Monkey Wrench Books hosts Fair Food Austin as part of a monthly "Meet a Community Group" speaker series. This series is put together to help bring supporters and community members together with local groups and organizations working on various issues in the Austin area. Fair Food Austin organizes with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) for an end to poverty wages and human rights abuses in the U.S. agricultural industry. The CIW is a farmworker organization headquartered in Immokalee, Florida which has aided in the prosecution by the Department of Justice of six slavery operations and the liberation of well over 1,000 workers as part of theirstruggle for the right to work with dignity.
