Day 2 ends, long hours after we began at 5 am. We learned from more of the workers about their campaign for fair food, how they chose their original target - Taco Bell - and continued that new campaign to focus on the corporations that purchase tomatoes from the growers, 90 % of which in Florida have signed onto the Fair Food campaign, increasing wages, creating better conditions, and submitting to regular monitoring, with the threat of their major markets disappearing if they return to the bad old ways. We later visited a grower - Pacific - one of the first to sign onto the campaign and got to see new tiney green tomatoes starting to grow in sandy soil that is watered by methods learned in Israel. Later still, we prayed minkha at the tree where this Fair Food pact was signed, engaged in our own public action,at a grocery store here - Publix - which is a large chain and has not signed onto the campaign even though 11 supermarkets and fast food chains have done so. We ended with dinner with Judge Laura Safer Espinoza, formerly a NY State judge, who now runs the Fair Food Council, the monitoring arm of the agreement,ensuring that growers are complying with it. We are a group of rabbis and re engaging together in prayer 2-3 times a day. Each time, we end with the mourners Kaddish, and I rise to say Kaddish for Sammy Cohen-Eckstein. I hope hed be glad for this Kaddish amid action for justice. Laila tov, all
Posted on: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 02:08:10 +0000
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