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MEDIA ROUND-UP: Commentators across the World Wide Web take Publix, Wendy’s to task!

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
  National news outlets, social media reflect growing wave of consumer action in Fair Food movement...  Between the slew of endorsements and actions in the Wendy's boycott, and the all-too-predictable headlines revealing systemic labor abuses in the fields of key Publix supplier Tomato Thyme, the Campaign for Fair Food has received its fair share of attention across the world wide web in the past several weeks, >> Read More

Tipping Point FINALE! #FairFoodNation takes the call for Fair Food to Twitter…

Posted on by CIW
 Using #MyPublixStory hashtag, consumers revisit six-year Publix campaign history, demand commitment to Fair Food...For the past week, we have been sharing highlights from the flood of letters, emails, and articles by consumers who can no longer countenance the empty excuses from Publix, Kroger, and Wendy's for refusing to join the Fair Food Program.  Today, we bring you the grand finale of the "Tipping Point" >> Read More
CBS News Sunday Morning: “How the Fair Food Program is making a difference for struggling migrant farm workers…”

CBS News Sunday Morning: “How the Fair Food Program is making a difference for struggling migrant farm workers…”

Posted on by CIW
 Following powerful CBS story, viewers take to social media to call out Publix for "unconscionable" refusal to join FFP...Yesterday morning, as they do every week, millions of viewers across the U.S. tuned into CBS News Sunday Morning, but this time they were in for a rare treat on network television: an excellent, in-depth report on the CIW's Fair Food Program.  Brought to us by correspondent Mark Strassmann >> Read More
New Fair Food Label takes off!

New Fair Food Label takes off!

Posted on by CIW
[hupso title="NEW POST: @FairFoodProgram labels takes off! Media & social media roundup..." url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/10/label-media/"] Excerpt of Kerry Kennedy, President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, speaking on Huffington Post Live about the Fair Food label on Food Day.  To watch the full interview, click here. New Fair Food Program label a huge hit in print and social media on Food Day...  The Fair Food >> Read More

SOCIAL media round-up! Twittersphere, Facebook light up with calls for Fair Food…

Posted on by CIW
[hupso_hide][hupso title="#FairFoodNation's messages for @Publix & @Wendys resound across #Facebook & #Twitter..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=17451"] The Fair Food Nation has a long and storied history of creative mobilizations on the ground -- two-hundred-mile marches, week-long fasts, rallies of thousands.  But in the past few years, echoes of the ever-growing groundswell of support in the streets are being heard on social media networks, as >> Read More