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“Where shooting is a pleasure”: Parkland students put Publix in the hot seat for political contributions to “NRA sellout”…

“Where shooting is a pleasure”: Parkland students put Publix in the hot seat for political contributions to “NRA sellout”…

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  Parkland students notch another victory in fight for common sense gun reform with protest at Florida grocer Publix; Publix's pledge to "never knowingly disappoint our customers or the communities we serve" prompts cries of hypocrisy, calls for supermarket giant to drop resistance and join the Fair Food Program... Last week, Florida's "hometown grocer," Publix, found itself trending on Twitter — >> Read More
Civil Eats on Fair Food Program: “Meet the Farmworkers Leading the #MeToo Fight For Workers Everywhere”…

Civil Eats on Fair Food Program: “Meet the Farmworkers Leading the #MeToo Fight For Workers Everywhere”…

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“By rectifying long-standing power imbalances, Worker-driven Social Responsibility drills into the foundation of the problem…” “No gender-based violence programs have achieved the same amount of leverage in fostering change…” Earlier this week, Civil Eats published an excellent, feature-length piece based on interviews conducted during the Freedom Fast in New York City that lends critical insight into the endemic, generations-old problem >> Read More
CIW receives 2018 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism!

CIW receives 2018 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism!

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ALBA, Puffin Foundation lift up power of CIW's Campaign for Fair Food: "The CIW's hands-on organizing, coalition building, protests, boycotts, and forging alliances with consumers has demonstrated the modern-day power of organizing..." This past weekend, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers had the tremendous honor of receiving the 2018 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism in recognition of the CIW's 25-year >> Read More
#SolutionsSummit lifts up Fair Food Program as “promising practice to end sexual violence”!

#SolutionsSummit lifts up Fair Food Program as “promising practice to end sexual violence”!

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This past Tuesday, in an office nestled among the beautiful trees of San Francisco's Presidio Park, nearly 100 workers, advocates, policymakers, and journalists gathered at the home of Futures without Violence, one of the nation's leading voices in the movement to end violence against women and children, and a longtime CIW collaborator in the development of the Fair Food Program's >> Read More
NYC Human Rights Commission invites CIW to join panel of “international and national figures in the fight against sexual harassment and gender equity…”

NYC Human Rights Commission invites CIW to join panel of “international and national figures in the fight against sexual harassment and gender equity…”

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[caption id="attachment_28404" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Photo Credit: Adrienne Nicole Productions for the NYC Commission on Human Rights.[/caption] New York City's First Lady, Chirlane McCray:  "How can we help harness this moment in order to grow and sustain the movement?"... Last week, the New York City Human Rights Commission partnered with the Office of the First Lady Chirlane McCray and the Mayor’s >> Read More
Extra, extra! 2017 Fair Food Program Report, hot off the presses!

Extra, extra! 2017 Fair Food Program Report, hot off the presses!

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Susan Marquis, Dean of RAND Graduate School, and author of "I Am Not a Tractor," on the unique success and attention to detail of the Fair Food Program: "Getting things done is central to this story because to achieve the systemic change necessary to eliminate the causes of worker abuse, the program had to work; its success measured by metrics >> Read More
Massive “Time’s Up Wendy’s March” takes Manhattan by storm!

Massive “Time’s Up Wendy’s March” takes Manhattan by storm!

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Nearly 2,000 turnout in support of farmworkers' Freedom Fast; Best-selling author Glennon Doyle to farmworker women fasters: "There's nothing more beautiful than using your freedom to fight for those not yet free!" An unforgettable week of action in the heart of Manhattan, 110,000 petition signatures and counting, and media coverage from Newsweek to The Nation lift Wendy's Boycott to the >> Read More
Intense, jam-packed Day 4 of Freedom Fast sets the stage for massive “Time’s Up Wendy’s March”!

Intense, jam-packed Day 4 of Freedom Fast sets the stage for massive “Time’s Up Wendy’s March”!

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[caption id="attachment_28094" align="aligncenter" width="800"] From left to right: Melody Gonzalez, Rev. Michael Livingston, Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, and Noelle Damico prepare to deliver over 103,000 petition signatures to Nelson Peltz on Day 4 of the Freedom Fast.[/caption] Fasters deliver over 100,000 petition signatures in support of fast, boycott, to Wendy's board chair Nelson Peltz; Parkland students tribute; visits from Eve Ensler, Make >> Read More