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Growing wave of brutal modern-day slavery operations in agriculture prompts renewed calls for expansion of Fair Food Program

Posted on January 11, 2022September 6, 2022 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_34904" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Officials from the U.S. Justice Department, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. State Department, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and state and local law enforcement officers speak at a news conference in Waycross, Georgia on Monday, November 22, to announce indictments in the case of U.S. v. Patricio et al.[/caption] Atlanta Journal-Constitution: >> Read More

Fair Food Program expansion marches on, even in these difficult times!

Posted on July 31, 2020December 6, 2020 by CIW

Award-winning Fair Food Program breaks ground in Tennessee alongside longtime partner Sunripe Certified Brands and new FFP Participating Grower, Smoky Mountain Family Farms... Even in these dark and difficult times, the Fair Food Program continues to inspire and transform lives for the better. First came the publication last week of an unprecedented, decade-long study carried out by MSI Integrity, the >> Read More

Three keys to the future of the Fair Food Program: Expansion, expansion, and expansion…

Posted on December 20, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

“You’re not in Florida anymore... When we’re up here, what I say goes, not the CIW!” Those were the words of a crewleader with one of Florida’s largest tomato growers speaking to his crew on a company farm in Georgia during the early years of the Fair Food Program, before the FFP had expanded up the East Coast, all the way >> Read More

The Worker-driven Social Responsibility model hits new milestone, continues its expansion in world of business and human rights!

Posted on July 10, 2017October 16, 2020 by CIW

Workers Rights Consortium reports groundbreaking Bangladesh Accord extended to 2021; renewal "product of the recognition, by all of the parties, of the Accord’s effectiveness," confirmation of power of WSR approach... Meanwhile: Migrant Justice receives the National Education Association's prestigious Cesar Chavez Civil and Human Rights Award; pressure increases on Ben & Jerry's to finalize agreement to implement WSR-based Milk with Dignity Program >> Read More

Worker-to-worker education team wraps up first summer of Fair Food Program expansion in Virginia, New Jersey!

Posted on August 5, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_22372" align="aligncenter" width="443"] Tomato harvesters in Cedarville, New Jersey take home "Know Your Rights" booklets after the state's first Fair Food Program education session.[/caption] Local tomato harvesters on the Fair Food Program: "We've never seen anything like this in New Jersey..."Just two short months ago, the Fair Food Program's worker-to-worker education team broke new ground outside the state of Florida with labor >> Read More

Breaking: CIW to join with Spanish farmworkers in exploration of Worker-driven Social Responsibility in Spanish Produce Industry

Posted on March 29, 2024 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_37360" align="aligncenter" width="900"] CIW staff member Lupe Gonzalo provides an on-the-clock, worker-to-worker education session at Tuxedo Corn, CO.[/caption] Lucas Benitez, CIW co-founder: “As workers ourselves – the men and women who built this new model and experienced this remarkable change – we are excited to continue the dialogue with workers around the globe about how they can transform their industries >> Read More

Media round-up of the Farmworker Freedom Festival’s Day 3 Pilgrimage of Hope

Posted on March 19, 2024 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_37943" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Farmworkers and consumers view an exhibit documenting “A Day in the Life of the Fair Food Program” as part of the CIW’s mobile Modern-day Slavery Museum in Bradley Park.[/caption] Lupe Gonzalo, CIW: "We wanted as workers to leave the place where we live and the place where we work, and come here to the place Nelson >> Read More

Day 3 of the Farmworker Freedom Festival in Palm Beach: Hope comes home…

Posted on March 13, 2024March 13, 2024 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_37862" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Farmworkers are joined by their families and allies under banyan trees in a park near the beachside residence of Wendy's Board Chair Nelson Peltz on Day 3 of the Farmworker Freedom Festival in Palm Beach. Ahead of the gathering, workers wrote their hopes for a future of partnership with Wendy's through the Fair Food Program on >> Read More

2024 Farmworker Freedom Festival

Register for the first-ever Farmworker Freedom Festival from March 8-10 in Bradley Park, Palm Beach, FL Join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in a 3-day celebration of farmworkers’ human rights featuring the CIW’s mobile Modern-day Slavery Museum, a benefit concert, and original farmworker theater and art, including a two-story tall, life-like farmworker puppet walking the streets of Palm Beach, giving >> Read More

“We needed to create a new form of power.“ Watch CIW Co-Founder Lucas Benitez speak on human rights revolution that began in Immokalee

Posted on February 1, 2024 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

CIW’s Lucas Benitez: “I arrived ready to go into the field and to perform that labor, but what I was not prepared for was facing constant violations of my human rights in the process.” “We, as workers, were able to create real consequences where before there existed none.” To mark the 75th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of >> Read More