Nashville Fair
Food takes Publix protests to the next level with the “Amazing Race for
Farmworker Justice” this Sunday in Middle Tennessee!
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The Nashville Fair Food
delegation gathers for a picture during last month’s big Parade and Concert for
Fair Food in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Fresh off organizing a spirited delegation of nearly 100 to represent the
Volunteer State at last month’s spectacular Parade and Concert for Fair Food —
and frustrated by nearly five years of stubborn silence from Publix in response
to their protests — the incredible Nashville Fair Food crew has come up with a
genius idea to get around stonewalling executives and talk directly to local
Publix managers about the Fair Food Program! It’s called the “Amazing Race for
Farmworker Justice” and it’s set to take place this coming Sunday at 30 –
yes, 30 — Publix stores in the Middle Tennessee area.
We’ll let them describe their plan in their own terms:
On Sunday afternoon, come join the “Amazing Race for Farmworker Justice”,
a family-friendly competition in which participants will visit every Publix in
Middle Tennessee to speak with store managers about the urgent need for Publix
to join the Fair Food Program.
Over the last 5 years, we have held dozens of demonstrations outside of
Publix supermarkets and hosted dozens of formal delegations of university
students, religious leaders, and local community organizations to talk with
Publix store managers about the importance of joining the Fair Food Program. At
many of those delegations, though, we announced the demonstration in advance,
and Publix would fly in a representative from corporate headquarters to talk
with us instead of letting us talk with the managers that live in our
neighborhoods. So this time, we’re going to talk with the managers of all 30
Middle Tennessee Publixes at the same time, in one day, to make sure that our
local managers know that fair treatment of farmworkers is important to us here
in Tennessee! ...
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