Recent News

Category: Recent News

Coalition of Immokalee Workers > Recent News

Final wrap-up from last month’s March to Build a New World

Posted on April 5, 2023April 16, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_36714" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Almost 600 farmworkers and allies marched into billionaire enclave of Palm Beach, FL to celebrate the Fair Food Program and demand Wendy's, Publix, and Kroger join the gold standard for human rights protection in the agricultural industry.[/caption] Now you can read the solidarity statements from allies around the country, like these two below, that buoyed marchers' >> Read More

DAY 5: Marchers quintuple in number on final day of March to Build a New World, take Palm Beach by storm with message of farmworker freedom!

Posted on March 20, 2023April 16, 2023 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_36713" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A massive March to Build a New World takes to the streets of Palm Beach on its final day with a colorful, animated message for food industry leaders -- including Palm Beach resident and Wendy's Board Chair Nelson Peltz -- that the time has come to stop running from real social responsibility and to join the >> Read More

DAY 4: From labor camps to luxury yachts, modern-day slavery to latter-day robber barons, marchers travel across 48 miles, 2 worlds, in quest for farmworker freedom…

Posted on March 18, 2023April 16, 2023 by CIW

Washington Post (AP): "Now workers enjoy the right to complain without fear of retaliation. Workers also have water and shade as part of these agreements,” said Gerardo Reyes Chavez, a coalition official, at the start of the march in Pahokee. “The [Fair Food] program has proven to be the solution, the antidote to the problem of modern day slavery, the >> Read More

Day 3: Support for farmworker freedom swells as marchers inch closer to the coast; YOU can still join us for the grand finale, Saturday, 3/18!

Posted on March 17, 2023April 16, 2023 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_36578" align="aligncenter" width="900"] One of the youngest marchers does his part to Build a New World on Day 3 of the march from Pahokee to Palm Beach, eliciting a tumult of truck and car horns that saluted marchers along the day's 11 mile route. As marchers made their way ever closer to the island enclave of Palm Beach, >> Read More

Day 2: Rain, cold fail to dampen marchers’ spirits as farmworkers, allies move one day closer to march goal, one giant leap closer to new world of farmworker freedom!

Posted on March 16, 2023April 16, 2023 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_36559" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Marchers met new challenges on their 5-day, 50-mile route to the island of Palm Beach yesterday in the form of rain and unseasonably cold weather, but rose to meet the challenges of the day with enthusiasm and an unwavering commitment to their twin goals of celebrating more than a decade of unprecedented human rights progress under >> Read More

DAY 1: Over 100 workers, allies launch 5-day march to celebrate decade of human rights progress, Build a New World of farmworker freedom!

Posted on March 15, 2023April 16, 2023 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_36546" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Over 100 farmworkers and their allies make their way from Pahokee to Palm Beach on Day one of the Build a New World March. The globe at the head of the march, illuminated by the sun representing the Fair Food Program, remains divided into two worlds, one filled with the light of fair working conditions, human >> Read More

One day before we launch our 5-day trek from Pahokee to Palm Beach, national media are celebrating the CIW’s March for Farmworker Freedom

Posted on March 13, 2023April 16, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_36518" align="aligncenter" width="800"] CIW's Cruz Salucio makes the final touches on a sun representing the Fair Food Program.[/caption] Truthout: "There are few human rights achievements that are so universally celebrated today as the farmworker-led Fair Food Program." Civil Eats: "Created 10 years ago, the program has been credited with markedly improving conditions in agricultural fields for workers on the >> Read More

Archbishop Wenski: “Your efforts to shed light on this egregious [forced labor case in Pahokee] through the Build a New World March are God’s work”

Posted on March 10, 2023April 16, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_36505" align="aligncenter" width="731"] Archbishop Wenski speaks with farmworkers and allies during their 5-mile march in Palm Beach, FL in April 2022[/caption] Archbishop Thomas Wenski: "Even as I extend my congratulations, it is with a heavy heart that I must also recognize the plight of farmworkers who do not yet labor in the light of justice & dignity." "Many years >> Read More

Florida students visit Immokalee to celebrate booting Wendy’s from campus, mobilize for the Build A New World March!

Posted on March 7, 2023April 16, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_36482" align="aligncenter" width="652"] University of Florida students visited the CIW's office after securing a crucial victory at their university[/caption] UF Student/Farmworker Alliance on booting Wendy's from campus: "While it's important we celebrate our victories, the fight for fair food is never over! We continue to keep our end goal in mind: an end to exploitation and abuse in >> Read More

New academic article offers scientific modeling of how FFP, WSR can stop modern-day slavery in global supply chains

Posted on March 3, 2023April 16, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_22600" align="aligncenter" width="906"] An auditor with the Fair Food Standards Council interviews a worker on a Fair Food Program farm.[/caption] Academic Study: "Over 50 million people in the world live in a situation of modern slavery, the most extreme form of labour exploitation..." "[The Fair Food Program] is unique in the sense that it has been developed and deployed >> Read More