RADICAL GRANDE VALLE NEWS - SUPPORT!!!!!

December 2, 2008 - Subway, the third largest fast-food chain in the world and the biggest fast-food buyer of Florida tomatoes, reached an agreement this morning with the CIW to help improve wages and working conditions for the workers who pick their tomatoes! Terms of the agreement include a supplier code of conduct that requires farmworker participation in monitoring growers' compliance, zero tolerance for serious labor rights violations, and a penny-per-pound wage increase for the campesin@s. YA CAYO, YA CAYO, el SUBGUEY YA CALLO!!!! For more information of this victory, you can check out these articles.

"Bearing the fruits of their labor" (http://www.southernstudies.org/2008/12/bearing-the-fruits-of-their-labor.html)

"Subway to pay more for tomatoes" (http://www.news-press.com/article/20081203/BUSINESS/812030388/1075)

"Victory to the farmworkers: CIW announces Subway has signed on" (http://radgeek.com/gt/2008/12/02/victory_to/)

For more information on the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the Student/Farmworker Alliance, and for info on the Fight for Fair Food, please visit www.ciw-online.org and www.sfalliance.org. For information on the RGV Student/Farmworker Alliance, email worldpeacealliance@yahoo.com.

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In other radical grande valle news

La Nueva Organizacion Popular de Accion y Liberacion has started organizing for the first (hopefully annual) NOPALFEST, a conference/festival focusing on popular and political education y nuestra cultura radical, featuring workshops, discussions, film showings, skill-shares, delicious vegan food, a artist's/hecho a mano mercado, free revolutionary childcare, and a powerful, political poetry/music showcase. If you are interested in organizing, volunteering, or participating in any way, please email nopalfest@gmail.com or call Vicky at 956-905-2218.

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Don't Hate the Media, BE the Media

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If you are interested in making media, learning more about independent media, or sharing your media skills, consider joining the RGV Indymedia Collective. For more information on Indymedia, check out indymedia.org. To get more info on RGV Indymedia, you can email worldpeacealliance@yahoo.com or call Vicky at 956-905-2218.