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Florida’s tomato farmworkers and their long-time community allies brought a two-year fight to specialty grocer Trader Joe’s doorstep last week, marching and rallying at its Southern California headquarters.

Four hundred stopped by a Trader Joe’s store for a picket and a short rally last Friday, which ended with Darniel Sales, a member of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, carrying a full 35-pound bucket of tomatoes that was passed like a solidarity baton along the march.

As CIW marchers arrived at Trader Joe’s headquarters near Los Angeles, they were led in prayer by local clergy. A street-theater performance mocked the two-faced nature of the company, which proclaims its responsibility but fails to commit to what the farmworkers ask –an agreement that guarantees one penny more for each pound of tomatoes they pick.

A delegation attempted to deliver a letter of support from 200 rabbis to chants of  “let them in!” but company officials refused to see them.

So far, Trader Joe’s has tried to sidestep the CIW campaign, which has picketed stores nationwide.