In Baltimore, Fair Food activists took their rights as consumers seriously and visited several stores, including this Giant grocery, to be heard… |
“As a customer of your supermarket, I am contacting you to urge your company to work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to help end forced labor, poverty wages, and other human rights abuses faced by farmworkers harvesting tomatoes for the US retail food industry… It is imperative that your company seize the opportunity to be part of the solution to Florida’s longstanding shame of farmworker exploitation.” |
But the conversations didn’t stop there. In DC, Fair Food activists talking to the manager inside were backed up by colleagues outside, who spent the visit talking to customers coming and going. |
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And, of course, most letter drops were punctuated by powerful banners designed to get the message out beyond the managers, beyond the customers, and into the street… |
So with the Supermarket Week of Action wrapped up, you can still be part of the action in the days ahead: 1. Download the manager letter and keep the conversation going with your local grocer, and 2. Join us in Lakeland, Sunday Dec. 6th, for the biggest Publix protest of the year! See you in Lakeland! |