Tag: Barry Estabrook

Lights, camera… Action!  Protesters pour into the streets following “Food Chains” screenings in Miami, New York, Washington DC, and more cities…

Lights, camera… Action! Protesters pour into the streets following “Food Chains” screenings in Miami, New York, Washington DC, and more cities…

[hupso title="Lights, Camera... ACTION! Protesters pour into streets following @FoodChainsFilm..." url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/11/food-chains-action/ "] [caption id="attachment_20603" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Over two hundred moviegoers hit the streets for a protest targeting Wendy's following a Saturday afternoon showing of the new documentary "Food Chains" in New York. Wendy's is the lone holdout among the fast-food giants to still refuse to join the CIW's Fair Food >> Read More

Entertainment Weekly gives “Food Chains” a plug, runs exciting new trailer!

[hupso_hide][hupso title="Short title" url="the URL"]   Countdown begins to big Thanksgiving Week release... Entertainment Weekly ran a piece yesterday in its "Inside Movies" column plugging the documentary "Food Chains" -- the film featuring the Campaign for Fair Food as a long-sought solution to the exploitation and abuse of this country's farmworkers -- highlighting the stars who contributed to the film, >> Read More

American history happens in a watermelon shed…

[hupso_hide][hupso title="World responds to @Walmart joining #FairFoodProgram! Press, statements, social media..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17932"] The world responds to news of the Walmart agreement! [caption id="attachment_17944" align="aligncenter" width="530"] A member of the Walmart delegation holds the Fair Food Program rights booklet during a meeting among CIW members, Florida tomato growers, Walmart representatives, and the Chairperson of the UN's Working Group on Business and >> Read More

Chipotle Busted: Food writers put spotlight back on “the fly in Chipotle’s kitchen!”

Last Sunday, as participants in the Fast for Fair Food were making their way back home, an event was taking place in Santa Barbara, California, that would once again highlight the contradiction between the carefully crafted public image and on-the-ground practice of one longtime Fair Food hold-out: Chipotle Mexican Grill. The event was the Edible Institute 2012, "a two-day gathering >> Read More