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With the March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food just one week away…

Posted on February 24, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

... Immokalee community preparations are in full swing! Over the past several weeks we've seen Fair Food activists preparing for the upcoming 200-mile march to Publix headquarters in cities from Orlando to Atlanta and beyond. But as we enter the final week before the big kick-off in Ft. Myers this coming Sunday, March 3rd, the real action is in Immokalee, where >> Read More

CIW, allies announce Fast for Fair Food, Publix headquarters, March 5-10, 2012

Posted on February 6, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

Isaiah 58:6, "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice…" Throughout history, the act of fasting has been a show of faith, a form of political protest, a weapon of the powerless. Virtually all the major faiths include long-held traditions of fasting as a spiritual discipline, a way to seek the holy amidst the >> Read More

Fair Food Summit Immokalee

Posted on September 20, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

September 15-18, 2011 The Fair Food Summit was three solid days of intense discussions around strategies to escalate the CIW's Supermarket Campaign. To this point, the Campaign has largely eschewed the more aggressive tactics of the CIW's earlier battles on the assumption that the obvious appeal of the unprecedented changes underway in the fields today through the Fair Food Program >> Read More

Fair Food Summit unites allies from across US with workers from Immokalee in three-day planning conference…

Posted on September 19, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

First order of business: Supermarket Week of Action with kick-off protest at Trader Joe's headquarters! The 2011 Fair Food Summit -- a gathering of Fair Food activists from across the country with workers in Immokalee for a jam-packed, three-day planning process aimed at intensifying, and winning, the Supermarket Campaign -- is a wrap. And as participants make their way home >> Read More

Fair Food Summit A Success!

Posted on September 14, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

The summit began, appropriately, in the fields, where participants formed teams and picked tomatoes and oranges for a day... or, at least, tried. The look says it all... This team of three make it back to town well after dark having picked six bins of oranges (about 6,000 pounds of high quality Florida citrus), which translates into about $40 ($13 >> Read More

“Farmworker Freedom March”

Posted on April 20, 2010October 15, 2020 by CIW

MEDIA CONTACT Gerardo Reyes (CIW), 239-503-0950 Lucas Benitez (CIW), 239-503-0133 Julia Perkins (CIW), 239-986-0891 Farmworkers, Consumers Come Together for "Farmworker Freedom March" from Tampa to Lakeland, Hometown of Publix Supermarkets Landmark three-day event calls for “Freedom from forced labor, poverty, abuse” Immokalee, FL (April 14, 2010) – A caravan of farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) – an internationally-recognized >> Read More

CIW YEAR OF THE WORKER PARTY Immokalee, FL 3/28/10

Posted on February 28, 2010October 15, 2020 by CIW

Immokalee's own "La Obscuridad de la Sierra" headlined the day's entertainment... ... drawing a huge crowd that started big and grew steadily throughout the day. Information booths circled the space outside CIW headquarters, this one on the upcoming Farmworker Freedom March... ... this one staffed by personnel from the Collier County Sheriff's Department Human Trafficking Unit and Community Affairs department, >> Read More

Community Center News

Posted on May 10, 2009October 15, 2020 by CIW

May 2009 Joan and Buck Blessing´s Gift Brings Dream of Community Center Closer within Reach The Coalition of Immokalee Workers would like to extend their gratitude to Joan and Buck Blessing for their wonderfully generous contribution of $10,000 in support of the CIW’s new Community Center! Joan has been very active in the Campaign for Fair Food; recently, for example, >> Read More

09 CIW YEAR OF THE WORKER PARTYIMMOKALEE, FL

Posted on March 1, 2009October 15, 2020 by CIW

"Enslave one of us, you enslave us all!" The CIW's 2009 Year of the Worker party was a serious affair this year, the message of community solidarity with workers held in modern-day slavery setting the tone for a moving day-long gathering outside the CIW's new community center in Immokalee. But, of course, the serious message was accompanied by some serious >> Read More

Leading Food Advocates To Visit Farmworker Community Dubbed “Ground Zero for Modern Slavery”

Posted on February 26, 2009October 15, 2020 by CIW

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 26, 2009 Contact: Damara Luce, Director, Just Harvest USA damara@justharvestusa.org (510) 725-8752 Leading Food Advocates To Visit Farmworker Community Dubbed “Ground Zero for Modern Slavery” Delegation to shine light on urgent need for reform in Florida agriculture industry Immokalee, FL – On Wednesday, March 4th, a dozen prominent authors, sustainable food advocates, and small farmers will >> Read More