Food Justice: CIW Week of Action in Gainesville

[david reed]

Dear Colleagues,
Please look over this email and attachments concerning a week of events related to food justice and food systems.  And forward to all concerned.

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From: Jack Donovan <ja...@acha-fl.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:51 PM
Subject: FW: Fwd: IAIJ announces CIW Week of Action in Gainesville



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Subject: IAIJ announces CIW Week of Action in Gainesville
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 12:29:08 -0700
From: Sheila Payne <sheila...@hotmail.com>
To: Sheila Payne <sheila...@hotmail.com>


Dear Friends and Press Contacts,

Above attachments are posters and a press release heralding the upcoming CIW (Coalition of Immokalee Workers ) Week in Gainesville. Please send out to your list-serves, and help us to garner the publicity we need to educate the Alachua community about farm worker issues.

IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE "MODERN DAY SLAVERY MUSEUM" TRAVELING EXHIBIT, NOW WOULD BE THE TIME. THE CIW FARMWORKERS ARE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS.

Thanks for any help you can give us.

Peace, Sheila Payne, Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice

Please excuse cross listings.

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PRESS RELEASE:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Aug. 27, 2012

Gainesville Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice Hosts CIW Week of Action

Please join Gainesville Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice
(IAIJ) Sept. 11th through Sept. 15th,  in Gainesville for The CIW Week of Action (Coalition of Immokalee Workers). IAIJ is composed of local faith communities and scores of individuals who organize around issues of farmworker justice, immigration reform and issues of Fair Food and sustainability.

  The CIW is a labor organization which fights for fair wages and working conditions for Florida farm workers. The CIW has successfully signed with 95% of Florida tomato growers to join the Fair Food agreement, which guarantees farmworkers being paid a penny/pound more for the tomatoes they pick. This effectively doubles their wages. The Fair Food Agreement also mandates important changes in working conditions which include a strict code of conduct, a cooperative complaint resolution process, guaranteed water and toilet breaks, and freedom from sexual harassment. This legally binding agreement also assures consumers that they can buy food produced with integrity, which has been harvested by workers treated with dignity.

CURRENT LIST OF EVENTS

Tues., Sept. 11, 7PM: Farmworker Poverty: An Interactive Play performed by CHispas;  Rm. 355, Reitz Union

Wed., Sept. 12, 7 PM:  “Meet the CIW Farmworkers” Community Potluck and Program by CIW;    Commissioner Randy Wells and Mayor Craig Lowe reading proclamation.  Emmanuel Mennonite Church, 1236 NW 18th Ave.

Thur., Sept. 13, 9am- 5pm:  Slavery Museum at Plaza of Americas, UF.
Talk and Multi-media presentation by CIW farmworkers at 1pm, Room 1A, UF Smathers Library.

Fri. Sept. 14, 5pm:  Protest Action at Westgate Publix, corner of Univ.
Ave. and 34th St.

Sat. Sept. 15, 10am-4pm:  Fair Food Fair Trade FAIR Workshops and Vendor Tabling; Emmanuel Mennonite Church, 1236 NW 18th Ave. Gardening workshops and Exhibits at Highlands Presbyterian Church, 1001 NE 16th Ave.

Sat. Sept. 15, noon-9pm: Informational tabling at Downtown Latino Fair at Bo Diddley Plaza.

For more Information:

Contacts: Sheila Payne, (352)373-3435, sheila...@hotmail.com [1]; or


Richard MacMaster(352) 377-6577, rmac...@ufl.edu [2], Gainesv...@gmail.com [3] ,

Gainesville Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice 1236 NW 18th Ave.
Gainesville, Fl. 32604

http://www.facebook.com/groups/101190309939890/ [4] , http://gainesvilleiaij.blogspot.com/p/iaij-in-media.html [5]

Co-sponsors include:  University of Florida Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures “La Casita”, Emmanuel Mennonite Church, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, George A. Smathers Library, P.K Yonge Library of Florida History, Center for Latin American Studies, CHISPAS, Rural Women’s Health Project

Links:
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[1] mailto:sheila...@hotmail.com
[2] mailto:rmac...@ufl.edu
[3] mailto:Gainesv...@gmail.com
[4] http://www.facebook.com/groups/101190309939890/
[5] http://gainesvilleiaij.blogspot.com/p/iaij-in-media.html

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David Reed
cell 352-222-0651
home 352-336-0904