One day out and everybody’s talking about the Do the Right Thing Tour!

Workers gather at the CIW’s community center in Immokalee last night to make final preparations for Friday morning’s departure for Boston.

Above, CIW members watch a short theater piece on the struggle for Fair Food entitled “Let the sun shine for all.” In the background of this hastily shot photo can be made out a sun being lifted aloft by four workers. The sun — representing the new day of human rights in the fields — burns at the heart of the battle over the future of farm labor reform in Florida’s fields between the Campaign for Fair Food and the supermarket giants Publix and Ahold.

* Oxfam e-alert…

* Change.org calls for action

* Huffington Post (again!) weighs in on Trader Joe’s and the Campaign for Food…

* Read the New York/Trader Joe’s action Press Release here!

With only one day left before workers in Immokalee load up a caravan and head north to Boston for Sunday’s big march on Stop & Shop, things are coming to a boil across the Campaign for Fair Food.

Longtime ally Oxfam America issued an email alert yesterday to thousands of their members in the Northeast. Here’s an excerpt:

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