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Welcome, Treasure Coast Fair Food!

Posted on April 24, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

March gives rise to new Fair Food Committee on Florida's east coast with a strong interfaith spirit... After more than a decade of community gatherings, class presentations, candlelight vigils, pray-ins, and protests -- not to mention the hotly contested Publix campaign right here in the CIW's home state -- the Campaign for Fair Food has built a pretty impressive network of consumer >> Read More

UN expert group on business and human rights to visit Immokalee, CIW!

Posted on April 22, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

UN delegation to spend two days in Immokalee, meet with Fair Food Program participants On Friday and Saturday of this week, a delegation from the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights will visit Immokalee "to learn first-hand about opportunities and challenges in ensuring business respect for human rights in the United States," in the words of Michael Addo, one >> Read More

Correction: Wendy’s “independent, non-profit purchasing cooperative” is not what we thought it was…

Posted on April 17, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

... if anything, it's even less independent. And, more importantly, it's still not even close to a substitute for real social responsibility. In a television report on last weekend's Wendy's protests in New York City, Wendy's spokesperson Bob Bertini said the following in defense of the company's refusal to participate in the Fair Food Program: "... 'Wendy's is a member of an independent, non-profit cooperative that >> Read More

“Your burgers may be square…”

Posted on April 16, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

"... but your food ain't fair!" The pigtail brigade takes to the streets in New York! Kicking off a month of high-spirited actions to call on Wendy's to join its fellow fast-food leaders in the Fair Food Program, members of the Community Farmworker Alliance hit the ground running in New York this past weekend! Over 60 protesters deep, the Pigtail March for >> Read More

White House recognizes CIW’s Fair Food Program!

Posted on April 15, 2013October 15, 2020 by editor

CIW's early anti-slavery efforts called "spark that ignited a movement" at White House ceremony... At the first-ever White House Forum to Combat Human Trafficking last week -- an event that involved everyone from Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State John Kerry -- the CIW and the Fair Food Program were front and >> Read More

Nashville Turns Up the Volume!

Posted on April 13, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

As Publix expands, the Fair Food Nation is right there, step for step... Amid news of Publix's increasing profit margin and percolating price battle with Walmart (what's that Kenyan saying again about when elephants fight?... oh, yeah, "when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers," hmmm...) is another story that slowly, but surely, is coming into focus: Publix is >> Read More

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, Wendy’s…

Posted on April 11, 2013October 16, 2020 by editor

... it tolls for you, now, and just in time for the annual shareholder meeting! In Haitian Creole, there is a proverb for those who bury they heads in the sand when danger is near: Le bab kamarad ou pran dife, met pa w' a la tranp… When your neighbor's beard catches on fire, it's time to soak your own. >> Read More

And now, the oop to yesterday’s alley!

Posted on April 9, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

Part 2 of Professor Hartley's letter to Publix... Yesterday we shared the first half of a letter from Anne Hartley, a faculty member at Ft. Myers' own Florida Gulf Coast University (Eagles throwin' alleys!... ok, sorry, that's the last link, we promise) to Publix's Media and Community Relations Manager Brian West. Today, as promised, we bring you the conclusion of >> Read More