Orlando action (right) biggest Publix protest yet in month of action!
Also: Second powerful Op/Ed by Florida pastor in the past week takes Publix to task for “ignor(ing) farmworkers’ plight, quietly profiting from Florida’s persistent harvest of shame.”
With the third straight weekend of action in the books, workers from Immokalee and their central Florida allies raised the “Month of Publix Protests” to new levels this past Sunday, rocking Orlando and surprising a Lakeland store in the shadow of Publix’s corporate headquarters with an impromptu protest.
Check here for more pictures from the weekend’s actions.
Meanwhile, another powerful Op/Ed by a member of the clergy in Florida demanding that Publix work with the CIW for farm labor justice was published this Sunday, this time in the Naples Daily News. Rev. Dana Hendershot, a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, wrote a guest commentary entitled, “Half-century old TV clip remains a snapshot of today from farm fields,” (11/1/09). Here’s an excerpt:
Read Rev. Hendershot’s Op/Ed in its entirety here!
And click here for Rev. Jim Boler’s Op/Ed from earlier last week, “Publix involved in tomato pickers’ fate, like it or not” (10/27/09).