With the March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food just around the corner, preparations enter the final stretch…
Preparations for the “Gran Marcha,” as they are calling it in Immokalee, are heating up across the country:
- Allies from New York, NY, to Atlanta, GA, are organizing caravans to join the upcoming march (on the right, below, is a particularly fine example of a flyer put together by Fair Food
activists from the northeast mobilizing to fill a bus for next month’s march). - Advance teams from the Campaign for Fair Food are meeting with excited allies in cities across the state — from Sarasota to Orlando, Gainesville to Tampa — making plans “to be in that number” when workers and consumers go marching in to Lakeland.
- Workers in Immokalee are signing up for the march, organizing friends, and making arrangements for two weeks away from family and the fields.
And now, the March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food website is up and live!
As marchers have been making their final preparations before taking their first steps north next March 3rd on a 200-mile trek to Publix headquarters in Lakeland, we’ve been putting the finishing touches on the website that will serve as your one-stop resource for all the news and information you need about the march.
If you are planning to join us for part or all of the march, visit the site today to register and help us organize the logistics of this epic undertaking. If you can’t make it to join us but you still want to show your support from afar, visit the site today to learn how. And if you’d like to contact an organizer to learn more in person about how to join the march and support marchers, visit the site today and click on “contact” for CIW contact information as well as a full list of advance teams and the cities around the state of Florida where they are working day and night with local Fair Food Committees to mobilize for the march.