Actions with CIW this weekend in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale!

Come join dozens of farmworker families from Immokalee and their allies at three exciting Publix actions in Lake Worth, Ft. Lauderdale and Miami this weekend!

publixAdd your voice to the demand that Publix — Florida’s largest privately held company — do its part to end the “harvest of shame!”

Action details:

Saturday, Nov 7:

1:30pm (Lake Worth): Picket in front of the Publix at 1910 Lake Worth Rd, Lake Worth, FL

4:00pm (Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood): Picket in front of the Publix at 5211 Sheridan St., Hollywood, FL

Sunday, Nov 8:

4:30pm (Miami): Picket in front of the Publix at 9755 NW 41st St., Doral, FL

For all the latest on the Publix campaign, visit the CIW site, http://www.ciw-online.org

Download a manager letter to deliver to your local Publix here: http://interfaithact.org/publix

Download the Publix campaign flyer here: http://www.sfalliance.org/resources/PUBflyer.pdf

Background:

In 1960, Edward R. Murrow’s award-winning documentary, “Harvest of Shame,” shed light on the poverty and deplorable working conditions faced by the nation’s migrant farmworkers. Today – nearly 50 years later – the harvest of shame continues for Florida tomato pickers.

Publix, Florida’s largest privately-owned company with sales of more than $12 billion during the first half of 2009, refuses to enter into an agreement with the CIW to guarantee fair wages and dignified working conditions for the tomato pickers in its supply chain. What’s more, Publix continues to purchase tomatoes from two Immokalee-based tomato farms where the victims in last season’s brutal slavery prosecution worked picking tomatoes.

Publix has two options. It can support social responsibility and take advantage of its buying power to make a positive difference in the lives of farmworkers, as so many retail industry leaders already have, or it can continue to ignore farmworkers’ plight, quietly profiting from Florida’s persistent harvest of shame.