An extra penny for tomatoes could end severe poverty in the fields

Executive produced by Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser, “Food Chains” tells the story of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers or CIW, an organization of farm workers that’s been fighting for fair wages and human rights for Florida workers since the 1990s. The film follows the CIW’s struggle to get powerful supermarkets, like Publix in Florida, to pay the workers an extra penny for every pound of tomatoes. It’s an extra penny that farm workers say that could lift them out of severe poverty. Maria Hinojosa talks to “Food Chains” director Sanjay Rawal about the film and how the CIW’s is revolutionizing activism in the fields.