Syracuse U Professor Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern on the Campaign for Fair Food: “It empowers people getting involved whether it’s a student organizing or the workers themselves, people are now aware of how these shifts can happen.”
Earlier this week, we featured a wonderful article from longtime ally Noelle Damico, exploring the tremendous impact and promise of the Worker-driven Social Responsibility model in the battle to end gender-based violence. But, that wasn’t the only excellent story about the Fair Food movement from the past few weeks!
Last month, Professor Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern from Syracuse University joined KPFA’s radio show Against the Grain for an hour-long interview on the in-depth research behind her chapter in the brand-new volume, “The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action”. The majority of the conversation focused on the ingenuity and impact of the CIW’s Campaign for Fair Food and the Fair Food Program, presenting a thoughtful analysis of the prodigious power that farmworkers and consumers can wield to transform our food system when they work in alliance.
Here’s a teaser for Professor Minknoff-Zern’s interview on Against the Grain:
If the goal is a socially just food system, is it enough for consumers to vote with their forks, or for food activism to focus on urban areas and concerns? Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern says we need to shift the focus from consumer-led food initiatives to movements led by farmworkers and supported by consumers. She finds the activities of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers particularly instructive and inspiring...
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