Category: A Year to Dine with Dignity: May 2009 – August 2010

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CIW, Verite announce partnership to implement, monitor Fair Food agreements with participating growers this season!

CIW, Verite announce partnership to implement, monitor Fair Food agreements with participating growers this season!

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Verite "promotes and monitors fair labor practices across the globe," work includes efforts to address forced labor on West African cocoa plantations... Gerardo Reyes of the CIW on the partnership: “These developments are truly unprecedented. Through the Campaign for Fair Food, we are moving, step by step, toward a more modern, more humane tomato industry in Florida. And together with >> Read More
Supermarket Week of Action Nov. 18-26, 2009

Supermarket Week of Action Nov. 18-26, 2009

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In Baltimore, Fair Food activists took their rights as consumers seriously and visited several stores, including this Giant grocery, to be heard... ... by managers, who received the CIW manager letter in stores across the country, like this one in DC. Here's an excerpt of what the managers read: "As a customer of your supermarket, I am contacting you to >> Read More
National Supermarket Week of Action a wrap

National Supermarket Week of Action a wrap

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Fair Food message sent loud and clear! In hundreds of supermarkets from Baltimore to the Bay Area, Fair Food activists gave their local grocers a special message this Thanksgiving week: Now is the time to support human rights in Florida's fields! Supermarket chains from Trader Joe's to Giant, Stop and Shop, Walmart, Winn Dixie, and (of course) Publix were visited >> Read More
Family = Love = Publix

Family = Love = Publix

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Publix vs. Publix Or, when a carefully-crafted public image goes horribly...   ... wrong. Family = Love = Publix: For people who live within Publix's southeastern US market, the image on the left will almost certainly be familiar. It is a screen photo from a commercial that airs seemingly non-stop in the run-up to Thanksgiving. The ad cuts back and >> Read More
Alliance for Fair Food calls for National Supermarket Week of Action

Alliance for Fair Food calls for National Supermarket Week of Action

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If you live in the southeastern United States, these two figures might be familiar to you from Publix's whimsical Thanksgiving season commercials... But there's nothing whimsical about the fact that the men and women who do the backbreaking, stoop labor necessary to put food on holiday tables across the nation cannot afford to provide their own families with a decent >> Read More
Sparked by frustration with Publix’s tactics, 200 take to streets in St. Pete in largest Publix protest to date!

Sparked by frustration with Publix’s tactics, 200 take to streets in St. Pete in largest Publix protest to date!

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Sparked by frustration with Publix's tactics, 200 take to streets in St. Pete in largest Publix protest to date! ALSO: Major action announced for Publix hometown of Lakeland for December 6th ... In a powerful rebuke to Publix's apparent contempt for farmworkers' fundamental human rights and the demand of its customers for Fair Food, more than 200 farmworkers and allies >> Read More
US Catholic bishops, ethical business community recognize Campaign for Fair Food!

US Catholic bishops, ethical business community recognize Campaign for Fair Food!

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Brigitte Gynther, shown here speaking at Epiphany Cathedral in Venice, Florida, last month with Romeo Ramirez of the CIW, was awarded the 2009 Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award by the Campaign for Human Development of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops "for her role in supporting and empowering farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), as they pursue fair >> Read More
“A Day without Slavery” hosted by Collier County Sheriff’s Department in Immokalee…

“A Day without Slavery” hosted by Collier County Sheriff’s Department in Immokalee…

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Meanwhile, another day of mockery by Publix of slavery, farmworker poverty, and its own customers in Clearwater... In Immokalee Saturday, the Collier County Sheriff's Department and the Collier County Coalition Against Human Trafficking held the first-ever "Day without Slavery," a community event "aimed at providing seasonal farm workers and members of the Immokalee community with information about human trafficking and >> Read More