NOW LIVE: Concert & Parade for Fair Food website up and running…

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It is that time of year again!  The scent of orange blossoms fills the air and the temperatures are rising here in Florida, while up north, the last snows of the season stubbornly ensnare the world in winter’s icy grip.  That can only mean one thing: Time for the Fair Food Nation to head south and gather with workers from Immokalee for its annual spring action!

With just over one month to go before the big Concert & Parade for Fair Food, CIW members and their allies are hitting the road, crisscrossing the state and beyond — touring throughout the Northeast, across the Midwest, and all the way out to the West Coast — to mobilize thousands of people for the CIW’s big action in St. Petersburg.  

And today, the online hub for concert organizing goes live!  Here is just a short excerpt from the brand-new concert website…

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Tom Morello at the 2007 Concert for Fair Food

Like many of history’s most powerful grassroots movements for change, the movement for Fair Food has been driven by art and music.  Theater, music, murals, and puppets rooted in the diverse cultural traditions of the Fair Food Nation have always brought its message to life.  Art animates the struggles farmworkers face in the fields and articulates their demand to work with dignity.  On Saturday, March 21, the Fair Food Parade will once again fill the streets of St. Petersburg with the art and creative spirit of the CIW’s Campaign for Fair Food.

Following the Parade, farmworkers will gather with thousands of allies from across the U.S. for the first-ever Concert for Fair Food, harnessing the power of music to spark the consciousness of consumers and amplify the call for Publix and Wendy’s to finally recognize their responsibility to the people who harvest their produce.  Featuring Grammy-winning and nationally-recognized artists, the Concert will raise the Campaign for Fair Food’s message to new heights… read more

The Concert & Parade site will be the place for all the crucial information about the Concert — including the line up, logistics, registration, social media and everything else.  Make sure to stay tuned as more exciting updates pour in during the coming weeks!  

For now, share the website far and wide, and help spread the word about the Concert and Parade, where the Fair Food Nation will gather to celebrate the unprecedented changes that farmworkers have already won in Florida, and to organize so that those changes may continue to expand far beyond Florida’s tomato fields in the months and years ahead.