The Commons Brooklyn

Join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Community/Farmworker Alliance for our first ever Fair Food Festival in Brooklyn, New York! CIW members from Immokalee will be in NYC to help us link food, justice, quality of life and labor issues in a lively and festive event. You won’t want to miss it!

Bring your friends and family for:
-    Workshops
-    Film Screenings
-    Games
-    Art
-    Children’s Musical Story Time and March
-    Hourly rabble-rousing in front of Trader Joe’s featuring a musical hoedown, free samples of justice, children’s march, balloon blast and customers revolt!

Call to all allies to join us at 4pm for a Spectacular Brooklyn Trader Joe’s Rally!

The CIW’s Campaign for Fair Food improves wages and working conditions for Florida tomato pickers by calling on major buyers of tomatoes to pay one penny more per pound—which would nearly double farmworkers’ wages—and to implement a code of conduct in the supply chain.

All across the country, Fair Food activists have been urging Trader Joe’s to ensure that their tomatoes are picked by workers who earn a decent wage and work in humane conditions. Trader Joe’s continual refusal to sign onto such an agreement has disgusted customers nationwide, leading many to criticize Trader Joe’s usage of the “Wal*Mart Model” of low price and low wages.

Check out www.cfa-nyc.org for Community/Farmworker Alliance news and events!

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