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Labor Day picket kicks off fall season for Campaign for Fair Food!

Posted on September 9, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_22606" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CIW Women’s Group member, Marta, at Sunday’s Labor Day picket at Publix[/caption]“… It is with these very hands that I supply the tomatoes that you use, from which you profit…”On Monday, we shared a powerful reflection on the global movement for workers’ human rights and the Fair Food Program’s worker-driven, market-powered model — but that was >> Read More

Labor Day Reflection: “Why Consumers Matter in Realizing Workers’ Rights…”

Posted on September 7, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_22621" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The young son of a Dhaka garment worker calls on Western brands and retailers to implement safety reforms in their Bangladesh factories. Consumers worldwide pushed to make it happen. Credit: Worker Rights Consortium[/caption] CIW, NESRI and WRC publish reflection in Huffington Post on consumers' power to demand workers' rights at home, abroad...Labor Day is a day we >> Read More

Customer to Publix: “I don’t like Publix’s hardnosed position on farmworkers”…

Posted on September 3, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_22606" align="aligncenter" width="530"] Over the course of the past six years, Publix has received countless letters from Fair Food supporters, calling on Florida's hometown supermarket giant to join the Fair Food Program.[/caption] Tipping Point Encore: From Florida to New Jersey, consumers continue to applaud recent advances of Fair Food Program, decry failure of remaining corporate holdouts to get on board...Even >> Read More

Coming Soon: Student/Farmworker Alliance’s 2015 Annual Encuentro!

Posted on August 31, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

Scores of students, young people to gather in Immokalee, develop strategy for Publix, Wendy's campaigns...Each fall, the Campaign for Fair Food takes off with a burst of renewed energy thanks to an annual Immokalee tradition: The Student/Farmworker Alliance Encuentro! An action-packed weekend of strategizing and learning for students and youth from all over the country, the Encuentro this year is set for September 10-13. Check out >> Read More

U.S. State Department 2015 Anti-Slavery Heroes visit Immokalee!

Posted on August 26, 2015October 15, 2020 by CIW

"TIP" Heroes share struggles to combat modern-day slavery across the globe with farmworkers in Immokalee, learn about Fair Food Program and worker-led efforts to defend fundamental human rights... Every year, thousands of engaged, dedicated individuals -- people of all faiths, campus leaders, human rights activists, award-winning authors, and journalists -- come through the small, dusty town of Immokalee to learn >> Read More

Tipping Point, Vol. 7: Texas school teachers confront Kroger!

Posted on August 20, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

Letter delivery by local school teachers dismissed by Kroger managers...So far in this past week's "Tipping Point" series, we've heard from consumers speaking out against the final fast food hold-out, Wendy's, and the stubborn Florida grocer, Publix. But what about the second largest food retailer in the country after Walmart, Ohio-based Kroger? After Ahold USA became the first major U.S. grocer to join >> Read More

Tipping Point, Vol. 6: Longtime Publix shopper calls for transparency, action from Florida grocer!

Posted on August 19, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_22525" align="alignright" width="312"] During 2012 Fast for Fair Food, fasting allies and farmworkers wrote dozens of letters to Publix, leaving them at the front of Publix headquarters. Since the launch of the Publix campaign in 2009, consumers have sent hundreds of thousands of messages to the Florida-based grocer, calling on them to join the Fair Food Program.[/caption] "What I want to >> Read More

Tipping Point, Vol. 5: New Jersey puts Wendy’s in the hot seat after Ahold USA joins FFP!

Posted on August 18, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

"As Wendy's modernizes its brand and its "Old Fashioned Burgers" marquees fall away, so too must this old fashioned way of doing business..." For much of our weeklong "Tipping Point" series, Publix has taken the brunt of consumer contempt for refusing to join the CIW's Fair Food Program. But Publix isn't the only hold out on the receiving end of consumers' growing >> Read More

Tipping Point, Vol. 4: Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster lifts up Ahold USA agreement as “victory” for farmworkers, consumers!

Posted on August 17, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

"...When the wisdom and expertise of workers is honored at the head of the table, and consumers use public pressure to urge the institutions they patron to heed that expertise, it can result in justice..."Last week, we launched the weeklong "Tipping Point" series, sharing a daily sample of letters, emails, and articles from consumer allies who are celebrating two extraordinary advances of the Fair Food >> Read More