Is Your Food Fair
Open to Everyone
Join the Ford School’s Center for Racial Justice and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies for lunch with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) –– an organization whose work has been hailed as “one of the greatest human rights success stories” of our times.
The CIW’s Campaign for Fair Food was launched by farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida in 2001 to increase consumer awareness of the working conditions on U.S. farms. Over the past 24 years, the Campaign has prompted 14 major corporations to participate in the Fair Food Program, ensuring protections, better conditions, and a Fair Food bonus for thousands of farmworkers across the United States.
Here at the University of Michigan, students have a long history of supporting the CIW’s work, including by carrying out a hunger strike in 2017 and successfully pushing the university to cut its contract with Wendy’s in 2019.
Attendees will hear directly from labor movement leaders about the launch of a new campaign on our campus: Fair Food University.
This event will be in Spanish and English. Lunch from Pilar’s provided.
About the speaker
Cruz Salucio is a key leader of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). Salucio worked for years in the fields of Florida and along the East Coast harvesting tomatoes, watermelon, and other crops. Today, as a part of the Fair Food Program, Salucio and his colleagues conduct workers’ rights education in the fields on all farms participating in the Program. Salucio directs the CIW’s community radio station and community communications, and throughout the year facilitates and conducts dozens of popular education trainings. Salucio also represents the CIW at a national level, speaking publicly on the challenges faced by farmworkers in dozens of presentations every year.