Farmworkers were leading a five-day, 45-mile (72-kilometer) trek on foot this week from one of the poorest communities in Florida to a mansion-lined, oceanfront town that is one of the richest in an effort to pressure retailers to leverage their purchasing power for better worker pay and working conditions.
On Tuesday morning, Immokalee farmworkers begin a five-day march to draw attention to the mistreatment of migrant farmworkers.
A farming community is getting a vaccine boost. The Department of Emergency Management has a mobile vaccination site it hopes will get shots in the arms of residents of Immokalee. The vaccination site cannot be found online. About 450 people were vaccinated at the site on Friday. “The focus is the farm community,” said Gerardo […]
After a neighbor was shot and killed by deputies responding to a call, a mural has been created in his honor and a community is spreading its message of social justice. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers wants three things: a federal investigation, the community to have a say in a situation like this, and for […]
People filled the plaza in Immokalee on Sunday to call for unity but also to demand that the Collier County Sheriff’s deputies involved in the killing of Nicolas Morales be held accountable. The family and friends of Morales spoke. His son even wrote a letter about how his world has changed since his father was […]
People in Immokalee are calling one everyone in Southwest Florida to hold the Collier County Sheriff’s deputies who were responsible for the death of Nicholas Morales. Gerardo Reyes Chaves is with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. “The police should serve and protect, not shoot us. Understand us, yes. Get closer to us, to our community,” […]
Testing sites are seeing a spike in positive coronavirus cases. And one testing site in Southwest Florida in particular is reportedly seeing an uptick in confirmed cases. Immokalee COVID-19 testing sites saw about another 200 cases in just a week, we learned Monday. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers said, following three days of mass testing […]