Tag: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter…”

Today, women, men and children across the country's 50 states are marching to celebrate the life, the promise, and the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  As we begin this new year, it feels with each day that passes that we as a country are approaching a dangerous crossroads.  Down one road, a deeply uncertain future awaits us, a >> Read More

SPRING ACTION ANNOUNCED! Join CIW for Fair Food Parade, Concert on March 21st!

[hupso title="2015 SPRING ACTION ANNOUNCED! Join CIW for Fair Food Parade, Concert on 3/21/15!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/01/concert-parade-announce/"] "...we are going to continue to stand up for what is right. Fear not, we've come too far to turn back... we are not afraid and we shall overcome." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Between the astonishingly powerful film "Selma" in theaters this month, and the celebrations >> Read More

Spring action announced!: The “Now is the Time” Tour hits the road March 5-15, 2014…

[hupso_hide][hupso title="SPRING ACTION ANNOUNCED! #NowIsTheTime Tour hits the rd this March " url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18047"] Check out the official "Now is the Time" Tour website!   Ten-day, ten-city tour to take farmworkers, allies to Wendy's home state of Ohio, then back to Florida with a last stop in Publix's hometown of Lakeland... Stops along the way to include actions in major cities, >> Read More

How long, Publix? Not long, because…

Over 100 farmworkers and allies hold moving vigil outside flagship Publix store in Lakeland in wake of Walmart agreement; Tampa Bay Times editorial: "With Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and Wal-Mart now participating in the program, there is no reason Publix should not join its grocery competitors in helping to raise pay and improve working conditions in Florida's tomato fields." Following last >> Read More
No… we will not be satisfied…

No… we will not be satisfied…

"... until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream!" Dr. Martin Luther King What better way to celebrate MLK Day than marching to demand human rights in our food system! Members of Ohio Fair Food gathered this past Friday to carry hundreds of paper tomatoes signed by Kroger customers during a protest march that began at >> Read More
HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR FAIR FOOD: Making Dr. King’s Dream Our Reality January 15-16, 2005

HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR FAIR FOOD: Making Dr. King’s Dream Our Reality January 15-16, 2005

Coalition of Immokalee Workers Headquarters – Immokalee, FL In the final years of his life, Dr. King argued that the movement for civil rights must become a movement for human rights that ensured the equality, livelihood and well-being of all God’s children. A strong supporter of farmworker organizing, Dr. King challenged America that in the struggle for genuine equality the >> Read More

FAITH-BASED SYMPOSIUM A HUGE SUCCESS! NEARLY 40 YEARS LATER, DR. KING’S PROPHETIC VISION ALIVE IN IMMOKALEE, BOYCOTT!

Martin Luther King was brought down by an assassin's bullet on April 4th, 1968, in Memphis, TN, where he had traveled to support sanitation workers on strike for a fair wage. Nearly 40 years later, his spirit and prophetic dream of social justice continue to inspire hundreds of millions of people around the globe to question things as they are >> Read More