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This participatory session will explore the history and future of student/youth leadership and organizing in the national "Campaign for Fair Food," which is led by the farmworker members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). The Student/Farmworker Alliance has been at the forefront of winning some of our generation's biggest victories against corporate greed, including successful campaigns against Taco Bell, McDonald's, and Aramark to improve farmworker wages and working conditions. Through theater, video, and small group discussions, we will delve into our organizing philosophy, how we have applied concepts such as "ally" and "solidarity," what connections the CIW's struggle has with our own objectification, exploitation, and liberation as students and youth, the broader implications of this dynamic, national farmworker solidarity movement for "the movement" as a whole, and what the future holds as we continue our efforts to hold the trillion-dollar corporate food industry responsible for the human rights abuses faced by farmworkers here in the U.S. The Campaign for Fair Food -- in which SFA is a central driving force -- has resulted in 8 major food corporations signing agreements with the CIW to improve farmworkers' wages and working conditions, and is the greatest hope today to transforming the agricultural industry.
