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Release: First-ever Farmworker Freedom Festival to celebrate human rights gains of the Fair Food Program, call on corporate holdout Wendy’s to join

Release: First-ever Farmworker Freedom Festival to celebrate human rights gains of the Fair Food Program, call on corporate holdout Wendy’s to join

A 3-day celebration of farmworker culture and fundamental human rights featuring the CIW’s mobile Modern-day Slavery Museum, a benefit concert, and original theater and art, including a two-story tall farmworker puppet named Esperanza giving voice to the country’s 1.5 million farmworkers in their ongoing fight for fundamental human rights Press and Media opportunities: March 8, 1 PM - 340 S >> Read More
Washington Post heralds Fair Food Program’s groundbreaking heat illness prevention standards!

Washington Post heralds Fair Food Program’s groundbreaking heat illness prevention standards!

[caption id="attachment_37735" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Farmworkers in GA attending an on-the-clock, worker-to-worker education session on their rights under the Fair Food Program[/caption] Washington Post, "These farmworkers created America’s strongest workplace heat rules," 2/17/24: * "Leonel Pérez remembers when conditions on tomato farms were very different. He started picking tomatoes when he was 20. Summers were hot and humid. Workers sometimes fainted >> Read More
Grocery giant and Fair Food holdout Kroger linked to yet another modern slavery ring

Grocery giant and Fair Food holdout Kroger linked to yet another modern slavery ring

Investigation from The Lever: "Multibillion-dollar retail giant Kroger Company defended its proposed takeover of rival Albertsons Companies, Inc. by highlighting its partnership with a blueberry grower that hired a labor contractor accused of orchestrating one of the largest human trafficking rings in modern U.S. history." "Kroger has not joined the Fair Food Program, and refused to let its shareholders vote >> Read More
How the Fair Food Program’s heat protections are saving lives and leading the way toward a worker-driven solution

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

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

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

[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
“We are making history”: Week-long visit to birthplace of Fair Food Program by Chilean delegation helps fuel FFP expansion

“We are making history”: Week-long visit to birthplace of Fair Food Program by Chilean delegation helps fuel FFP expansion

[caption id="attachment_37003" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A delegation of Chilean growers, human rights advocates, and government officials gather with CIW and Fair Food Standards Council representatives, Fair Food Program Participating Buyers and Growers, and US government officials outside the offices of the CIW in Immokalee, FL[/caption] "We are making history," said Angel Garcia, Human Resources Manager at Pacific Tomato Growers/Sunripe Certified Brands.  >> Read More
BREAKING: New York City Council officially — and resoundingly — calls on Wendy’s “to join the Fair Food Program and support farmworkers’ human rights”!

BREAKING: New York City Council officially — and resoundingly — calls on Wendy’s “to join the Fair Food Program and support farmworkers’ human rights”!

[caption id="attachment_36922" align="aligncenter" width="799"] CIW's Lupe Gonzalo and Marley Monacello (second and third, from left) gather to celebrate with members of the New York City Council, Carmen de la Rosa, Councilmember Eric Dinowitz, and Councilmember Rita Joseph, the day that New York City Resolution 131 in support of the Fair Food Program and Wendy's Boycott passed the City Council with >> Read More
Final wrap-up from last month’s March to Build a New World

Final wrap-up from last month’s March to Build a New World

[caption id="attachment_36714" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Almost 600 farmworkers and allies marched into billionaire enclave of Palm Beach, FL to celebrate the Fair Food Program and demand Wendy's, Publix, and Kroger join the gold standard for human rights protection in the agricultural industry.[/caption] Now you can read the solidarity statements from allies around the country, like these two below, that buoyed marchers' >> Read More
Florida media highlights 5-day, 50 mile farmworker march from Pahokee to Palm Beach championing the Fair Food Program

Florida media highlights 5-day, 50 mile farmworker march from Pahokee to Palm Beach championing the Fair Food Program

WGCU: "Gonzalo... lived in fear of speaking up. But one day, it was just too much. She asked for some water.  She was told to drink from the ditch. This is why Lupe Gonzalo marches." Palm Beach Post: "According to the coalition, 'two parallel worlds exist side-by-side within the farming community: the world of freedom from abuse on farms in the >> Read More