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Clergy take to their local papers to tell Publix

Posted on January 10, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

Clergy take to their local papers to tell Publix "its position on the penny-per-pound issue lacks justifiable merit." If you agree, join us for the March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food! Religious leaders and people of faith have been a pillar of the Campaign for Fair Food for over a decade, but recently clergy are losing their patience with >> Read More

Pennies from Heaven…

Posted on December 6, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

Lakeland Churches Run Symbolic Penny & Prayer Drive to Urge Publix to Join Fair Food Program Between the launch of "A Tale of Two Holidays" and the Thanksgiving Week of Action, the Campaign for Fair Food has ridden into December on a powerful wave of support. Our flagship video is continuing to make the rounds, meriting kudos in the Twitterverse from both >> Read More

November 12 Publix Action

Posted on November 12, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

"We knocked once and the door was closed..." Allies from the Unitarian Universalist congregations from across Florida joined farmworkers from Immokalee and their families this past Saturday in Port Charlotte, FL, calling on Publix to not only come to the Thanksgiving table, but to join the 11 corporate buyers at the table of the Fair Food Program. "... but we >> Read More

In wake of Fast, Florida clergy take Publix to task…

Posted on March 14, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

Op/Eds in Florida papers challenge Publix to take a stand for farm labor rights! Florida clergy are taking to the newspapers in the state's largest cities to denounce Publix's cold indifference to workers' and consumers' calls to support the CIW's Fair Food Program, or what one writer calls "the rot at the center of what would otherwise be a stellar >> Read More

Farmworkers, Religious Leaders, Consumers to hold 6-day “Fast for Fair Food” outside Publix Corporate Headquarters

Posted on February 27, 2012October 16, 2020 by CIW

MEDIA CONTACT Gerardo Reyes (Coalition of Immokalee Workers), 239-503-0950 Marc Rodrigues (Coalition of Immokalee Workers), 239-292-3431 www.ciw-online.org/fast | workers@ciw-online.org Fast to make moral appeal in light of Publix's unconscionable rejection of groundbreaking Fair Food Program; Kerry Kennedy, daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, to take part in March 10th ceremony breaking the fast "... Theirs [Publix] is a morally >> Read More

Interfaith pray-in greets shoppers at Publix Grand Opening in Miami!

Posted on December 7, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

Since the first pray-in at Publix back in August of this year, clergy have returned several times to the produce aisles to protest, through prayer, Publix's refusal to support the CIW's groundbreaking Fair Food Program. Yesterday, at the grand opening of the new Publix store in Miami -- the same store where people will gather for a protest on Sunday in commemoration of International >> Read More

Photo Report: “Cycling to Crenshaw” Bike Pilgrimage to Publix Immokalee to Lakeland, FL 8/27 – 9/6, 2011

Posted on November 1, 2011October 16, 2020 by CIW

"Cycling to Crenshaw" Bike Pilgrimage to Publix Immokalee to Lakeland, FL 8/27 - 9/6, 2011 Immokalee to Ft. Myers Days 1 & 2 Participants on the tour gathered before dawn for some coffee and last-minute safety checks at the CIW's headquarters... ... where, before heading out for Lakeland, they received a blessing for the road from Rev. Miguel Estrada of >> Read More

Trader Joe’s Northeast Tour August 2-12, 2011

Posted on August 12, 2011October 15, 2020 by CIW

Days 7, 8, & 9 Massachusetts (click here for full schedule) Just to keep you on your feet, today we are going to switch things up a bit in our photo report, beginning with the Tour crew's Thursday visit to Boston and working our way back to the Worcester, New Bedford, and Needham stops earlier in the week. In visiting >> Read More

Trader Joe’s Northeast Tour August 2-12, 2011

Posted on August 9, 2011October 15, 2020 by CIW

Days 5 and 6 White Plains, NY, and Providence, RI (click here for full schedule) Our latest update from the road with the Northeast Tour crew begins in White Plains, New York, where a relatively new group of Fair Food allies received the crew with open hearts on the CIW's first-ever visit to the Westchester County town. The visit began >> Read More

4th of July Farmworker Freedom Fest!…

Posted on July 5, 2011October 15, 2020 by CIW

UCC leads more than 450 Fair Food activists in huge march on Tampa Publix Ten years ago at its General Synod, in 2001, the United Church of Christ approved a resolution to endorse the Taco Bell boycott, making the UCC one of the Campaign for Fair Food's earliest, and staunchest, allies in the faith community. Yesterday, ten years later, at >> Read More