sponsors: Acting Food Policy Council, Alter-Eco, BALLE Seattle, Bonnie River Fair Trade and World Friendly Store, Cascade Harvest Coalition, Cascadian Edible Landscapes, Chaco Canyon, Chef's Collaborative, Chow Foods, Committee for Immigration Reform and Social Justice, Cultivating Youth/ Seattle P-Patch Program, Eco-Praxis, Equal Exchange, Full Circle Farm, Fuse, iLEAP Center for Critical Service, Jubilee Farm, Justice Works!, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, LELO, Lettuce Link, Madison Market, Mangrove Action Project, Master Composter/ Soil Builder Program, Moving Images, New Roots Organics, Northwest Environmental Education Council - Seattle Bioneers, NW Biodiesel Network, Northwest Harvest, PCC Farmland Trust, PCC Natural Markets, Philippine U.S. Solidarity Organization (PUSO), Reclaim the Media, SCALLOPS, Seattle Audubon NW Shade Coffee Campaign, Seattle CISPES, Seattle Tilth, Seattle Urban Farm Company, Seattle Youth Garden Works, Sister Sage Herbs, Sol Colibri, spud!, Theo Chocolate, Tilth Producers of WA, Tools for Change, UKUSH, United Food & Commercial Workers Local 21, US Women and Cuba Collaboration, UW Program on the Environment, Village Volunteers, WA Biotechnology Action Council, WA Fair Trade Coalition, WA State Food and Nutrition Council, WA State Unitarian Universalist Voices for Justice, WA Toxics Coalition, Yerbas de Yakima, Yes! Magazine, ZipCar.

For more information, please contact CAGJ: 206.405.4600/ hrd99@igc.org

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