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Rally for Fair Food
Sunday, February 12 2012, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
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Rally for Fair Food at Trader Joe’s 

215 N. Central Ave., Hartsdale

Sunday, Feb. 12th, 2:00-3pm

 

On Sunday, Feb. 12th Westchester customers of Trader Joe’s will be joining customers in 33 cities across the nation to let the company know we want fair wages and working conditions for Florida farmworkers who pick its tomatoes!  Learn more at the information session and sign-making party on Thursday, February 9th from 7:00-8:30pm at the White Plains Presbyterian Church, 39 N. Broadway, White Plains.  All ages welcome!  Meanwhile  you can…

 

Sign on to a petition to Trader Joe’s (over 62,000 signatures and counting!)

Email the CEO of Trader Joe’s (and let him know you’ll be outside the Hartsdale store on 2/12!)

When you shop, take this letter to the manager of your local Trader Joe’s store.

 

 

For more information contact Jalal Sabur at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 914-439-1746 or Sarah Henkel at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 201-456-5952 or Will Summers at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 915-820-9917.

 

 

 

READ MORE ABOUT WHY WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION:

 

From November through May, 90% of the fresh tomatoes produced in the U.S. come from Florida. But farmworkers’ harvesting these tomatoes earn 50 cents per 32 pound bucket and face human rights abuses in the fields, including extreme cases of modern slavery.

 

The Campaign for Fair Food is a partnership between the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (FL farmworkers) and consumers across the nation that is changing these conditions.

 

Unlike Whole Foods Market and eight of the largest fast-food and foodservice companies, Trader Joe’s has thus far refused to join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program.  Through that program willing corporations are using their purchasing power to elevate workers’ wages and guarantee higher standards in the Florida fields. 

 

"The True Cost of Tomatoes" by Mark Bittman (New York Times, 6/14/11) http://opinionator.blogs.n?ytimes.com/2011/06/14/the-?true-cost-of-tomatoes/#%0A

 

Thank you for your support and we hope to see you at the rally!

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