WalMart, pay the minimum wage. It's the law.
Stand With Daniel Lopez: Tell Walmart to Stop Abusing Warehouse Workers.
Why he and his fellow workers need your support
Failure to reign in the consolidation of the mega meat producers and packers
The announcement of listening sessions across the nation in 2009 organized by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Justice, brought out farmers, activists, and concerned eaters to testify about changes needed to bust up the oligopolies. Read more about the failure of reform in a blog by David Andrews in the January 23, 2012 issue of the National Catholic Reporter. For meat industry, anti-trust efforts in corporate control collapse.
What would happen if each person bought just $5 more per week of food directly from a local farmer?
This is a question the Ken Meter of the Crossroads Resource Center addresses in a report on Indiana.
Chapter 10, Food Movements Unite! Consciousness + Commitment = Change
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A Conversation with Lucas Benítez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
I think that we need to create alliances between all the food
movements. We all want a healthy food supply and everyone in the
chain to be treated with dignity—from the production worker to
the consumer. But we are facing a monster: the corporate world.
They are only interested in money and profits. We have to be clear,
relentless, and determined to do what it takes in our communities
to create change where we want it. Eventually these corporations,
Who are the lowest paid workers in the U.S.?
Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC) speaking at the 2011 Community Food Security Coalition meeting.
7 of the 10 worst paying jobs in the U.S. are in the food system. This panel, part of the 15th Annual Conference of the Community Food Security Coalition, discussed the issues facing food workers and the creative, powerful ways that they are organizing to not only improve their own working conditions, but to transform the food system into a sustainable, just one.
Walmart and the Good Food Movement
By Eric Holt-Giménez and Annie Shattuck
Walmart recently created a firestorm of controversy within the 'Good Food Movement' when it donated $1.2 million to Milwaukee-based Growing Power, a national leader in the struggle to get good healthy food to low-income communities. Some food activists have criticized Growing Power for taking the money, saying the donation is a thinly veiled attempt to buy goodwill. Others assert Growing Power deserves the money -- and indeed should have received even more from Walmart.
Coalition of Immokalee Workers California Truth Tour aimed at getting Trader Joe’s to sign for one penny more per pound of tomatoes.
By Amelia Moore
On Thursday 14th July, Lucas Benitez from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) stopped by the Food First office to talk to the interns and staff about their campaign for better working conditions and labor rights for the tomato pickers of Immokalee, Florida. The visit formed part of the CIW’s week-long California Truth Tour that targeted Trader Joe’s with protests and community get-togethers.
Immokalee Workers Tour wraps up with powerful Bay Area finale! Days Six and Seven of the Trader Joe's CA Truth Tour July 16-17, 2011
Sunday's action -- and indeed the Truth Tour -- wrapped up with a brief exchange between Lucas Benitez and a Trader Joe's store manager. At first, the manager made clear that he felt the protest was inconvenient. Lucas said he understood, but assured him there were greater inconveniences at stake, like doing one of the hardest, most dangerous, most vital jobs in the country and never making enough to provide a decent life for your family.
The True Cost of Food
New York Times - June 14, 2011, 8:30 pm
By MARK BITTMAN
Mass-produced tomatoes have become redder, more tender and slightly more flavorful than the crunchy orange “cello-wrapped” specimens of a couple of decades ago, but the lives of the workers who grow and pick them haven’t improved much since Edward R. Murrow’s revealing and deservedly famous Harvest of Shame report of 1960, which contained the infamous quote, “We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them.”
