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Sabor a sudor…

Sabor a sudor…

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Farmworker families, South Florida allies join forces for spirited picket outside Publix's new store aimed at Latino market in Miami's Little Havana! Publix is making a play for Florida's massive Latino market, but the company's refusal to support farmworkers' human rights through the CIW's Fair Food Program might just come back to haunt the Lakeland-based grocery giant. On the heels >> Read More
Ripped from the headlines!

Ripped from the headlines!

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Publix's hometown paper catches up with United Methodist Women as they as they call on Carol Jenkins Barnett to support farmworkers' human rights, study roots of modern-day slavery...  Over 60 United Methodist Women from the Florida conference joined CIW members and allies in a prayer vigil at the Southgate Publix in Lakeland last Friday, and the joyous action caught the >> Read More

White House recognizes CIW’s Fair Food Program!

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CIW's early anti-slavery efforts called "spark that ignited a movement" at White House ceremony... At the first-ever White House Forum to Combat Human Trafficking last week -- an event that involved everyone from Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State John Kerry -- the CIW and the Fair Food Program were front and >> Read More