Big, big news out of the Fair Food Nation… Youth, faith, food movement allies come together under a single flag, form the new Alliance for Fair Food! Student/Farmworker Alliance, Interfaith Action and Just Harvest USA unite in one vibrant, diverse ally network ready for the next phase in the fight for Fair Food… The Alliance for Fair Food is back and better than ever!  But before we tell you about this exciting new development in the Fair Food movement, let’s first take a quick look back at its roots. “There is today a human rights crisis in the fields…” For longtime members of the Fair Food Nation, the Alliance for Fair Food (AFF) is a distant memory from the early, hopeful days of the movement.  Not long after the Taco Bell victory, in the midst of the McDonald’s campaign that followed, a growing list of organizations, individuals, and institutions began to coalesce around their support for the Campaign for Fair Food.  At that time, workers in Immokalee and their allies realized that something new and important was happening, that what had started as a one-off boycott was becoming a movement.   That movement was founded on certain fundamental rights — the right to work free of sexual harassment and modern slavery, the right to fair wages, the right complain without fear of retaliation, the right to have a voice in the decisions that shape your workplace and your life — and the first iteration of the AFF was formed as a body through which like-minded organizations could formally endorse those rights for farmworkers and the Campaign for Fair Food.   Beginning with the words, “There is, today, a human rights crisis in Florida’s fields…,” the declaration announcing the formation of the original AFF on March 8, 2006 was unequivocal... Head over to the CIW website to read more about this exciting next phase in the Fair Food movement!