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Better Angels, or Bitter Fruit?…

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  Shutterstock What we do next will determine who wins the battle at the heart of American history… ********** Newly-elected Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, from Sunday sermon following Wednesday’s attack on Capitol:  “Just as we were trying to put on our celebration shoes, the ugly side of our story, our great and grand American story, began to emerge”... “We saw >> Read More
Let’s make 2021 the year of Worker-driven Social Responsibility!

Let’s make 2021 the year of Worker-driven Social Responsibility!

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
As 2020 creeps to a close, reflections on one of the most brutal years in living memory are rolling in.  The "2020 Year in Review" headlines paint an unmitigatedly grim picture: "With 300,000 COVID-19 deaths and counting, U.S. faces unfathomable loss" "George Floyd, From ‘I Want to Touch the World’ to ‘I Can’t Breathe’" "The record-shattering 2020 hurricane season, explained" >> Read More
FL Gov: Vaccinating essential workers? “That’s not the direction we want to go…”

FL Gov: Vaccinating essential workers? “That’s not the direction we want to go…”

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
With just one day left in our record-breaking end-of-year fundraising campaign, a generous donor has agreed to match the next $5,000 in donations! Make a contribution today to double the impact and help us fight to protect Florida’s essential farmworker communities. Click here to donate. Over the past several months, we have shared dispatches from the front in the Immokalee >> Read More
“Many in our community have lost their lives to COVID-19… but so much remains to be done. It is not time to surrender, it is time to forge ahead.”

“Many in our community have lost their lives to COVID-19… but so much remains to be done. It is not time to surrender, it is time to forge ahead.”

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Fair Food Nation, you have smashed records: 1,245 donors have come together to raise $112,168 to date, demonstrating the power of grassroots fundraising – but we can't stop there. With only days to go of the CIW's end-of-year fundraising drive, help us get to $120,000 by Dec. 31st! This past spring, the COVID-19 pandemic swept through Immokalee like a tidal >> Read More
“As an investigator, I have seen firsthand that this program works, that it changes people’s lives…”

“As an investigator, I have seen firsthand that this program works, that it changes people’s lives…”

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
[caption id="attachment_33413" align="aligncenter" width="798"] Fair Food Standards Council staff responding to the FFP's 24/7 trilingual complaint line.[/caption] As the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic became clear back in March, the Fair Food Standards Council (FFSC), the independent monitoring body that has meticulously overseen the implementation of the Fair Food Program for more than a decade, braced for impact. The pandemic >> Read More
“It’s for my children that I must work, so they can eat – how else am I going to take care of them?”

“It’s for my children that I must work, so they can eat – how else am I going to take care of them?”

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
From the earliest days of the pandemic, the CIW was among the first voices to sound the alarm about the overcrowded housing and dangerous working conditions that the vast majority of the country's 2.5 million farmworkers have faced for generations, and that represented the perfect “superconductor” for the deadly COVID-19 virus.  Their circumstances presented a chilling paradox: Though their labor >> Read More
Health is a human right for essential workers, now more than ever!

Health is a human right for essential workers, now more than ever!

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
For International Human Rights Day, help us protect the fundamental rights of essential workers by supporting the Fair Food Program! On this day, seventy-two years ago, with the scars of war and genocide still painfully raw in their minds, representatives of fifty-eight countries from around the globe gathered in Paris at the United Nations General Assembly to formally adopt the >> Read More
This #GivingTuesday, protect the human rights of essential workers!

This #GivingTuesday, protect the human rights of essential workers!

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
YOU can help fund and expand the Fair Food Program's unprecedented COVID-19 protections for the women and men putting food on America's tables by donating on Giving Tuesday!  Click here to contribute. By almost any measure, 2020 has been a year without equal in modern history.  The COVID-19 pandemic has taken nearly 1,400,000 souls across the globe, with still several >> Read More