Northeast Tour daily updates wrap-up with report from NYC!…

Check out all the reports from the road as a crew of workers from Immokalee and their allies traveled through the Northeast talking about the road ahead in the Campaign for Fair Food.

Click here to see the final update from the Northeast Tour crew as they take on New York City! Here above is an image from a particularly spirited rally celebrating the recent agreement with Subway with some longtime student allies from the West Village — Click here to find out more about this rally, and for a complete wrap-up from the final stop of the exciting final tour of 2008!

Also, be sure to check out this MUST-READ article from the venerable Institute for Southern Studies, “Bearing the fruits of their labor,” by Desiree Evans (12/5/08). Here’s an excerpt:

“Despite the harsh conditions of their labor, over the past few years a small group of migrant workers from southwest Florida have been making waves across the country in their battle for worker justice. They have waged one of the most successful labor campaigns in a generation…

“… ‘We just want to be recognized as human beings, we want to be recognized as people who work hard and have the same rights as anyone else,” farm worker Norberto Jimenez told In These Times in 2007. “It shouldn’t matter if we’re from another country or that we’re just tomato pickers. We are human beings and we should be treated with dignity.'” Read the article in its entirety here