Got food on your plate? Thank a farmworker! Last week was Farmworker Awareness Week! If you're a regular reader of our blog, you know that
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Update: Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food
Candice Comisi
Many of us from WhyHunger have just finished the last leg of the March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW).
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food
Siena Chrisman
Are you keeping up with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' historic two-week, 200-mile March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food? WhyHunger is honored to be
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WhyHunger to Support the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food
Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau
“While it may not be the direct responsibility of a large chain to get involved with a supplier's labor disputers with their employees, there is
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Farm Labor Reality Tour: WI Snapshots
Siena Chrisman
The Farm Labor Reality Tour spent the last several days in snowy Wisconsin, lending support to food workers' struggles for justice, talking with organic farmers,
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Snapshots from the Field: Farmers & Farmworkers Protest Together
Candice Comisi
Two weeks ago, Wisconsin dairy farmer Joel Greeno, University of Minnesota student Anthony Pahnke and Maine vegetable farmer Bob St. Peter traveled to Immokalee, Florida, for
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Adelante Mujeres: Growing food, family and equity in Forest Grove, OR
Lorrie Clevenger
Alejandro Tecum is originally from Guatemala. As a boy, he used to help his father and grandfather on their family farm. He remembers the day
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A Tale of Two Thanksgivings
Candice Comisi
After recent success with Chipotle, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is continuing their campaign with another Big Food corporation in the fight for fair food: Publix Super Markets.
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CIW enters day 4 of “Fast for Fair Food”
Lorrie Clevenger
On Monday, March 5, the Coalition of Immokale Workers launched a 6-day fast in front of the Publix headquarters in Lakeland, FL. 50 farmworkers and
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Food Voices: The Struggle of Women Farmers
Andrianna Natsoulas
WhyHunger is pleased to be partnering with Andrianna Natsoulas, long-time food sovereignty activist and author of the forthcoming book Food Voices: Stories of the Food
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