“Dear Joe” Letters
Letters from Trader Joe's customers breaking up with the "ethical grocer" for its opposition to Fair Food Program
Category: A New Day in the Fields: September 2010 – December 2011
Fair Food Festival Community/Farmworker Alliance New York, New York
This past Saturday, Fair Food activists gathered for the family-friendly Fair Food Festival in Brooklyn, NY, an all-day event sponsored by a number of local organizations, including the indomitable Community/Farmworker Alliance. The day featured workshops on the roof-top garden, movie screenings, face-painting and much more! As described in the Carroll Gardens Patch, "The Commons on Atlantic Avenue served as a >> Read More
Publix Bike Tour continues to inspire!
Bikers arrive in Lakeland on September 6th under a driving rainstorm for the final leg of the Pilgrimage to Publix Faith community allies, religious press deeply disappointed with Publix response... It's going on three weeks now since farmworkers from Immokalee and their allies pedaled through the streets and back roads of Lakeland, Florida, on their way to Publix headquarters to >> Read More
Fair Food Summit Immokalee
September 15-18, 2011 The Fair Food Summit was three solid days of intense discussions around strategies to escalate the CIW's Supermarket Campaign. To this point, the Campaign has largely eschewed the more aggressive tactics of the CIW's earlier battles on the assumption that the obvious appeal of the unprecedented changes underway in the fields today through the Fair Food Program >> Read More
Fair Food Summit unites allies from across US with workers from Immokalee in three-day planning conference…
First order of business: Supermarket Week of Action with kick-off protest at Trader Joe's headquarters! The 2011 Fair Food Summit -- a gathering of Fair Food activists from across the country with workers in Immokalee for a jam-packed, three-day planning process aimed at intensifying, and winning, the Supermarket Campaign -- is a wrap. And as participants make their way home >> Read More
Rabbis for Human Rights-North America steps into the fray with Publix, Campaign for Fair Food!
Pray-in at Naples Publix caps off day-long delegation to Immokalee, tomato fields... This past Tuesday, a delegation from Rabbis for Human Rights-North America traveled to Immokalee for a day-long immersion in the Campaign for Fair Food. They talked with farmworkers at the CIW community center in Immokalee, met with leaders of the CIW on the very latest developments in the Fair Food >> Read More
Bike tour wrap-up…Media re-caps and Florida clergy speak out!
Media re-caps and Florida clergy speak out! Last week's 200-mile bike tour from Immokalee to Lakeland, home of Publix's corporate headquarters, may not have moved Publix CEO Ed Crenshaw to come out of hiding and meet the farmworkers who help make his company so successful, but it certainly caught the attention of a lot of other people throughout Florida, from >> Read More
Rabbis for Human Rights – North America Visit to Immokalee, FL September 14, 2011
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="288"] Traveling from New York, Boston, California, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Miami and several other cities throughout the country, a delegation of 15 rabbis and two rabbinical students came to Immokalee Tuesday for a visit organized by Rabbis for Human Rights-North America (RHR-NA). RHR-NA focuses a great deal of its efforts on the fight against modern-day slavery, >> Read More
Fair Food Summit A Success!
The summit began, appropriately, in the fields, where participants formed teams and picked tomatoes and oranges for a day... or, at least, tried. The look says it all... This team of three make it back to town well after dark having picked six bins of oranges (about 6,000 pounds of high quality Florida citrus), which translates into about $40 ($13 >> Read More
Special Comment on the Lawsuit Filed Recently Against Burger King
Many of you may have already read coverage of a lawsuit filed this week in Miami against Burger King involving questions around the payment of penny-per-pound funds to farmworkers. If not, here is an example of the coverage. It's hard to figure out where Florida Legal Services could possibly be coming from with this lawsuit. But we do know this, >> Read More