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Del Monte Fresh Produce joins Fair Food Program!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="@DelMonte joins #FairFoodProgram!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/04/del-monte"] Fair Food Program, Florida tomato industry continue to grow... together. From the national produce industry journal The Packer ("Del Monte inks deal with Coalition of Immokalee Workers," 4/8/14): Del Monte Fresh Produce NA Inc., is the latest Florida-based grower-shipper to strike a deal with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. In an April 8 news release, the Coral >> Read More

Why does the US Chamber of Commerce hate America? (apologies to Stephen Colbert…)

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Why does the US Chamber of Commerce Hate America?" url="https://ciw-online.org/?=19127"] If the Fair Food Program is good for Florida tomato growers, good for American food corporations, and good for American workers, why has the Chamber of Commerce teamed up with other Washington lobbying groups to attack the CIW? In Part One of this two-part series, we established the business >> Read More

Extreme Makeover: Florida tomato industry edition…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="#Florida tomato industry makeover - a 2 pt reflection..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18988"] [caption id="attachment_18990" align="aligncenter" width="301"] Before: The CIW's Modern-Day Slavery Museum visits Washington, DC in June of 2010[/caption] [caption id="attachment_18989" align="aligncenter" width="301"] After: CIW members celebrate new rights under Fair Food Program in Lakeland in March of 2013[/caption] In the space of just a few years, the CIW's Fair Food Program has >> Read More

The Nation: “Why are students protesting Wendy’s and Publix?”…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="#NowIsTheTime Tour, #FairFoodProgram catch attention of @TheNation and @TakePart" url="https://ciw-online.org/?=18968"] Answers to that question and more, with all the latest press from the Fair Food front! Even as we gear up for what is sure to be an exciting April -- the month ahead is already overflowing with events, including the recently-announced screening of "Food Chains" at Tribeca, the CIW's visit >> Read More

“I have lived something children will one day read about,” Wilson Perez, Immokalee

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="I have lived something children will one day read about - Wilson Perez, farmworker in #FairFoodProgram... More at @CIW site!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?post=18233"] Farmworkers speak about the "historic" impact of the Fair Food Program on their lives in a moving new article from the Ft. Myers News-Press... This past Sunday, the local newspaper of record here in Southwest Florida, the Ft. >> Read More

Planning for the “Now is the Time” Tour takes off!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="#NowIsTheTimeTour planning takes off!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?post=18173"] From snowy Columbus down to sunny Immokalee, the Fair Food Nation is preparing for 2014's spring action... Everyone is getting excited for the 10-day, 10-city "Now is the Time" Tour (March 5-15). Before we go into the flurry of activity across the country, we want to introduce you to the Tour's brand new website, which launches today >> Read More

Walmart agreement continues to make waves…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Historic @walmart agreement continues to make waves..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?post=18155"] Op/Ed in Orlando Sentinel by Dean of RAND Graduate School for Public Policy, high profile piece in Time's NYSE Magazine keep news of the historic agreement on the front page... As Walmart and Fair Food Standards Council personnel begin the hard, unglamorous work of implementing the latest Fair Food agreement on the ground, >> Read More

President Jimmy Carter, Michael Pollan — CIW, Fair Food Program receive high praise from high places!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="President Jimmy Cartner, @michaelpollan weigh in on #FairFoodProgram, historic @Walmart agreement!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18108"] Walmart agreement, success of Fair Food Program subject of comments by former president, food movement leader... As the recent news out of Immokalee of the CIW's agreement with Walmart continues to reverberate through the food industry and through the world of human rights, high profile observers continue >> Read More

Spring action announced!: The “Now is the Time” Tour hits the road March 5-15, 2014…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="SPRING ACTION ANNOUNCED! #NowIsTheTime Tour hits the rd this March " url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18047"] Check out the official "Now is the Time" Tour website!   Ten-day, ten-city tour to take farmworkers, allies to Wendy's home state of Ohio, then back to Florida with a last stop in Publix's hometown of Lakeland... Stops along the way to include actions in major cities, >> Read More

How long, Publix? Not long, because…

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Over 100 farmworkers and allies hold moving vigil outside flagship Publix store in Lakeland in wake of Walmart agreement; Tampa Bay Times editorial: "With Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and Wal-Mart now participating in the program, there is no reason Publix should not join its grocery competitors in helping to raise pay and improve working conditions in Florida's tomato fields." Following last >> Read More