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COALITION OF IMMOKALEE WORKERS March on april 16-18, 2010 |
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Lovers of Justice for Farmworkers and indeed All Workers!!
How long has it been since we fasted, marched or picketed
with the
Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in
Irvine, Louisville, Chicago,
Miami?!
How long since we celebrated the symbolic slaying of
fast food
giants
Taco Bell (Louisville),
McDonalds (Chicago), and
Burger King
(Miami), among others?
Bringing them beyond the bottom line and into the realm of
worker justice!
This dramatic if incremental struggle has made so much
headway, we are now talking about entire supermarket
corporations being brought to a measure of worker justice in
their supply chain! Publix is in the limelight now as CIW
ratchets up its actions, mobilizing and advocacy work, to
continue to fight slavery in the fields! (see
www.ciw-online.org for the latest, including the
mobile Slavery Museum on tour across
Florida...)
On April 16-18, 2010 CIW and the wide and deep
Alliance for Fair Food (including the Churches and the
Student
Farmworker Alliance) are staging the Farmworker
Freedom March fromTampa to
Lakeland,
Florida (25 miles), culminating in a rally
Sunday April 18th in the afternoon. Do we dare miss
this one??!! Would we regret missing it? Hmmmm..... I think
we would. Some of us Louisvillians, Kentuckians and Hoosiers
have to be there, and live to tell about it!!
If you are among that group of visionary allies of the CIW and want to either participate in or support a KY delegation to the Farmworker Freedom March, please contact Stephen Bartlett of Agricultural Missions at sbartlett@ag-missions.org or call him at 502 896 9171. Once we get to Florida our CIW hosts will handle a roof over our heads and most food. There is also a possibility of some help for renting a van, if we come up short. What we need are people ready to walk the talk and help make social justice history once more!! I am bringing a drum, a canteen and good walking shoes. What are you all bringing? If you can't come, could you support this effort financially or in some other way (packing a cooler with food and snacks?)? Those in Kentuckiana please drop a line soon, to let your interest known, so we could figure out a likely departure and return time that accomodates enough of us, and figure out what size vehicle we need to rent.
Stephen
sbartlett@ag-missions.org 502 896 9171 |
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