Massive protest against SB1718 in Ft Myers gets national media attention

Over one thousand people braved scorching sun and temperatures in the 90s to mark 5 miles through Ft Myers’ downtown against SB1718. more

Join the movement for Fair Food

Have you ever dreamed of working on the cutting edge of human rights? HERE

FSU Students Endorse the Wendy’s Boycott

FSU Resolution: “Be it further resolved that: The 74th Student Senate encourages Florida State University students to support farmworker rights by boycotting Wendy’s until they join the Fair Food Program”. here

March alongside Florida farmworkers in Palm Beach

April 2, 2021

Palm Beach - INFO

Celebrate 10 years of the Fair Food Program

HELP THEM HERE

CIW 0p-ed in the Naples Daily News

We as a community can— and must — recognize the injustice of Nicolas Morales’s death and honor his life by implementing the long-overdue reforms necessary to ensure that no son or daughter of Collier County suffers that same incalculable loss [as Nicolas Jr.] ever again. here

Vigil For Immokalee Man Fatally Shot by Collier Sheriff's Office

About 100 people gathered at Farmworkers Village in Immokalee on Friday, just a few feet away from where 37-year-old Nicholas Morales-Bessannia was fatally shot by a Collier County Sheriff’s deputy. HERE

Farmworkers returning to Immokalee

The clock is ticking: Farmworkers returning to Florida for the fall harvest season, students returning to school in Immokalee for in-person classes, combine to create fertile ground for a new COVID-19 outbreak. HERE

Doctors Without Borders in Immokalee

As COVID-19 cases increase nearly tenfold in two weeks in Immokalee, Doctors Without Borders turns to the press for tests, resources. HERE

Persistence pays off DeSantis announces free, community-wide testing in Immokalee

Promising new public/private collaboration starting to take shape in Immokalee to address COVID-19 crisis, giving vulnerable farmworker community new hope with aggressive, comprehensive defense strategy. HERE

Protect farmworkers in Immokalee

Floridians are calling on Governor Ron DeSantis to immediately take all the possible steps, along with the local and federal government, to protect farmworkers in Immokalee from the COVID-19 pandemic, starting with the following urgent measures:  HERE

Florida Atlantic University Student Government joins UM, UF

In unanimously approving resolution to boot Wendy’s from campus! HERE

UF Wants Wendy's Off Campus

The University of Florida Student Government escalated student pressure on Wendy’s – and on UF President Kent Fuchs.

 Voted unanimously to call on the UF administration to cut the university’s contract with Wendy’s until the fast-food giant joins the Fair Food Program. The vote came just days after students, farmworkers and Gainesville community members organized a huge march on President Fuchs’ office, demanding action in support of Florida farmworkers’ fundamental human rights. here

CIW in Tampa

4 for Fair Food Tour: UF March

Norman Field - Gainesville INFO

Tampa Welcomes the CIW

March 5, 2019 at 6 PM

Waters Avenue Church - Tampa

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4 for Fair Food Tour - University of Florida

As one of the first campuses to take up the call to Boot the Braids, students at the University of Florida, alongside stalwart religious leaders and community allies, have been demanding administrators cut ties with Wendy’s given the company’s gross human rights record for over four years.
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The arc of the Boot the Braids Campaign at UF has been strong and sustained, seeing marches with hundreds of Fair Food supporters! And now, students are prepared to take it to new heights as they look to welcoming Florida farmworkers, their families and allies from all across the state to campus this spring. INFO

Fair Food Nation Florida “Summer of Action” Coming To St. Pete

1-mile march on Publix and Wendy's

Sunday, August 5, 2:30PM--3:30PM

Allendale United Methodist Church 

3803 Haines Rd N., St. Petersburg

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Immokalee: a story of slavery and freedom

Food Chains (Full documentary) in Spanish and English

Food Chains - Trailer