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Atlanta Journal-Constitution Op/Ed shines light on decades-long relationship between President Carter and CIW for farmworker human rights

Posted on January 30, 2025 by CIW

Professor Susan Marquis, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Envisioned and led by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the Fair Food Program is transforming agriculture, ending the endemic abuse on farms across the U.S. and, increasingly, around the globe. When this groundbreaking program was still a bold but untested idea in the early 2000s, Jimmy Carter and The Carter Center brought expertise in >> Read More

Exciting new opportunity for expansion of WSR in global seafood supply chains… And two key caveats

Posted on November 12, 2024 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_25182" align="aligncenter" width="900"] An auditor from the Fair Food Standards Council, the third-party monitoring body tasked with monitoring and enforcing the Fair Food Code of Conduct on FFP farms, conducts an interview with workers on a participating tomato farm in Florida.[/caption] A new scholarly paper by a team of environmental experts proposes the expansion of a model originally designed >> Read More

“A true force of nature”: CIW pays tribute to Ethel Kennedy at extraordinary memorial ceremony in Washington, DC

Posted on October 28, 2024October 28, 2024 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_38497" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, with the assistance of her daughter Kerry Kennedy, joins the CIW's Lucas Benitez (left), CIW members, and their allies in 2012 for the closing march and ceremony breaking the CIW's week-long fast outside Publix headquarters in Lakeland, FL.[/caption] CIW's Lucas Benitez: "My colleagues and I are here today from Florida... in the company of >> Read More

Fair Food Program, Worker-driven Social Responsibility hailed in new analysis of DOL study on worker voice

Posted on April 15, 2024April 15, 2024 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_30582" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Representatives from women’s organizations and unions based in Lesotho gather for a photo with representatives of the CIW, the Fair Food Standards Council, Workers Rights Consortium and the Solidarity Center in Immokalee to commemorate a two-day exchange in November 2018 to study the Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) model and the CIW’s Fair Food Program. The visitors >> Read More

Day 3 of the Farmworker Freedom Festival in Palm Beach: Hope comes home…

Posted on March 13, 2024March 13, 2024 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_37862" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Farmworkers are joined by their families and allies under banyan trees in a park near the beachside residence of Wendy's Board Chair Nelson Peltz on Day 3 of the Farmworker Freedom Festival in Palm Beach. Ahead of the gathering, workers wrote their hopes for a future of partnership with Wendy's through the Fair Food Program on >> Read More

Day 2 of Farmworker Freedom Festival: Consciousness + CULTURE = Change!

Posted on March 11, 2024March 12, 2024 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_37835" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Members of the Immokalee farmworker community -- whose tireless hard work and commitment made the 3-day Farmworker Freedom Festival possible -- are called to the stage to take a much-deserved bow toward the end of Day 2 in Palm Beach.[/caption] Longtime member of CIW family and artist/activist extraordinaire, Olmeca, after receiving first-ever CIW Artist of Conscience >> Read More

Farmworker Freedom Festival lands in the heart of Palm Beach with message of “Esperanza” for Fair Food future!

Posted on March 9, 2024March 9, 2024 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_37798" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Esperanza, the CIW's 15 ft-tall, mobile puppet in the form of a female farmworker, walks the luxury store-lined streets of downtown Palm Beach on Day One of the Farmworker Freedom Festival yesterday, spreading her message of hope for a Fair Food agreement and a future of collaboration between workers and hamburger giant Wendy's toward a more >> Read More

Official recognition of WSR model’s unique power to protect human rights continues to grow with USDA announcement!

Posted on October 13, 2023October 13, 2023 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_25182" align="aligncenter" width="800"] An auditor from the Fair Food Standards Council, the third-party monitoring body tasked with ensuring the implementation of the Fair Food Program, conducts an interview with workers on a tomato farm in Florida[/caption] U.S. Department of Agriculture recognizes Worker-Driven Social Responsibility (WSR) as highest form of human rights protection in agriculture; WSR, Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs) >> Read More

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

Posted on March 21, 2023April 5, 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, 2023April 16, 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