ciw-online.org/blog/2024/08/s… A stunning report in Axios paints a damning picture of widespread farm labor abuse in the US agricultural industry outside the protections of the Fair Food Program.

What is #CoGovernance, and how can it help us create systemic change and a better world? Check out our new video featuring CPA-SanFrancisco People's Advocacy Institute Cooperation Jackson & PEF 🌎 #justice #democracy youtube.com/watch?v=OXduPy…

Over 1,000 UAW members have walked out on strike at Cornell University. Cornell has failed to bargain in good faith, has stalled, and retaliated against protected union activity by the workers.

NYC book launch for Corridors of Contagion (with ✨FORMER✨ADA Sara Sullivan-Santiago Radicalized Me & Stanley Bellamy of Release Aging People in Prison Campaign)--Sunday, 9/8, at 3 pm in person at Bluestockings Cooperative RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/corridors-of…

Join us in New York for this discussion on Thursday, September 19th at the The New School. #BuildAndFight #GetOrganized #EconomicDemocracy event.newschool.edu/buildfighttran…

How can debtors organize to build power? Join Steve Dubb @NPQuarterly and hear from Hannah Appel The Debt Collective 🟥, along with Kali_Akuno Cooperation Jackson, Arlene Martinez Good Jobs First, and Sara Myklebust Bargaining For the Common Good. 9/18, 2p ET. More info here: tinyurl.com/n6sh33f9

"The bottom line: Food retailers, which could require their suppliers to join programs like the Fair Food Program or #MilkWithDignity, are key to ending widespread forced labor." - Axios

#WomensEqualityDay marks the anniversary of the 19th amendment. While some women won the right to vote in 1920, it was decades before women of color could access the polls. Let us recognize this history by fighting voter suppression & working to guarantee voting rights for all.

We’re calling for politicians to prioritize poor & low-wage workers We’re calling for a democracy that listens to us. We’re calling for a moral revival.

ciw-online.org/blog/2024/08/r… Congrats to Eileen Kelley for her award-winning coverage of our 2023 March for Farmworker Freedom!

ciw-online.org/blog/2024/09/u… On this Labor Day, USA Today published an opinion piece from Gerardo Reyes Chavez, a farmworker and longtime leader with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers on the transformative impact of the Fair Food Program

A few scenes from the Black August Art Show in Eversville (Jackson), MS on Saturday, August 31st. Check out the detail and messages of resistance. #BlackAugust2024 #CultureIsAWeapon

NEW: Alabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. The state takes 40% of wages and often denies parole to keep people as cheap labor. Getting written up can lead to solitary confinement. This is modern day slavery.

We won't ever end homelessness if we're not serious about preventing evictions and providing relief to many rent-burdened households. Carolina, her daughter,  and others need leadership willing to help and not block measures aimed at assisting them. gothamist.com/news/bronx-mom…

We need public banking!

Choosing between going to the doctor to have a lump checked out, or paying your car note because you need to get to work to pay rent is not a fair choice.

Last month, we were lucky to get not one but TWO visits from workers from other states — WeCount! from South Florida and Venceremos from Arkansas. These two groups are both made up of immigrant workers organizing for their human rights

NEW: We put 7 Uber & Lyft drivers in one room and had them open their apps. We found Uber paying different drivers different amounts for the same ride. Lyft too. It’s proof corporations are using secret algorithms to pay workers less. And all of our jobs could be next.

"Can tuition-free #medicalschool help alleviate medical deserts?" bit.ly/3AQKKAA #freetuition #medicaldeserts

"Having more agents in the state means there's going to be more encounters with immigrants who are living and working here — and that's going to lead to detention, deportation and the separation of families" — Enrique Balcazar vtdigger.org/2024/08/30/rec…