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Inequality.org: “Power is at the crux of the Fair Food Program”…

Posted on March 7, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

CIW's Gerardo Reyes: “Nelson Peltz is a key player within the structure of Wendy’s. He’s the president of a hedge fund called Trian Partners... They invest a lot of money, profit a lot, and have a lot of power. But they refuse to use it. So we are going to their headquarters to ask them to exercise their power in >> Read More

Why we are fasting…

Posted on February 8, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Exactly one month from today on March 8th, International Women's Day, CIW members will be standing in the streets of New York to hold a press conference ahead of next month's Freedom Fast and Time's Up Wendy's March. To celebrate a day where women around the world stand up to protect their rights, farmworker women from Immokalee will announce why >> Read More

The Atlantic: The Fair Food Program “represents hope for workers in an industry where, for generations, there’s been very little…”

Posted on February 4, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Investigative reporting out of The Atlantic charts devastating history of sexual violence in agriculture, identifies FFP as “source of hope” for the industry... Last week, The Atlantic, one of the country’s longest-running magazines, published an in-depth piece on the prevalence of sexual violence in U.S. agriculture. After months of extensive research, both historical and of the current agricultural industry, the >> Read More

The Fair Food Program goes to Washington…

Posted on February 1, 2018October 15, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_27749" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Laura Germino of the CIW (middle, in front of vase) stands between Florida Congresswoman Lois Frankel (D-FL, on right) and Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA, on left) during a picture taken before the State of the Union address. The group includes Congressional representatives and the activists working to end sexual harassment and assault in the workplace who >> Read More

NPR’s 1A brings news of new book on CIW, story of Fair Food movement, to millions of listeners!

Posted on January 26, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Dean of Pardee RAND Graduate School Susan Marquis's book, "I am not a tractor!", attracts national attention to remarkable story — and promising future — of Fair Food movement... Over the past month, word has spread about an extraordinary new book from the Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School in California, Susan Marquis. Marquis's volume, titled "I Am Not >> Read More

Drumbeat grows louder for FFP as proven solution for Time’s Up movement!

Posted on January 24, 2018October 15, 2020 by CIW

The Nation: "When it comes to creating a workplace where women are empowered to report sexual harassment—and receive justice rather than retaliation when they do so—the farmworkers of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) offer a proven model..." The list of publications connecting the dots between the Time's Up movement and the CIW's Fair Food Program -- the former >> Read More

“A movement, not a moment”: Lessons from the Fair Food Program for the growing fight against sexual harassment and assault in the workplace…

Posted on January 2, 2018October 15, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_27429" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CIW staff members and Fair Food Program educators (from right to left) Nely Rodriguez, Silvia Perez, Leonel Perez, Cruz Salucio, and Mathieu Beaucicot stand outside the CIW office in Immokalee.[/caption] As the New York Times rang in the New Year with a story announcing the organization of an exciting new coalition of "300 prominent actresses and female agents, >> Read More

ANNOUNCED: Farmworkers to hold 5-Day “Freedom Fast,” March 11-15, outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz!

Posted on December 20, 2017October 15, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_27079" align="aligncenter" width="500"] CIW members and allies gather at the ceremony breaking their weeklong fast outside Publix headquarters in 2012. The fast was featured in the James Beard Award-winning film "Food Chains".[/caption] Demanding freedom from sexual violence and slavery in the fields where Wendy's buys its tomatoes, farmworkers from Immokalee and their allies will hold "Freedom Fast"! Fast will take >> Read More

Supermarket Guru: “Fair Food Agreements Might Just Be the Next Big Thing”!

Posted on December 15, 2017October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Retail food expert, followed by over tens of thousands of consumers nationwide, shines spotlight on FFP's success, "The results speak for themselves"..."Supermarket Guru" Phil Lempert is one of the retail food industry's leading experts. Reporting on all kinds of food news, from the newest trends in healthy diets to the latest consumer research, Mr. Lempert has served as NBC's Today Show Food Trends >> Read More

Univision: “In Mexico’s fields, farmworkers live as if they were slaves every day”…

Posted on December 12, 2017October 15, 2020 by CIW

Human rights report: "In addition there is organized crime. In the last decade, more than 200 farmworkers have disappeared in this country without a trace." What does Wendy's have to say about its produce partner of choice? Not a thing... When the CIW announced its call for a national boycott of fast-food giant Wendy's on March 5th, 2016, in New York >> Read More