Jon Esformes, Pacific Tomato Growers: “We all bear the responsibility to ensure that our fellow men are treated fairly.”
On February 9th, the Aspen Institute hosted an animated discussion on the CIW’s Fair Food Program, its roots in the CIW’s twenty-year struggle to advance farmworkers’ fundamental human rights, and its remarkable potential for helping workers around the globe who toil at the bottom of corporate supply chains in dangerous, low-paying jobs. The idea for the panel was sparked by the publication late last year of a new book on the Fair Food Program, entitled
“I Am Not a Tractor: How Florida Farmworkers Took on the Fast Food Giants and Won,” by the Dean of the RAND Graduate School, Susan Marquis.
We were planning on excerpting portions of the 90-min long panel discussion and providing a report from the day’s events in DC, but the Aspen Institute beat us to it! And they did such a great job that we decided, why reinvent the wheel? So, click below for the Aspen Institute’s report, in its entirety, from the discussion earlier this month.
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