tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84866089892443524402024-03-12T19:02:30.183-07:00Denver Fair FoodWe are community members in and around Denver who work in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a grassroots human rights organization of farmworkers working to end modern-day slavery and sweatshop labor conditions in Florida agriculture.
Through an alliance of Denver residents and Florida workers, we seek to transform the purchasing practices of the corporate food industry in order to advance the human rights of farmworkers at the bottom of corporate supply chains.DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-36644786151175594352013-10-25T11:43:00.003-07:002013-10-25T11:43:59.071-07:00March to Wendy's for Farmworker Justice! - Nov. 8<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">On Friday, November 8th, join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and their allies to march and picket at Wendy's. Nely Rodriguez from the CIW will be joining us along with other allies to gather at the Student Center on the Regis University campus to march to the Wendy's down the street on 50th and Federal. We will get to Wendy's during the busy lunch hour to deliver our message: the Denver commun</span><span style="display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">ity is in solidarity with the CIW to demand farmworker justice.<br /><br />Friday, November 8th at 11:15- 12:30 pm<br />Gather: Regis University Student Center (50th and Lowell)<br />March to: Wendy's (50th and Federal)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br />Wendy's is the only one of the five largest fast food corporations to NOT sign onto the the Fair Food Program. In light of Wendy's founders week, Fair Food groups nation wide will be organizing in the beginning of November to tell Wendy's that the time is now for them to come to the table for farmworker justice.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-63374519297240354902013-08-07T11:48:00.000-07:002013-08-07T11:48:34.358-07:00A couple illustrations for the Wendy's Week of ActionThe Wendy's Week of Action is going on right now! Check out the CIW website for some initial <a href="http://ciw-online.org/2013/08/04/wendys-week-of-action-august-3-11-has-begun/">photos and reports</a>. And check back soon for a lot more to come.<br />
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Denver's small contribution comes in the form of a few illustrations.<br />
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First, a Fair Food-spin on an old masterpiece:<br />
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Second, a couple versions of a classic wanted poster inspired by Wendy's branding:<br />
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If you'd like PDFs or JPGs of any of the above imagines, please contact us at <a href="mailto:DenverFairFood@gmail.com">DenverFairFood@gmail.com</a>. We're happy to share.</div>
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While we're posting, a Denver Fair Food member recently ran across a letter to the editor in the Lakeland Ledger, the hometown newspaper of Publix supermarkets. The letter was a poor attempt to criticize the CIW's decision to target Publix as part of the Campaign for Fair Food, and so the Denver Fair Food member spontaneously decided to set the letter writer straight. Turns out the CIW liked the response so much, they featured it on their website. This being the Denver Fair Food blog, we'll share the link here:</div>
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<a href="http://ciw-online.org/2013/08/01/too-good-to-not-share-letter-to-the-editor-conversation-on-publix-campaign-turns-real/">Too good to not share: Letter to the editor conversation on Publix campaign turns real…</a></div>
DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-53016110751507378062013-05-18T17:22:00.002-07:002013-05-18T17:22:45.162-07:00Denver Fair Food Delivers Manager Letter and Adopts a Wendy's! As the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) demonstrates in New York City at the Wendy's Share holders meeting, Denver Fair Food has adopted a Wendy's location in North West Denver. Members of Denver Fair Food will be returning, on a semi-regular basis, to this location to educate Wendy's patrons on the struggle for Fair Food. In addition we engaged managers in conversation and hand delivered letters in support of the CIW.<br />
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DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-57384623260602815652013-05-14T10:33:00.000-07:002013-05-14T10:33:03.862-07:00Petition: Tell Wendy's to Join the Fair Food Program!<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; border: 0px currentColor; color: #555555; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px/23.79px myriad-pro, "Myriad Pro", Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<strong><span style="color: #444444;"><a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/ciw-wendys/3/2/?sub=homepage">Sign our petition to Wendy’s: Join the Fair Food Program and protect farmworkers’ rights!</a></span></strong></div>
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For the last 20 years,<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>there’s been a quiet revolution in the tomato fields of Florida</strong>. A group of immigrant farmworkers called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (or CIW) has been<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>organizing to eradicate human rights abuses, like wage theft, sexual assault and in extreme cases, modern slavery which once ran rampant in the tomato industry,</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and improve working conditions and wages for people who pick the tomatoes we eat. They’ve made incredible progress, but now<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wendy’s is standing in their way.</strong></div>
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Most of the largest fast food chains, including McDonald’s, Subway, Burger King, and Taco Bell have all signed on to the CIW’s Fair Food Program. They have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">agreed to pay an extra penny per pound of tomatoes to raise wages and only buy from fields where workers’ rights are respected. Wendy’s is lagging behind</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the rest of the industry and is refusing to sign the agreement, despite being asked five times since 2007.</div>
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Farm workers and their allies are planning to march in the lead up to Wendy’s shareholder’s meeting in New York on May 18, and we want to make sure they can bring along a huge petition to show than consumers are behind them. Last year, the <a href="http://sumofus.org/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #04acbe; font-family: myriad-pro, "Myriad Pro", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.003921); vertical-align: baseline;">SumOfUs.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>community helped push Tra<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we know that big corporations listen when farmworkers and consumers stand together.</strong></div>
der Joe’s and Chipotle to join the Fair Food Program, so<br />
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://action.sumofus.org/a/ciw-wendys/3/2/?sub=homepage">Sign our petition to Wendy’s: Join the Fair Food Program and protect farmworkers’ rights!</a></strong></div>
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There’s no excuse for Wendy’s refusal to sign on to the fair food agreement. The program<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">adds an additional 1.5 cents per pound of tomatoes raise wages, guarantees improved health and safety measures, and implements a complaint system</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that allows workers to safely report grievances and get fair arbitration. Wendy’s management has the know-how to implement the program -- CEO Emil Brolick ran Taco Bell when that fast food giant signed the agreement after a historic boycott. Wendy’s is dragging its feet refusing to support the unprecedented changes taking place in Florida's fields today, recently heralded in the Washington Post as "<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">one of the great human rights success stories of our day</strong>"</div>
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Worse, Wendy’s is misleading the public about the way it purchases tomatoes. It says it buys produce through a non-profit cooperative that ensures that workers are treated fairly. But the “cooperative” is simply a bulk purchasing system controlled by Wendy’s, and its stated purpose is to “provide more favorable pricing” to Wendy’s, not to protect workers from poverty wages and abusive conditions. Meanwhile, the “cooperative” isn’t accountable to workers at all, and Wendy’s has remained silent in the face of demands to disclose any enforcement mechanisms behind its toothless code of conduct.</div>
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Wendy’s need to know that consumers see what it’s doing, and that we’ll hold it accountable if it keeps burying its head in the sand.</div>
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Before the Fair Food Program launched, tomato pickers faced some of the worst labor conditions in the country without any effective form of recourse. But the CIW’s approach is working, and it’s been<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">internationally recognized for its unprecedented success in protecting human rights</strong>. An advisory committee to the White House cited the fair food agreement in a report on the eradication of human trafficking as “one of the most successful and innovative programs” in the world today in the fight against modern-day slavery, and the United Nations has sent observers to study the program.</div>
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Tell Wendy’s to sign the fair food agreement and get on the right side of history.</div>
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<a href="http://ciw-online.org/wendys_a_cut_above.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #04acbe; font-family: myriad-pro, "Myriad Pro", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.003921); vertical-align: baseline;">Old fashioned is right!</a>, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, January 2013<br /><a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-09-02/opinions/35494934_1_florida-tomato-growers-tomato-industry-immokalee-workers" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; border: 0px currentColor; color: #04acbe; font-family: myriad-pro, "Myriad Pro", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.003921); vertical-align: baseline;">"Fair Food Program helps end the use of slavery in the tomato fields"</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Washington Post, September 2012</div>
DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-49678164616923371842013-03-20T17:45:00.000-07:002013-03-20T18:02:43.334-07:00Report-back: March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/16px "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The <a href="http://ciw-online.org/">Coalition of Immokalee Workers</a> called for a 200-mile march to mark the incredible progress that has been made in Florida's fields, as well as, mark the path ahead - inviting those corporations that have yet to join the Fair Food Program.</span><br />
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<br />Come hear stories, eat some food, see a photo exhibit, watch video highlights and listen to original music from the march!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br /><br />Donations are greatly appreciated but no one will be turned away!</span>DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-58770413555893412932013-03-18T20:22:00.005-07:002013-03-18T20:22:46.243-07:00Denver presente! 3 more videos from the March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food!The <a href="http://ciw-online.org/march">March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food</a> is now over. The 15-day, 200-mile action walking side-by-side with farmworkers and other allies was, by all accounts, a powerful experience for everyone who participated from Denver. Here are three more videos from Denver Fair Food members reflecting on their experience on the March.
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Check out the <a href="http://ciw-online.org/">Coalition of Immokalee Workers</a> website for more <a href="http://ciw-online.org/march/videos.html">videos</a>, <a href="http://ciw-online.org/march/photo_galleries.html">photos</a>, <a href="http://ciw-online.org/march/press.html">press</a> and more!DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-38943496235290587922013-03-14T21:38:00.000-07:002013-03-14T21:49:33.840-07:00Denver presente! Three videos from the March for Rights, Respect and Fair FoodToday we're gonna share three videos from folks from Denver. One from folks who recently returned from the March and two from folks who recently arrived at the March. All are reflections on their participation in the <a href="http://ciw-online.org/march">March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food</a> and the meaning of solidarity.<br />
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The first comes from the group from Regis University who recently returned from the March and almost immediately shared their experience with dozens of their schoolmates at a community dinner at the Regis-affiliated <a href="http://www.regis.edu/RC/About-Regis-College/A-Jesuit-Education-and-Heritage/Jesuit-Education/RC-Service-Learning/Programs-Services/Romero-House.aspx">Romero House</a>:<br />
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The second video comes from <a href="http://sfalliance.org/">SFA</a> Steering Committee member and Denver Fair Food organizer Joe Deras:<br />
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And finally, another Denver Fair Food member, Tania Valenzuela, shares her experience walking with the CIW on her first day on the March:<br />
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While we're on the subject of videos, be sure to check out the <a href="http://ciw-online.org/march/">web page for the March</a> where you'll find <a href="http://ciw-online.org/march/videos.html">incredible videos</a> which have at least as much beauty and heart as ours and maybe a leg up on us when it comes to technical and artistic sophistication.DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-57063988522278183112013-03-12T00:17:00.000-07:002013-03-12T07:36:27.451-07:00Small gestures of solidarity on the March for Rights, Respect and Fair FoodThe Coalition of Immokalee Workers'<a href="http://ciw-online.org/march"> March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food</a> has now been going on for over a week and covered over 100 miles of Florida highway. A large contingent from Denver Fair Food is participating in the March - some of us have already returned from Florida, some of us are still marching and some of us will be joining the other marchers shortly.<br />
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<a href="http://ciw-online.org/march">Go to the web page for the March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food</a> for all the information you'll need on this historic action. There you'll find incredible <a href="http://ciw-online.org/march/photo_galleries.html">photo reports</a>, <a href="http://ciw-online.org/march/press.html">press accounts</a>, inspiring <a href="http://ciw-online.org/march/videos.html">videos</a> and more.<br />
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Rather than duplicate updates of those on the march, we thought we might try to share the perspective of the thousands of bystanders who have witnessed the March as it slowly progressed through their cities. The response from those witnesses has been an overwhelmingly positive one - overwhelming not just in terms of numbers but truly the small displays of solidarity shown by ordinary people has at times left the marchers overwhelmed with pride and joy and gratitude. <br />
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Everywhere the March has traveled, despite being inconvenienced by backed-up traffic, despite probably being otherwise contented customers of Publix supermarkets, despite most likely never having themselves worked a day in the fields in their lives, people from all walks of life have demonstrated their support through honks, waves, cheers, claps and thumbs up as workers, and consumers, journey toward Publix headquarters seeking rights and respect.<br />
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this woman at the bus stop who enthusiastically waved and clamped the whole time the march passed;</div>
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the woman on the far left and her dog;</div>
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this woman who recorded the scene with her smart phone;</div>
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these folks who were enjoying lunch at the <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/chipotle_agreement_media_and_analysis.html">most recent company to join the Fair Food Program</a>;</div>
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this woman with a strong thumbs up;</div>
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this hair stylist who took a few minutes from her day to say hi;</div>
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this person from a local dentist office;</div>
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this guy who was admiring a nearby art exhibit before turning his admiration to one of the most beautiful social movements of our day;</div>
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In all seriousness, though, these small gestures on the part of those who presumably have little or no knowledge of farmworkers' struggle point to something profound. Perhaps it is an intuitive recognition of what Kandace Vallejo, a long-time ally of the CIW in the Campaign for Fair Food, articulates in <a href="http://neverneutral.net/2013/03/11/why-im-walking-200-miles-with-the-immokalee-workers/">her recent reflection on the March</a>: "I’ve spent years learning that though our struggles are not the same, they converge. I am tired of a life dominated by corporate logos and individual alienation. Although North American culture prioritizes personal gain over collective responsibility, I refuse to believe that we have to reiterate such values through our relationships and lifestyles. This movement has shown me that we don’t."DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-86773540702120954342013-02-19T18:57:00.000-08:002013-02-19T18:58:54.666-08:00Valentine's Day Actions hit Wendy's from Washington, DC to Santa Ana, CA<div align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-large/normal arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
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"...Sign the Fair Food agreement, Wendy's, it's the right thing to do!"</div>
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<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UVHxhL9J5QroKl3YwBI9KWXtoAvf2ftl" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">A month ago</a>, Fair Food activists across the country visited their local Wendy's to deliver a message:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cIYTkGXBrXQ%2FtenNEtyQ6mXtoAvf2ftl" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">It's time to join the rest of the fast-food industry and support the Fair Food Program</a>. They promised to follow up their visits with a national week of Valentine-themed action if Wendy's failed to respond to their invitation to do the right thing.</div>
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This past weekend, those same consumers returned to Wendy's -- which responded to the call for social responsibility with a resounding silence -- and made good on their promise! Photos and reports have made their way into Immokalee from over a dozen cities, from a snowy march and protest in Cincinnati, Ohio, to a balmy rally in Miami where they delivered the catchy poem of unrequited love at the top of this post, and a creative bit of theater from <a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/">Denver Fair Food</a> (pictured above). And more are on the way. Check out the <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/">Coalition of Immokalee Workers website</a> today for <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/">pictures and reports</a> from some of those actions.</div>
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A here are some exclusive photos from the action in Denver!</div>
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A delegation from Denver Fair Food went inside to speak with the manager before performing the above shown teatro in which workers and consumers "propose" to Wendy's that the company join the <a href="http://ciw-online.org/FFP_FAQ.html">Fair Food Program</a>.<br />
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Meanwhile outside, we chanted...<br />
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passed out our home-made valentines to Wendy's customers, educating them on about farmworker's struggle...</div>
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and, in the process, asked some tough questions of the "old fashioned" burger chain...</div>
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<i><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.causes.com/donations/select_donation_method?action_id=1728064&campaign_id=60908">Donate online to help Denver community members attend the "March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food." Click here.</a></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black;">On February 20th, 2000, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and allies began the two-week, 230-mile "March for Dignity, Dialogue, and a Fair Wage" in Ft. Myers...</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black;">March 3rd-17th, 2013 - more than a decade later - we will march in a historic return to our roots for the two-week "March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food" from Ft. Myers to Lakeland, Florida! </span></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">The Denver Fair Food Committee is launching a "pledge-per-mile" FUNdraiser to send a delegation to Florida!</span></b></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.causes.com/donations/select_donation_method?action_id=1728064&campaign_id=60908">Click here to make a pledge online!</a> or contact <a href="mailto:DenverFairFood@gmail.com">DenverFairFood@gmail.com</a> if you'd like to make a donation in person or by mail!</span></strong></div>
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 14px/20px "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">We will be marching side-by-side with farmworkers for at least 100 miles (some of us will march the full 175 miles)! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b>When we return, we will have a community report-back with food, music, photos, videos and even a raffle!<br /></b></span><span style="color: black;">We want to provide some FUN incentives for your donation!</span></div>
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<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><b>25 cents/mi.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- $25 for 100 miles -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Daily tweet shout-out</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>during the march!</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><b>50 cents/mi.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- $50 for 100 miles -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Daily tweet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>"March Route Photo of the Day"</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on Facebook (with your name tagged, of course)!</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><b>$1/mi.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>- $100 for 100 miles -<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Daily tweet, photo of the day,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>and<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>10 raffle tickets</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at the report-back event! </span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><b>1 scholarship</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- $250 one-time donation -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Daily tweet, photo of the day, 10 raffle tickets,</b>and a<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food" shirt!</b></span></li>
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<strong><a href="http://www.causes.com/donations/select_donation_method?action_id=1728064&campaign_id=60908">Click here to make a pledge online!</a> or contact <a href="mailto:DenverFairFood@gmail.com">DenverFairFood@gmail.com</a> if you'd like to make a donation in person or by mail!</strong></div>
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For more information on the March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food visit the Coal<a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/">ition of Immokalee Workers website</a> or see this <a href="http://ciw-online.org/march_for_rights_respect_and_fair_food.html">announcement</a>.</div>
DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-15436175363486646972013-01-22T11:27:00.001-08:002013-01-22T11:29:38.679-08:00CIW calls on Wendy's to join the Fair Food Program, Denver Fair Food adds their voice<br />
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<b><i>It's time for Wendy's to join the rest of the fast-food industry in the 21st century and support the Fair Food Program!</i></b></div>
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<i>2005, <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/2004-05news.html">Taco Bell.</a> 2007, <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/McDonald's_campaign_archive.html">McDonald's</a>. 2008, <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/BK_campaign_archive.html">Burger King. </a>2009, <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/CIW_Subway_joint_press_release.html">Subway</a>. 2012, <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/chipotle_agreement_news.html">Chipotle.</a></i></div>
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<i>With one glaring exception, the top five largest fast-food companies in the world have joined the <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/new_day.html">Fair Food Program</a>, paying a penny-per-pound premium on the tomatoes they purchase from Florida growers and requiring their suppliers to meet the more modern, more humane labor standards contained in the <a href="http://fairfoodstandards.org/code.html">Fair Food Code of Conduct</a>. </i></div>
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<i>Well, it's certainly not because we didn't ask. Between the CIW and the <a href="http://www.allianceforfairfood.org/index.html">Alliance for Fair Food</a>, we sent no fewer than five letters to Wendy's CEO's between 2007 and 2013, asking the hamburger giant to "meet as soon as possible... to discuss how your company can become a leader in socially responsible practices that ensure the human rights of farmworkers in your supply chain." You can see an example <a href="http://www.allianceforfairfood.org/2009affletter.html">here</a>. We even visited Wendy's shareholder meetings in 2010 and 2011 to ask in person.</i></div>
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<i>To the letters, nothing. And to the shareholder questions, pretty much the same thing, just in actual words. According to <a href="http://www.nesri.org/">National Economic and Social Rights Initiative</a> representative who asked the question on behalf of the CIW at the 2011 meeting in New York City (on far right, above), "the main points were that they have been aware of the Campaign for several years, they have their own corporate responsibility program that already covers the issues, but they are taking it under consideration." In short, nothing. </i></div>
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<i>So ignorance is certainly no explanation for Wendy's absence in the Fair Food Program. In fact, here's the kicker... <a href="http://www.forbes.com/profile/emil-j-brolick/">Wendy's new CEO Emil Brolick</a> is the last person who could claim ignorance of the Campaign for Fair Food, because before Mr. Brolick was President and Chief Executive Officer of Wendy's, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of none other than <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/2004-05news.html">Fair Food pioneer Taco Bell</a> during the entire 4-yr boycott! Mr. Brolick ran Taco Bell from 2000-2006, then stayed in various leadership positions at Yum Brands, ending up as Yum's Chief Operating Officer before moving to Wendy's in 2011.</i></div>
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<i>What has Wendy's been doing then, if not stepping up to the same ethical purchasing practices for its Florida tomatoes that its competition has adopted? .... Check out the <a href="http://ciw-online.org/">CIW website</a> for more.</i></div>
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Across the country, allies of the CIW have to visiting their local Wendys' to push the company to join the Fair Food Program, including here in Denver.</div>
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Just yesterday, as Denver's annual Martin Luther King Day Marade passed the Colfax and Downing Wendy's, a delegation from several community-based social justice organizations spoke with the manager of the local store.</div>
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The Wendy's Campaign is already gaining steam as scenes like this play out across the country. We're hopeful that Wendy's will see the writing on the wall and join it's fellow fast-food compatriots in the Fair Food Program before the campaign starts protesting in earnest. Check out the <a href="http://ciw-online.org/">CIW website</a> for more updates on the Wendy's campaign.</div>
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<br />DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-2853736957260366922013-01-22T10:56:00.001-08:002013-01-22T10:56:34.892-08:00Caroling for Farmworker Justice: photoreportWhile this blog may have taken a break for the holidays, Denver Fair Food did not! Here are some photos from December 22nd when we went Caroling for Farmworker Justice inside several King Soopers in Denver and Lakewood.<br />
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"Oooh, you better watch out! You better not lie! You better not pout, I'm telling you why! King Soopers exploits farmworkers!"</div>
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"Workers in Immokalee, Florida / Pick tomatoes for us all! / While we live nice and cozy / They can hardly live at all!" (to the tune of Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer)</div>
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"Vamos a luchar! Vamous a gritar! Vamos a parar la esclavitud laboral!" (to the tune of Feliz Navida)</div>
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At least a dozen Fair Food supporters will raise their voices in song, spreading a message of justice and holiday cheer inside three King Soopers stores to tell the Denver-based supermarket that it's parent company - the Kroger Corporation- must sign the Fair Food Agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.<br />
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<b>Saturday, December 22nd, 12:30pm</b><br />
<b>gather at Dazbog Coffee on 9th & Downing</b><br />
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Supermarket locations will be shared in-person with the folks who join us!
Meet up will be outside of the Dazbog Coffeeshop on 9th & Downing!
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Carol practice: Sunday, December 16, 7pm, contact DenverFairFood@gmail.com for details.<br />
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**Background for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)**: The CIW is a community-based organization of mainly Latino, Mayan Indian and Haitian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida. CIW strives to build their strength as a community on a basis of reflection and analysis, constant attention to coalition-building across ethnic divisions, and an ongoing investment in leadership development to help members continually develop their skills in community education and organization.
From this basis they fight for, among other things: a fair wage for the work they do, more respect on the part of their bosses and the industries where we work, better and cheaper housing, stronger laws and stronger enforcement against those who would violate workers' rights, the right to organize on our jobs without fear of retaliation, and an end to forced labor in the fields. www.ciw-online.org
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/54000129">King Soopers: Come to the Table...with Farmworkers!</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user14806646">Denver Fairfood</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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A great short video of our teatro from November 17th depicting King Soopers' and parent company Kroger's stubborn refusal to join the Fair Food Program DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-43925153956135113452012-11-25T20:20:00.000-08:002012-11-25T20:20:50.150-08:00Why won't King Soopers listen to its customers? An action photo report<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Still riding high from our <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/chipotle_agreement_media_and_analysis.html">recent victory in the Chipotle campaign</a>, the Denver community held two actions during the <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/thanksgiving_week_of_action_reports.html">Thanksgiving Week of Action</a>. Both sought to share our message with King Soopers and its parent company Kroger that it is time to come to the table with farmworkers and join the Fair Food Program. And both - in what might be a case of life imitating art - illustrated the ways in which Kroger has turned its back on both farmworkers in its supply chain and its own customers. The first action can be called:</div>
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To begin, check out this great video from the action: <a href="http://vimeo.com/54000129">King Soopers: Come to the Table... </a></div>
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The action began with a dramatic visual representation of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' long journey toward greater justice, dignity and respect for Florida's farmworkers and the progress that still needs to occur.</div>
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The first table, representing the Fair Food Program, depicted the broad array of disparate players in the food industry - from farmworkers to fast-food and grocery chains to tomato growers - who have come to work together as equals in order to end the human rights crisis in Florida's fields, all the while surrounded by dedicated allies who know that the fight to end the exploitation of workers at the other end of the food chain is a struggle to end their exploitation as well.</div>
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Meanwhile the second table depicted a smug and miserly executive from King Soopers sitting at a table by himself, his back turned to the table where so many others have congregated to ensure a more just and responsible agricultural industry.</div>
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One by one, individuals set the table, going through the history of the Campaign for Fair Food, from the founding of the <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/index.html">Coalition of Immokalee Workers</a> in 1993 through the <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/about.html#cff">11 corporations</a> who've already joined the <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/FFP_FAQ.html">Fair Food Program</a> including McDonald's, Subway, Whole Foods and just a couple months ago Denver-based Chipotle Mexican Grill. All the while, King Soopers stubbornly clung to a "business as usual" mentality which has allowed exploitation to strive for so long and ignored the growing consensus.</div>
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But after the giant table was finally set, an obvious question loomed over King Soopers' head.</div>
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We called to the executive to "Come to the table!" Just like in our dramatic enactment, we know that King Soopers and parent-company Kroger will try to ignore us (just see below for what happened when we visited the King Soopers corporate offices).</div>
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Armed with this knowledge, the crowd marched across the street and held a loud and powerful demonstration outside of King Soopers' popular supermarket in Denver's Capitol Hill neighborhood...</div>
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...and introduced new people from the very supportive neighborhood to the Campaign for Fair Food. Over one hundred customers signed postcards to Kroger that morning calling on the company to join the Fair Food Program. Which brings us to our second action:</div>
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On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Denver Fair Food visited King Soopers headquarters (Kroger's regional offices) to deliver the postcards we had gotten signed at the previous action.</div>
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First we greeted King Soopers employees as they arrived for work in order to inform them of the need for Kroger to join the Fair Food Program.</div>
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We then attempted to speak with a representative from the company and deliver the postcards representing the concerns of so many of us in Denver. However, just like in our street theater from the earlier action, no one from the corporate offices would speak with us. Instead we were asked to leave the property by a security guard. While we didn't expect our demands to be embraced on the spot but we also weren't expecting the cold shoulder. We left confused as to why a company that claims to care so much about its customers would be unwilling to listen to them, but we also left more determined then ever to make our voices heard. Once again like our enactment from the earlier action, we know that eventually Kroger, like so many before it, will eventually come to the table. </div>
DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-17980594762504341712012-11-07T16:38:00.000-08:002012-11-07T16:38:40.946-08:00King Soopers Action: Time to Come to the Table with Farmworkers!<div>
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<strong>Saturday, November 17, 12:00noon<br />King Soopers, 9th & Corona</strong><br />Set the Table and call on King Soopers’ parent company Kroger to join the <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/101.html#cff">11 other food corporations</a> who have joined the <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/about.html">Coalition of Immokalee Workers’</a> <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/FFP_FAQ.html">Fair Food Program</a></div>
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A new era of human rights and fair wages - for which farmworkers have been fighting for so long - is taking hold in Florida's tomato fields. Yet Kroger, the nation’s largest supermarket chain and owner of Denver-based King Soopers still refuses to adopt the Fair Food principles which would allow these changes to spread and thrive, despite that 11 other fast-food and grocery chains have already joined. It’s time for Kroger to come to the table and join the Fair Food Program!</div>
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Florida's farmworkers have long faced brutal conditions. They earn sub-poverty wages, have no right to form unions or to over-time pay, lack traditional employment benefits such as health, sick leave or pensions, and have not received a significant raise in nearly 30 years. At the current rate, a Florida tomato picker must harvest over TWO TONS just to earn the equivalent of minimum wage for a typical 10 hour. In the most extreme situations workers are held in modern-day slavery and forced to work against their will.</div>
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However, there is a new hope on the horizon, thanks to the hard-fought campaigns of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a community-base organization of Haitian, Latino and Mayan farmworkers in Florida. Today, eleven leading food corporations (including Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s) and over 90% of the Florida tomato industry have joined the CIW's Fair Food Program, which includes a penny-per-pound piece rate wage increase, a strict code of conduct, a cooperative complaint resolution system, a participatory health and safety program, and a worker-to-worker education process.</div>
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However, Kroger - the nation’s largest supermarket chain and owner of Denver-based King Soopers - has yet to do its part. Now it is time for Kroger to put its support behind the Fair Food Program so that we can put an end to Florida’s “Harvest of Shame” once and for all.</div>
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For more information:</div>
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<a href="mailto:denverfairfood@gmail.com" target="_blank">denverfairfood@gmail.com</a></div>
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<a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">DenverFairFood.blogspot.com</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/" target="_blank">www.ciw-online.org</a> </div>
DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-45507536016587376282012-11-06T11:41:00.000-08:002012-11-06T11:45:23.758-08:00Archive of Chipotle Campaign & VictoryDue to the hard work and solidarity of so many in Denver, Chipotle finally joined the CIW's Fair Food Program! While it is of course vital to celebrate our victories, it is just as important to document them. <br />
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Here is an extensive (although not comprehensive) list of the many articles, reports and actions from the six years of the Chipotle campaign and the many articles which came out following the victory:<br />
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<li><a href="http://zesterdaily.com/agriculture/how-chipotle-got-on-board-farmworkers-rights/">How Chipotle Got on Board With Rights for Farmworkers</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/chipotle-signs-fair-food-agreement-is-kroger-next">Chipotle signs Fair Food Agreement, is Kroger next?</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.southernstudies.org/2012/10/chipotle-fair-food-agreement-is-the-latest-win-for-florida-farmworkers.html">Chipotle fair-food agreement is the latest win for Florida farmworkers</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/workers_fight_for_justice_from_wal-mart_to_chipotle_20121010/">Workers Fight for Justice, From Wal-Mart to Chipotle</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.hystericalraisins.com/news/chipotle-signs-fair-food-agreement-with-the-coalition-of-immokalee-workers/">Chipotle Signs Fair Food Agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.fooddigital.com/hotels_restaurants/chipotle-signs-contract-with-coalition-of-immokalee-workers">Chipotle Signs Contract with Coalition of Immokalee Workers</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.ecocentricblog.org/2012/10/05/now-with-more-integrity-%E2%80%93-chipotle-signs-on-to-the-coalition-of-immokalee-workers%E2%80%99-fair-food-program/">Now with More Integrity – Chipotle Signs on to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/10/05/fair-last-chipotle-commits-fair-wages-tomato-farmworkers">Your Burrito Just Got More Ethical: Chipotle Commits to Fair Wages for Farmworkers</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://csahewitt.wordpress.com/2012/10/05/another-win-for-fair-farming-chipotle-sadles-up-to-the-coalition-for-immokalee-workers/">Another Win for Fair Farming! Chipotle sidles up to the Coalition for Immokalee Workers!</a></li>
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<li><span class="storyheadline"><a href="http://sustainablefoodnews.com/story.php?news_id=17537">Chipotle signs fair wage, labor agreement with Florida tomato pickers</a></span></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/chipotle-ciw_n_1943006.html">Chipotle, CIW Finally Reach Accord To Support Florida Tomato Pickers' Rights</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/5/headlines/chipotle_signs_fair_food_agreement_with_coalition_of_immokalee_workers">Chipotle Signs Fair Food Agreement with Coalition of Immokalee Workers</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.tarantarist.com/chef-jose-duarte-and-taranta-staff-at-starchefs-icc2012-congress/">Chef Jose Duarte and Taranta Staff at Starchefs ICC2012 Congress </a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/chipotle_agreement_media_and_analysis.html">CIW analysis of Chipotle victory</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21700114/chipotle-signs-agreement-improve-conditions-workers">Chipotle signs agreement to improve conditions for workers</a></li>
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<li><a class="contentpagetitle" href="http://www.foodwhistleblower.org/blog/23-2012/470-chipotle-finally-walks-the-food-with-integrity-walk-signs-farmworker-agreement">Chipotle Finally Walks the 'Food with Integrity' Walk, Signs Farmworker Agreement</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/10/chipotle_agrees_to_respect_farmworkers.html">Chipotle Agrees to Respect Farmworkers</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/chipotle-signs-fair-food-agreement-with-the-coalition-of-immokalee-workers">Chipotle signs fair food agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/04-12">Food Justice Victory: Chipotle Signs Agreement With Coalition of Immokalee Workers</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.news-press.com/article/20121004/BUSINESS/121004021/Chipotle-Mexican-Grill-Coalition-Immokalee-Workers-reach-accord-tomato-harvest-wages-working-conditions">Chipotle Mexican Grill, Coalition of Immokalee Workers reach accord on tomato harvest wages, working conditions</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/chipotle_agreement_news.html">Press Release: Chipotle signs agreement with CIW to join Fair Food Program!</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/3/seeking_living_wage_and_humane_conditions">Seeking Living Wage and Humane Conditions, Immokalee Workers Bring Fair Food Struggle to Chipotle</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.metnews.org/insight/hometown-chipocrisy-is-food-with-integrity-just-a-slogan/">Hometown chipocrisy: is “food with integrity” just a slogan?</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/images/Chipotle%20Open%20Letter%202012%20Final3.pdf">Open Community Letter to Chipotle on Behalf of Sustainable Food Movement</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/ci_21679382?source=bb">Demonstrators gather outside Chipotle's Denver headquarters</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/food/2012/09/27/chipotle-brings-cultivate-festival-music-food-ideas-controversy-city-park-october-6/15069/?doing_wp_cron=1352230702.2000329494476318359375">Chipotle bring Cultivate Festival - music, food, ideas and controversy - to City Park</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/13897/at_utopian_chipotle_festival_immokalee_workers_protest_food_with_integrity/">At Utopian Chipotle Festival, Immokalee Workers Protest ‘Food With Integrity’</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/2012/08/chipotle-day-of-action-from-coast-to.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Day of Action: from coast to coast, the message is clear...</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.justharvestusa.org/chipotle/July_2012_DOA.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle (Inter)National Day of Action Photo Report</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-rachel-kahntroster/integrity-and-justice-tell-chipotle-to-go-deeper-than-just-a-slogan_b_1702362.html?utm_hp_ref=food&ir=Food"><span style="color: #336699;">Integrity and Justice: Tell Chipotle to Go Deeper Than Just a Slogan</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://civileats.com/2012/07/25/taking-on-chipotle-with-the-fair-food-campaign/#more-15102"><span style="color: #336699;">Taking on Chipotle with the Campaign for Fair Food</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.good.is/post/why-won-t-chipotle-sign-the-fair-food-agreement"><span style="color: #336699;">Why Won't Chipotle Sign the Fair Food Agreement?</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/ciw-allies-columbus-and-cincinnati-join-chipotle-national-day-of-action"><span style="color: #336699;">CIW allies in Columbus and Cincinnati join Chipotle national day of action</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.nbc-2.com/story/19113487/2012/07/25/immokalee-workers-protest-chipotle"><span style="color: #336699;">Immokalee workers protest Chipotle</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.iatp.org/blog/201205/chipotle-please-add-some-farmworker-justice-to-my-burrito"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle, please add some farmworker justice to my burrito</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://ciw-online.org/chipotle_top10.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle's Top Ten Falsehood, Fibs and Fabrications</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/2012%20NE%20Tour%20updates/philadelphia.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Photo Report from Philly Chipotle Protest</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="httphttp://www.ciw-online.org/2012%20NE%20Tour%20updates/new_york.html://"><span style="color: #336699;">Photo Report from NYC Chipotle protest</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.fastcasual.com/article/192438/Chipotle-battles-new-criticism-from-growers-group"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle battles new criticism from growers' group</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/chipotle_fair_food_fail.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle's Fair Food fail</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/2012/03/food-writers-take-chipotle-to-task-at.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Food writers take chipotle to task</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://foodwhistleblower.org/blog/23-2012/290-chipotle-ad-criticizes-industrial-agriculture-but-ignores-worker-rights"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle Ad Criticizes Industrial Agriculture but Ignores Worker Rights</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.onearth.org/blog/chipotle-grammy-ad-factory-farming"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle's Grammy Ad: Great Farming Practices, or Just Great Filmmaking?</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/2011/11/are-chipotle-and-trader-joes-really.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Are Chipotle And Trader Joe's Really Selling Food with "Integrity?"</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/2011/05/chipocrisy-at-graduation.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipocrisy at graduation</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/2011/05/students-to-protest-steve-ells-at-cu.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Students to protest Steve Ells at CU graduation</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://food.change.org/blog/view/dont_fall_for_chipotles_spin_on_slavery"><span style="color: #336699;">Don't Fall For Chipotle's Spin on Slavery</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://food.change.org/blog/view/is_chipotle_still_profiting_from_modern-day_slavery"><span style="color: #336699;">Is Chipotle Still Profiting from Modern-Day Slavery?</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.grist.org/article/food-9-10-2010chipotles-ongoing-farmworker-problem/"><span style="color: #336699;">To establish ‘integrity,’ Chipotle Grill needs to stand against farmworker abuse</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/2010/04/still-waiting-chipotle-ceo-ells.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Still Waiting... Chipotle CEO Ells Continues to duck Chipotle Challenge...</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/145593/"><span style="color: #336699;">One Company Thinks They've Created Fast Food with a Conscience -- Are They Right?</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://simplegoodandtasty.com/2010/01/13/chipotle"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle Doesn't Support Florida's Tomato Pickers? Say it ain't so, Steve.</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.grist.org/article/steve-ells-will-you-accept-the-chipotle-challenge"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle Challenge: time to back up ‘food with integrity’</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/columnists/joan-obra/story/1672793.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle's 'Integrity' slogan draws heat</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/2009/10/our-tomatoes-are-picked-by-slaves.html"><span style="color: #336699;">"Our tomatoes are picked by slaves"</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/2009/09/celebrating-victory-while-continuing-to.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Celebrating a victory while continuing to call on Chipotle</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2009-09-02-time-was-right-about-cheap-food-but-forgot-farmworkers"><span style="color: #336699;">No Justice, No Sustainability</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/2009/08/when-will-we-be-satisfied-delivering.html"><span style="color: #336699;">When will we be satisfied?</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcCxO755SFc"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle Uncensored</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2009-07-23-chipotle-FoodInc-sponsorship-drama-farm-worker"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle Grilled</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/Chipotle_PR_crash.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Battle of the Burrito</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-were-fair-food-activists-kicked-out.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Why were Fair Food activists kicked out of Food, Inc.?</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/news.html#chipocrisy"><span style="color: #336699;">Dictionary: hy-poc-ri-sy</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.wiretapmag.org/rights/43887/"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle: Not So Hot for Farmworkers</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2008/12/chipotle-still-exploits-farm-workers-via-patrick-kelsall-modern-slavery-conscious-consumerism-campaign-for-fair-trade-food/"><span style="color: #336699;">Chipotle Exploits Farmworkers</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/scholars_letter_to_Chipotle.html"><span style="color: #336699;">Scholars' Letter to Chipotle</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/Chipotle_letter.html"><span style="color: #336699;">CIW's Original Letter to Chipotle</span></a></li>
<br />DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-61651221153018796822012-10-17T11:32:00.002-07:002012-10-17T11:32:43.955-07:00Denver Fair Food wastes no time in making the pivot...<h2>
Ask not for whom the bell tolls in Denver, King Soopers (aka Kroger), it tolls for you!</h2>
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All is decidedly not quiet on the western front in the fight for food justice! </div>
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Just days after <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/chipotle_agreement_news.html">last week's big announcement </a>that the CIW had reached a Fair Food agreement with Chipotle, the incredible crew at <a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/">Denver Fair Food</a> is back in the street, taking its message to local grocery giant King Soopers (one of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Soopers_%26_City_Market">two brands in the Rocky Mountain region owned by Kroger</a>, the other being City Market).</div>
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From the examiner.com (<a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/chipotle-signs-fair-food-agreement-is-kroger-next">"Chipotle signs Fair Food Agreement, is Kroger next?</a>", 10/9/12):</div>
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<tr><td height="145" valign="top">"Protests for Chipotle’s Cultivate festival at City Park in Denver were cancelled due to Chipotle’s recent alliance with the CIW. Instead, on Saturday October 7, 2012, The CIW and protesters gathered outside of the King Soopers on 9th and Corona to ask Kroger (King Soopers parent company) to follow Chipotle and become the 12th corporation along with McDonald’s, Burger King, and Whole Foods to sign the Fair Food Agreement. Oscar Otzoy and Gerardo Reyes from the CIW along with members from the Student Farmworker Alliance, Denver Fair Food, and Reverend Mary from Columbine Unitarian Universalist Church reported that they delivered a letter to the manager of King Soopers asking them to join the FFP."</td></tr>
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Robert McGoey, a longtime stalwart of the Campaign for Fair Food in Denver, spoke about the significance of the agreement with Chipotle and the next chapter in the campaign for Denver Fair Food:</div>
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<tr><td height="134" valign="top">"(The Chipotle agreement) is a reminder that grassroots organizing between conscientious consumers and farmworkers has the power to shape our food system for the better. We... can take an active role in creating the world we want to see.<br />
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"Now it is time for the country's massive supermarket chains to join the Fair Food Program. Here in Denver we'll be calling on Kroger, the nation's largest supermarket chain and owner of the local King Soopers brand, to join." <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/chipotle-signs-fair-food-agreement-is-kroger-next">read more</a></td></tr>
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If what's past is indeed prologue, the time has come for King Soopers to stop stalling and join the Fair Food Program! There will undoubtedly be much more to come from Denver Fair Food, so we, for one, will be keeping an eye turned to the west in the weeks and months ahead. </div>
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And with that we will give the final word of this update to the fine people of Denver, Colorado, graphic style:</div>
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Denver allies marched from Cheesman Park to King Soopers...<br />
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to tell the grocer: Time's Up! Join the Fair Food Program!<br />
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A delegation from the CIW and Denver community delivered a giant letter to King Soopers manager.<br />
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Afterward we had a brief rally across the street knowing that a New Day is dawning! </div>
DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-79713806233922044032012-10-05T11:03:00.000-07:002012-10-05T11:10:27.420-07:00Denver, We Did It! Chipotle signs agreement with CIW to join Fair Food Program!<div class="ecxutdU2e">
Denver, we did it! After many long years of struggle and the participation of so, so many people from Denver in ways both large and small, Chipotle Mexican Grill has finally signed a Fair Food Agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers! There is so much more to say, so much gratitude to express, so much pride, so much celebration!</div>
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For now though, Check out this announcement from the CIW.</div>
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<br />From left to right, the CIW's Oscar Otzoy, Chipotle's Chris Arnold, and the CIW's Gerardo Reyes, joined in the background by student and faith allies, at today's signing ceremony at Chipotle's Denver headquarters.</div>
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Gerardo Reyes<br />
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<strong>CHIPOTLE SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH CIW <br />TO JOIN FAIR FOOD PROGRAM</strong></div>
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DENVER, October 4, 2012 – Chipotle Mexican Grill and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a farmworker-based human rights organization, have reached an agreement that brings Chipotle’s commitment to sustainable food to the CIW’s Fair Food Program. The agreement, which will improve wages and working conditions for farmworkers in Florida who pick tomatoes for Chipotle, comes in advance of the winter tomato-growing season, when most of the nation’s tomatoes come from growers in Florida.</div>
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The Fair Food Program provides a bonus for tomato pickers to improve wages and binds growers to protocols and a code of conduct that explicitly include a voice for workers in health and safety issues, worker-to-worker education on the new protections under the code, and a complaint resolution procedure which workers can use without fear of retaliation. The Program also provides for independent third party audits to ensure compliance. <br />
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“With this agreement, we are laying down a foundation upon which we all – workers, growers, and Chipotle – can build a stronger Florida tomato industry for the future,” said Gerardo Reyes of the CIW. “But more than this, today’s news marks a turning point in the sustainable food movement as a whole, whereby, thanks to Chipotle’s leadership, farmworkers are finally recognized as true partners -- every bit as vital as farmers, chefs, and restaurants -- in bringing ‘good food’ to our tables.”<br />
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“Chipotle has an unmatched track record driving positive change in the nation's food supply and is continuously working to find better, more sustainable sources for all of the ingredients we use — sources that produce food in ways that demonstrate respect for the land, farm animals, and the people involved,” said Chris Arnold, communications director at Chipotle. “We believe that this agreement underscores our long-standing commitment to the people who produce the food we serve in our restaurants.” <br />
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Chipotle becomes the 11th company to join the CIW’s Fair Food Program, which is designed to create a sustainable tomato industry through respect for the rights and concerns of all involved. The Fair Food Premium paid by participating buyers like Chipotle is used to help participating growers improve wages and working conditions for Florida farmworkers.<br />
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<strong>About Chipotle</strong><br />
Steve Ells, founder, chairman and co-CEO, started Chipotle with the idea that food served fast did not have to be a typical fast food experience. Today, Chipotle continues to offer a focused menu of burritos, tacos, burrito bowls (a burrito without the tortilla) and salads made from fresh, high-quality raw ingredients, prepared using classic cooking methods and served in a distinctive atmosphere. Through our vision of Food With Integrity, Chipotle is seeking better food from using ingredients that are not only fresh, but that—where possible—are sustainably grown and naturally raised with respect for the animals, the land, and the farmers who produce the food. A similarly focused people culture, with an emphasis on identifying and empowering top performing employees, enables us to develop future leaders from within. Chipotle opened with a single restaurant in 1993 and currently operates more than 1,300 restaurants. For more information, visit <a href="http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2FChipotle.com&esheet=50357716&lan=en-US&anchor=Chipotle.com&index=1&md5=ddc732f0e6c347c6a1b113ee0dcb97fa">Chipotle.com</a>.<br />
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The <a href="http://ciw-online.org/Immokalee_rd_tjs.html">CIW</a> (www.ciw-online.org) is a community-based farmworker organization headquartered in Immokalee, Florida, with over 4,000 members. The CIW seeks modern working conditions for farmworkers and promotes their fair treatment in accordance with national and international human rights standards. The CIW’s Campaign for Fair Food has won unprecedented support for fundamental farm labor reforms, through the Fair Food Program, from retail food industry leaders. The Fair Food Program taps the unique powers of all the elements of our country's food industry:<br />
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Again, with this agreement, all plans for this weekend's action in Denver are <strong>CANCELLED</strong>.</div>
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DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-9739690263474032202012-09-28T22:03:00.000-07:002012-09-28T22:15:04.453-07:00Cultivating Justice, Transparency, Partnership! Join CIW and allies October 6!<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1px 56px; text-align: center;">
<b>Things are heating up for Chipotle! </b></div>
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<b>Join CIW and Allies in Demanding Rights and Dignity for Farmworkers at Upcoming Denver "Cultivate" Festival</b></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a18;"><strong>10:00am - 4:00pm: </strong>Join us for a series of creative actions, street theater, <a href="http://www.justharvestusa.org/chipotle/ChipotleCultivateChicago.html">tomato bucket installation</a>, costumed flyering and more! (For a full schedule and to get involved email <a href="mailto:jake@justhavestusa.org" target="_blank">jake@justhavestusa.org</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a18;"><strong>Where:</strong> City Park (East of Ferril Lake; see red star on map below)</span></div>
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<b>Where: </b>Gather for march in front of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (Colorado Blvd & E. Montview Blvd; see orange "M" on map below). If you are unable to march, join us for the vigil east of Ferril Lake (at the red star on map).<br />
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Website: <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/cultivate/" target="_blank">Cultivating - Justice - Transparency - Partnership</a></div>
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Please share: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/147092078768729/" target="_blank">Facebook Event</a></div>
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<b>Background:</b> Following <a href="http://ciw-online.org/101.html#cff">ten major victories</a>, including the recent agreement with Trader Joe's, the CIW has developed the <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/FFP_FAQ.html">Fair Food Program</a> - an historic partnership between farmworkers, tomato growers, and retail corporations. Through their commitment to the Program, these corporations are paying a penny-per-pound premium to lift farmworker wages and have committed to buying only from growers who meet a strict set of labor standards.</div>
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Yet, despite its claim to be the fast-food leader in social accountability, <a href="http://www.grist.org/article/steve-ells-will-you-accept-the-chipotle-challenge">Chipotle has for years refused to sign a Fair Food Agreement</a> and thus and is under no obiligation to stop buying tomatoes from growers where workers' rights are violated.</div>
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<a href="http://ciw-online.org/chipotle_top10.html">Chipotle's Top Ten Falsehoods, Fibs and Fabrications about the Campaign for Fair Food</a></div>
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DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-53285035304091469502012-09-24T21:07:00.001-07:002012-09-24T21:08:57.939-07:00Momentum building in Denver for Fair Food and Farmworker Justice at "Cultivate Festival"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: arial;">The weather may cooling, the Campaign for Fair Food is heating up in Denver! Momentum is growing as Denver allies and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers make plans to bring creative actions to the Oct. 6 Chipotle "Cultivate Festival", calling on the chain to finally sign a Fair Food Agreement with the <a href="http://ciw-online.org/">CIW</a>.</span><br />
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1. Oscar Otzoy of the CIW is in Denver through October 6 connecting with community members and animating them to get involved in the Oct. 6 actions. If you'd like to invite Oscar to make an announcement or do a workshop about the CIW's 20-year struggle for justice in the tomato fields of Florida with your community organization, faith group, union, or classroom contact <a href="mailto:DenverFairFood@gmail.com">DenverFairFood@gmail.com</a>. </div>
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2. On Saturday Sept. 15, Chipotle brought the "Cultivate Festival" to Chicago's Lincoln Park. <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">While Chipotle celebrated inside the gated festival, the CIW and allies set up on a neighboring field to both remind Chipotle and educate festival attendees that the restaurant chain has chosen to ignore farmworkers rather than recognize and respect their vital contribution to the food system by joining the Fair Food Program.</span> For a small hint of the exciting actions being planned for Denver, <a href="http://www.justharvestusa.org/chipotle/ChipotleCultivateChicago.html">see the photo report from Chicago here</a>. </span></div>
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3. If you're interested in learning more about the Campaign for Fair Food and the actions planned for Oct. 6, one opportunity will be this Thursday at the Occupy Denver Teach-In:</div>
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at <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Deer Pile Space above City O’ City at 206 E. 13th Ave.</span></div>
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<a href="http://occupydenver.org/committees/occupy-and-educate-denver/teach-in-schedule/">see here for more information.</a></div>
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Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 26, 6pm at AFSC (901 W. 14th Ave, rm 7; first floor of Court House Square Apartments)</div>
DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-13120702135337944042012-09-17T09:58:00.001-07:002012-09-17T10:19:31.098-07:00Philly turning up the heat on Chipotle<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/phillyfairfood" style="color: #303494; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-decoration: none;">"Fair Food Fridays"</a> wrap up in Philly, but pressure won't let up in the fall; Rabbis for Human Rights - North America says "<a href="http://www.jstandard.com/content/item/where_do_our_tomatoes_come_from/24274" style="color: #303494; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-decoration: none;">Now the focus is on Chipotle</a>"!</div>
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With Chipotle's "Cultivate" Festival -- and the CIW's <a href="http://ciw-online.org/Chipotle_cultivate_alternative_festival.html" style="color: #303494; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-decoration: none;">alternative Fair Food Festival</a> -- now just two weeks away, and with the advance team of CIW members and allies already in place laying the groundwork for what should be an exciting event in the Windy City, the pressure is picking up on the <a href="http://ciw-online.org/chipotle_top10.html" style="color: #303494; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-decoration: none;">self-styled "Food with Integrity"</a> leader throughout the Fair Food nation.</div>
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In Philadelphia, where the dogged members of Philly Fair Food have held <em>weekly</em> lunch hour protests at local Chipotle restaurants throughout the summer (a little thing they liked to call "<a href="http://www.facebook.com/phillyfairfood" style="color: #303494; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-decoration: none;">Fair Food Fridays</a>"), the summer series of protests wrapped up with a lively picket (above) and manager delegation yesterday. Here's how they framed their Friday protest campaign:</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">"Conscientious consumers across the United States are calling on Chipotle to honor the rights of farmworkers who pick the tomatoes that go into Chipotle burritos. Here in Philly, we plan to send a powerful message to the company. During each Friday lunch rush, we will picket one of the busiest Chipotle locations in the city. We will talk with customers about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' “Fair Food Program” and make sure they know about Chipotle’s refusal to participate. We’ll ask customers to sign and deliver a letter to the restaurant manager that asks the company to live up to its ethical image by joining the program." </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/phillyfairfood" style="color: #303494; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none;">read more</a></span></blockquote>
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This unrelenting campaign of protests led by students, parents, faith leaders and burrito-lovers resulted in the delivery of over 100 manager letters by disillusioned Chipotle patrons. Week after week, the group returned to convey their message: <em>"Food with Integrity" that dismisses worker participation, lacks transparency and rejects commitment to verifiable enforcement actually has no integrity at all.</em> </div>
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Now that the summer's over and Fair Food Fridays are a wrap, are the Philly Fair Food lovers turning down the heat on Chipotle? Hardly! Here's the message after Friday's protest on their <a href="http://www.facebook.com/phillyfairfood" style="color: #303494; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.5px; text-decoration: none;">facebook page</a>:</div>
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Meanwhile, another great CIW partner, the Rabbis for Human Rights -- North America, is leading the Jewish community across the country in the fight against modern-day slavery, and a key arrow in their quiver is their support for the Campaign for Fair Food. RHR-NA played a leading role in the Trader Joe's campaign, and now, in an interview with RHR-NA Director Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster, it is clear that they will be turning their considerable clout on Chipotle:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: small;">"This change in the lives of the Florida farm workers reflects the growing success of the CIW campaign, which has support from a broad coalition of human rights, labor, and religious groups such as RHR.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“The first victory was Taco Bell. Then a bunch of other fast food chains followed: Burger King, McDonald’s, Subway. Whole Foods signed on, and then Trader Joe’s last winter,” Kahn-Troster said [Rabbi Kahn-Troster is pictured above, rear, with her daughter in the foreground, holding the "Do Your Part" sign, at a recent Stop & Shop protest]...</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“The problem for us as consumers is that if there’s not a legally binding agreement, they could change it tomorrow. If a grower was found to be using forced labor they would be suspended from the program, and Whole Foods and McDonald’s could no longer buy from them” but buyers who had not signed could do so.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;">But not too big a challenge the RHR-NA, or the Campaign for Fair Food! Check back soon for more news from Chicago as the advance team meets with student, faith, and community allies ahead of the big Cultivate Festival action this Sept. 15.</span></div>
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Chipotle still refuses to sign a Fair Food Agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers which would uphold human rights standards,fair wages and a voice for farmworkers who pick Chipotle's tomatoes. Without signing a Fair Food Agreement, there is no transparency, worker participation, or, most of all, binding commitment to farmworker rights on Chipotle's part.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">We want your help to plan creative actions at an upcoming festival being staged by Chipotle in Denver! Join us for a community planning meeting on:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will come to Denver in the weeks prior to the Oct. 6 festival to educate the Denver community about their struggle and animate people to get involved. We need your assistance to set up educational opportunities, plan actions and show the CIW that Denver stands with them.</span></div>
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On SaturdayOctober 6th, Chipotle Mexican Grill will hold its "<a href="http://www.chipotle.com/cultivate/">Cultivate Festival</a>" in City Park. The day-long festival --"bringing together food, farmers, chefs, artisans, thought leaders, and musicians" -- is a celebration of Chipotle's self-proclaimed commitment to"<a href="http://ciw-online.org/chipotle_top10.html">food with integrity</a>." The Cultivate festivals are part of a concerted marketing effort by Chipotle to distance itself from the image of a traditional fast-food company and to<a href="http://www.iatp.org/blog/201207"> woo the country's growing "Good Food" movement</a>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Despite Chipotle's claim to be the fast-food leader in social accountability, the Denver-based restaurant chain has for many years now refused to sign a Fair Food Agreement,an agreement four other leading fast-food companies signed long ago. By signing a Fair Food Agreement, Chipotle would be joining the CIW's <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/FFP_FAQ.html">Fair Food Program</a>, the only social accountability program of its kind that combines worker-to-worker education, a complaint mechanism with protection against retaliation, and a <a href="http://fairfoodstandards.org/">third-party monitoring organization</a> that investigates and resolves complaints as well as carries out regular field and farm office audits to measure compliance with the Fair Food Code of Conduct. The burgeoning Fair Food Program is already transforming conditions and wages in the fields which for so long fostered <a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/Resources/10FactsFigures.pdf">poverty and human rights abuses for farmworkers</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The entire Fair Food Program is enforced through the exercise of market consequences if a farm fails to comply with the Code. The market consequences are required by the Fair Food Agreements signed by participating retail food corporations, in which the companies have agreed to curtail purchases from growers unwilling to complywith the Code. Chipotle's refusal to sign an Agreement means it is under no obligation, much less verifiable obligation, to stop buying tomatoes from growers where workers' rights are being violated. Chipotle insists that it only purchases tomatoes from growers complying with Fair Food Standards, but <a href="http://ciw-online.org/chipotle_top10.html">such claims</a>, lacking the transparency, monitoring and binding commitment of a Fair Food Agreement, amount to little more than a cynical attempt to white wash its image.</span></div>
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So, on October 6, the CIW and allies will come to the Cultivate Festival in Denver to show Chipotle that promoting itself as sustainable is not enough - it must include workers' rights, and workers themselves, in its vision of a food system that claims to be based on integrity. We will not settle for public relations games and half measures when it comes to human rights.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Contact </span><a href="mailto:DenverFairFood@gmail.com" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">DenverFairFood@gmail.com</a><span style="background-color: white;"> for more info.</span></div>
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<a href="http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">DenverFairFood.blogspot.com</a></div>
DFFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518476279180358589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8486608989244352440.post-76816013851619026282012-08-22T10:30:00.000-07:002012-08-22T10:32:50.074-07:00Chipotle's food movement charm offensive will not go unanswered!<div align="center" class="heading-unbold">
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<span class="heading-unbold"><strong>CIW, Fair Food activists to attend Chipotle's upcoming "Cultivate" festivals in Chicago, Denver, highlight company's </strong><a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/images/Challenging%20the%20Chipocrisy[1].pdf"><strong>"Chipocrisy"</strong></a><strong> when it comes to human rights...</strong></span></div>
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On September 15th, Chipotle Mexican Grill will hold the second annual <a href="http://www.chipotle.com/cultivate/">"Cultivate Festival"</a> in Lincoln Park, Chicago. The day-long festival -- "bringing together food, farmers, chefs, artisans, thought leaders, and musicians" -- is a celebration of Chipotle's self-proclaimed holistic commitment to <a href="http://ciw-online.org/chipotle_top10.html">"food with integrity</a>." Three weeks later, the festival moves to Denver, Chipotle's hometown, and it happens all over again. </div>
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The Cultivate festivals are all part of a concerted outreach effort by Chipotle to distance itself from the image of a traditional fast-food company and to <a href="http://www.iatp.org/blog/201207">woo the country's growing "Good Food"</a> movement. As Chipotle CEO Steve Ells said in a recent article about the shift in the company's marketing strategy (<a href="http://www.fastcasual.com/article/197810/Chipotle-shifts-marketing-approach-reports-8-comps-increase">"Chipotle shifts marketing approach, reports 8% comps increase,"</a> fastcasual.com, 7/23/12): </div>
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The company also is producing two Cultivate Food, Ideas & Music Festivals. Cultivate Chicago will be held Sept. 15 in Lincoln Park, and Cultivate Denver is slated for Oct. 6 in the Meadow at City Park...<br />
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'These programs, along with a variety of others, are all designed to engage with our customers in conversations and create an emotional connection that will last much longer than any limited time offer possibly could,' Ells said. 'I think this is absolutely the right direction for our marketing and believe it's very consistent with our brand. We've built Chipotle in a way that is different than traditional fast food, so it should be no surprise that the marketing that works best for us does not follow the traditional fast food model.'" <a href="http://www.fastcasual.com/article/197810/Chipotle-shifts-marketing-approach-reports-8-comps-increase">read more </a></td></tr>
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Despite Chipotle's claim to be the fast-food leader in social accountability, the burgeoning restaurant chain has for many years now refused to sign a Fair Food Agreement, an agreement four other leading fast-food companies signed long ago, including McDonald's, Chipotle's former parent company. By signing a Fair Food Agreement, Chipotle would be joining the CIW's<a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/FFP_FAQ.html"> Fair Food Program</a>, the only social accountability program of its kind that combines worker-to-worker education, a complaint mechanism with protection against retaliation, and a <a href="http://fairfoodstandards.org/">third-party monitoring organization</a> that investigates and resolves complaints as well as carries out regular field and farm office audits to measure compliance with the Fair Food Code of Conduct.</div>
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The entire Fair Food Program is enforced through the exercise of market consequences if a farm fails to comply with the Code. The market consequences are required by the Fair Food Agreements signed by participating retail food corporations, in which the companies have agreed to curtail purchases from growers unwilling to comply with the Code. Chipotle's refusal to sign an Agreement means it is under no obligation, much less verifiable obligation, to stop buying tomatoes from growers where workers' rights are being violated.</div>
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So, on September 15th, the CIW and allies will head to the Cultivate Festival in Chicago to show Chipotle that promoting itself as sustainable is not enough - it must include workers' rights, and workers themselves, in its vision of a food system that claims to be based on integrity. </div>
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Fair Food activists are planning a series of creative actions inside the festival - creating a festival within a festival of sorts - to unveil the truth behind Chipotle's marketing. Combining prayer, theater, music, and a few surprises, the counter-festival will highlight the contradiction between the attention Chipotle pays to sustainable meat and animal welfare, on the one hand, while, on the other hand, simultaneously refusing to partner with the CIW in the Fair Food Program, the program for real social responsibility that is today changing the pervasive poverty and powerlessness of the farmworkers who pick Florida tomatoes. </div>
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If you live in the Chicago or Denver areas and would like to get involved in the Fair Food activities during the upcoming Cultivate festivals, you can <a href="mailto:claire@interfaithact.org">email organizers</a> at Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida. </div>
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