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This International Human Rights Day, help us unlock $30,000 in matching donations for the Fair Food Program!

Posted on December 10, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Lucas Benitez was born to a big family in the rural highlands of Guerrero, Mexico. Raised in a cramped house with dirt floors, he migrated with his older brother at the age of 17 to Immokalee, Florida, where he worked in the tomato fields. Lucas expected to find hard work at the end of his journey, his young life as >> Read More

Give the gift of prevention this Giving Tuesday

Posted on November 28, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Make a gift to the Fair Food Program by clicking here! The food at our tables this holiday season comes with a story. For far too many farmworkers around the country, that story is fraught with inhumane working conditions – sexual assault, wage theft, exposure to life-threatening heat waves, and in the worst cases, forced labor. Extreme exploitation and abuse >> Read More

Action Alert Nov 18-22: Demand Kroger join the Fair Food Program!

Posted on November 17, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Calling all members of the Fair Food Nation! Take action to demand justice for farmworkers by contacting Kroger and demanding the grocery giant join the Fair Food Program! Earlier this year, Kroger – who has long resisted the call from farmworkers and consumers to join the award-winning Fair Food Program to prevent human rights abuses – was identified by the Department >> Read More

Save the Date Nov 18-22: Thanksgiving Week of Action Against Kroger

Posted on November 15, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Fair Food Nation! Stand with farmworkers this Thanksgiving season for a week of action to demand Kroger join the Fair Food Program! For many of us, Thanksgiving is a time of year when we pause to give thanks, spend time with friends and family, and enjoy the feast that marks the start of the holiday season. But in Immokalee and >> Read More

New report unearths extensive rights abuses on farms certified by Equitable Food Initiative and Fair Trade USA, calls for worker-driven solution

Posted on November 13, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_36715" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Farmworkers at the CIW's 5-day, 50-mile march from the farming community of Pahokee, Florida, to Palm Beach earlier this spring prepare to carry a papier mache globe portraying "the two parallel worlds that exist side-by-side within the farming community: the world of freedom from abuse on farms in the Fair Food Program and the world of >> Read More

How the Fair Food Program’s heat protections are saving lives and leading the way toward a worker-driven solution

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_37533" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Farmworkers on a participating farm in Georgia participate in an on-the-clock, worker-to-worker education session on their rights under the Fair Food Program, including discussion of the Program's best-in-class heat illness protections.[/caption] Leo Perez, CIW: "We see the Fair Food Program as... both a method of education... to share information with workers about these risks, and at >> Read More

Lupe Gonzalo’s journey from the fields to the forefront of human rights

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Lupe Gonzalo in Rebel Girls: "Food doesn’t come to the grocery store by magic. It comes from people. It comes from farmworkers.” ALSO: Congratulations to longtime CIW and FFP ally Susan Carter, much-deserved recipient of the Alvin R. Huntley Social Justice Award! As recognition grows for the remarkable trajectory of the Immokalee farmworker community over the past 30 years -- >> Read More

A tribute to the life and legacy of Antonia Rios Hernandez (1974-2023)

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Antonia Rios in The New York Times: "The most beautiful thing is knowing all of the other workers, chatting with them, learning about their lives and their experiences. Many have left their families in order to put food on the table." Silvia Perez, CIW staff and friend of Antonia: “Antonia was a powerful woman. She was a strong woman. She always >> Read More

CIW Co-Founder Lucas Benitez to receive Wallenberg Medal for achievements in human rights on October 10, joining the company of previous medal recipients Rep. John Lewis, Elie Wiesel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama among others

Posted on October 6, 2023October 6, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_37461" align="aligncenter" width="900"] CIW co-founder Lucas Benitez[/caption] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CIW Co-Founder Lucas Benitez to receive Wallenberg Medal for Achievements in Human Rights on October 10, joining the company of previous medal recipients Rep. John Lewis, Elie Wiesel, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama among others Lucas Benitez: “I am immeasurably honored and humbled to receive >> Read More

Action Alert: Demand Kroger join the Fair Food Program today!

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Calling all members of the Fair Food Nation! Today is the day to demand justice for farmworkers by contacting Kroger and demanding the grocery giant join the Fair Food Program! A year ago today, the notorious crewleader of Los Villatoros’ harvesting company, Bladimir Moreno, pleaded guilty to the federal charge of conspiracy to commit forced labor. Under Moreno, more than >> Read More