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Children’s Fair Food Drawing Contest

Posted on March 7, 2010October 15, 2020 by CIW

From five-year olds to fifth-graders, kids from California to Florida are sending in entries to the Children's Fair Food Drawing Contest! Plus... Check out the latest photo report from the Modern-Day Slavery Museum! With the April 1st deadline for entries still nearly a month away, kids from across the country have started sending in their drawings of what Fair Food >> Read More

CIW YEAR OF THE WORKER PARTY Immokalee, FL 3/28/10

Posted on February 28, 2010October 15, 2020 by CIW

Immokalee's own "La Obscuridad de la Sierra" headlined the day's entertainment... ... drawing a huge crowd that started big and grew steadily throughout the day. Information booths circled the space outside CIW headquarters, this one on the upcoming Farmworker Freedom March... ... this one staffed by personnel from the Collier County Sheriff's Department Human Trafficking Unit and Community Affairs department, >> Read More

Museum booklet pdf now online!

Posted on February 26, 2010October 15, 2020 by CIW

Download it here... Click on the link above to download an advance copy of the booklet that will accompany the Modern-Day Slavery Museum when it hits the road this weekend. The booklet contains a rigorous, well-researched examination of the history and evolution of slavery in Florida's fields that provides an excellent background to the materials on display in the museum. >> Read More

Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum to Tour State, Explore Connections Between Past and Present and Offer Solutions to Human Rights Crisis in the Fields

Posted on February 24, 2010October 15, 2020 by CIW

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gerardo Reyes, , 239-657-8311 Jordan Buckley, Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida, 239-986-9101 Museum to visit schools, places of worship, and community centers from February 28 to April 15 Immokalee, FL (February 24, 2010) – The Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum consists of a cargo truck outfitted as a replica of the trucks involved in a >> Read More

Organizational endorsements for the Modern-Day Slavery Museum line-up as launch day approaches!

Posted on February 24, 2010October 15, 2020 by CIW

Plus... Museum Media Advisory now online... An impressive line-up of ten leading human rights and anti-slavery organizations have signed-on as endorsers of the soon-to-be-launched Modern-Day Slavery Museum. From left to right, above: (top row) Amnesty International USA, Anti-Slavery International, Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, Free the Slaves; (second row) Freedom >> Read More

And now back to our regular programming…

Posted on February 21, 2010October 15, 2020 by CIW

The blood- and tomato plant-stained shirt above will be part of the museum's unique catalog. The shirt was worn by a 17-yr old worker who was brutally beaten in 1996 by his supervisor after stopping work to take a drink of water. He walked several miles from the field to the CIW office, still wearing the bloody shirt, to lodge >> Read More

News-Press nails it!

Posted on February 19, 2010October 15, 2020 by CIW

Editorial: "Consumers must back farmworkers"... Cutting through the hype and spin coming from the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange on the growers' "new social responsibility program," the Ft. Myers News-Press published the following editorial this morning ("Consumers must back Farmworkers," 2/19/10). It is included here in its entirety: "It sounds like a complete victory for Florida tomato pickers, until you take >> Read More

Would you buy a used car from the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange?

Posted on February 18, 2010October 15, 2020 by CIW

FTGE’s “New Social Responsibility Program” an old lemon with a fresh coat of paint… We told you yesterday that we’d have more to say about the FTGE’s big unveiling of a “New Social Responsibility Program,” and now that we’ve had a chance to take a look under the hood, here’s what we’ve found: The FTGE’s “new” code of conduct >> Read More

Modern-Day Slavery Museum taking shape, gaining momentum!

Posted on February 15, 2010October 15, 2020 by CIW

Amnesty International (USA), Anti-Slavery International (UK), and leading academics endorse museum, tour... With two weeks left before it hits the road on a month-long tour of Florida, the Modern-Day Slavery Museum is steadily taking shape. And as it does, the museum is gathering endorsements from leading scholars in the field of labor history, as well as institutional support from two >> Read More

Shrinking from the Challenge?

Posted on February 11, 2010October 15, 2020 by CIW

Shrinking from the Challenge?...Food writers pick up on "Chipotle Challenge"; meanwhile, silence from Ells... In December 2009, Food and Society Fellow Sean Sellers challenged Steve Ells (pictured above, right), the CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill, to a public debate on the merits of the Campaign for Fair Food. The challenge stemmed from Chipotle's ongoing refusal to partner with the CIW >> Read More