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Pray for Those Fasting for Just Wages
March 6
With the child poverty rate in the U.S. currently at 22 percent, many children in working families are up against almost impossible odds. Farm workers, including tomato pickers, are among the families most impacted by poverty. Here’s an important advocacy alert from the Presbyterian Hunger Program:
Members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and allies from the faith, student, human rights and sustainable food communities will undertake a six day fast outside of Publix grocery headquarters in Lakeland, Florida, March 5-10. Through this sacrificial act the fasters will make a direct moral appeal to the leaders of Publix to join the Fair Food Program and underscore the brutal effects of the grocery industry’s high volume/low cost purchasing practices on tomato pickers’ wages and working conditions. This witness will culminate on Saturday March 10 with a solemn three-mile procession to Publix headquarters for a fast-breaking ceremony. Learn more about the fast and the many opportunities to pray with and join the fasters on location on CIW's Fast for Fair Food website.
We pray for Publix to have a change of heart and practice!!!
- Posted at 9:54 a.m.
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