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The fight for boardroom accountability at Wendy’s hits the financial press…

Posted on April 27, 2022September 6, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_35438" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Over 800 people gathered in Palm Beach on April 2, 2022 to call on Wendy's to join the Fair Food Program and on major shareholders Wells Fargo and JP Morgan to hold Wendy's Board accountable for failing to listen to shareholders' human rights concerns in the company's supply chain.[/caption] Majority Action, Investor Advocates for Social Justice >> Read More

Media-round up #2! March to End Modern Slavery makes headlines across the country…

Posted on April 12, 2022September 6, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Rev. Sekinah Hamlin, UCC: "We also know that before U.S. Customs and Border Protection put a hold on tomatoes from some Mexican farms, Mastronardi, a supplier for Wendy’s, purchased and imported some of the ill-gotten tomatoes. Yet, Wendy’s will not give any definitive statement that these tomatoes did not make it to their stores. The Fair Food Program would put >> Read More

ORGANIZING REPORT: Miami, West Palm Beach region allies make plans for major Wendy’s march next month!

Posted on March 15, 2022September 6, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_35228" align="alignnone" width="900"] CIW's Lupe Gonzalo and Lucas Benitez meet with Archbishop Thomas Wenski of the Archdiocese of Miami on March 10, 2022, to share updates on the impact of the Fair Food Program and upcoming "March to End Modern Slavery in the Fields" in Palm Beach.[/caption] Farmworker leaders meet with Archbishop Thomas Wenski of the Archdiocese of Miami — representing >> Read More

Shareholders step up demands for real human rights protections in Wendy’s supply chain ahead of annual meeting!

Posted on March 9, 2022September 6, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_34470" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A worker (left) and a member of a Fair Food Program education team chat this past summer next to a hand washing facility on a Fair Food Program farm. The Fair Food Program implemented mandatory, enforceable COVID protections early in the pandemic, and FFP farms have not experienced the sort of massive COVID outbreaks witnessed on >> Read More

Protecting farmworkers on the frontlines of climate change

Posted on December 17, 2021September 6, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Lupe Gonzalo: “For years, those with greater economic and political power have taken on a great debt from Nature. The moment has arrived to pay the price, but the least powerful and poorest in society are those that are having to pay… For vulnerable communities like ours, we have to find solutions together to protect ourselves against the effects of >> Read More

Immokalee youth: “Our community is not safe until those officers are gone from our streets…”

Posted on September 20, 2021September 6, 2022 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_34670" align="aligncenter" width="800"] On Friday, Sept 17, Jesse Andrade, right, Nicolas Morales's stepson, speaks to a representative of the Collier County Sheriff's Office, Lt. Rene Gonzales, left, about the pain caused to his family and to his community by Nicolas's brutal shooting and mauling death exactly one year ago in Immokalee's Farmworker Village neighborhood at the hands of Collier >> Read More

A Community Speaks with One Voice: Vigil for Justice for Nicolas Morales Today!

Posted on September 17, 2021September 6, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_34654" align="aligncenter" width="900"] A banner petition, signed by hundreds of Immokalee community members, declares "An injury to one is an injury to all," demanding accountability for the wrongful death of single father and Immokalee farmworker Nicolas Morales. The banner will be delivered to the Collier County Sheriff's Office following a peaceful vigil today in Naples.[/caption] CIW's Lupe Gonzalo in >> Read More

“When farmworkers have the opportunity to transform their work culture on their own terms, they seize it…”

Posted on June 22, 2021December 16, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

One down, nine to go! First day of this year's Sustainer Drive was a smash hit, with 14 new Sustainers signing up... let's keep up the momentum! Together, we can build a future without sexual violence for farmworkers from Florida to California. Nearly a decade before the #MeToo movement exploded onto the scene and awakened the nation to the pervasiveness >> Read More

Announcing The First Fair Food Sponsor in the Nation’s Capital!

Posted on June 3, 2021April 16, 2023 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Each Peach Market to become D.C.’s first Fair Food Sponsor, first small independent grocery to commit to groundbreaking farmworker human rights program Mt. Pleasant grocery store to support Fair Food Program, leading human rights program in U.S. agriculture WASHINGTON, DC, June 3, 2021 – Each Peach Market and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) will launch a partnership >> Read More

BIG NEWS: Actor, Comedian and Fair Food champion Amy Schumer joins May 1st Concert line up!

Posted on April 23, 2021December 16, 2021 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_30891" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Amy Schumer (center, red scarf) joins farmworkers and their families for a group photo during the 2019 Boycott Wendy's March in New York City.[/caption] PLUS: Zapoteca hip hop star Mare Advertencia Lirika and Los Altepee also join all-star line-up for May Day Concert! Just in case you were not yet sure how to spend May Day >> Read More