Tag: Mexican tomato industry

Updates: Human rights crisis in Mexico and “Food Chains” release countdown begins…

"Enough!  Mexico Is Ready to Explode"... Two weeks ago we brought you an extended analysis of the human rights crisis in Mexico and its impact on the agricultural industry there.  In a post entitled "Fear and Fair Cannot Coexist," we wrote: Mass graves.  Horribly disfigured corpses.  Police complicity in the ultraviolence of all-powerful drug gangs. Since 2005, stories like these >> Read More

Fear and Fair cannot coexist…

Last month's horrific massacre of student human rights activists in Guerrero serves as an awful reminder of why there will be no "Fair Food Program" in the foreseeable future of Mexico's tomato industry... Mass graves.  Horribly disfigured corpses.  Police complicity in the ultraviolence of all-powerful drug gangs. Since 2005, stories like these have played out across Mexico's headlines day after day, >> Read More

Why does the US Chamber of Commerce hate America? (apologies to Stephen Colbert…)

[hupso_hide][hupso title="Why does the US Chamber of Commerce Hate America?" url="https://ciw-online.org/?=19127"] If the Fair Food Program is good for Florida tomato growers, good for American food corporations, and good for American workers, why has the Chamber of Commerce teamed up with other Washington lobbying groups to attack the CIW? In Part One of this two-part series, we established the business >> Read More

Part One: “The New Day is not something that’s going to happen, the New Day is happening right now”…

[hupso_hide][hupso title="Extreme Makeover of the Florida tomato industry, Part One..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=19054"]   Since 2010, a metamorphosis has been underway in the Florida tomato industry, while in Mexico the industry's counterpart has only sunk deeper into a morass of violence, corruption, poverty, and exploitation... The quotation at the top of this post came from the Rev. Roy Terry of the United >> Read More

Extreme Makeover: Florida tomato industry edition…

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#Florida tomato industry makeover - a 2 pt reflection..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18988"] [caption id="attachment_18990" align="aligncenter" width="301"] Before: The CIW's Modern-Day Slavery Museum visits Washington, DC in June of 2010[/caption] [caption id="attachment_18989" align="aligncenter" width="301"] After: CIW members celebrate new rights under Fair Food Program in Lakeland in March of 2013[/caption] In the space of just a few years, the CIW's Fair Food Program has >> Read More