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Two-hundred mile march for farmworkers' rights doesn't hurdle Publix roadblock listen
03/18/13 Lenka DavisWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: CIW, Publix, workers rights, Fair Food Program, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, immigration, Lakeland
About 1500 farmworkers and their allies completed their 200 mile, two week March for Respect, Rights and Fair food yesterday in Lakeland. They gathered at the headquarters of Publix in hope that the supermarket giant would honor what they’re calling a Fair Food Program.
More than a decade ago south Florida tomato harvesters began a campaign for fair working conditions. Before the Coalition of Immokalee Workers organized, wages had not gone up in more than 20 years and workers are still pa...
Be the first to commentFarmworkers march to Tampa to challenge Publix to honor the Fair Food Program listen
03/13/13 Lenka DavisWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: CIW, Publix, workers rights, Fair Food Program, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, immigration
Wednesday the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and their allies pass through Tampa on their 200 mile march from Ft Myers to the headquarters of Publix in Lakeland; the marchers are calling on Publix to honor the social responsibility agreement for farm labor reform known as the Fair Food Program.
Right after sunrise, about seventy marchers gather in Riverview´s Mosaic Park to start walking. Oscar Otzoy is with the farmworkers’ coalition.
In its official statement about the Coalition of I...
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03/01/13 Lenka DavisWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Coalition of Immokalee Workers, worker's rights, Fair Food Agreement, Publix
The Coalition of the Immokalee Workers is starting its two week march for rights, respect and free food this Sunday. They are again calling on Publix to support human rights for Florida tomato-pickers. Farmworkers and their supporters will march 175 miles to draw attention to their cause.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, together with eleven major food corporations have established a partnership called the Fair Food Program to prevent sub-poverty wages, wage theft, sexual harassment and...
Be the first to commentFarmworkers Plan Major March to Publix; and Peter Breggin MD on the Danger of Psychiatric Drugs
02/28/13 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: CIW, Publix, tomatoes, Peter Breggin, mass shootings, psychiatric drugs
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll speak with a leading expert on mental illness and psychiatric drugs…
And we’ll talk with an organizer of a 200 mile march from Fort Myers to the Publix Headquarters in Lakeland to demand better wages for farmworkers….
But first just a note about our fund drive- we ended our seven day Winter fund drive yesterday and came up about $18,000 short. Since then listeners who missed the seven day drive have been...
Be the first to commentSouthwest Florida Community Radio Station Voice of Farmworkers Has Transmitter Problems
12/13/12 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Radio Concencia, Gerardo Reyes, Adrian Alcantar, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Fair Food Campaign, tomato, slavery, Publix, WMNF
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll discuss the problems facing a radio station that serves farmworkers in South Florida. And later we’ll open the phone lines. But first- one listener comment about yesterday’s program—yesterday we got into a short discussion about program changes and the mix of music, news and talk on WMNF. Here’s what one listener had to say:
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None years ago in the southwest Florida community of Immokaleee, a group of wo...
Be the first to commentEthel and Kerry Kennedy join protest at Publix headquarters in Lakeland where farmworkers break 6 day fast listen
03/12/12 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: CIW, Publix, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, FAST, labor, Robert F. Kennedy
On Saturday after 6 days without food, more than 60 farmworkers and supporters ended their fast for fair food outside the Publix Supermarket corporate Headquarters in Lakeland. Nearly 1,000 people marched to the fast breaking ceremony organized by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
Publix supermarkets is the largest and fastest growing employee owned supermarket chain in the United States. They are also one of the longest hold outs from signing on to a Fair Food Agreement with Florida tom...
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03/06/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Coalition of Immokalee Workers, CIW, Publix, tomatoes, fair food, wages, farm workers
Today farm workers and their supporters are in the second day of a six-day hunger strike in front of Publix corporate headquarters in Lakeland. About 60 members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and some of their allies are fasting to protest Publix’s refusal to participate in a program that would provide better working conditions and higher wages for workers who pick tomatoes. Previous protests have led ten companies to participate in the Fair Food program. Gerardo Reyes who works in ...
Be the first to commentCoalition of Immokalee Workers and allies to begin six-day Fast for Fair Food Monday
02/29/12 Seán KinaneLast Call Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Coalition of Immokalee Workers, farmworkers, immigration, Lakeland, Publix, Student Farmworker Alliance
On Monday, Immokalee migrant farmworkers and their allies will begin a six-day Fast for Fair Food in Lakeland. This afternoon my guests were Elbin Perez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Joe Parker of the Student/Farmworker Alliance.
Here are more WMNF News stories about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Be the first to commentImmokalee tomato harvesters win agreement with Trader Joe's listen
02/10/12 Kelly BenjaminWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: CIW, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Publix, farmworkers, labor
Yesterday, the nationwide specialty grocery store chain, Trader Joe’s, signed a landmark agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. It guarantees the company will pay one penny more per pound of tomatoes picked by immigrant farm workers in South Florida. The agreement came a day before planned protests of the grand opening of the first Trader Joe’s in the state.
Protests were planned in over 40 cities nationwide this weekend against Trader Joe’s for failing to sign on to the Coali...
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11/14/11 Doug DriscollWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: fair food, Publix, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Sarasota
Yesterday, about 250 protestors packed the sidewalks in front of Sarasota’s newest Publix. They are asking the food giant to sign the Fair Food Agreement in support of tomato harvesters across Florida. For over two years, Publix has refused to support their request for what amounts to one penny more per pound, along with reasonable working conditions in the field.
The sidewalks were filled with protestors, chanting and marching around the edifice of the corporation’s newest retail store. ...
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