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Immokalee is a community with a vulnerable population of migrant farmworkers who are on the front lines of Southwest Florida’s food supply chain.…
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Considered “essential workers," farmworkers are still harvesting crops during the pandemic. In Immokalee, the community has banned together to make…
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As all levels of government struggle to find the best way to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak, response plans in the rural Collier County community of…
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Friday, Nov. 2, marks the second annual “Rock for Equality” event in Fort Myers to benefit the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Alliance for Fair…
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The MacArthur Foundation just named its 2017 class of fellows, and one name in particular may stand out to Southwest Floridians. That is, Greg Asbed.Asbed…
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Monday was International Workers Day. People around the world gathered in solidarity to stand up for worker’s rights. More than 100 people showed up to…
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People picketed outside two major food corporations in Tampa Wednesday to protest farmworker exploitation. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) wants…
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A national farm worker advocacy group is endorsing a campaign to boycott the fast food chain Wendy’s.The National Farm Worker Ministry, a faith-based…
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In 2013, more than 1,700 calls from Florida were made to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center. That’s the third highest number of calls…
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The Coalition of Immokalee Workers - or CIW - is on a 200-mile march from Ft. Myers to Lakeland and they stopped in Tampa today. The CIW is in its fourth…