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City of Brotherly Love shows much love…

Posted on August 7, 2011October 15, 2020 by CIW

... for the Tour crew and the Campaign for Fair Food! The Trader Joe's Northeast Tour continued its swing through the great cities of the Northeast, stopping in Philadelphia on Thursday for a daily double of Fair Food action -- a protest at a local Giant supermarket (above, northeast-based chains Giant and Stop & Shop are owned by Dutch supermarket >> Read More

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

Posted on August 6, 2011October 15, 2020 by CIW

Day 3 Philadelphia, PA (click here for full schedule) With all the attention so far on Trader Joe's, the Tour crew couldn't forget about Giant! After traveling up from DC, a very busy Day 3 started with a protest at a Giant in Lansdowne, PA, just outside of Philadelphia. A large delegation delivered a Manager Letter to four Giant representatives >> Read More

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

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

Day 4 New York, New York (click here for full schedule) In action after action, Fair Food activists with the New York-based Community/Farmworker Alliance have made creativity their trademark. On Day 4 of the Northeast Tour, several members of the CFA donned Trader Joe's-style Hawaiian shirts and launched their latest action with an old favorite: Sampling Justice, where consumers are >> Read More

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

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

Days 1 and 2 Baltimore, MD, Washington DC (click here for full schedule) The Northeast Tour started out with a visit by several of the Tour participants to the watermelon fields of Delaware's eastern shore, where members of the CIW's watermelon cooperative (above) were hard at work harvesting melons. Fortunately for the Tour crew, the recent record-breaking heat wave had >> Read More

Trader Joe’s Northeast Tour gets off to a great start in Washington, DC…

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

Trader Joe's Northeast Tour gets off to a great start in Washington, DC... and Baltimore, MD! Fresh off a strong showing on the west coast, farmworkers from Immokalee and their allies in the Campaign for Fair Food are taking the fight to Trader Joe's again over the next ten days, this time visiting the great cities of the northeast coast, >> Read More

Tour wraps up with powerful Bay Area finale! Days Six and Seven of the Trader Joe’s CA Truth Tour July 16-17, 2011

Posted on July 18, 2011October 15, 2020 by CIW

The Trader Joe's CA Truth Tour ended with a bang this weekend with powerful protests in two of the Bay Area's most storied communities! On Saturday, the CIW tour crew and farmworker allies old and new made their presence felt in the heart of Berkeley, while on Sunday, a finale march, pictured above, made its way (quite literally!) through the >> Read More

Santa Cruz, San Jose lead the way to the Bay! Days Four and Five of the Trader Joe’s CA Truth Tour July 14-15, 2011

Posted on July 16, 2011October 15, 2020 by CIW

After a very successful stay in Southern California, the Tour crew headed north, stopping on the way for an afternoon at the University of California Santa Cruz campus and its famous Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS), home to one of the largest campus-based farms in the country. CASFS is a research, education, and public service program at >> Read More

Days Two and Three of Trader Joe’s CA Truth Tour hit Irvine, UCLA…

Posted on July 13, 2011October 15, 2020 by CIW

LA area actions bring out dozens of Taco Bell Boycott veterans, Tour heads north! Like the heat wave spreading across the country this week, Trader Joe's summer just keeps getting longer and hotter. The California tour continued yesterday, joining up with some of the CIW's most loyal and oldest allies -- the Taco Bell-toppling, Fair Food pioneers of the >> Read More

Trader Joe’s California TruthTour Launched with a Love Story…

Posted on July 11, 2011October 15, 2020 by CIW

Santa Ana action kicks off week-long tour! The Love Story... Many years ago, way back in the early days of the Campaign for Fair Food when the Campaign was focused on McDonald's, and the CIW and its allies logged months at a time organizing in Chicago, a young woman with the Immokalee crew met a young man living in >> Read More

Leaving Trader Joe’s in Las Vegas!

Posted on July 8, 2011October 15, 2020 by CIW

Plus... Fair Food allies in California prepare for week-long Trader Joe's Tour, with meetings and actions from LA to San Francisco! "Why I'm saying goodbye to Trader Joe's," is the title of an article published in the July 6th edition of the Las Vegas Weekly that reflects the sentiments of Trader Joe's customers everywhere, including more and more longtime customers >> Read More