And we won! No, not that vote… The Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) Student Government votes unanimously to adopt resolution in support of the national Wendy’s Boycott! FGCU Resolution: “Therefore let it be enacted that the FGCU Student Body Senate… calls upon administration to not allow Wendy’s to be a food provider on campus unless the company signs onto the Fair Food Program…” Whew!  What a week… We have the results of an exciting vote to report from the Campaign for Fair Food, a portent of things to come as the Wendy’s Boycott picks up steam with the semester well underway at […]

Morales’s family comes together with CIW, Collier faith and community leaders to make public call for transparency, justice… Lucas Benitez, CIW: “A police officer killed one of us a month ago in the quiet streets of Farmworker Village… We can’t bring Nicolas back to life; we can’t give his son his father back.  But we can work together to ensure that justice is done, that the truth of Nicolas’s death is told.”   Collier County Sheriff’s Office reveals deputy who shot farmworker Nicolas Morales already back on active duty in Immokalee; Last month, Nicolas Morales, a single father and longtime farmworker […]

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Migrant Justice releases landmark report documenting unprecedented progress in Vermont dairy industry under Milk with Dignity Program; Worker under MWD Program: “Before we never spoke up, now we have the freedom to speak, without any fear that we’ll be fired.  You feel more secure, with all the benefits and knowing all your rights.”; Participating Farmer: “The [Milk with Dignity premium] might make the difference between us still having a farm a year from now or not.” Here below is a story of human rights progress on one of Vermont’s iconic dairy farms that you will not hear from any other […]

Apply today to join the Student/Farmworker Alliance 2020 Encuentro: “Piecing Together Justice,” Oct. 17-18… Despite all of the unforeseen challenges 2020 has thrown our way, the young leaders of the Student/Farmworker Alliance have once again banded together to push forward a critical marker of the Campaign for Fair Food’s yearly calendar: the annual SFA Encuentro gathering.  This weekend, Oct. 17-18, young people from across the country will gather virtually for a weekend of learning new organizing skills, strategizing with farmworker leaders of the CIW, and deepening their commitment to the movement for Fair Food.  There’s still time to submit your […]

National Geographic: “While empty grocery store shelves and mile-long food bank lines have become less prevalent than during the early days of the pandemic, advocates say essential workers and their families are still as vulnerable as ever…” Fall is officially here, and in Immokalee that means that the sidewalks along Main Street, the four-lane road running through  the heart of the Florida farmworker community, are filling up with migrant workers returning from northern states.  The new harvest season is just around the corner, and with it, the potential for another major outbreak of COVID-19. Indeed, even as new cases surge […]

Excellent reporting from The Nation takes sweeping look at this spring’s first big COVID-19 outbreak among essential farmworkers — involving workers sleeping two to a bed in overcrowded, unpermitted housing — at Green Empire greenhouse in upstate NY; Green Empire greenhouse “owned by Ontario-based Mastronardi Produce, the largest distributor of hydroponic, indoor-grown produce in North America, and owner of at least six such facilities across the United States”; While Wendy’s says Green Empire is not in its supply chain, Mastronardi is known supplier to Wendy’s; The Nation: “The outbreak at Green Empire, critics say, was the inevitable outcome of a legal structure that allows companies like Green Empire, Mastronardi, […]

Collier County Sheriff’s Office issues conflicting statements on last month’s fatal shooting of Nicolas Morales;  Multiple discrepancies cast doubt on several key elements of the events leading up to Nicolas’ death at the hands of Collier County deputies; Immokalee community demands answers, transparency, including release of Nicolas Morales’ autopsy report, any dashboard camera footage of the incident, transcript of any communications among the three deputies involved… Shortly after 1:00 am on September 17th, on a quiet street in a housing development located just south of Immokalee called Farm Worker Village, Corporal Pierre Richard Jean of the Collier County Sheriff’s Office […]

Steve Hitov, Pioneering Human Rights Strategist and General Counsel, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, dies at 72 As many readers of this site already know, Steve Hitov, the CIW’s longtime General Counsel — an essential member of the CIW’s strategic core and co-author of many of the CIW’s most important structural successes — passed away three weeks ago after living, and thriving, with multiple cancers for the final decade of his life.  He was 72 years old.  Steve was a fierce fighter for universal human rights, a brilliant legal thinker, and an inveterate sucker for a bad pun. There are not […]

“They didn’t kill an animal; they killed a human being… I want justice for this man and this young child that is left without a dad,” said Yola Martinez, close friend of Nicholas Morales, Immokalee farmworker shot and killed by Collier County Sheriff deputies… CIW: “We must have a full investigation and justice for Nicholas and his family, as well as for the broader Immokalee community as a whole.  And so that justice may be done, we demand to know the truth.” Today, we are heart-broken to bring you what we know of a still-developing story from right here in Immokalee […]