Give a sustaining donation to the Fair Food movement in the name of a friend or family member this holiday season…

Does someone you love, love human rights?

In the few short months since the launch of the Fair Food Sustainer Program, it has been nothing short of inspiring to witness the flood of support from longtime allies and newcomers alike coming together to provide a steady stream of grassroots funding to sustain the Fair Food Nation.  

Let’s keep the momentum rolling!  We need your help to build the ranks of Fair Food Sustainers:  This holiday season, give the gift of human rights to a friend or family member by making a sustaining donation in their honor.

Supporting the Fair Food Sustainer Program is one of the most direct and effective steps you can take to ensure farmworkers’ fundamental human rights.  Why?  Because the Fair Food Program has been called “the best workplace monitoring program” in the United States on the front page of the New York Times, “substantially more successful than other corporate compliance programmes,” in a new textbook on business and human rights, and “one of the great human rights success stories of our day” in the Washington Post.  

Today, just five years after the inception of this groundbreaking program, the impact of a sustaining donation is truly remarkable:

• If 25 people gave $25 a month, the CIW worker-to-worker education team would have the resources necessary to bring Fair Food Program education to 1,000 workers in the northern states of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina each summer, where the team rises before dawn each morning, drives to distant fields, and informs workers, face to face, of their right to work free of violence, sexual harassment, and dangerous working conditions. 

• If 10 people gave $100 a month, they could single-handedly fund the CIW’s community-run radio station, Radio Conciencia, for an entire year, which broadcasts breaking news, traditional music from across Latin America and the Caribbean, and of course, critical information on workers’ basic human rights — right into workers’ homes and right into the fields themselves.

• If 5 people gave $250 a month, they would be able to cover the large, cross-county bus that will carry 50 farmworkers and allies across tens of thousands of miles for a dizzying series of presentations, protests, marches and vigils, during the upcoming Return to Human Rights Tour in the spring of 2017 — a key step in bringing the final fast food hold out, Wendy’s, to the table.

• If 5 people made a contribution of $20 per month — the equivalent of a trip to the movie theater or a dinner at a restaurant — that donation could cover 300 workers’ access to the Fair Food Program’s trilingual, round-the-clock complaint line.  Namely, that one individual could fuel the power of 300 women and men to be the frontline monitors of their own rights in the fields, to report violations ranging from wage theft to sexual harassment, and to access a swift investigation and fair solution.

This holiday season, you have the opportunity to give the gift of real, tangible human rights to one — or more — of your close family and friends by starting up a monthly donation in their name.

Each brand new Fair Food Sustainer will receive a hand-written note and small gift from the Fair Food community in Immokalee, acknowledging the donation that has been established in their name.

As we look ahead to 2017, we know that we must do everything in our power to protect and sustain the movement for fundamental human rights across the nation.  

Over the past quarter century, we have made remarkable progress together — but we can’t stop now.  Hundreds of thousands of farmworkers across the country still face grinding poverty and routine human rights abuses at work, all in order to put food on the table for their families — and for ours.  Today, our challenge is to build on the progress that has been made, come what may in 2017, and bring the new world, predicated on respect and dignity for farmworkers’ fundamental human rights, to fields across the United States.

Give the gift of human rights by supporting the Fair Food Sustainer Program today!