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Secret Sushi Cafe & Poetry Slam, at the Wildcat

Event Title & Host Secret Sushi Cafe & Poetry Slam, at the Wildcat Website https://www.facebook.com/events/206837239413839/ When? Saturday 2/11/12 Where? The Wildcat, 23rd and Union Why? Sushi, Slams, & Solidarity are all beautiful things. Description Welcome to our yummy SECRET SUSHI CAFE and POETRY SLAM! on Saturday at the Wildcat! Requested donations: $7-$10 A group of [...]

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New Project: Black Coffee Workers Cooperative

Black Coffee is a worker’s cooperative recently formed with the intention to create a café space & infoshop in Seattle. We are still in the initial organizing stages. Black Coffee Coop is committed to a non-hierarchical structure of work & a not-for-profit model of commerce. All members of the Black Coffee Cooperative will have equivalent [...]

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Call for Researchers: Food & Labor Justice

Food justice and the food justice movement invoke in the popular imagination such concepts as fair trade, organic, and urban agriculture. The movement is sometimes perceived as a privileged environmental struggle. Yet food justice, as all of us who are passionate about it know, is inherently about social justice; this is inextricable from its ecological [...]

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Stand in Solidarity with the United Farm Workers

Event Title & Host Stand in Solidarity with the United Farm Workers Website https://www.facebook.com/events/298062443573351/ When? Friday, January 27, 2012, 2pm (Westlake) / 3pm (Darigold HQ) Where? Westlake Park (401 Pine St) / Darigold Headquarters at 1130 Rainier Ave. S Why? Solidarity with Farmworkers! We are what we eat, and we are who grows our food! [...]

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UW Green Tea party

Event Title & Host UW Green Tea party Website https://www.facebook.com/events… When? Thursday, Dec. 9th 2011 3:30-4:30 Where? Gerberding Hall B-40, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability Office Why? Monthly forum to create dialog and communication between environmental student groups at UW Description DescriptionAre you interested in Environmental issues on the UW Campus? Are you a part of [...]

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Community POTLUCK for Port Solidarity

Event Title & Host Community POTLUCK for Port Solidarity Website https://www.facebook.com/events/ When? Saturday 12/10, 3-6pm Where? Spokane St. fishing area (just east of Spokane St Bridge, near intersection of SW Spokane St & SW Manning St under West Seattle bridge) Why? Meet truckers, longshore workers, occupiers, students… Share free food with awesome people! Description Join [...]

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Letter From UW President Michael Young to OAG on Sodexo Contract

Recently, a constituency of youth from OAG drafted and personally delivered a letter to UW’s fresh Prez, Michael Young. The letter was a statement declaring the principles on which many OAG members engaged in civil disobedience last year, in symbolic opposition to the UW’s contracts with Sodexo Intl. Follow the whole Kick Out Sodexo Campaign [...]

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Food Justice Community Conversation @ Occupy Seattle

  Event Title & Host Food Justice Community Conversation @ Occupy Seattle Website http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=319867681361268 When? Sunday 11/13, noon-2pm Where? Seattle Central Community College Why? To talk about food justice and share a meal! Description Join us for a discussion about Food Justice over lunch at Occupy Seattle! With … AlleyCat Acres … Community Alliance for [...]

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May I Suggest a Fall Flurry?

Hey OAG! In just one week there is an amazing gather called Fall Flurry, held by the Cascade Climate Network. It is like the Power Shift conference – but cozier! You can sleep under the moon and stars with other environmental activists from Cascadia, all the while cross-pollinating skills, tricks, and ideas. Register today, so [...]

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