World Food Day is October 16! FCWA is a proud mamber of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, and USFSA is joining with La Via Campesina and food sovereignty movements to call on people and organizations to fashion the food and farming future we need. That future means communities, regions and nations are revitalized with local…
In celebration of April 17 the International Day of Peasants’ Struggles, the US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) is launching a membership drive, calling on all organizations that are working towards food sovereignty to join the USFSA! The Food Chain Workers Alliance is already a member and invites you all to join too. The US Food…
Coming out of the great democratic upsurge in Wisconsin where workers and farmers stood together, small-scale farmers and peasants are joining with food and farmworkers to support food sovereignty. Now, they’re asking for your solidarity against the policies and practices that are hurting us all. As a member of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, the…
*The Food Chain Workers Alliance Supports the April 4 Call to Action: We Are One* Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., where he was standing with sanitation workers demanding their dream of a better life. Today, the right to bargain collectively for a voice at work and a dignified life are…
*Sweatshop, Warehouse, Walmart: A Worker Truth Tour* Warehouse Workers for Justice leader Robert Hines speaks, along with retail and factory workers from the US and Bangladesh, as part of the Walmart Truth Tour. The tour is raising awareness about the deliberate system created by Walmart – the world’s biggest company – that keeps workers in…
Food Chain Workers Alliance Condemns Jimmy John’s Resistance to Paid Sick Day Initiative – Paid Sick Days for Food Workers is a Critical Public Health Issue – March 23, 2011 – The Food Chain Workers Alliance calls on sandwich chain Jimmy John’s to safeguard its customers and employees by providing paid sick days to workers…
The Food Chain Workers Alliance is among dozens of organizations around the country that belong to a network called May Day United, to promote a national outpouring of working people on May 1, 2011. The network is uniting worker and community-based organizations around solutions to the hardships facing working families and against escalating attacks on…
In celebration of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his dedicated work for civil rights, human rights, and labor rights, members of the Food Chain Workers Alliance are taking action to build support for food workers and other low-wage workers around the country. Details below — please join them if you can! Sat…
The Restaurant Opportunities Center of New Orleans, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving working conditions for restaurant workers, will be joined by the US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) and the Food Chain Workers Alliance to hold a public action in front of the well-known Tony Moran’s Restaurant located at 240 Bourbon St. in the French…
By Rev. David L. Ostendorf Midst all the manifestations of the so-called “food movement” in the U.S.—organic, slow, sustainable, natural, whole, healthy, urban, sovereign—is a glaring absence of analysis of the structure of race that pervades the entire food system, from the ground to the grocer. Wherever food is produced, picked, processed, packed, or purveyed…
