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This International Human Rights Day, help us unlock $30,000 in matching donations for the Fair Food Program!

Posted on December 10, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Lucas Benitez was born to a big family in the rural highlands of Guerrero, Mexico. Raised in a cramped house with dirt floors, he migrated with his older brother at the age of 17 to Immokalee, Florida, where he worked in the tomato fields. Lucas expected to find hard work at the end of his journey, his young life as >> Read More

Action Alert Nov 18-22: Demand Kroger join the Fair Food Program!

Posted on November 17, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Calling all members of the Fair Food Nation! Take action to demand justice for farmworkers by contacting Kroger and demanding the grocery giant join the Fair Food Program! Earlier this year, Kroger – who has long resisted the call from farmworkers and consumers to join the award-winning Fair Food Program to prevent human rights abuses – was identified by the Department >> Read More

How the Fair Food Program’s heat protections are saving lives and leading the way toward a worker-driven solution

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_37533" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Farmworkers on a participating farm in Georgia participate in an on-the-clock, worker-to-worker education session on their rights under the Fair Food Program, including discussion of the Program's best-in-class heat illness protections.[/caption] Leo Perez, CIW: "We see the Fair Food Program as... both a method of education... to share information with workers about these risks, and at >> Read More

Action Alert: Demand Kroger join the Fair Food Program today!

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Calling all members of the Fair Food Nation! Today is the day to demand justice for farmworkers by contacting Kroger and demanding the grocery giant join the Fair Food Program! A year ago today, the notorious crewleader of Los Villatoros’ harvesting company, Bladimir Moreno, pleaded guilty to the federal charge of conspiracy to commit forced labor. Under Moreno, more than >> Read More

Five ways to pressure Kroger to join the Fair Food Program

Posted on September 25, 2023September 25, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

We are just two days away from the call-in day of September 27, when the Fair Food Nation will call on Kroger to demand they join the Presidential Medal-winning Fair Food Program in light of well-documented cases of modern-day slavery in Kroger’s supply chain. Ready to go? Here are five ways YOU can join farmworkers and the Fair Food Nation >> Read More

“Food, Inc. 2”, sequel to the 2008 Oscar-nominated documentary, showcases Fair Food Program as model solution for a more just food industry!

Posted on September 21, 2023September 21, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_37411" align="alignright" width="900"] Gerardo Reyes Chavez (center) works in the fields in the upcoming documentary Food, Inc. 2[/caption] Watch the trailer for the upcoming "Food, Inc. 2," featuring the CIW and the Fair Food Program as a model solution to our nation's broken food system! The much-anticipated sequel to the Oscar-nominated 2008 documentary "Food, Inc." recently premiered at the >> Read More

SAVE THE DATE SEPT 27: Call Kroger and demand the grocery giant join the Fair Food Program!

Posted on September 13, 2023September 13, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Stand with farmworkers on September 27 for a virtual action to demand Kroger join the Fair Food Program! Action alert! Calling all members of the Fair Food Nation! A year ago the notorious crewleader of Los Villatoros’ harvesting company, Bladimir Moreno, pleaded guilty to the federal charge of conspiracy to commit forced labor. Under Moreno, more than a dozen workers were >> Read More

The Fair Food Program adds corn to growing crop list, continues expansion in Colorado!

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_37363" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Sunrise at Tuxedo Corn, CO[/caption] Montrose Daily Press: "The [Fair Food Program] provides workers with a means of making complaints, which has led to people speaking out against abuses..." CIW's Leo Perez: "The basis of this program is that workers have the information and the tools they need to actually implement and apply their rights in >> Read More

Media Roundup: How the Fair Food Program’s heat protections are transforming agriculture

Posted on August 31, 2023August 31, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_37368" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Workers inside the FFP receive on-the-clock, worker-to-worker education on their rights inside the program, which includes rigorous and enforceable heat stress protections.[/caption] The Invading Sea: "A solution is hiding in plain sight on farms in the supply chains of major corporations participating in the Fair Food Program" This summer has brought deadly heat across much of >> Read More

RELEASE: Fair Food Program’s heat illness standards are saving farmworkers’ lives amidst record-shattering summer temperatures

Posted on August 23, 2023August 23, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_37321" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Under the FFP, tens of thousands of farmworkers are protected by heat stress standards, which mandate rest breaks, water, and shade.[/caption] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fair Food Program’s heat illness standards are saving farmworkers’ lives amidst record-shattering summer temperatures Professor Susan Marquis, Princeton University, op/ed in Miami Herald on FFP heat illness standards: "The Fair Food Program’s >> Read More