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DAY 5: Video report, media round-up from massive grand finale of March to Build a New World!

Posted on March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 by CIW

Democracy Now: “We’ve come here to demand that Publix and Kroger — which is directly connected to the situation of modern slavery in Pahokee; they bought watermelons from there — and Wendy’s, for them to join the Fair Food Program and put an end to the extreme labor abuses in this country,” Gerardo Reyes Chavez Fox News 29: "U.S. Rep Lois Frankel, >> Read More

DAY 5: Marchers quintuple in number on final day of March to Build a New World, take Palm Beach by storm with message of farmworker freedom!

Posted on March 20, 2023March 21, 2023 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_36713" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A massive March to Build a New World takes to the streets of Palm Beach on its final day with a colorful, animated message for food industry leaders -- including Palm Beach resident and Wendy's Board Chair Nelson Peltz -- that the time has come to stop running from real social responsibility and to join the >> Read More

DAY 4: From labor camps to luxury yachts, modern-day slavery to latter-day robber barons, marchers travel across 48 miles, 2 worlds, in quest for farmworker freedom…

Posted on March 18, 2023March 20, 2023 by CIW

Washington Post (AP): "Now workers enjoy the right to complain without fear of retaliation. Workers also have water and shade as part of these agreements,” said Gerardo Reyes Chavez, a coalition official, at the start of the march in Pahokee. “The [Fair Food] program has proven to be the solution, the antidote to the problem of modern day slavery, the >> Read More

Day 3: Support for farmworker freedom swells as marchers inch closer to the coast; YOU can still join us for the grand finale, Saturday, 3/18!

Posted on March 17, 2023 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_36578" align="aligncenter" width="900"] One of the youngest marchers does his part to Build a New World on Day 3 of the march from Pahokee to Palm Beach, eliciting a tumult of truck and car horns that saluted marchers along the day's 11 mile route. As marchers made their way ever closer to the island enclave of Palm Beach, >> Read More

Day 2: Rain, cold fail to dampen marchers’ spirits as farmworkers, allies move one day closer to march goal, one giant leap closer to new world of farmworker freedom!

Posted on March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_36559" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Marchers met new challenges on their 5-day, 50-mile route to the island of Palm Beach yesterday in the form of rain and unseasonably cold weather, but rose to meet the challenges of the day with enthusiasm and an unwavering commitment to their twin goals of celebrating more than a decade of unprecedented human rights progress under >> Read More

DAY 1: Over 100 workers, allies launch 5-day march to celebrate decade of human rights progress, Build a New World of farmworker freedom!

Posted on March 15, 2023March 15, 2023 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_36546" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Over 100 farmworkers and their allies make their way from Pahokee to Palm Beach on Day one of the Build a New World March. The globe at the head of the march, illuminated by the sun representing the Fair Food Program, remains divided into two worlds, one filled with the light of fair working conditions, human >> Read More

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers stands with the people of Ukraine as tanks roll again in Europe…

Posted on March 2, 2022September 6, 2022 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_35169" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Picasso's anti-fascist, anti-war masterpiece, Guernica, re-imagined in the colors of the flag of Ukraine.[/caption] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, February 27, 2022: "This is the beginning of a war... against democracy, against basic human rights, against a global order of law, rules and peaceful coexistence." ************************ The Fair Food Program, and Worker-driven Social Responsibility more broadly, are 21st >> Read More

It’s risky business to turn a blind eye to forced labor in today’s agricultural industry, yet here Wendy’s is…

Posted on February 16, 2022September 6, 2022 by CIW

Join us on Saturday, April 2, in Palm Beach, Florida, when we march to end forced labor and other human rights abuses in the fields! Register to march with Immokalee farmworkers here. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers helped launch the modern anti-trafficking movement with a series of shocking forced labor prosecutions in Florida's fields. >> Read More

“The Next Supper:” New book on the future of food features CIW, Fair Food Program!

Posted on January 31, 2022September 6, 2022 by CIW

New book "a searing expose of the restaurant industry, and a path to a better, safer, happier meal"; Author Mintz: "The victories of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers are based on getting people to give a damn. That's what grassroots movements need from us"; Reviewer: "A former line cook turned crusading food writer, Mintz looks deep into the dark heart >> Read More

Growing wave of brutal modern-day slavery operations in agriculture prompts renewed calls for expansion of Fair Food Program

Posted on January 11, 2022September 6, 2022 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_34904" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Officials from the U.S. Justice Department, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. State Department, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and state and local law enforcement officers speak at a news conference in Waycross, Georgia on Monday, November 22, to announce indictments in the case of U.S. v. Patricio et al.[/caption] Atlanta Journal-Constitution: >> Read More