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Labor Day picket kicks off fall season for Campaign for Fair Food!

Posted on September 9, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_22606" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CIW Women’s Group member, Marta, at Sunday’s Labor Day picket at Publix[/caption]“… It is with these very hands that I supply the tomatoes that you use, from which you profit…”On Monday, we shared a powerful reflection on the global movement for workers’ human rights and the Fair Food Program’s worker-driven, market-powered model — but that was >> Read More

Customer to Publix: “I don’t like Publix’s hardnosed position on farmworkers”…

Posted on September 3, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_22606" align="aligncenter" width="530"] Over the course of the past six years, Publix has received countless letters from Fair Food supporters, calling on Florida's hometown supermarket giant to join the Fair Food Program.[/caption] Tipping Point Encore: From Florida to New Jersey, consumers continue to applaud recent advances of Fair Food Program, decry failure of remaining corporate holdouts to get on board...Even >> Read More

Coming Soon: Student/Farmworker Alliance’s 2015 Annual Encuentro!

Posted on August 31, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

Scores of students, young people to gather in Immokalee, develop strategy for Publix, Wendy's campaigns...Each fall, the Campaign for Fair Food takes off with a burst of renewed energy thanks to an annual Immokalee tradition: The Student/Farmworker Alliance Encuentro! An action-packed weekend of strategizing and learning for students and youth from all over the country, the Encuentro this year is set for September 10-13. Check out >> Read More

Tipping Point, Vol. 6: Longtime Publix shopper calls for transparency, action from Florida grocer!

Posted on August 19, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_22525" align="alignright" width="312"] During 2012 Fast for Fair Food, fasting allies and farmworkers wrote dozens of letters to Publix, leaving them at the front of Publix headquarters. Since the launch of the Publix campaign in 2009, consumers have sent hundreds of thousands of messages to the Florida-based grocer, calling on them to join the Fair Food Program.[/caption] "What I want to >> Read More

Tipping Point, Vol. 4: Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster lifts up Ahold USA agreement as “victory” for farmworkers, consumers!

Posted on August 17, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

"...When the wisdom and expertise of workers is honored at the head of the table, and consumers use public pressure to urge the institutions they patron to heed that expertise, it can result in justice..."Last week, we launched the weeklong "Tipping Point" series, sharing a daily sample of letters, emails, and articles from consumer allies who are celebrating two extraordinary advances of the Fair Food >> Read More

Tipping Point, Vol. 3: Presbyterian Church USA calls on Publix and other companies to follow lead of Ahold USA!

Posted on August 14, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_22486" align="aligncenter" width="507"] Rev. Noelle Damico represents the Presbyterian Church (USA) at the 2014 March on Wendy's Headquarters. Members of the Presbyterian Church USA has been marching alongside farmworkers since 2002.[/caption] "My prayer is that Kroger, Wendy’s and Publix will also join and that there will come a day when we know that behind every tomato we buy stands a >> Read More

Tipping Point, Vol. 2: “I will now make better and more informed choices when shopping… and will take my business elsewhere.”

Posted on August 13, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_14209" align="aligncenter" width="530"] Long-time Publix customers joining farmworkers for a protest outside the Florida grocer in 2013. In spite of its popularity in the state of Florida, Publix's indefensible rejection of the Fair Food Program is costing the company countless once-loyal customers.[/caption] Former producer of Publix video advertisements and longtime customer is "appalled" by grocer's rejection of Fair Food Program, pledges support >> Read More

Tipping Point: Ahold signing, CBS Sunday Morning story pull rug out from under Publix, Kroger, Wendy’s in their fight to turn back Fair Food!

Posted on August 12, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_21073" align="aligncenter" width="525"] Consumers stand alongside farmworkers outside of one of Florida's first Publix stores in Lakeland, Florida (2013). In the wake of the Ahold signing and the recent CBS Sunday Morning story on the Fair Food Program, the arc is bending ever more forcefully, and companies like Publix, Kroger, and Wendy's are hearing it from their customers.[/caption] Amidst >> Read More

CBS News Sunday Morning: “How the Fair Food Program is making a difference for struggling migrant farm workers…”

Posted on August 10, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

Following powerful CBS story, viewers take to social media to call out Publix for "unconscionable" refusal to join FFP...Yesterday morning, as they do every week, millions of viewers across the U.S. tuned into CBS News Sunday Morning, but this time they were in for a rare treat on network television: an excellent, in-depth report on the CIW's Fair Food Program. Brought to us by correspondent Mark Strassmann >> Read More