On your marks. Get set. What the…?

More than 18,000 runners and many thousand more spectators got a little surprise on Sunday at Atlanta’s Publix Georgia Marathon & Half Marathon — a large banner appearing at several points along the race route calling on Publix to “stop giving farmworkers’ human rights the runaround“! The CIW museum crew and local Atlanta Fair Food activists joined forces to make their message part of the heavily-branded race, doing so not only with the banner pictured above, but also entering several runners as well, each wearing the bright green “Poverty” t-shirt bearing the Publix “P”. Those running behind the Fair Food marathoners were reminded that “Publix profits from farmworker poverty” — mile after mile after mile.