Publix: Profiting from "Atrocities?"
Marc Rodrigues
http://sfalliance.org"We don’t have any plans to sit down with the CIW.
If there are some atrocities going on, it’s not our business."
—Publix spokesperson Dwaine Stevens, "Protestors picket Publix's Saturday grand opening over labor issues," Baldwin County News, 12/12
Yep, you read that right. And no, it's not a typo.
Dwaine Stevens -- spokesperson for
the Publix supermarket chain, the 8th largest private corporation
in the US -- did actually just say, "if there are
some atrocities going on, it's not our business."
Wow.
You can let Publix know what you think
about its blasé approach to farmworker abuse by signing this petition and by contacting the company directly.
Plus, it's not too late to vote Publix
for "Scrooge
of the Year."
Visit the Student/Farmworker Alliance and
Coalition of Immokalee Workers today
for more on what this all means for the Campaign for Fair Food —
and why, in the coming months, consumers and farmworker allies will be
organizing like never before to make sure that Publix and
other leading supermarkets help end Florida's
longstanding harvest of shame once and for all!
- Change.org Publix Petition
- Vote for Publix for "Scrooge of the Year"
- Join us in Tampa this March 4-5!