CIW’s Gerardo Reyes on MSNBC “Into America” podcast: “The people that place the food on the table of every family deserve better.” Month of June sees national media attention turn to the disaster unfolding in CIW’s backyard, as COVID-19 cases skyrocket in Immokalee, rest of Florida... For people living in Immokalee, the month of June was like no other in living >> Read More

CIW: "Like Derek Chauvin and so many other officers like him, the coronavirus requires a favorable environment to kill its victims.  And in both cases it is the very same environment that facilitates the killing— one defined by structural inequalities created and protected by institutional racism." “I can't breathe please sir please please  please I can't breathe" Those were the >> Read More

[caption id="attachment_31889" align="aligncenter" width="800"] An educational box truck designed by the Collier County Health Department carries its message through the streets of Immokalee last month.[/caption] Doctors Without Borders to NPR: We need “more access to tests that we can use so the persons who are positive, their contacts could get tested, so we can quell this outbreak.” After weeks of >> Read More

Governor Ron DeSantis, during an hour-long briefing on reopening the Florida economy on Wednesday, announces new testing sites targeting “under-served” communities across Florida, making special mention of Immokalee. Promising new public/private collaboration starting to take shape in Immokalee to address COVID-19 crisis, giving vulnerable farmworker community new hope with aggressive, comprehensive defense strategy; Collaboration among state and county agencies, Nobel >> Read More