Ryan Harvey's CD RELEASE SHOW and BENEFIT for Community/Farmworker Alliance and the Civilian Soldier Alliance
Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 6:00pm - 11:30pm
at Rebel Diaz Arts Collective
[478 Austin Place, Bronx: #6 Train to E. 149 St.: walk two blocks toward the Bruckner Expressway, make a right on Austin Pl.]
Adam Obernauer (631) 252-4222
This event is a whole lotta things! First you should join us at 6 PM for a pot luck to learn more about the Community/Farmworker Alliance and how you can get involved! Then you should stick around for an awesome show that is a joint benefit for the Community/Farmworker Alliance and the Civilian Soldier Alliance. To top it all off, it's Ryan Harvey from Riot Folk's CD release show for the long anticipated "BLOWBACK" (over 2 years in the making!)
with
Ryan Harvey
http://www.riotfolk.org/ [1]
Born in a Cent
http://borninacent.blogspot.com/ [2]
Bell's Roar
http://www.myspace.com/bellsroar [3]
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
CIW Mega-Victory and Community Farmworker Alliance NYC retreat update
Compañer@s!
This week is one of great celebrating in Immokalee and for all allies of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers! One of the largest tomato growers: Pacific Growers has signed on to work with the CIW. This is a huge step in the Campaign for Fair Food! Even the freaking Wall Street Journal is covering this!
The CIW also launched their new supermarket campaign with a must-view video highlighting the relationships between the tomatoes in your grocery store and farmworker exploitation.
On the heels of this amazing victory in Immokalee, Community/Farmworker Alliance NYC is excited to announce the major developments that came out of an all-day strategy retreat last weekend!
At this much-needed retreat, we set some dates for upcoming actions and events. Importantly, we also set up a working group structure. These working groups will make it easier for more people to be involved at levels they're interested in. The next note will have more info about how to get involved!
But, first here are upcoming important dates to mark!
October 16th- We'll be at the Brooklyn Trader Joes at noon to give a penny to Trader Joe's cashiers and demand that they pay an extra penny per pound to their farmworkers!! Read more here!
October 23rd- CFA fundraiser show and dance party featuring Ryan Harvey, Born in a Cent, Majesty, Bell's Roar and Dj AndaLaLucha at the Rebel Diaz Arts Collective. Come by early at 6pm for a potluck and to learn what the Community Farmworker Alliance NYC is doing and how you can get more involved. 478 Austin Place, South Bronx.
January TBD- Northeast Encuentro Meet CIW allies from across the Northeast in NYC for a weekend of discussion, learning and strategizing about the struggle for fair food and building a more just world!
February 26-
GIANT ACTION with CIW members and allies from Boston to Quincy, Massachusetts to protest at Ahold (another mega-grocery chain) headquarters!
Take Care,
The Community/Farmworker Alliance NYC
This week is one of great celebrating in Immokalee and for all allies of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers! One of the largest tomato growers: Pacific Growers has signed on to work with the CIW. This is a huge step in the Campaign for Fair Food! Even the freaking Wall Street Journal is covering this!
The CIW also launched their new supermarket campaign with a must-view video highlighting the relationships between the tomatoes in your grocery store and farmworker exploitation.
On the heels of this amazing victory in Immokalee, Community/Farmworker Alliance NYC is excited to announce the major developments that came out of an all-day strategy retreat last weekend!
At this much-needed retreat, we set some dates for upcoming actions and events. Importantly, we also set up a working group structure. These working groups will make it easier for more people to be involved at levels they're interested in. The next note will have more info about how to get involved!
But, first here are upcoming important dates to mark!
October 16th- We'll be at the Brooklyn Trader Joes at noon to give a penny to Trader Joe's cashiers and demand that they pay an extra penny per pound to their farmworkers!! Read more here!
October 23rd- CFA fundraiser show and dance party featuring Ryan Harvey, Born in a Cent, Majesty, Bell's Roar and Dj AndaLaLucha at the Rebel Diaz Arts Collective. Come by early at 6pm for a potluck and to learn what the Community Farmworker Alliance NYC is doing and how you can get more involved. 478 Austin Place, South Bronx.
January TBD- Northeast Encuentro Meet CIW allies from across the Northeast in NYC for a weekend of discussion, learning and strategizing about the struggle for fair food and building a more just world!
February 26-
GIANT ACTION with CIW members and allies from Boston to Quincy, Massachusetts to protest at Ahold (another mega-grocery chain) headquarters!Take Care,
The Community/Farmworker Alliance NYC
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Coast to Coast Trader Joe's Actions SATURDAY!
Trader Joe's Picket for Fair Food
| Time | Saturday, October 16 · 11:00am - 12:00pm |
|---|---|
| Location | Trader Joe's (near Lake Merritt Farmers Market) 3250 Lakeshore Ave. Oakland, CA |
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (http://www.ciw-online.org/)
in partnership with the Student Farmworker Alliance (http://www....sfalliance.org/) and Just Harvest USA (http://www.justharvestusa.org/) are continuing their Campaign for Fair Food, which has successfully brought 9 multi-billion dollar fast food and food service corporations - including McDonalds, Burger King and Subway - to their knees, hoping that the supermarket industry (including Trader Joe's) will also become partners in justice by signing an agreement with the CIW.
Our goals are to: 1. End modern-day slavery conditions in the fields of Florida, 2. Establish a fair wage: an increase of a mere penny per pound of tomatoes the workers harvest would double wages!, 3. Dignified working conditions, and 4. Worker participation in creating and implementing a human rights-based code of conduct.
Please join us on Saturday at 10:45 in front of Trader Joe's to meet one another, devour FREE and tasty baked goods from the Arizmendi Bakery Co-operative (http://www.arizmendibakery.org/), and get ready for a short and sweet picket : )
We will supply all of the materials including banners and posters, but if you would like to come hang out and make signs with us, but all means, contact me! You dont even have to know anything about the campaign to come and participate because we will be giving a mini info session before we picket.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Trader Joes Picket for Fair Food- Saturday!
Trader Joe's Brooklyn 130 Court Street. Brooklyn, NY 11201
Wear your Hawaiian Shirts!
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Join the CFA give a penny to Trader Joe's cashiers and demand that they pay an extra penny per pound to their farmworkers!! We will be wearing hawaiin shirts and outreaching to customers/community folks. We will also be supplying pennies for everyone to participate!
SLAVERY IS NOT SUSTAINABLE!! Be in solidarity with the CIW and push Trader Joe’s to join an agreement to end abuse and modern-day slavery on their farmworkers.
Farmwo...rkers picking tomatoes for Trader Joe's chain of supermarkets earn 40-50 cents for every 32-pound bucket of tomatoes they harvest—wages that have not risen since 1978. Grinding poverty leaves farmworkers vulnerable to further exploitation from employers: since 1997, over 1000 farmworkers have been freed from modern day slavery-like conditions in the Florida fields where they work.
Community/Farmworker Alliance (NYC) is a local coalition of community members that organizes in solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in their Campaign for Fair food, a national movement to transform the purchasing practices of the corporate food industry in order to advance the human rights of farmworkers at the bottom of corporate supply chains. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) (http://www.ciw-online.org/) is a Florida-based, membership-led organization of low-wage workers.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (http://www.ciw-online.org/)
Monday, October 11, 2010
Community/Farmworker Alliance Protest in Solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Tuesday, October 19th, 6:30pm
Hilton Garden Inn
1575 Round Swamp Road
Plainview, NY 11803
In May, Quiznos promised that it would soon be joining in agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to improve the wages and working conditions of farmworkers who pick tomatoes bought by the company. Months have now passed and it is time to hold Quiznos to its word. Until Quiznos' promises become concrete actions, we will intensify our call for justice!
BACKGROUND:
Florida farmworkers who pick tomatoes are among the nation’s most exploited workers: they earn sub-poverty wages, have no right to form unions or to over-time pay, lack traditional employment benefits such as health, sick leave or pensions, and have not received a significant raise in nearly 30 years. At the current rate, a Florida tomato picker must harvest over TWO AND A HALF TONS just to earn the equivalent of minimum wage for a typical 10 hour. In the most extreme situations workers are held in modern-day slavery and forced to work against their will.
In 2001, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers - a grassroots organization of migrant farmworkers based in Florida - and their allies launched the Campaign for Fair Food, calling on retail food industry leaders to address the egregious working conditions and poverty stemming from these companies' high-volume/low-cost purchasing practices. As a result, the CIW has reached historic agreements with McDonald's, Burger King, Subway and others to directly improve farmworker wages and working conditions and set new standards for social responsibility in Florida agriculture.
Despite these breakthroughs, however, Quiznos – who profits from the exploitation of farmworkers due to the sheer volume of its tomato purchases – has yet to take responsibility. While Quiznos has begun discussions with the CIW, those talks continue to drag on without resolution. Visit ciw-online.org for more info.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Florida Farmworkers Take Aim at Supermarket Chains for “Fair Food”
Uprising Radio Features the CIW Supermarket Campaign!
Trader Joes has become a target of the Coalition for Immokalee Workers Fair Food! campaign. The grocery store has an ever growing number of locations around the nation and it describes itself as a specialty store that carries innovative as well as basic food items. It was ranked by the business focused think-tank Ethisphere as the one of three most ethical food stores in its 2010 World’s Most Ethical Companies list. The Immokalee workers are asking Trader Joes, as well as Kroger’s, Publix, and Stop N’ Shop chains to change the way they buy tomatoes. When retailers sign CIW’s Fair Food agreement they are agreeing to take specific actions including demanding more humane labor conditions for tomato growers, and buying only from growers who meet those higher standards. Florida tomato pickers are paid by the piece and the CIW says that to earn the minimum wage a farmworker must pick more than 2 and a quarter tons of tomatoes per 10 hour work day. Over the years the Immokalee workers’ campaign has been very successful in persuading major food corporations to join, including Whole Foods, Burger King, McDonalds, and Subway. On August 20th a coalition of farmworker advocacy groups began its Trader Joes campaign with a protest outside of a Manhattan, New York location.
Trader Joes has become a target of the Coalition for Immokalee Workers Fair Food! campaign. The grocery store has an ever growing number of locations around the nation and it describes itself as a specialty store that carries innovative as well as basic food items. It was ranked by the business focused think-tank Ethisphere as the one of three most ethical food stores in its 2010 World’s Most Ethical Companies list. The Immokalee workers are asking Trader Joes, as well as Kroger’s, Publix, and Stop N’ Shop chains to change the way they buy tomatoes. When retailers sign CIW’s Fair Food agreement they are agreeing to take specific actions including demanding more humane labor conditions for tomato growers, and buying only from growers who meet those higher standards. Florida tomato pickers are paid by the piece and the CIW says that to earn the minimum wage a farmworker must pick more than 2 and a quarter tons of tomatoes per 10 hour work day. Over the years the Immokalee workers’ campaign has been very successful in persuading major food corporations to join, including Whole Foods, Burger King, McDonalds, and Subway. On August 20th a coalition of farmworker advocacy groups began its Trader Joes campaign with a protest outside of a Manhattan, New York location.
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