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Religious allies take a stand in Trader Joe’s campaign!

Posted on October 13, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

Southern California religious leaders, Rabbis for Human Rights make their voices heard loud and clear in growing call for Trader Joe's to support Fair Food Program... One week out from the big march to Trader Joe's corporate headquarters in Monrovia, CA, Southern California faith community allies -- including religious leaders from Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) of >> Read More

NESRI, CCR, & Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights write letter to Kent Spuhler

Posted on October 13, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

Kent Spuhler, Esq. October 13, 2011 Executive Director Florida Legal Services, Inc. 2425 Torreya Drive Tallahassee, FL 32303 (850) 385-7900 Dear Mr. Spuhler: The undersigned individuals and organizations committed to promoting the economic and social rights of workers write to express our deep concern regarding the lawsuits filed by Florida Legal Services against corporations participating in the Coalition of Immokalee >> Read More

PRESS RELEASE: Florida Tomato Pickers, Students, Faith and Community Allies to March to Trader Joe’s Corporate Headquarters

Posted on October 12, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

MEDIA CONTACTS: Gerardo Reyes, Coalition of Immokalee Workers: 239.503.0950; gerardo@ciw-online.org; www.ciw-online.org Joe Parker, Student/Farmworker Alliance: 517.944.2225; joe@sfalliance.org Florida Tomato Pickers, Students, Faith and Community Allies to March to Trader Joe's Corporate Headquarters; Call on Company to Live up to Reputation as “Ethical Retailer” Farmworkers, consumers urge Trader Joe's to support groundbreaking Fair Food Program, human rights for the men and >> Read More

Modern-day Slavery Museum keeps on rolling!

Posted on October 9, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

Also: Rabbi who visited Immokalee in September wins Human Rights Hero award... The Modern-day Slavery Museum keeps quietly chugging along, carrying its invaluable cargo -- the history and analysis of centuries of farm labor exploitation in Florida, and the story of the new day that has begun to dawn for the state's farmworkers with the Campaign for Fair Food -- >> Read More

Supermarket Week of Action: October 16-24!

Posted on October 7, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

Major Action at Trader Joe's Corporate Headquarters Monrovia, CA, October 21 Ten days and counting to the big Supermarket Week of Action, as Fair Food activists across the country gear up for protests at local Trader Joe's, Publix, Stop & Shop, Giant, and Kroger stores from New York to California. From the Student/Farmworker Alliance website, where you can find all >> Read More

Southern California Religious Leaders Sign-on Letter to Trader Joe’s CEO Dan Bane

Posted on October 1, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

Dear Mr. Bane: As religious leaders from Southern California, we urge Trader Joe’s to sign a Fair Food agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). Conditions of poverty and lack of rights and cases of modern-day slavery in the fields are everyone’s responsibility. To address these grievous and systemic conditions requires that corporations, growers, farmworkers and consumers all do >> Read More

Special Comment on the Florida Legal Services Lawsuit

Posted on September 30, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

Many of you may have already read coverage of a lawsuit filed this week in Miami against Burger King involving questions around the payment of penny-per-pound funds to farmworkers. If not, here is an example of the coverage. It's hard to figure out where Florida Legal Services could possibly be coming from with this lawsuit. But we do know this, >> Read More

Fair Pay Program Honorable

Posted on September 30, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

news-press.com In our Sept. 23 editorial "Workers deserve back pay," we expressed alarm at a lawsuit filed, claiming that certain farmworkers hadn't been paid per the extra "penny-a-pound" pact negotiated by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers with tomato buyers. The allegations were shocking - and while the coalition was not named as a defendant - buyers such as Burger King, >> Read More

Chris Hedges, Frances Moore Lappe, Eric Schlosser all write about CIW Campaign in space of a week…

Posted on September 28, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

Campaign for Fair Food in the news! Chris Hedges, Frances Moore Lappe, Eric Schlosser all write about CIW Campaign in space of a week... Three of our era's leading authors in the field of social justice wrote pieces this week on the CIW and the Campaign for Fair Food. Two of the articles, Frances Moore Lappe's "The Food Movement: Its >> Read More

Fair Food Festival rocks Trader Joe’s in NYC!

Posted on September 26, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

Day long protest sends message that consumers ready to "break up" with Joe over hypocrisy, refusal to work with CIW... New York City's Community/Farmworker Alliance put on a creative, fun, and powerful day-long event this past weekend, ratcheting up the pressure in the Trader Joe's campaign and setting off a series of Trader Joe's actions to follow in the >> Read More