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What is fueling the Fair Food Program? Market power.

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

This week, we've had an opportunity to explore the mechanisms that make the Fair Food Program such a powerful system for protecting farmworkers' fundamental human rights. We also took a look ahead at the limitless prospects for the Fair Food Program to expand its protections to tens of thousands of more farmworkers across the U.S. agricultural industry, as well as >> Read More

“The movement of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers has seeded grassroots movements around the country…”

Posted on June 19, 2019June 19, 2019 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

The promise of Worker-driven Social Responsibility: "[The CIW's] visionary leadership and unceasing support played a key role in the launch of Milk with Dignity, a worker-driven social responsibility program that is transforming the dairy industry, just as the Fair Food Program has transformed the tomato industry, to ensure respect and dignity for workers." In August of 2017, we woke up >> Read More

Worlds apart: Life with – and without – the protections of the Fair Food Program…

Posted on June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

"I have been working in the fields for 37 years," she said. "And before, there was nothing. No shade, no water. But today, that has changed. Thank God for the Coalition." As you read this, the Fair Food Program Education Team – a seasoned group of educators, armed with human rights booklets and large-scale drawings depicting common scenes from the fields >> Read More

“We are building a road forward, and we will never go back.”

Posted on June 17, 2019June 17, 2019 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

"Before, if you spoke out, you would be fired. Tomorrow, don’t come, there’s no work for you. But now that we are united, we have strength... We are building a road forward, and we will never go back." – Farmworker on a Fair Food Program farm, June 2018 One year ago, we dedicated a single summer week to one purpose: >> Read More

Australian news hub: The Fair Food Program is “the kind of change we need to see if we’re to eradicate sexual harassment once and for all.”

Posted on June 14, 2019June 14, 2019 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Independent Australia highlights Fair Food Program, calls on business leaders to take action: "...those leaders brave enough to face the problem and commit to solving it have much to gain, not the least of which is a positive impact on the bottom line." Even Down Under, the Fair Food Program is blowing up! An excellent article came out yesterday on >> Read More

Part One: Report from Wendy’s 2019 annual shareholder meeting…

Posted on June 11, 2019June 13, 2019 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_30287" align="aligncenter" width="702"] The Fair Food delegation to the Wendy's shareholder meeting, from left: Alex Schelle (Alliance for Fair Food), Chris Cox (ICCR), Travis J. McConnell, Kerry Kennedy (Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights), Nely Rodriguez (CIW), Wilson Perez (CIW), Bill Fullarton, Silvia Sabanilla (CIW), Leslie Alanis (UNC Chapel Hill), Rev. Lynda Smith, Gabriela Cano Uchofen >> Read More

Alliance for Fair Food announces “Faith in Fair Food” Summer Tour!

Posted on June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Faith communities make plans to turn up the heat on Wendy's across the state of Florida, from Orlando to Tampa, Miami, Homestead, Ft. Lauderdale, Naples, and Sarasota this summer! Hot on the heels of the announcement of this summer's Boot the Braids Tours, during which students and farmworkers will be mobilizing to kick Wendy’s off campuses from coast to coast, the >> Read More

Student/Farmworker Alliance leaders announce back-to-back #BootTheBraids Truth Tours for summer 2019!

Posted on May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

This summer, farmworkers from Immokalee and SFA organizers will embark on five regional “Boot the Braids” Truth Tours to expose the dangerous, inhumane conditions workers face outside the protections of the Fair Food Program and Wendy’s absurd social responsibility shell game… Mark your calendars, because Fair Food is coming to a town near you this summer! This past weekend, members >> Read More

Author Bernice Yeung highlights the Fair Food Program as model for ending sexual harassment on economics podcast, “Who Makes Cents”…

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Journalist, author Bernice Yeung on the Fair Food Program as a tool to end sexual harassment in the workplace: "Because the workers themselves know that they are helping establish how the farm is being evaluated, that they're one of many workers, they become the eyes and ears of the [Fair Food] Program. They know that they're empowered to change the >> Read More

Fair Food-inspired article from the Bitter Southerner wins 2019 James Beard Media Award!

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_30210" align="aligncenter" width="772"] An article in the online Southern news and culture hub, The Bitter Southerner, on the CIW's Campaign for Fair Food and the Fair Food Program has won a 2019 James Beard Award for Food Journalism.[/caption] CIW's Nely Rodriguez: "During the fast, I found myself reflecting on the things I’ve seen, like the mothers here who have >> Read More