Tag: fair food program

From the director’s chair: An update on the film “Food Chains”…

[hupso title="NEW POST: Find out how YOU can bring @FoodChainsFilm to your community!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/09/food-chains-tugg/"]   See how you can organize to bring the film to your city, school, or place of worship this fall! As many readers of this site already know, the documentary Food Chains, which chronicles the CIW's battle for Fair Food and the issue of farm labor exploitation >> Read More

BREAKING: CIW to receive 2014 Clinton Global Citizen Award!

[hupso title="BREAKING: @ClintonGlobal presents @CIW with Global Citizen Award at #CGI2014" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/09/clinton-global-breaking/"]   Clintons to honor CIW for groundbreaking impact of Fair Food Program at gala award ceremony in New York City on September 21... The news was announced on the Clinton Global Initiative website Thursday afternoon: Clinton Global Citizen Awards Established in 2007, the Clinton Global Citizen Awards embody President >> Read More

Northern sojourn builds CIW bonds with Maine small farmers, Vermont dairy workers…

[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@CIW heads to VT, ME to build bonds with sm farmers & dairy workers!" url="https://ciw-online.org/"] [caption id="attachment_19905" align="aligncenter" width="550"] CIW member Santiago Perez rakes wild, low-bush blueberries in a small field in the Blue Hill peninsula of "Downeast" Maine during the CIW delegation's visit to the area last week. The delegation met with Maine family farmers to discuss the >> Read More

“Food Chains” private screenings in San Francisco, LA pack the house with food movement, farmworker organizing luminaries!

[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@FoodChainsFilm priv screenings in SF, LA pack the house!" url="https://ciw-online.org/"] San Francisco press calls film an "incredibly moving documentary"; Dolores Huerta pledges to "joyfully promote the film and the Fair Food campaign"!... [caption id="attachment_19891" align="aligncenter" width="550"] From left to right, Smriti Keshari (producer, "Food Chains"), former US Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, CIW co-founder Lucas Benitez, David Damian Figueroa (MALDEF, >> Read More

Fair Food Program featured on Catapult’s front page!

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#FairFoodProgram featured on @WeCatapult's front page! Help #farmworker women end #sexualharassment in the fields today!" url="https://ciw-online.org"] First, as a brief refresher:  Earlier this year, we got connected with Catapult, the World Wide Web's premier crowdfunding site for women's rights, curated by the likes of everyone from Beyónce Knowles to John Legend.  Big names aside -- at its core, this >> Read More

You can run, but you can’t hide from Fair Food! Part II…

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#TomatoRabbis storm the castle!" url="https://ciw-online.org/"] Rabbinic delegation visits Wendy's Chairman Nelson Peltz at his Park Avenue office, demands answers on human rights and the Fair Food Program... Last week we brought you the story of a live TV interview that took a surprising turn when CNBC reporter Jane Wells decided to grill Wendy's CEO Emil Brolick on why the company continues to >> Read More

Publix: “May your practices reflect God’s care. The world is watching.”

[hupso_hide][hupso title="United Methodist Women denounce @Publix for rejecting #FairFoodProgram..." url="https://ciw-online.org/"] United Methodist Women chastise Publix for rejecting Fair Food Program, celebrate deep and growing partnership with farmworkers... United Methodist Women just won't take no for an answer when it comes to food justice and Florida's supermarket giant, Publix! Last week we posted a story about this incredible video, a moving look at three generations >> Read More

“Shaping Generations”… United Methodist Women and the Fair Food Movement!

[hupso_hide][hupso title="Shaping generations: @UMWomen join with @CIW to shine spotlight on social change" url="https://ciw-online.org/"]Worker-driven, consumer-powered social responsibility: Moving video by United Methodist Women puts spotlight on crucial role of consumers in Fair Food Movement...Earlier this week we brought you a reflection on the "secret" behind the success of the CIW's Fair Food Program, the fact that the Fair Food Program >> Read More

Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR): A new idea for a new century

[hupso title="Tale of the tape: How the #FairFoodProgram measures up to #CSR" url="https://ciw-online.org/"] Worker-driven social responsibility puts workers first when addressing human rights in corporate supply chains...   If you are even a casual reader of this site you know this:  The Fair Food Program has effected unprecedented change in Florida's fields since it was implemented across 90% of the state's >> Read More