Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Originally published March 12, 2012.
After six days without food, dozens of farmworkers and supporters in Florida ended their week-long hunger strike outside the entrance of the Publix Supermarket Corporate Headquarters in Lakeland on Saturday. They marked the day with a march and ceremony that attracted nearly 1,000 people. The fast was part of a continuing effort by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to get the Publix supermarket chain to sign on to a Fair Food agreement that would provide better working conditions and higher wages for immigrant tomato pickers in Florida. FSRN's Kelly Benjamin has more.
