“Will Ben & Jerry’s Help Improve Conditions for Dairy Workers?” Great new article in Civil Eats asks: “A little Justice With Your Cherry Garcia?” Worker-driven Social Responsibility — the market-based model for the enforceable protection of human rights in corporate supply chains at the heart of the CIW’s Fair Food Program — is a proven success.  To quote an earlier post, entitled, “Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR): A new idea for a new century“: … The Fair Food Program has effected unprecedented change in Florida’s fields since it was implemented across 90% of the state’s tomato industry in 2011.  It has eliminated or greatly reduced longstanding abuses from sexual harassment to modern-day slavery, added over $15 million [Update: now $17 million and counting] in Fair Food Premiums to farm payrolls, and earned the praise of human rights experts from the White House to the United Nations.  It has been called “one of the great human rights success stories of our day” in the Washington Post and “the best workplace monitoring program… in the US” on the front page of the New York Times. President Clinton, on the occasion of the presentation of the 2014 Clinton Global Citizen Award to the CIW for “defending the human rights of farmworkers across the United States,” agreed, phrasing his opinion of the model in somewhat folksier language: “You’ve got a success model, and you ought to put the pedal to the metal.” Well, news came this week out of Vermont that an organization of dairy workers, Migrant Justice/Justicia Migrante, is doing just that.  Calling on Ben & Jerry’s to “stand up for farmworkers’ rights in its supply chain,” Migrant Justice launched a campaign this month to demand that the iconic ice cream giant use its market power to support a new worker-driven social responsibility program they are calling “Milk with Dignity”... Read more about Vermont dairy workers' brand-new campaign for farmworker justice over at the CIW website!

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International week of actions to close detention centres       Dear friends   We hope you can join in these international actions and circulate this call to your network.   SAVE THE DATE: In London, the All African Women's Group and others are planning a protest against detention on 15 June, 12- 2pm. More details soon.
International week of actions to close detention centres 15 - 21 June 2015
To all organizations and collectives that are working for the closure of migrant detention centres and against migration policies that criminalize migrants and refugees: The Spanish CIE´s NO Campaign is made up of organizations, collectives and individuals organized in different parts of Spain. The third State-wide meeting celebrated in December 2013 brought together organizations from the majority of Spanish territories with the aim of creating a common agenda. One decision taken was to create an International CIE´s ¡NO! Campaign to further the work at European and World level and coordinate actions around specific dates. Last year, 2014, were registered actions around the 15J (Day Against Detention Centres) from Venice and Bologna (Italy), Tacoma (Washington – USA), Bedfordshire and Oxford (UK), Corinth (Greece) and finally from Ottawa (Canada). From the Spanish CIEs ¡NO! Campaign, we ask you to support 15-21J 2015 Week Against Detention Centers (15 June, Day against Detention Centers), a week of concerted actions to demand the closure of the migrant detention centres. Every organization can choose an action or activity. 15J provides a good opportunity to visualize our struggle, create links and to act in a coordinated fashion. Right to migrate! Close Detention Centres! End to racist stop and search! No more deportations!   We also invite your organization to the international meeting in Valencia in October. You can send your proposed activity by e-mail to: carlossoledad@gmail.com All activities will be showcased at this website: https://15jdiacontraloscie.wordpress.com/ This website also includes certain practical information to help organisations to join “15J – Action Day Against Detention Centers”. We are currently translating the main content into English. Hope to hear from you soon, Carlos Soledad   International Group Spanish CIE´s NO Campaign http://www.ciesno.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/CIEsNo.valencia?ref=ts&fref=ts https://twitter.com/CIEsNO carlossoledad@gmail.com Skype: carlossoledad Phone/Whatsapp: +34 633 89 89 38

 

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Keep up the pressure on – Demand freedom & medical care for Mumia Abu Jamal   Mumia abu Jamal  was re-admitted to hospital 13 May.  See below news from Prison Radio.   Please also listen to Mumia's commentary "May 13th at Thirty" (2:37) recorded 26 April 2015, marking the 30th anniversary of the MOVE bombings in Philadelphia. Dear friends, Dateline May 13th 2015: Philadelphia, PA.  Prison Radio A SCI Mahanoy prison nurse called Wadiya Jamal Mumia's wife at 8:50 pm last night May 12th and told her that Mumia had been moved to the hospital.  This is a disturbing development and is cause for grave concern.  There are reports that he had a fever, and that he has open wounds and sores on his legs.  HIs attorney Bret Grote visited him on Friday.  He was engaged, alert, yet he was in pain in his knees and leg. We will be working to gather more information as the day goes on.  His hospital conditions will be abhorrent: he will be chained to the bed.  He could, as they did before, be arbitrarily and systematically denied visitors. The last time we were in the ICU they did not let his family or lawyers see him, or give them any information for 24hrs. Even though they were the ICU waiting room just a few feet from Mumia's bed. Clearly Mumia's chronic conditions remain undiagnosed and unsuccessfully treated.  Mumia was given a skin biopsy on Monday of this week, and had been in the infirmary following that procedure. Mumia's legal team of Bret Grote of the Abolitionist Law Center has been augmented with the addition of attorney Bob Boyle.   Mumia's doctor has been speaking directly with Mumia, even though the time he has been allowed for the phone in the infirmary was limited.  There is no phone at the hospital.   Mumia's expert medical team has been advising Mumia on the tests and the medications that have been done. This advice has been critical, and is now not possible. As we noted in our last update oversight and close monitoring of any tests, especially the diagnostic tests are crucial.  The prison is preventing Mumia and Mumia's doctors from adequate oversight and input. Because communication is being limited by prison officials Mumia does not have access quickly enough to information he needs to advocate for his own care.   We are clear that Inadequate testing, delays, and any deviation from the medically necessary course of treatment, will be challenged. Obtaining a diagnosis is of paramount importance at this moment. Mumia remains seriously ill. Public pressure is extremely important.  Please keep up the calls, emails and faxes. Demand that (1) Adequate diagnostic testing be done (2) That Mumia's doctor is able to communicate freely and regularly with the prison infirmary physicians who are delivering Mumia's medical care (3) His doctor has meaningful and regular phone access with Mumia. (There are no phones in the hospital, in the infirmary, his calls are limited to 15 mins and he has limited access  to the phone)  (4) Allow Mumia's chosen doctor to conduct an onsite medical examination. And as many have said, it is past time for Mumia to be released from prison.    And please give again if you can, and ask your friends to give, we will need to keep the pressure on.   Thank you to everyone who is making Mumia's legal and medical Care possible!  With 783 supporters from around the world, so far we have raised $46,039!  Your gift is making sure that we are Keeping Our Eyes on Mumia; obtaining all medical records, preparing litigation; & getting expert Medical Advice! bit.ly/rise4mumia Call, write, fax continue to keep the pressure on demand freedom & medical care for Mumia: John Wetzel, PA Secretary of Corrections: 717-728-4109 Governor Tom Wolf: 717-787-2500 SCI Mahanoy: 570-787-2500 For a full list of addresses and faxes, visit www.freemumia.com and prisonradio.org   Circulated by: Payday Men’s Network    &   Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike 0207 482 2496

Save the Date!

Sunday, June 7

DORCHESTER DAY PARADE!

 

Dorchester People for Peace will be marching again this year in the Dorchester Day Parade on June 7 -- along with our friends and allied organizations.  Together we bring our vision and our values to thousands of people along the four-mile route. Join us this year!

 

Our message will focus on building a neighborhood-based movement to resist wars and military interventions abroad – while opposing racism, dispossession and budget cuts at home; reducing excessive military spending; and funding urgent needs in our communities.  Thousands of marchers and parade watchers will see our banners and get our anti-war flyers

 

Marchers will gather around Noon in Dorchester Lower Mills (Richmond St.) with the parade kick-off about 1pm.  We’ll have our after-Parade barbeque and celebration at Jeff Klein’s house, 123 Cushing Ave. from about 3:30pm. Please come to that, even if you can’t march in the parade.  More details as we get them.

 

U.S. on Wrong Side of History

 

 

This is what it has all come down to.... the US and the corrupt, dictatorial Gulf monarchies meeting at Camp David Thursday and agreeing on a plan to flood the Middle East with 'missile defense' (MD) systems.

These Gulf monarchies are the essential allies of the US in the world now (in addition to a few other fascist-leaning nations).  Together they are destabilizing and creating chaos in Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and beyond.  This meeting is evidence of the desperation and the moral decay of the USA.

Obama announced that that he would streamline weapon sales and increase joint military exercises with Bahrain (home to US Navy Central Command and the Fifth Fleet), Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as part of an “iron-clad commitment” that the United States will help protect them against their neighbor and rival Iran.  The Gulf states claim they fear Iran's nuclear weapons even after recent successful negotiations to ensure they don't build any.

In fact Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program several years ago - the CIA has even reported as much as has the IAEA.  But truth and reality don't matter much anymore.

What this new deal with the Gulf states really mean is unrestrained US and Arab extremism throughout the Middle East.  The plan is to build a region-wide MD system including Patriot and THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) along with MD radars.  It's also likely that Aegis ship or land-based MD systems will be added to sweeten the pot as well. 

The US weapons production corporations will make lots of money.  It's important to remember that weapons are the #1 industrial export product of our country.  When weapons are your #1 export product, what is the global marketing strategy for that product line?  Endless war.  What does that say about the soul of the USA?

All of these MD systems will be "interoperable" with the Pentagon's existing programs.  It will all be run through the US military space satellite system.  That means the Gulf states will pay for the US to build a region-wide MD system that is actually aimed at Iran, Syria, and Russia and fully controlled by Washington.

MD is a key element in US first-strike attack planning - its the shield that is used after a Pentagon sword is thrust into the heart of another nation's military forces.  When the attacked nation attempts to fire a retaliatory strike it is then that the MD systems are used to pick off the remaining military capability thus giving the Pentagon a "successful" first-strike. The whole system works best if you can get real close to the 'offending nation' and hit their missiles soon after launch rather than waiting for them to reach deep space - or hit them as they descend from space as they approach their targets.

This new Gulf states agreement is dangerous, provocative, destabilizing and very expensive.  The US has once again betrayed its revolutionary roots against British monarchy as it snuggles up with the Arab right-wing feudal monarchies. Nothing good can come from this new agreement.

 

 

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
http://www.space4peace.org 
http://space4peace.blogspot.com  (blog)

~ Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. - Henry David Thoreau

Leaving Publix: Growing wave of longtime Publix customers spurning Florida grocery giant to express outrage over company’s refusal to support Fair Food… Life-long customer to Publix: “You have a responsibility to share the loyalty, good fortune and prosperity we’ve given you with the rest of your community.” An intriguing new trend is beginning to emerge among once-loyal customers of Publix, and Florida’s hometown grocer would do well to take note.  In increasing numbers, consumers are launching their own, personal boycotts of the Lakeland-based chain — often doing so quite publicly — to express their frustration with Publix’s unconscionable refusal to join the Fair Food Program (FFP).  As the FFP continues to expand and gain momentum, and as the food justice movement increasingly leaves Publix behind in its embrace of the worker-driven social responsibility model, a growing wave of longtime customers who value human rights and fairness for farmworkers are leaving Publix right along with it. Today, we want to share yet another letter from one more fed-up Publix customer.  Last week, food blogger and Polk County native Renia Carsillo watched the documentary “Food Chains,” and much to her dismay she learned that Publix was rejecting, rather than embracing, a proven solution to farmworker abuse and poverty in their shared home state.  To quote Renia, “To say that I am outraged at Publix’s stubborn refusal to treat the farmers who pick their produce with basic human dignity would be a gross understatement…  Today my weekly grocery trips became something I am ashamed of...“ Don't miss Renia's powerful (and beautifully written) letter to Publix over at the CIW website!

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Memorial Day for Peace

Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans for Peace invites all to join us in remembering. This Memorial day we will be recalling the 70th anniversary of V-E, and the 40th anniversary of the end of Vietnam. Poets and speakers will help us remember. 
We will also recall names of fallen, and ceremoniously drop carnations into the sea with a toll of the bell.
Monday, May 25, 1-4pm
Christopher Columbus Park
Atlantic Ave. & Richmond St, Aquarium T, Boston
Directions from the Aquarium T stop:
Follow the signs in the station for Waterfront and Aquarium.
As you exit the T station, turn right on Atlantic Ave. and turn right again after passing the Long Wharf Marriott. Enter Christopher Columbus Park. The event will be taking place along the harbor, look for the Veterans for Peace white flags.

Call To End US Drone Warfare via Ramstein

In Solidarity with Drone Victims and the German People

 

 

 

The US uses its base in Ramstein, Germany to relay all US drone strikes to the Middle East and elsewhere.  The US base in Stuttgart is the HQ for Africom.  All of this is against German law.  A Yemeni family that lost members from a US drone strike is suing the German government to be accountable and forbid US use of the Ramstein Air Base for drone warfare.  Their court date is May 27.  They are asking for supportive actions here.  There is a German consulate in Boston and we are trying to organize a group to picket there and deliver a statement.  Groups are asked to use the link below to endorse.  Please spread the word.

Marilyn

Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany
Three Copley Place, Suite 500
Boston, MA 02116                  Location: In Copley Place shopping mall, corner of Dartmouth and Huntington St., Copley Square,   

Call To End US Drone Warfare via Ramstein

In Solidarity with Drone Victims and the German People

 

All lethal US drone strikes are guided via the Satellite Relay Station located on the US Air Force Base Ramstein.  More than 10,000 people worldwide have been killed by these drone strikes. The bin Ali Jaber family lost two of its members through a drone strike in Hadramout in Yemen. Now Reprieve and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) have filed a lawsuit against the German government in a German court on behalf of the bin Ali Jaber family.  The suit demands that the German government “take legal and political responsibility for the US drone war in Yemen” and “forbid use of the Satellite Relay Station in Ramstein.”

 

Wednesday, May 27^th 2015, 11 a.m., German Bundestag (Meadow) : this case will begin with a hearing before the high administrative court in Cologne.   Here in the United States, we will organize actions in solidarity on or before May 24^th as we will need to deliver to the German Consulate/Embassy on the 26th.

 

The military base in Ramstein remains under the legal jurisdiction of the German federal government even though the US Air Force has been allowed to use the base. If illegal activities are conducted from Ramstein -- such as extra-judicial killings – and the US judicial authorities do not condemn these crimes and mandate an end to them, then German justice authorities have a duty to act.

                            

The United States Government claims the right to deploy killer drones everywhere in the world, but extrajudicial killing is against United States constitutional law as well as German and international law. Extra-judicial killing, the killing of 'suspects' is a grievous violation of the United States Constitution.    The initiation and prosecution of wars in sovereign countries that do not threaten the US mainland are in violation of international Treaties the United States has signed and which have been ratified by our Congress.  These include the United Nations Charter, the Nuremberg Judgement and the Kellogg Briand Pact, all signed into US Law at the time of their ratification.  

 

Extra- judicial killings carried out by armed drones that are guided to their targets and controlled via Ramstein on German sovereign territory are also violations of both German law and international law. In deference to the suffering of drone victims, and to the deep antiwar sentiment of the German people, as citizens of the United States, we stand in solidarity with the bin Ali Jaber family of Yemen, and the urgent demand by German activists that the (German) Attorney General’s Office act to initiate investigations against military personnel working at Ramstein.

 

The Two-plus- Four-Treaty (the constitutional founding document of the reunited Federal Republic of Germany) grants Germany “complete sovereignty at home and abroad” and emphasizes that “there shall be only peaceful activities from German territory.”

 

In accordance with the Treaty and in solidarity with the German people and drone victims everywhere, we demand that:

 

> The Attorney General’s Office immediately initiate investigations on the US military base Ramstein against those individuals who are participating in the operation of the Satellite Relay Station.

>  The German Government work for the immediate closing of the Satellite Relay Station at Ramstein and abstain from acquiring weaponized drones for the German military.

 

If your group is planning a solidarity action or wishes to endorse this Call, please go to Reports.PapillonWeb.net and click the “Form to Endorse Ramstein Call” label in the upper right hand corner of the page.

-- Action Coalition “Stop the US Drone war via Ramstein”

** Drone Victims Take Germany to Court for Abetting U.S. Murders, Talk Nation Radio Interview with Andreas Schueller of ECCHR

** Germany is the Tell-Tale Heart of America’s Drone War,  The Intercept

** Translation of the German Call for Action, Numerous groups in Germany have signed on to a similar Call.

 

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The Cost of War, the Price of Peace

When: Sunday, May 24, 2015, 11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Where: Community Church of Boston • 565 Boylston St • Copley T • Boston

Kathy Kelly co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end military and economic violence. She has visited Afghanistan 15 times since 2010.
Kathy will describe experiences living in a working class area of Kabul, Afghanistan. where people feel trapped by war and impoverishment and then discuss experiences living in a U.S. prison, for protesting U.S. drone warfare, where people likewise feel trapped and struggle with impoverishment.

Kathy will recieve the 38th Annual Sacco & Vanzetti Award for Social Justice.  

FILM: Eyewitness Gaza: Life After the 2014 Israeli Invasion

When: Friday, May 22, 7:30 pm

Where: Friends Meeting at Cambridge, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge - (a 10 minute walk from Harvard Square)

With

ALICE ROTHCHILD

Physician, activist, filmmaker, author of ‘Broken Promises, Broken Dreams’ and ‘On the Brink;’ documentary film: ‘Voices Across the Divide.’

 

BILL SLAUGHTER Physician and activist who works with the Greater Boston Muslim Health Initiative; President, Gaza Mental Health Foundation.

 

Alice Rothchild and Bill Slaughter visited the Gaza Strip in March 2015 with a medical delegation, as part of broader Israel/Palestine visits. They will share images and impressions of the destruction and extraordinary resilience that they encountered and the ongoing siege conditions. What is life like after an invasion that killed 2,200 people (582 of them children, according to UN figures) and destroyed nearly 100,000 homes? Explore how people currently confined in the Gaza Strip - from farmers to psychiatrists - rebuild their lives amidst the devastation and political challenges.

 

Sponsored by:

The Peace & Social Concerns Committee of Friends Meeting at Cambridge,

Gaza Mental Health Foundation,

Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights,

Jewish Voice for Peace - Boston,

United for Justice with Peace.

 

 

Who Stole The American Dream?

Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? [see trailer] Showing Thursday, May 21, in Cambridge [please download & distribute flyer] HEIST traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled Attack on American Free Enterprise System. Written over 40 years ago by future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, at the behest of the US Chamber of Commerce, the 6-page memo, called for a big business makeover of government through corporate control of the media, academia, the pulpit, arts and sciences and destruction of organized labor and consumer protection groups. HEIST exposes the systemic implementation of Powell's memo by BOTH U.S. political parties culminating in the deregulation of industry, outsourcing of jobs and regressive taxation. All of which led us to the global financial crisis of 2008 and the continued dismantling of the American middle class. Today, politics is the playground of the rich and powerful, with no thought given to the hopes and dreams of ordinary Americans. US democracy has been sold to the highest bidder. "Wherever one's politics fall on the spectrum, there is much in here --” such as a maddening video clip in which an American law firm offers counsel on how to avoid hiring American workers --” likely to give one pause." ~Mindy Farabee, LA Times "See this film and you may begin entertaining the notion of public hangings." ~Pacific Sun "HEIST is a one-stop summary of reasons for ordinary Americans to be furious at our financial systems. Its last third turns from compiling past outrages to encouraging activism, making this snappy, solid docu an ideal candidate for savvy distribs to jump on immediately." ~Dennis Harvey, Variety "For those who have not paid attention to 'the man behind the curtain,' or those who have swallowed The Matrix's Blue Pill, HEIST is an absolute must-see." ~D. Schwartz, cine source When/where doors open 6:40; film starts promptly 7pm 243 Broadway, Cambridge - corner of Broadway and Windsor, entrance on Windsor rule19.org/videos Please join us for a stimulating night out; bring your friends! free film; free door prizes[donations are encouraged]feel free to bring your own snacks and soft drinks - no alcohol allowed "You can't legislate good will - that comes through education." ~ Malcolm X UPandOUT film series - see rule19.org/videos Why should YOU care? It's YOUR money that pays for US/Israeli wars - on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Libya. Syria, Iran, So America, etc etc - for billionaire bailouts, for ever more ubiquitous US prisons, for the loss of liberty and civil rights...

 

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March for Our Children to Shut Down Pilgrim Nuclear Plant

    June 13 - 16  Plymouth to Boston 

Boston Downwinders will join Mass Downwinders on a walk from Plymouth to the State House to raise awareness about the terrible condition of Pilgrim Nuclear Plant, and to gather signatures on a petition to Governor Baker to SHUT IT DOWN.  

 

Starts:  Saturday, June 13 in Plymouth

Ends:   Tuesday, June 16 in Boston

12:30 pm Rally at Dewey Square 

  1:00 pm Walk up Summer Street to the State House

  2:00 pm Rally in the Gardner Auditorium at the State House

 

Join us!  The walk will span 54 miles over 4 days - from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth to the Boston State House.    Good company, meals and accommodations will be provided. All belongings can be towed by van, so you will not have to carry any of your gear.  You can join us all the way or for any part of our journey.

For more information, details on the route, or to sponsor a walker, please visit http://www.madownwinders.org/calendar/march-for-our-children/.

Boston Downwinders is a recently formed working group of Massachusetts Peace Action. Our immediate mission is to close Pilgrim Nuclear Plant, which has the same failed GE Mark II design as the Fukushima plant. Experts for the Massachusetts Attorney General said that the Pilgrim's overloaded spent fuel pool is vulnerable to a catastrophic fire that could contaminate over 100 miles downwind and cause up to 24,000 latent cancers and $488 billion in damages.   The Nuclear Regulatory Commission placed Pilgrim among the 5 worst run reactors in the US.  And a Pentagon-commissioned analysis listed it among the 8 US plants most vulnerable to catastrophic terror attack.  As with every other nuclear plant, there is no safe place to put the waste. Our grandchildren’s grandchildren will have to take care of it -- while receiving no benefits.

Boston Downwinders have been joining Cape Downwinders in lobbying our State Reps and Senators to sponsor bills improving Pilgrim's safety, health and evacuation procedures. And we are sharing our concerns with the Mass. Emergency Management Association (MEMA), which is responsible for evacuation in case of accident.

 

We need your energy, ideas and support.  Please come to  our next meeting on June 1, 7pm at the First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St., in Harvard Square.   

And join us for all or part of the MARCH FOR OUR CHILDREN through Plymouth, Kingston, Weymouth, Cohasset, Hingham Braintree and on to Boston.  

 

Activists played a key role in shutting down Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station and we can do the same for Massachusetts!      

 

For more information about our Pilgrim Nuclear Plant and Boston Downwinders, see http://masspeaceaction.org/close-pilgrim-nuclear  or contact us.

 

Yours for a clean and safe energy future,

 

Guntram Mueller and Paula Sharaga

Co Conveners, Boston Downwinders 

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Video short: Aspen Institute puts Fair Food Program center stage…   “For the first time we as workers have a voice…” Last month, the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program held a public forum in Washington, DC, entitled “The Future of Worker Voice” with a distinguished panel of speakers.  Included on that panel were two representatives of the Fair Food Program, Cruz Salucio of the CIW and Judge Laura Safer Espinoza, Executive Director of the Fair Food Standards Council. The Aspen Institute is an organization that, for over 60 years, has worked to foster “enlightened leadership, the appreciation of timeless ideas and values, and open-minded dialogue on contemporary issues,” with perhaps its best known event being the annual “Aspen Ideas Festival,” which has become a much-respected marketplace of new ideas on the social, economic, and cultural issues facing the world in the 21st century.  The panel discussion last month in DC focused on the challenges facing workers today as they seek to have their voices heard at work and protect their fundamental human rights... Watch highlights from the Fair Food Program's contribution to the conversation over at the CIW website!

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