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One Saturday, two Americas…

Posted on August 6, 2019November 24, 2019 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_30538" align="aligncenter" width="800"] The joy of a late summer visit by CIW staff and family members to Washington, DC, and the Smithsonian Museum of American History, where the CIW's re-interpretation of the Statue of Liberty (above, rear) resides on permanent display, was shattered this past Saturday by the news of the mass shooting in El Paso, TX, by a >> Read More

Blockbuster new cookbook by Chef José Andrés highlights CIW and Fair Food Program!…

Posted on July 30, 2019October 22, 2019 by CIW

New York Times bestseller: "Fair Food Program... takes direct aim at the food system's gravest injustices and holds major retailers accountable for the food they sell." Chef José Andrés – the irrepressible, James Beard Award-winning, Spanish chef who, among many other things in his non-stop mission to feed and change the world, traveled to Puerto Rico in the wake of >> Read More

NY Times Op/Ed: “The strongest model for farmworkers today is in Florida…”

Posted on July 17, 2019August 4, 2019 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_25182" align="aligncenter" width="750"] An auditor from the Fair Food Standards Council, the third-party monitoring body tasked with ensuring the implementation of the CIW's Fair Food Program, conducts an interview with workers on a tomato farm in Florida.[/caption] Author Miriam Pawel: "The strongest model for farmworkers today is in Florida, where the Coalition of Immokalee Workers has achieved major gains – not >> Read More

When the Sunday funnies get real…

Posted on June 26, 2019October 22, 2019 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_30410" align="alignleft" width="1854"] Earlier this month, the popular comic strip Non Sequitur provided an unexpected, but deeply incisive, critique of corporate social responsibility.[/caption] The CSR model stops at solving the problem it was intended to solve — public relations crises — for the actors it was intended to serve, the global brands. The WSR model, on the other >> Read More

New survey of corporate leaders shows Wendy’s WAY behind the curve on social responsibility…

Posted on May 30, 2019June 29, 2019 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_30252" align="aligncenter" width="800"] A graphic from the new report "Leading with Purpose in an Age Defined by It" captures several of the lessons drawn from an extensive survey of business leaders on the role of corporations in addressing social problems from inequality to climate change.[/caption] Elizabeth Ricardo, Peet's Coffee: "We're at a tipping point because of the extreme landscape >> Read More

Taco Bell Boycott Stories: A new website series…

Posted on May 15, 2019May 22, 2019 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_30196" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Workers from Immokalee build a pyramid of picking buckets outside Taco Bell parent company Yum Brands' corporate headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2003. The pyramid represented the number of 32-lb buckets of tomatoes a worker needed to pick to earn the minimum wage at the 40-cent per bucket piece rate that had been stagnant for nearly >> Read More

Wendy’s social media smackdown, Part Two…

Posted on May 8, 2019August 4, 2019 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_30160" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Above is the opening of Alyssa Milano's Instagram response to Wendy's statement to CNN on the social media firestorm set off on Sunday by Amy Schumer's Instagram post calling on people to boycott Wendy's for its refusal to join the Fair Food Program. Wendy's statement began, "This is complex issue..."[/caption] Sunday Fail: Wendy's tries to leverage >> Read More

Fabled Highlander Center burned to the ground by arsonists in Tennessee…

Posted on April 19, 2019June 29, 2019 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_30108" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Firefighters struggle to control the flames as the Highlander Center's main office building burns to the ground in New Market, TN, on March 29th of this year. While no one was injured in the blaze, many invaluable historical records were lost. White supremacist graffiti spray-painted in the parking lot left little doubt as to who carried >> Read More

BREAKING: Longtime CIW General Counsel Steve Hitov to receive national human rights award!

Posted on April 10, 2019June 29, 2019 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_30091" align="aligncenter" width="750"] Farmworkers and their allies march 234 miles from Ft. Myers, FL, to the offices of the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association in Orlando in 2000. Steve Hitov, the CIW's longtime General Counsel, is pictured (beard, cap, and light blue shirt) in the upper lefthand corner of the picture, in conversation with CIW's Co-founder Lucas Benitez.[/caption] Hitov >> Read More