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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, 2023April 16, 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, 2022March 22, 2024 by CIW

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 century models for worker voice and participation in the enforcement of fundamental human rights in the workplace. For >> 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

New video from Phoenix, AZ, provides timely reminder that a preventable police killing can never be justified…

Posted on December 15, 2021September 6, 2022 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_34654" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Banner petition, signed by over 1,000 Immokalee community members, declares that "An injury to one is an injury to all" and demands accountability for the wrongful death of single father and Immokalee farmworker Nicolas Morales.[/caption] Video of recent police shooting in Phoenix, AZ, provides timely, real-world demonstration of the actions and decisions Collier County Sheriff's Office >> Read More

Corporate Accountability Lab sues Hershey and Rainforest Alliance for “false and deceptive marketing representations”

Posted on November 8, 2021September 6, 2022 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_30852" align="alignleft" width="2048"] A promotional poster for a November 18, 2019, march in New York City demanding Wendy's verify its claims of social responsibility in its suppliers' greenhouse operations. The claims made in the Corporate Accountability Lab's (CAL) lawsuit filed last month against Hershey's and the corporate social responsibility giant Rainforest Alliance — after CAL "documented hazardous child labor >> Read More

Three academics, one WSR activist, and one corporate social responsibility expert walk into a bar…

Posted on October 22, 2021September 6, 2022 by CIW

… and this is the drawing they left behind on a cocktail napkin! Authors: "True cost of [dignified] labour must be worker-defined." Unique team of academics and Worker-driven Social Responsibility practitioners pens extended letter to the editor of the peer-reviewed scientific and technology research journal, Nature.com, calls for researchers studying the "True Cost Accounting" of "decent" labor systems to "lend >> Read More

Latest slavery indictments expose exploitive nature of H-2A “guestworker” program…

Posted on October 5, 2021September 6, 2022 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_4167" align="aligncenter" width="565"] A Naples Daily News editorial cartoon from the 1990s captured the shock and disbelief of the Southwest Florida community at the exposure of modern-day slavery rings operating out of Immokalee at the time. Today, more than two decades later, forced labor has been effectively eliminated on Fair Food Program farms, but the CIW continues to uncover >> Read More

“Here’s what justice looks like to me”: Read Nicolas Morales Jr.’s open letter on losing his father, re-posted.

Posted on September 23, 2021September 6, 2022 by CIW

WATCH: Naples Daily News video (above), "Coalition of Immokalee Workers asks for justice in the death of Nicolas Morales"... Nicolas Morales Jr.: "I will need to be strong, and with the help of loving people, I will manage to become stronger, and to become a good man, just like my dad was." Last week's vigil and petition delivery outside >> Read More