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Publix Protest Naples, FL

Posted on February 12, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

What might have, at first glance, looked like just another Publix protest was in fact something very different yesterday in Naples, Florida... ... different because it came in the wake of last week's big news that the Trader Joe's and the CIW had signed a Fair Food Agreement! That news raised spirits across the Fair Food movement, and perhaps nowhere >> Read More

Pivoting to Publix…

Posted on February 10, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

Workers from Immokalee arrive in Friday's early morning light at the parking lot of a North Naples Publix located at the intersection of Immokalee Road and Hwy 41 -- directly across the street from Trader Joe's first-ever Florida store -- following a 35-mile bike trip from Immokalee. The action was shifted to Publix after Trader Joe's and the CIW signed >> Read More

Welcome aboard…

Posted on February 9, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

Trader Joe's and CIW sign Fair Food agreement! For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 9, 2012 Contact:Gerardo Reyes, CIW(239) 657-8311gerardo@ciw-online.org Alison Mochizuki, Director Public Relations, Trader Joe's(626) 599-3779amochizuki@traderjoes.com Monrovia, CA/Immokalee, FL -- Trader Joe’s and the (CIW) announced today that they have signed an agreement that formalizes the ways in which Trader Joe’s will work with the CIW and Florida tomato growers to >> Read More

CIW, allies announce Fast for Fair Food!

Posted on February 6, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

Publix headquarters, March 5-10, 2012 Isaiah 58:6, "Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free..." Throughout history, the act of fasting has been a show of faith, a form of political protest, a weapon of the powerless. Virtually all the major >> Read More

PBS newsweekly “Religion and Ethics” to cover Fair Food movement, prayer campaign this weekend!

Posted on February 3, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

Publix might want to tivo the program, as its latest efforts at behind-the-scenes consumer miseducation reveal a tenuous grasp of the whole notion of ethics (and that's putting it nicely)... This weekend, the PBS weekly news program "Religion and Ethics" will be airing an in-depth look at the CIW's Campaign for Fair Food and the role of faith in the >> Read More

On faith, mountains, and moving Publix…

Posted on February 1, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

Q & A with Rev. Kennedy McGowan, Interfaith Action on exciting new prayer campaign to bring Publix into the Fair Food fold... Two weeks ago, we announced that Interfaith Action, the network of people of faith and religious institutions that partners with the CIW in the Campaign for Fair Food, had launched a pivotal new initiative designed to rally >> Read More

TJ’s Florida debut on Immokalee Road sparks dozens of national actions in solidarity with Fair Food protests Feb 10-12!

Posted on January 30, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

33 cities and counting ready to call on Trader Joe's to be the company it says it is... Earlier this month, plans were announced for two days of protest in Naples, where Trader Joe's is readying for the grand opening of its first-ever Florida store. And where, exactly, might this flagship Florida store be located? Why, right on the corner >> Read More

In Sarasota, one student’s tragic sacrifice for farm labor justice 40 years ago

Posted on January 26, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

In Sarasota, one student's tragic sacrifice for farm labor justice 40 years ago inspires a new generation of student activists for Fair Food today... Dozens of students, community members hold vigil in memory of Nan Freeman, New College student killed in 1972 farmworker protest, vow to "carry her torch onward" in struggle to bring Publix "onto the right side of >> Read More

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor hail…

Posted on January 23, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

... will keep these Fair Food activists from their appointed rounds! Dispatches from the frozen northern front of the Battle for Fair Food have been coming in this week, from Ohio (above) --- where a member of Ohio Fair Food wrote this past Saturday, "75 Coalition for Immokalee supporters just marched on the south campus Krogers in Columbus demanding that >> Read More

Premiering this week at the Sundance Festival:

Posted on January 20, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

"Payback," a new film by the award-winning Canadian documentary director Jennifer Baichwal, featuring an extensive segment on farm labor exploitation and the Campaign for Fair Food! Adapting the 2008 best-seller "Payback" by author Margaret Atwood to film, Canadian documentary director Jennifer Baichwal and cinematographer Nick de Pencier are premiering their new film, by the same name, at the Sundance >> Read More