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MUST-SEE NEW VIDEO: Time’s Up leader Alyssa Milano narrates powerful new Fair Food Program video!

MUST-SEE NEW VIDEO: Time’s Up leader Alyssa Milano narrates powerful new Fair Food Program video!

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
"The truth is, much of the food you buy is harvested under conditions that would shock you... But there is hope on the horizon for America’s farmworkers..." Help us share this hard-hitting new video far and wide! This year, the CIW is celebrating Labor Day like never before – with a dramatic new video, and a high profile social media >> Read More

Who doesn’t love a parade?… Immokalee workers launch call for artwork ahead of Parade for Human Rights!

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
We are only one month out from the culmination of the Return to Human Rights Tour in Columbus, OH, and the big Parade for Human Rights is coming up fast... So what are you waiting for?  Join the Art Team today!Just two years ago, the CIW and thousands of allies flooded the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida, for a massive and >> Read More

Off Broadway… in Immokalee!

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Popular education theater brings home message of courage, resilience in Immokalee...Each and every Wednesday -- since the founding of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in the early 90's through the intervening 25 years, without pause, to last night -- farmworkers have gathered at the CIW center in Immokalee for the weekly community junta.  Across those countless meetings we have parsed the >> Read More

SAVE THE DATE! Return to Human Rights Tour announced for March 16 – 29, 2017…

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
[caption id="attachment_23568" align="aligncenter" width="600"] More than 500 Fair Food supporters joined the Workers' Voice Tour in an unforgettable march through Columbus, Ohio, last spring.[/caption]Wendy's Boycott to take national stage from March 16-29, 2017, with whirlwind tour across Midwest, Southeast...Pull out your calendars, Fair Food Nation, it's time for Wendy's -- and the nation -- to return to human rights!  Today, we are announcing the dates of >> Read More

Question: What are the three most important elements of a successful social responsibility program?

Posted on by CIW
Answer:   1) Enforcement 2) Enforcement  3) Enforcement The litany of brutal human rights abuses in corporate supply chains around the globe just keeps getting longer by the day, and more horrifying with each new exposé. Longtime readers of this site are familiar with the extensive history of labor abuse in America's fields, including Florida's own "Harvest of Shame."  From federal prosecutors >> Read More

Part Two: A 21st century Christmas Carol for the food industry?…

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[hupso title="Part 2: 21st century #Christmas Carol for the food industry?" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/12/21st-cent-christmas-carol-2/"] [caption id="attachment_19769" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Nely Rodriguez, a member of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, protests outside a Kroger shareholder meeting in Ohio earlier this year calling on the supermarket giant to join the CIW's Fair Food Program. Despite the unconscionable labor conditions in Mexico's fields exposed in this month's >> Read More

Newsweek: “The Fair Food Program Should Be Extended to Mexico”…

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[hupso title=".@Newsweek: The @FairFoodProgram should be extended to Mexico..." url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/12/newsweek-ffp/"] This month's LA Times investigative series, "Product of Mexico: Hardship on Mexico's farms, a bounty for U.S. tables,"  sent shockwaves through the food industry with its explosive, multi-media documentation of appalling abuses on Mexican produce farms ranging from widespread child labor to modern-day slavery.  Given the key role Mexican produce exports have come to play >> Read More

Updates: Human rights crisis in Mexico and “Food Chains” release countdown begins…

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"Enough!  Mexico Is Ready to Explode"... Two weeks ago we brought you an extended analysis of the human rights crisis in Mexico and its impact on the agricultural industry there.  In a post entitled "Fear and Fair Cannot Coexist," we wrote: Mass graves.  Horribly disfigured corpses.  Police complicity in the ultraviolence of all-powerful drug gangs. Since 2005, stories like these >> Read More

Tomato Rabbis honor “Human Rights Shabbat” by turning up the heat on Wendy’s!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@Truah leaders take letter to key @Wendys shareholder PUBLIC for Intl #HumanRights Day!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17536"] Rabbinic letter to key Wendy’s shareholder taken public after private efforts go without response; Rabbis lead Wendy's delegations in 15 cities... On December 10th, 1950, the United Nations proclaimed the first ever International Human Rights Day, a day to draw the attention of the world to >> Read More

CIW invited to speak in Geneva at United Nations!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@CIW to speak at #UnitedNations at Forum on Business & #HumanRights and @TrustWomenConf!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17157"] CIW to also address the "Trust Women" Conference in London in first week of December, as the Fair Food Program's growing reputation for effective human rights protection crosses the Atlantic... Back in May of this year, a delegation from the United Nations Working Group traveled >> Read More