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

Posted on April 5, 2023April 16, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[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

Posted on March 28, 2023April 3, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

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

Day 3: Support for farmworker freedom swells as marchers inch closer to the coast; YOU can still join us for the grand finale, Saturday, 3/18!

Posted on March 17, 2023April 16, 2023 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_36578" align="aligncenter" width="900"] One of the youngest marchers does his part to Build a New World on Day 3 of the march from Pahokee to Palm Beach, eliciting a tumult of truck and car horns that saluted marchers along the day's 11 mile route. As marchers made their way ever closer to the island enclave of Palm Beach, >> Read More

Day 2: Rain, cold fail to dampen marchers’ spirits as farmworkers, allies move one day closer to march goal, one giant leap closer to new world of farmworker freedom!

Posted on March 16, 2023April 16, 2023 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_36559" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Marchers met new challenges on their 5-day, 50-mile route to the island of Palm Beach yesterday in the form of rain and unseasonably cold weather, but rose to meet the challenges of the day with enthusiasm and an unwavering commitment to their twin goals of celebrating more than a decade of unprecedented human rights progress under >> Read More

DAY 1: Over 100 workers, allies launch 5-day march to celebrate decade of human rights progress, Build a New World of farmworker freedom!

Posted on March 15, 2023April 16, 2023 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_36546" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Over 100 farmworkers and their allies make their way from Pahokee to Palm Beach on Day one of the Build a New World March. The globe at the head of the march, illuminated by the sun representing the Fair Food Program, remains divided into two worlds, one filled with the light of fair working conditions, human >> Read More

One day before we launch our 5-day trek from Pahokee to Palm Beach, national media are celebrating the CIW’s March for Farmworker Freedom

Posted on March 13, 2023April 16, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_36518" align="aligncenter" width="800"] CIW's Cruz Salucio makes the final touches on a sun representing the Fair Food Program.[/caption] Truthout: "There are few human rights achievements that are so universally celebrated today as the farmworker-led Fair Food Program." Civil Eats: "Created 10 years ago, the program has been credited with markedly improving conditions in agricultural fields for workers on the >> Read More

PRESS RELEASE: CIW announces march to celebrate 10+ years of progress under Fair Food Program, calls on holdouts Wendy’s, Kroger, and Publix to help finish the job of eradicating forced labor

Posted on February 13, 2023April 16, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_26379" align="aligncenter" width="807"] Workers on a Fair Food Program farm gather for an FFP worker-to-worker education session, led by members of the CIW Education Team, before heading into the fields to harvest tomatoes that will bear the Fair Food Program label. FFP education sessions take place on the clock and in the fields, and inform workers at least twice >> Read More

A generation with a fighting spirit is ready to build the future

Posted on December 23, 2022March 29, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_23591" align="aligncenter" width="718"] Lupe Gonzalo with her nephew Jorge (middle) and son Leo (left) on International Women's Day in 2016 during a Fair Food tour.[/caption] Once again, I have come today to tell you about the impact the Fair Food Program, and the whole movement that created it, is having in the world – but today, I come to >> Read More

News round-up: Fair Food Program in the spotlight!

Posted on September 13, 2022March 29, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

As it often does, this year's national celebration of Labor Day prompted some excellent reporting on the many ways the Fair Food Program changes the lives of farmworkers across the U.S. agricultural industry — and how the FFP's unparalleled success has become the source of inspiration for low-wage workers in other industries to take up the fight for their own >> Read More

Day 8: Justice in a Bottle

Posted on June 29, 2022March 29, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

A few weeks ago, the Fair Food Movement hit a major new milestone: the very first packaged food to bear the FFP label. We are honored to welcome Soupergirl, the plant-based soup and gazpacho company, into the Fair Food Program – and could not have asked for a more visionary partner. Here’s what company co-founder Sara Polon said in a >> Read More