MAN IN OVERALLS — Food Justice RSS

Last June, I got an email from Marcy Rosner, a native of Tallahassee that had been-- for a handful of years-- living in Oakland. She was back home for the month and hoped to find some volunteer opportunities with community gardens or some other volunteer urban ag project in Tallahassee. Eventually she linked up with Shelby Stec, an awesome FSU student that coordinates a garden at the Salvation...

Two weekends ago, I marched with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (ciw-online.org) in overalls.  They were marching to hold Publix accountable for the supply chain from which they purchase their tomatoes.Centered in the town of Immokalee, FL, the tomato fields of Florida are home to some of the more blatant injustices of our day. Folks-- folks I have been getting to know over the past year--...