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Harvard Law report on 2023 Farm Bill issues full-throated endorsement of the Fair Food Program and its “proven worker-driven enforcement mechanisms”!

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

Harvard-based policy consortium calls on Congress, US Department of Agriculture to help drive expansion of FFP and other WSR initiatives in agriculture: "By incentivizing the growth of WSR [Worker-driven Social Responsibility] initiatives and focusing attention at the “top” of the supply chain — specifically, by preferentially providing the many forms of financial support government provides to those farms that join >> Read More

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers stands with the people of Ukraine as tanks roll again in Europe…

Posted on March 2, 2022March 22, 2024 by CIW

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, February 27, 2022: "This is the beginning of a war... against democracy, against basic human rights, against a global order of law, rules and peaceful coexistence." ************************ The Fair Food Program, and Worker-driven Social Responsibility more broadly, are 21st century models for worker voice and participation in the enforcement of fundamental human rights in the workplace. For >> Read More

It’s risky business to turn a blind eye to forced labor in today’s agricultural industry, yet here Wendy’s is…

Posted on February 16, 2022September 6, 2022 by CIW

Join us on Saturday, April 2, in Palm Beach, Florida, when we march to end forced labor and other human rights abuses in the fields! Register to march with Immokalee farmworkers here. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers helped launch the modern anti-trafficking movement with a series of shocking forced labor prosecutions in Florida's fields. >> Read More

US Department of Labor lifts up Fair Food Program as national model for eradicating forced labor!

Posted on February 10, 2022September 6, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

CIW's unparalleled experience in combatting -- and, most importantly, preventing -- modern-day slavery in agriculture offers lessons for growers, buyers, and human rights activists alike in USDOL's widely-watched virtual panel; Miguel Rios, Regional Agricultural Enforcement Coordinator with the USDOL: The Fair Food Program "is something every grower and food retailer should be a part of. The program's success is absolutely undeniable." >> Read More

SAVE THE DATE: Farmworkers, allies to converge in Palm Beach, Florida, for major Wendy’s action on April 2, 2022!

Posted on February 2, 2022September 6, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_35065" align="aligncenter" width="814"] Over 500 farmworkers and consumers march in support of the Wendy's Boycott through the posh streets of Worth Avenue in Palm Beach, Florida. March 2016.[/caption] Get ready, Fair Food Nation! Major Wendy’s Boycott mobilization will bring the fight for farmworkers' fundamental human rights to Palm Beach, hometown of Wendy's Board Chair Nelson Peltz and the >> 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

It’s Official: Watkins Farm of North Carolina joins the Fair Food Program!

Posted on November 2, 2021September 6, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_34791" align="aligncenter" width="886"] CIW's farmworker education team visited Watkins Farm in June 2021 when the NC sweet potato operation joined as a new FFP Participating Grower[/caption] Fair Food Program expansion continues apace with new crop and new state, with the help of North Carolina-based organic produce broker Happy Dirt and longtime FFP Participating Buyer Whole Foods... Farmer Randall Watkins >> Read More

SAVE THE DATE: Boycott Wendy’s Week of Action, November 15-21!

Posted on October 19, 2021September 6, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_34762" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Students and community members in San Francisco at a rally in front of DoorDash's headquarters on October 15 demand DoorDash stop doing business with Wendy's until the company joins the Fair Food Program.[/caption] Time to get creative: Get ready to participate in a series of five, 1-minute virtual actions in support of the Wendy's Boycott during >> Read More

Latest slavery indictments expose exploitive nature of H-2A “guestworker” program…

Posted on October 5, 2021September 6, 2022 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_4167" align="aligncenter" width="565"] A Naples Daily News editorial cartoon from the 1990s captured the shock and disbelief of the Southwest Florida community at the exposure of modern-day slavery rings operating out of Immokalee at the time. Today, more than two decades later, forced labor has been effectively eliminated on Fair Food Program farms, but the CIW continues to uncover >> Read More

Bring the Fair Food Program to Your Neighborhood!

Posted on September 13, 2021September 6, 2022 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_28860" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Nearly two thousand New Yorkers join farmworkers from Immokalee for a massive march through Manhattan as part of the Wendy's Boycott in 2019.[/caption] SURVEY: Tell us about your local food co-op or independent grocer and if they might help support the award-winning Fair Food Program! Remember life, and the Fair Food movement, before the pandemic?... >> Read More