Tag: faith

“On Common Ground”: CIW, faith leaders come together in NYC for “an extraordinary conversation”…

“On Common Ground”: CIW, faith leaders come together in NYC for “an extraordinary conversation”…

Campaign for Fair Food event in New York brings together theologians, farm labor human rights activists in what by all accounts was a moving evening of reflection... On Monday, January 28, faith allies packed into Wallace Hall at St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church on Park Avenue in New York – a dozen or so blocks north and a million >> Read More

“Make us hungry for justice!”

150 Farmworkers and people of faith gather in Naples to celebrate the breaking of a month-long rolling fast by Florida faith leaders, follow service with action at nearby Wendy's...This past Sunday -- nearly twenty years after the late Bishop John Nevins of the Diocese of Venice administered the host to six farmworkers from the CIW as they broke their historic >> Read More

REPORT: Faith leaders’ rolling Florida fast hits halfway mark, Interfaith Worker Justice takes Wendy’s Boycott to the streets in Chicago!

[caption id="attachment_26500" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Last week, in solidarity with Florida fast participants, 80+ IWJ members, including IWJ Executive Director Laura Barrett and IWJ Board President Rev. Doug Mork, hand-delivered a copy of their letter to a local Wendy’s manager in Chicago suburb Des Plaines.[/caption]30 Faith leaders for 30 days: Rolling fast to demand farm labor justice from Wendy's!Interfaith Worker Justice to >> Read More

Alliance for Fair Food announces National Day of Prayer and Fasting in support of OSU student fast!

[caption id="attachment_25465" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Last week, Ohio State University students declared a weeklong fast to begin March 20th calling on the university administration to cut Wendy's campus lease unless the fast-food giant joins the Fair Food Program.  Here they are seen at a gathering yesterday in Columbus painting protest art ahead of next week's actions.[/caption]As CIW members and allies in Immokalee >> Read More

National religious leaders visit CIW, fields, learn first-hand about the Fair Food Program!

[caption id="attachment_25004" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Rabbi leaders from T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights visit Fair Food Program farm in Florida[/caption]Leaders of Presbyterian Church (USA), T'ruah bear witness to transformative changes underway in FL agricultural industry thanks to the Fair Food movement, commit to spread Wendy's Boycott nationally...Over the past six weeks, we’ve brought you reports from the Fair Food odyssey that was >> Read More

PHOTO REPORT: No Labor Day holiday respite for Wendy’s!

Over long weekend, farmworkers, communities of faith across the country celebrate holiday with powerful message for fast food giant...Keeping with a longstanding tradition, the Fair Food Nation celebrated Labor Day last week the way it was intended: In action!  From Boston, Massachusetts, to Columbus, Ohio, and sunny Immokalee, Florida, consumers turned a spotlight on the back-breaking, invaluable work of farm laborers, and on Wendy's unconscionable failure to >> Read More

National Farm Worker Ministry endorses Wendy’s Boycott!

“Our board unanimously endorsed this boycott as a means of using their economic power to support the farm workers who are struggling for justice...”Late last week, the National Farm Worker Ministry -- a 45-year-old cornerstone of the religious labor movement in support of dignity and justice for farmworkers -- endorsed the Wendy's Boycott!  Building on nearly 20 years of work in alliance with the Fair Food >> Read More

Modern Farmer article traces history of Fair Food movement…

Modern Farmer magazine: Fair Food Program uses "smart logic" by creating "an incentive to [do the right thing], and a consequence if you don't..." This month, an excellent article by James Beard Award-winning author Tracie McMillan ("The American Way of Eating") was published in the well-circulated American quarterly magazine, Modern Farmer.  Titled "Labor Gains," the article traces the twenty-year arc of the Fair Food movement and >> Read More
Tipping Point: Ahold signing, CBS Sunday Morning story pull rug out from under Publix, Kroger, Wendy’s in their fight to turn back Fair Food!

Tipping Point: Ahold signing, CBS Sunday Morning story pull rug out from under Publix, Kroger, Wendy’s in their fight to turn back Fair Food!

 [caption id="attachment_21073" align="aligncenter" width="525"] Consumers stand alongside farmworkers outside of one of Florida's first Publix stores in Lakeland, Florida (2013).   In the wake of the Ahold signing and the recent CBS Sunday Morning story on the Fair Food Program, the arc is bending ever more forcefully, and companies like Publix, Kroger, and Wendy's are hearing it from their customers.[/caption] Amidst >> Read More