Dear friends, 25 years ago, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers was born in a series of community meetings, held in a cramped, corner room in the back of Immokalee's Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church.  The arc of the CIW's history since those early days – from those modest first meetings to the CIW's leading role today on the global >> Read More

[caption id="attachment_28169" align="alignleft" width="800"] Over 2,000 marchers filled the streets of Manhattan in March of this year, calling on Wendy's to help extend the Fair Food Program's award-winning protections to farmworkers in its supply chain. Momentum for the expansion of the Fair Food Program and its worker-driven model of human rights monitoring and enforcement continues to grow exponentially, driven in >> Read More

Giving Tuesday: We need you to join farmworkers in making all food Fair Food by donating TODAY! The holiday season is upon us, and in the long stretch of festivities from Thanksgiving to New Years, a special day has slowly risen on the calendar in recent years to claim its own significance, a small glow in the bright firmament of >> Read More

[caption id="attachment_29236" align="aligncenter" width="799"] Students and staff from Haverford College get ready to head over to the protest in front of Wendy’s after hosting the Harvest without Violence Exhibit.[/caption] Students from Haverford College, Temple University, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore get fired up in Student/Farmworker Alliance's Boot the Braids Campaign! Last week, the CIW’s eye-opening Harvest Without Violence Mobile Exhibit traveled from >> Read More

[caption id="attachment_29221" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Over 60 UNC-Chapel Hill students, professors and Triangle-area community leaders hold a protest in support of the “Boot the Braids” campaign to remove Wendy’s from campus until the company joins the award-winning Fair Food Program. Oct. 25, 2018.[/caption] Ohio State, UNC - Chapel Hill, University of Michigan, University of Florida students fight to remove Wendy’s from >> Read More