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“Shaping Generations”… United Methodist Women and the Fair Food Movement!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Shaping generations: @UMWomen join with @CIW to shine spotlight on social change" url="https://ciw-online.org/"]Worker-driven, consumer-powered social responsibility: Moving video by United Methodist Women puts spotlight on crucial role of consumers in Fair Food Movement...Earlier this week we brought you a reflection on the "secret" behind the success of the CIW's Fair Food Program, the fact that the Fair Food Program >> Read More

The Nation: “Why are students protesting Wendy’s and Publix?”…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="#NowIsTheTime Tour, #FairFoodProgram catch attention of @TheNation and @TakePart" url="https://ciw-online.org/?=18968"] Answers to that question and more, with all the latest press from the Fair Food front! Even as we gear up for what is sure to be an exciting April -- the month ahead is already overflowing with events, including the recently-announced screening of "Food Chains" at Tribeca, the CIW's visit >> Read More

“Publix must turn from its pride and arrogance and turn towards its partners in business, the workers from Immokalee…”

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="1000 marchers in #Lakeland: @Publix must turn from its pride and arrogance..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18828"] 24-hr vigil at Publix ends with march of 1,000 through downtown Lakeland!   The 10-day, 10-city Now Is the Time Tour ended Saturday with a massive march through the heart of Lakeland, Florida.  Responding to the marchers' infectious high spirits and passionate call for human rights >> Read More

The vigil begins: 24 hours for Fair Food…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="#Vigil" url="the URL"] After nine days on the road, the Now Is The Time Tour reaches Lakeland, settles in for 24-hour vigil! Note from the media team: What follows is a quick dispatch from the front recapping yesterday's action at the all-night vigil outside the Southgate Publix in Lakeland, Fl.  After a long night for the documentation crew, our >> Read More

Atlanta takes up the Fair Food banner!

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[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

“This ain’t a protest, this is a celebration…”

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Not a protest, but a celebration! #Nashville, #NowIsTheTime Tour march on @Publix" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18599"] "Human rights have arrived in Florida's fields, and Publix, you are late to the party!" NewsChannel5.com | Nashville News, Weather Those are the words of Pedro Lopez (below, right) -- jaranero extraordinaire and the CIW's most trusted emcee for tours, fasts, and marches since anyone can remember >> Read More

You CAN go home again…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Short title" url="the URL"] CIW returns to Louisville, the birthplace of Fair Food, to visit with dear old friends and rekindle powerful alliances for the Wendy's campaign! In March, 2005, Taco Bell's parent company Yum Brands, based in Louisville, KY, signed the first-ever Fair Food agreement with the CIW after four long years of boycott.  During those four years, >> Read More

Let the sun shine! The Fair Food spirit brings the sun out with joyful action in Asheville, NC…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="#Asheville lights up w #FairFood spirit during #NowIsTheTime Tour! Look out, @Publix..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18476"] Now is the Time Tour met with warm welcome in Western North Carolina! After a heartwarming (if bitterly cold) stay in North Carolina's Triangle Area, the CIW headed west yesterday to gather for a protest at the site of a future Publix in Asheville, North Carolina >> Read More

“Let them know that reconciliation is possible!”…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="#NowIsTheTime Tour takes off! Full notes" url="https://ciw-online.org/?post=18367"] [caption id="attachment_18371" align="aligncenter" width="523"] Awash in the light of the new day in Immokalee this morning, Wilson Perez (right) and his wife and 9-month-old baby boy listen to Pastor Miguel Estrada as he bestows an Ash Wednesday blessing (below) on dozens of farmworkers and their allies before they embark on the first >> Read More

With Wendy’s protest in Louisville, KY, Campaign for Fair Food will come full circle on Day 5 of “Now Is the Time” Tour!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Protest in #Louisville at @Wendys brings #FairFoodNation full circle!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?post=18344"] Louisville Fair Food activists brought home first-ever Fair Food agreement with Taco Bell in 2005; Today they are ready to remind then-Taco Bell CEO/now-Wendy's CEO Emil Brolick of his words on that historic day: "We recognize that Florida tomato workers do not enjoy the same rights and conditions as >> Read More