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Wave of outrage sparked by latest slavery case crosses the Atlantic, reaches British shores!

Posted on December 19, 2007October 15, 2020 by CIW

One of the UK's biggest national broadsheets published today a front page "special investigation" entitled: "Slave Labor that Shames America: Migrant workers chained beaten and forced into debt, exposing the human cost of producing cheap food." The article takes an in-depth look at the charges filed by federal prosecutors in the latest slavery investigation to emerge from the tomato fields >> Read More

Slavery and sweatshop conditions in Florida tomato fields spark growing outrage in the press

Posted on December 17, 2007October 15, 2020 by CIW

Slavery and sweatshop conditions in Florida tomato fields spark growing outrage in the press; Food industry remains silent about the conditions in which its produce is picked... New articles in the Miami Herald, the Nation, The Week, Glamour magazine (yes, Glamour!...), and Forbes (yes, Forbes! ...) Longtime Miami Herald columnist Fred Grimm was one of several reporters recently to put >> Read More

Fresh allegations of “human slavery” emerge from the tomato fields of Immokalee

Posted on December 10, 2007October 15, 2020 by CIW

Federal prosecutors say workers picking tomatoes locked in trucks, chained, beaten by bosses for trying to escape; Four arrested November 20th was a momentous day in Immokalee. On November 20th, according to court documents filed last week, three tomato pickers made their way to the Collier County Sheriff’s office after having escaped two days earlier through the ventilation hatch of >> Read More

Why We March

Posted on November 30, 2007October 15, 2020 by CIW

Today, farmworkers from Immokalee, Florida and their religious, labor, and student allies are marching 9 miles through the streets of Miami to the world headquarters of Burger King. Today we march because there is a human rights crisis in the fields of Florida. Tomato pickers who harvest tomatoes for the fast-food industry face sweatshop conditions every day, including sub-poverty, stagnant >> Read More

1,500 Farmworkers, allies march 9 miles from Goldman Sachs offices

Posted on November 30, 2007October 15, 2020 by CIW

1,500 Farmworkers, allies march 9 miles from Goldman Sachs offices in downtown Miami to Burger King headquarters!... CIW: "Today, in the wake of the Yum Brands and McDonald’s agreements, we stand on the threshold of a more modern, more humane agricultural industry in Florida. Yet, facing this historic opportunity, Burger King seems to have chosen business as usual over progress, >> Read More

Fast Food Nation Author Eric Schlosser adds his voice

Posted on November 29, 2007October 15, 2020 by CIW

Fast Food Nation Author Eric Schlosser adds his voice -- in the pages of the New York Times -- to the growing editorial chorus condemning BK's decision to move against landmark agreements... "The prominent role that Burger King has played in rescinding the pay raise offers a spectacle of yuletide greed worthy of Charles Dickens." Award-winning author and journalist Eric >> Read More

AMAZING (DIS)GRACE…

Posted on November 27, 2007October 15, 2020 by CIW

Burger King, tomato growers' strategy exposed: Industry giants team up to sabotage progress for farmworkers. Strategy may backfire as public reaction summed up in words of recent op/ed: “OK, consumers, sic ‘em.” As the 2007 March on Burger King rapidly approaches, a flurry of articles on the Campaign for Fair Food has hit papers across the country. The recent surge >> Read More

Save the date! Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, 2007 – Miami, Florida

Posted on November 25, 2007October 15, 2020 by CIW

CIW announces march on Burger King headquarters to coincide with BK's annual shareholder meeting CIW: "Today, in the wake of the Yum Brands and McDonald’s agreements, we stand on the threshold of a more modern, more humane agricultural industry in Florida. Yet, facing this historic opportunity, Burger King seems to have chosen business as usual over progress, continued exploitation over >> Read More

Thanksgiving honors for farmworkers in Immokalee fighting for an end to slavery and a fair wage…

Posted on November 22, 2007October 15, 2020 by CIW

Declaring,"In the tradition of the abolitionist movement here in Great Britain, where consumers and workers joined to demand sugar free of the scourge of slavery and so helped bring an end to the slave trade, we are building an alliance of workers and consumers today in the United States to demand Fair Food and an end to slavery in its >> Read More

CIW team reaches London in advance of the November 21st Anti-Slavery Award ceremony!…

Posted on November 19, 2007October 15, 2020 by CIW

Click here for a full report from their first day in the city, highlighted by a visit to a most timely exhibit at the British Museum marking the 200 anniversary of the passage of the Slave Trade Abolition Bill in the British Parliament (1807). Meanwhile... the Student/Farmworker Alliance National Days of Action chalks up nearly 30 BK protests across the >> Read More