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20th century Civil Rights movement and 21st century Human Rights movement come together as Fair Food tour lands in Atlanta!

Posted on March 13, 2019October 15, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_29877" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Charles Black, former chairman of the Atlanta student movement and longtime activist for universal human rights, hugs the CIW's Mercedes Gomez, a remarkable young activist in her own right from Immokalee, following Monday's Wendy's protest in Atlanta. The former and current student leaders engaged in an animated conversation on Mr. Black's experience studying under Dr. Martin >> Read More

Georgia State Senator Vincent Fort: “I’m hungry for freedom! I’m hungry for justice! And I’m hungry for a Fair Food commitment from Wendy’s…”

Posted on March 18, 2017October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Return to Human Rights Tour unites with social justice movements, past and present, in Atlanta, Georgia!Fresh off an exciting launch at the University of Florida in Gainesville, farmworkers from Immokalee and their allies arrived in Atlanta yesterday for Day 2 of the Return to Human Rights Tour. After catching up on some much-needed rest at the Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church on the outskirts of the >> Read More

COMING SOON: Seven major actions across the U.S. during Southeast, Midwest ‘Behind the Braids’ Tours!

Posted on September 30, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Details come into focus for seven major actions during first Wendy's Boycott tours of the fall season...Building on last week's first-ever Wendy's Boycott Summit in the heart of the Fair Food Nation, both farmworkers in Immokalee and their consumers allies are fanning back out across the country -- animated by a full weekend of skill-building, action planning, and, of course, protesting -- >> Read More

Tipping Point: Ahold signing, CBS Sunday Morning story pull rug out from under Publix, Kroger, Wendy’s in their fight to turn back Fair Food!

Posted on August 12, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_21073" align="aligncenter" width="525"] Consumers stand alongside farmworkers outside of one of Florida's first Publix stores in Lakeland, Florida (2013). In the wake of the Ahold signing and the recent CBS Sunday Morning story on the Fair Food Program, the arc is bending ever more forcefully, and companies like Publix, Kroger, and Wendy's are hearing it from their customers.[/caption] Amidst >> Read More

Atlanta takes up the Fair Food banner!

Posted on March 13, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#Atlanta takes up the #FairFoodNation flag!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18643"] Tour crew arrives in Atlanta, visits Carter Center and King Center, joins with 100+ Atlantans to tell Publix "tomato workers deserve justice!" Extreme wind and cold pose a challenge to nighttime candlelight vigil, but protesters persevere, sending powerful message of solidarity in heart of Publix's expanding southeastern market... Day 8 was a >> Read More

Spring action announced!: The “Now is the Time” Tour hits the road March 5-15, 2014…

Posted on January 29, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="SPRING ACTION ANNOUNCED! #NowIsTheTime Tour hits the rd this March " url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18047"] Check out the official "Now is the Time" Tour website! Ten-day, ten-city tour to take farmworkers, allies to Wendy's home state of Ohio, then back to Florida with a last stop in Publix's hometown of Lakeland... Stops along the way to include actions in major cities, >> Read More

Special to the CIW: Read the Publix Op/Ed the Atlanta Journal Constitution refused to publish!

Posted on October 29, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@EmoryUniversity professor Carol Anderson pens beautiful op/ed on @Publix and #humanrights!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=16974"] Emory University professor Carol Anderson pens beautifully-written opinion piece on Publix and human rights... Emory University professor Carol Anderson (pictured above during a recent Publix protest in Atlanta, part of last month's big Southeast Truth Tour) recently submitted a powerfully-written op/ed to the Atlanta Journal Constitution that methodically >> Read More

“We are not going back. We are going forward — and sooner or later, Publix is coming with us.”

Posted on October 8, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="CIW on #PublixTruthTour: We are not coming back. We are going forward, & sooner or later, @Publix is coming with us" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=16615"] Publix Truth Tour ends its two-week journey on a high note in actions with hundreds of allies in Atlanta, Athens and Tallahassee! (Spoiler alert: Lots and lots of beautiful photos ahead...) Two weeks. Fourteen cities. Hundreds of >> Read More

BREAKING NEWS! Sept. 21 – Oct 5: Southeast Publix Truth Tour!

Posted on September 11, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@ciw, #FairFoodNation gearing up for Southeast #PublixTruthTour, Sept 21 - Oct 5! Watch out, @Publix… " url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=16157"] NOTE: Don't miss the full schedule at the Publix Truth Tour mainpage! Rolling out from Immokalee on September 21st, the CIW will be launching a marathon tour of the southern branch of the Fair Food Nation to spread the truth about Publix and >> Read More

FAITH-BASED SYMPOSIUM A HUGE SUCCESS! NEARLY 40 YEARS LATER, DR. KING’S PROPHETIC VISION ALIVE IN IMMOKALEE, BOYCOTT!

Posted on January 16, 2005October 15, 2020 by CIW

Martin Luther King was brought down by an assassin's bullet on April 4th, 1968, in Memphis, TN, where he had traveled to support sanitation workers on strike for a fair wage. Nearly 40 years later, his spirit and prophetic dream of social justice continue to inspire hundreds of millions of people around the globe to question things as they are >> Read More