“Dear Joe” Letters
Letters from Trader Joe's customers breaking up with the "ethical grocer" for its opposition to Fair Food Program
Tag: Trader Joe’s
Fair Food Festival Community/Farmworker Alliance New York, New York
This past Saturday, Fair Food activists gathered for the family-friendly Fair Food Festival in Brooklyn, NY, an all-day event sponsored by a number of local organizations, including the indomitable Community/Farmworker Alliance. The day featured workshops on the roof-top garden, movie screenings, face-painting and much more! As described in the Carroll Gardens Patch, "The Commons on Atlantic Avenue served as a >> Read More
Fair Food Summit unites allies from across US with workers from Immokalee in three-day planning conference…
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
Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign…
80 protest Trader Joe's grand opening in Chicago, 100 Fair Food activists picket Milwaukee TJ's store next day! While Publix has been on the hot seat of late, the back burner hasn't been exactly kind to Trader Joe's, either. Several actions have taken place at midwest Trader Joe's stores recently, including locations in Chicago, Milwaukee, and the Twin Cities. >> Read More
Midwest Protest-fest Trader Joe’s protests Chicago, Milwaukee
Friday, Sept. 9th marked the Grand Opening for the new South Loop Trader Joe's. Farmworkers waited patiently at a morning ribbon-cutting ceremony behind a plastic lei "ribbon" for a chance to deliver manager letters to the new store manager... ... only to be approached by a woman before the official store opening who preemptively asked the delegation to stay out >> Read More
Boston makes its voice heard…
In the Trader Joe's Northeast Tour! Check out the update from Boston, Worcester, and New Bedford by clicking here! And, if you haven't seen them yet, be sure to visit the the full reports from Days 1-6 of the Northeast Tour: Photo report from Days 5 and 6 (White Plains, NY, Providence, RI) Photo report from Day 4 (New York >> Read More
Trader Joe’s Northeast Tour August 2-12, 2011
Days 7, 8, & 9 Massachusetts (click here for full schedule) Just to keep you on your feet, today we are going to switch things up a bit in our photo report, beginning with the Tour crew's Thursday visit to Boston and working our way back to the Worcester, New Bedford, and Needham stops earlier in the week. In visiting >> Read More
When it rains, it pours…
... action for Fair Food! For those of you who like your Fair Food protests with a touch of the crazy, well, Providence was the place to be this past Monday as the Trader Joe's Northeast Tour crew hooked up with allies from Providence Fair Food, Fuerza Laboral, and the Environmental Justice League of RI for another Stop & Shop >> Read More
NYC Fair Food activists, Tour crew…
... race for farmworker justice! Determined Fair Food activists and farmworkers from Immokalee pinned a number on their chests and ran 1.6 miles -- from the Trader Joe's in Chelsea to the Trader Joe's at Union Square -- this past Friday as New York's Community/Farmworker Alliance organized the first annual "Race for Farmworker Justice" through the streets of the >> Read More
Trader Joe’s Northeast Tour August 2-12, 2011
Days 5 and 6 White Plains, NY, and Providence, RI (click here for full schedule) Our latest update from the road with the Northeast Tour crew begins in White Plains, New York, where a relatively new group of Fair Food allies received the crew with open hearts on the CIW's first-ever visit to the Westchester County town. The visit began >> Read More