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A (Great) Smoky Mountain Welcome

Posted on July 22, 2021August 20, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Sunripe Certified Brands and hundreds of workers at Smoky Mountain Family Farms welcome the CIW Education Team to Tennessee! Sunripe CEO, Jon Esformes: "[CIW] is our partner in making sure that we’re meeting and exceeding the highest standards of compliance, not just with the law, but with our moral and ethical responsibility as human beings." Tennessee farmworker: "Thank you >> Read More

“New York City Should Send a Message to Wendy’s, Which Refuses to Protect Its Farmworkers”

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Former Manhattan Borough President and stalwart CIW ally Ruth Messinger pens powerful op/ed for the Gotham Gazette: “It’s time for the New York City Council to pass a resolution introduced over a year ago calling on Wendy's to join the [Fair Food] program as a necessary support for farmworkers' lives.” As the calls for legally-binding and verifiable enforcement against sexual violence >> Read More

MUST-READ: Rolling Stone Magazine publishes feature on fatal police shooting of Immokalee farmworker Nicolas Morales

Posted on July 12, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_34433" align="aligncenter" width="785"] Nicolas Morales' brother, Francisco (center), holds up a portrait of Nicolas at a community vigil in February 2021. Nicolas Morales, a farmworker and single father, was shot and killed by a Collier County Sheriff's Office deputy in September 2020.[/caption] Rolling Stone Magazine: "[Nicolas'] shooting seemed to sit at the nexus of problems with policing that cities >> Read More

A better world is possible… Let’s keep building it together!

Posted on June 30, 2021June 30, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Anita Hill, Chair of the Hollywood Commission, on adapting the Fair Food Program to the U.S. entertainment industry: “There are myriad lessons for Hollywood to glean from the approach, execution and success of CIW and the Fair Food Program in eradicating sexual harassment from an industry devoid of accountability and rife with abuse…” Today is the last day of our >> Read More

Creativity, Resilience, and YOU!

Posted on June 29, 2021June 29, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_30887" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Immokalee youth, the children of farmworkers, join hundreds of consumers at a Wendy's demonstration in New York City (2019).[/caption] 115 new monthly donors have signed up during our Summer Sustainer Drive! 48 hours left: If you become a Fair Food Sustainer in these final two days, the impact of your donation will be doubled by a >> Read More

Forging a vision for Fair Food neighborhoods

Posted on June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Each Peach co-founder Emily Friedberg, "We joined the Fair Food Sponsor Program because it’s a tangible way to put our values about food justice into practice, to help build the kind of food system we want to see.” In the next 10 years, let's put Fair Food in every neighborhood. And, BIG NEWS! In these final three days of the >> Read More

Real and lasting change is not a sprint – it’s a marathon.

Posted on June 27, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Thirty years ago, when farmworkers in Immokalee decided to come together and fight to end the human rights abuses that had plagued Florida's fields for centuries, they had a vision of a more just agricultural industry that they captured in these simple words: Dignity, Dialogue, and a Fair Wage. Those words became a call to action in 2000, adorning countless >> Read More

“COVID is not over yet. We are still fighting to safeguard farmworkers’ health and offer them more protections”…

Posted on June 26, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmXDT5M_a-s[/embed] The past year has been among the most trying in living memory. The devastating impact of COVID-19 crashes in waves as the countries around the world continue to face surging death tolls and a painfully insufficient supply of life-saving vaccines. Predictably, the brunt of that impact has been borne disproportionately by communities already living at the edge of survival before >> Read More

“Before the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, there were slaves … But not anymore.”

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

We've reached the halfway mark of the 2021 Fair Food Sustainer Summer Drive, and we are crushing our goal! With the goal of 10 new Sustainers every day – and already, 55 people have stepped up to the plate. Help us keep the momentum going by signing up here to become a Sustainer today! The CIW's farmworker Education Team starts >> Read More

Question: What is the first ingredient in the recipe for achieving real and lasting change?

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Answer: Education. But not just any education, Education for Action! Farmworkers in Immokalee have made the call – and the Fair Food Nation is answering! 41 new Sustainers have joined the ranks this week – help us get 10 more today! The Fair Food Program is more than just a certification program, it's a culture change program that is >> Read More