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United Methodist Women magazine features front-page article on Campaign for Fair Food!

Posted on May 25, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title=".@UMWomen magazine features front-page article on Campaign for Fair Food!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/05/umw-response/"] “If you profess to be a Christian, but you do nothing after witnessing the injustices that marginalized people suffer, then you aren’t really living your faith...” This month, the Florida chapter of United Methodist Women (UMW) is featured on the front page of the organization’s national magazine, Response, for their >> Read More

Religious leaders around the country call on Wendy’s: “Lead Wendy’s to be a part of the common good…”

Posted on June 4, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="60+ religious leaders call on @Wendys: Lead Wendys to be a part of the common good..." url="https://ciw-online.org/"] "We've witnessed the powerful partnerships between workers, growers and corporations, whose collaboration is transforming an industry once mired in slavery to one now founded on dignity and respect..." The campaign to shepherd Wendy's into the growing Fair Food movement continued to gain momentum >> Read More

Ripped from the headlines!

Posted on July 16, 2013October 16, 2020 by editor

Publix's hometown paper catches up with United Methodist Women as they as they call on Carol Jenkins Barnett to support farmworkers' human rights, study roots of modern-day slavery... Over 60 United Methodist Women from the Florida conference joined CIW members and allies in a prayer vigil at the Southgate Publix in Lakeland last Friday, and the joyous action caught the >> Read More

Walk Free e-action against Publix reaches 161,000, and counting…

Posted on May 30, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

Together with 90,000 who signed the Wendy's petition last week, that's over a quarter million people who took action for Fair Food in just the past month! Rest assured, the Fair Food Nation hasn't forgotten about Publix! Even as Wendy's has been sweating it out on the front burner of the Campaign for Fair Food over the past few weeks, the Florida-based >> Read More

Welcome, Treasure Coast Fair Food!

Posted on April 24, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

March gives rise to new Fair Food Committee on Florida's east coast with a strong interfaith spirit... After more than a decade of community gatherings, class presentations, candlelight vigils, pray-ins, and protests -- not to mention the hotly contested Publix campaign right here in the CIW's home state -- the Campaign for Fair Food has built a pretty impressive network of consumer >> Read More

A tomato on the Seder plate…

Posted on March 27, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

This Passover, join families across the country in celebrating a modern story of liberation with a tomato on the Seder plate! This week, at hundreds of Passover Seders across the country, Florida's modern story of farmworker liberation is sitting squarely at the center of the holiday table. Joining the bitter herbs (symbolizing the bitterness of slavery) and salt water (tears >> Read More

The march may be over, but its impact just keeps going and going!

Posted on March 25, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

141 Methodist Women visit Immokalee in wake of the march, send scorching letter to Publix Board Chair Carol Jenkins Barnett; Marchers pen own words in response to Publix's stubborn resistance to human rights... Though the March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food ended just over a week ago, the momentum for Fair Food continues to build. Inspired by their time >> Read More

Modern-Day Slavery Museum invited to Lakeland!

Posted on February 14, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

Visit to Publix's hometown (including stops at the Church of the Resurrection, and a Black History Month celebration) underscores the value of CIW's Fair Food Program, injustice of Publix's refusal to support historic changes in Florida's fields... This past weekend, one of Lakeland's largest houses of worship, Church of the Resurrection, welcomed the CIW to its beautiful campus for a weekend-long program of >> Read More

“Consider what your faith calls upon you to do…”

Posted on February 11, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

Quaker youth stand for justice in the fields, make preparations for March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food! From the early days of the Taco Bell Boycott more than a decade ago to the present, two of the greatest sources of strength for the Campaign for Fair Food have been youth and communities of faith. Last fall, the CIW was visited >> Read More

The Archbishop of Acapulco (Guerrero, MX) visits Immokalee, congratulates CIW members for “fighting for workers’ rights, your rights”

Posted on January 31, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

In a moving visit, the Archbishop of the Diocese of Acapulco in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, Archbishop Carlos Garfias Merlos (above, left), met with CIW members in Immokalee this past Wednesday afternoon, hearing stories of the organization's struggles for fundamental human rights and warmly expressing his own support and encouragement to the workers, many of whom hail from the >> Read More