Lucas Benitez, Greg Asbed of CIW accept award in ceremony at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts From the NRDC press release announcing this year's winners of the Going Green Awards: "... CIW is creating today’s blueprint for farmworker justice by spearheading historic fair food agreements with groundbreaking farm labor standards, fair farmworker wages and labor rights education through their >> Read More

Students at Lakeland's George Jenkins High (named after the founder of the Publix supermarket chain) experience the weight of a full tomato bucket during the visit of the Modern-Day Slavery Museum to the school last month. Things can get a little hectic in the Campaign for Fair Food and, as a result, every now and then we look around and >> Read More

See how you can help wrap up production! There have been several high profile studies of the CIW's Campaign for Fair Food of late, beginning with Barry Estabrook's "Tomatoland" and continuing, most recently, with the US premiere of the Canadian documentary "Payback" at the Tribeca Film Festival last week. But as "Tomatoland" was published just a touch too early to >> Read More

including some unwanted attention from Publix's omnipresent surveillance team... Here's an interesting story from last weekend... At the suggestion of a member of the board of the Polk Arts Alliance -- who had joined us for the culminating march of the Fast for Fair Food -- the CIW submitted an application for Lakeland's wildly popular Platform Art Party, a festive >> Read More

New article profiles Fair Food Standards Council, Sarasota-based watchdog organization tasked with monitoring compliance with Fair Food Code of Conduct... Former New York State Supreme Court Judge Laura Safer Espinoza (above), Executive Director of the new third-party monitor, tells Sarasota Herald Tribune, "it's an honor and a privilege to be part of a moment in history when buyers and growers >> Read More