HISTORIC NEW ALLIANCE ANNOUNCED IN IMMOKALEE!

AFF
Lucas Benitez of the CIW serves as MC for the
announcement ceremony.
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Declaring, “There is today a human rights crisis in Florida’s fields,” key CIW allies from across the country gathered with workers in Immokalee (right) to announce a powerful new alliance for, “fair wages and working conditions, fundamental human rights and an end to modern-day slavery in the agricultural industry.”

Founded by the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI), Student/Farmworker Alliance, and Interfaith Action, the Alliance for Fair Food (AFF) has been endorsed by nationally and internationally respected organizations and individuals, including: Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), Amnesty International USA, United Students Against Sweatshops, the AFL-CIO, author Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), NAACP Board Chairman Julian Bond, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Bonnie Raitt, SEIU, and Rev. Dr. Robert Edgar, General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.

Click here to visit the Alliance for Fair Food website!
Read the AP Article on the event from the Miami Herald by clicking here.
Read the Presbyterian Church (USA) article on the AFF by clicking here.
Read the AFL-CIO blog report on the AFF by clicking here.