Background Information

• Coalition of Immokalee Workers 101
• Coalition of Immokalee Worker Highlights
• How does the Fair Food Program work?
• Slavery in the Fields and the Food We Eat

Key Articles about the CIW

• Coalition of Immokalee Workers gets Presidential Medal (Fort Myers News-Press, 2015)
• CIW debuts Fair Food label nationwide (Fort Myers News-Press, 2014)
• A Penny Buys Progress (New York Times, 2014)
• Walmart joins initiative on farmworker pay in Fla (Washington Post, 2014) 
• U.N. Working Group on Business and Human Rights “Impressed” with Fair Food Program (Huffington Post / CIW, 2013)
• CIW’s Fair Food Program “unique in the country” in its prevention of sexual harassment in farm labor (PBS Frontline, 2013)
• White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships report on the Fair Food Program (2013)
• “Fair Food Program helps end the use of slavery in the tomato fields” (Washington Post, 2012)
• Tomato School: Undoing the Evils of the Fields (The Atlantic, 2011)
• Florida Tomato Growers Exchange agreement (The New York Times, 2010)
• Slavery in, yes, America (Glamour, 2007)

Select Publications

• Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, by Barry Estabrook, Andrew McMeel Publishing, 2011
• Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy, by John Bowe, Random House, 2007
• The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today, by Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter, Univ. of California Press, 2009

Multimedia

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