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It's time to "Dine with Dignity"

Submitted by Real Food Challenge on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 16:14
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Seven cases of modern-day slavery. Eight years of the campaign. 30 years of stagnant wages.

What is the food service industry waiting for?

The next phase in the Campaign for Fair Food launches today!
Students demand Aramark, Sodexo and Compass to do their part to end the human rights crisis in Florida's fields... it's time to 'Dine with Dignity!'

Ready to bring the campaign to your campus?  Click here to join SFA's new 'Dining with Dignity' food service campaign!

North Carolina's 18th Annual Farmworker Festival

Submitted by Real Food Challenge on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 18:04
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From sun up to sun down, Sunday, September 21st, 6,000 farmworkers, students, and community organizations gathered for North Carolina’s 18th Annual Farmworker Festival. Every September, Father Tony and the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry organize the largest farmworker festival in the state to appreciate and celebrate with their Tar Heel neighbors.

UNC-CH student group Alianza traveled an hour to Newton Grove, NC, home of the festival, to celebrate and lend a hand.  Members helped at food stands, completed surveys and together were able to help fund calling card awards given to the winning soccer team, allowing them a chance to talk with their families back home. 

CIW launches national petition to end modern-day slavery

Submitted by Real Food Challenge on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 18:01
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http://www.ciw-online.org/2008_Petitions/index.html

The CIW is launching a national petition drive to demand that Burger King and other food industry leaders work with the CIW to improve the wages and working conditions of the workers who pick their tomatoes, and join with the CIW in an industry-wide effort to eliminate modern-day slavery and human rights abuses from Florida’s fields. The petitions will serve as notice that those who sign are “prepared to stop patronizing Burger King now, and other food industry leaders in the future, should they fail to do so.” The campaign comes on the 200th anniversary of the US ban against the importation of slaves, and echoes key strategies of the early abolitionist movement that helped hasten the end of slavery in the 19th century.

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