March 2, 2012

Church leaders in United States along with farmers and consumers will fast from 5 to 10 March to protest the retailer Publix's rejection of the groundbreaking Fair Food Program in Florida. .".. Theirs [Publix'] is a morally indefensible position and they can't look the workers in the eye," said Rev. Bernice Powell Jackson, president of the World Council of Churches for the North America region.

Publix is the state of Florida's largest corporation and supermarket chain.

On 5 March, farmers who harvest the state's 620 US dollars million tomato crop, Rev. Michael Livingston, former president of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the US (Link: http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=a5f84c16c2d5d10a0805) and director of the NCC's Poverty Initiative, religious leaders, students and consumers will appeal to Publix to recognize the humanity of the workers who pick its tomatoes and join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Program (Link: http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=bb917bd06c9207d8a022).

Read the full news story at the CIWFFP's website (Link: http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=4f0249157db5f58828e4)

WCC member churches in North America (Link: http://www.oikoumene.org/index.php?RDCT=75659648fe6cfdfbbe3c)

World Council of Churches