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Students, youth set to gather this weekend for a virtual gathering of strategy building for the Wendy’s Campaign…

Posted on October 13, 2020October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[embed]https://vimeo.com/465449099[/embed] Apply today to join the Student/Farmworker Alliance 2020 Encuentro: “Piecing Together Justice,” Oct. 17-18... Despite all of the unforeseen challenges 2020 has thrown our way, the young leaders of the Student/Farmworker Alliance have once again banded together to push forward a critical marker of the Campaign for Fair Food’s yearly calendar: the annual SFA Encuentro gathering. This weekend, Oct. >> Read More

COVID-19 MEDIA ROUND-UP: In Florida and across the country, farmworkers are denied adequate healthcare protections by state and local officials amid case surges…

Posted on October 9, 2020October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_31890" align="aligncenter" width="800"] CIW's Nely Rodriguez distributes masks and life-saving COVID-19 prevention information to Immokalee residents.[/caption] National Geographic: "While empty grocery store shelves and mile-long food bank lines have become less prevalent than during the early days of the pandemic, advocates say essential workers and their families are still as vulnerable as ever..." Fall is officially here, and in >> Read More

BREAKING: Immokalee farmworker Nicholas Morales shot and killed by Collier County Sheriff’s Office

Posted on September 19, 2020October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

"They didn't kill an animal; they killed a human being... I want justice for this man and this young child that is left without a dad," said Yola Martinez, close friend of Nicholas Morales, Immokalee farmworker shot and killed by Collier County Sheriff deputies... CIW: "We must have a full investigation and justice for Nicholas and his family, as well >> Read More

Gov. DeSantis, Collier County: Take action NOW to protect Immokalee’s farmworkers from COVID-19 ahead of the harvest!

Posted on September 3, 2020October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

The clock is ticking: Farmworkers returning to Florida for the fall harvest season, students returning to school in Immokalee for in-person classes, combine to create fertile ground for a new COVID-19 outbreak; State and county health officials must take immediate action, work with internationally-acclaimed Partners In Health to protect the Sunshine State's essential workers! Over the past several months, Florida >> Read More

This fall, host a CIW farmworker leader as a virtual speaker in your classroom, congregation, or community meeting!

Posted on August 26, 2020October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

This fall, farmworker leaders of the CIW will be traveling virtually from Immokalee to cities across the country to speak with students, community leaders, and people of faith about the struggle for essential farmworkers’ rights – and about the CIW's award-winning Fair Food Program, recently called the new "gold standard" for protecting human rights in global supply chains! Don’t miss >> Read More

On Freedom Day, make twice the impact!

Posted on June 19, 2020October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Dear friends, On June 19, 1865, Black men and women in the state of Texas who had long endured the brutality of slavery – upon whose unpaid labor the U.S. agricultural industry was built – were told that, finally, freedom had come. Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, union soldiers landed in Galveston with news that the war >> Read More

“I would like to thank FFSC for defending our rights in the field…”

Posted on June 18, 2020October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Dear friends, All workers deserve a voice, and real power to protect their interests, in the workplace. But the importance of worker voice is heightened during a pandemic, especially for essential workers like farmworkers, who have no choice but to continue working while the rest of us shelter safely at home. The risks farmworkers have taken – here in Immokalee >> Read More

Sustain Fair Food: We need your help to sustain our call for urgently-needed protections for farmworkers…

Posted on June 17, 2020October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Dear friends, Over the past three months, the CIW, working hand in hand with the Alliance for Fair Food, has shaped the national conversation on the critical role of farmworkers as vulnerable essential workers. Through national outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and the Associated Press, the voice of Immokalee’s farmworker community has rung out from >> Read More

Help farmworkers sound the alarm about the coronavirus!

Posted on June 16, 2020October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Dear friend, When the coronavirus pandemic first began to take root across the country, we knew we needed to act fast. The highly-contagious virus posed a grave threat to farmworker communities like Immokalee, where tens of thousands of essential workers, often living in cramped conditions and traveling to and from work in overcrowded vehicles, had no choice but to continue >> Read More

Collier County Health Department announces new plans for ongoing, free, community-wide COVID-19 testing in Immokalee starting this weekend!

Posted on May 29, 2020October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida In response to dangerous spike of COVID-19 cases in Immokalee, Collier County Department of Health announces plans to partner with Doctors Without Borders and local clinic to provide urgently-needed testing!... Dr. Seth Holmes on NBC2: "Florida is one of the main agricultural producers for the whole country, so if >> Read More