Lady Gaga & Renegade Tomatoes fight for Fair Food

[Marc Rodrigues]

From:	Student/Farmworker Alliance <orga...@sfalliance.org>

Multimedia Report now online! Don't miss all the exciting photos and videos encapsulating more than 30 actions — from Lady Gaga to Renegade Tomatoes — held across the country during the 2010 Supermarket Week of Action! The 2010 Supermarket Week of Action was unlike any other in the history of SFA and the Campaign for Fair Food as the CIW and the FTGE announced a landmark agreement to extend the CIW's Fair Food principles to over 90% of the Florida tomato industry. As a result of this pact, the Harvest of Shame is nearing an end. As we turn the page on this chapter of Florida agricultural history, however, much work remains. The supermarket industry is now the only impediment to a future of fair wages and dignified treatment for farmworkers. The opening lines of the next chapter in this story were etched recently as Fair Food activists across the country organized more than 30 actions and events during the Week of Action, from Jacksonville and Pensacola to Denver and Houston; from Berkeley to the Rio Grande Valley; from New York City to Chicago. Don't miss the exciting multimedia report and the special message that follows it! In solidarity, the Immokalee crew P.S. Don't miss this special report broadcast nationally the night before Thanksgiving on CBS Evening News, "Harvest of Shame Revisited," as CBS returned to the fields of Immokalee 50 years after the airing of the original documentary.

VIDEO: "Harvest of Shame Revisited" CBS Evening News, 11/24/10 Watch >> CIW wrests historic agreement from tomato growers' group Labor Notes, 11/18/10 Read more >> Editorial: Tomato pact: Ripe for progress Ocala Star-Banner, 11/21/10 Read more >> Editorial: A victory for farmworkers St. Pete Times, 11/20/10 Read more >> Editorial: Farmworkers signal change Ft. Myers News-Press, 11/18/10 Read more >>

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