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ACTION ALERT: Student/Farmworker Alliance announces “Pulling Back the Curtain on Wendy’s” Week of Action, Oct. 22-28!

ACTION ALERT: Student/Farmworker Alliance announces “Pulling Back the Curtain on Wendy’s” Week of Action, Oct. 22-28!

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Today, we bring you big news from the Student/Farmworker Alliance, the ever-growing, national network of students and young people who have been keeping the heat cranked up on Wendy's all year long!  This week, students announced their October National Week of Action, with the theme of "Pulling Back the Curtain on Wendy's".  So mark your calendars, Fair Food Nation, because >> Read More

THIS WEEK: 60+ student and youth leaders converge on Immokalee for annual Encuentro!

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret MeadWith Labor Day weekend in the rearview mirror, the summer of 2017 is officially over and fall is in the air.  On college campuses across the country, that can only mean one thing: The students are back into town! >> Read More

Not in our house! Students call on USF Board of Trustees to reject campus Publix!

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
CALL TO ACTION: University of South Florida students, community members tell university administration:  "Publix can't set up shop on our campus until they respect farmworkers' human rights!"And they want you to help!  Here's how...Even as students from Florida to New York gear up to join farmworkers for Wendy's protests as part of the upcoming 2016 Workers' Voice Tour, students here in >> Read More

Wendy’s Week of Action off with a bang! Actions kick off in Orlando, Austin…

Posted on by CIW
"We plan to fight until Wendy's agrees to respect the dignity of the farmworkers its business depends on..."And, they're off!  Starting last Sunday, the Student / Farmworker Alliance -- cheered on by the rest of the Alliance for Fair Food -- kicked off the National "Schooling Wendy's" Week of Action.  Although we'll be sharing the full round up after the jam-packed >> Read More

ACTION ALERT! Student / Farmworker Alliance calls on network for Wendy’s Week of Action!

Posted on by CIW
Students to "school Wendy’s on the many ways the fast-food joint has failed to make the grade"...With the academic year now in full swing -- and in the wake of the energizing 2015 Encuentro -- the Student / Farmworker Alliance is kicking off the school season with its first national Week of Action!  Next week, from Sunday, September 27th to Sunday, October 4th, the >> Read More

Watch out, Wendy’s! 100+ Encuentro participants, farmworkers protest for Fair Food…

Posted on by CIW
CIW members, students: "Maybe Wendy’s will continue to refuse to be a part of the Program today -- but every day, there are more and more of us, and someday, Wendy’s will sign..."This past weekend, after months of planning and preparation, the Student / Farmworker Alliance hosted the 11th annual Encuentro in Immokalee, where students and young people from around >> Read More

Fair Food Summit A Success!

Posted on by CIW
The summit began, appropriately, in the fields, where participants formed teams and picked tomatoes and oranges for a day... or, at least, tried. The look says it all... This team of three make it back to town well after dark having picked six bins of oranges (about 6,000 pounds of high quality Florida citrus), which translates into about $40 ($13 >> Read More
Tour wraps up with powerful Bay Area finale! Days Six and Seven of the Trader Joe’s CA Truth Tour July 16-17, 2011

Tour wraps up with powerful Bay Area finale! Days Six and Seven of the Trader Joe’s CA Truth Tour July 16-17, 2011

Posted on by CIW
The Trader Joe's CA Truth Tour ended with a bang this weekend with powerful protests in two of the Bay Area's most storied communities! On Saturday, the CIW tour crew and farmworker allies old and new made their presence felt in the heart of Berkeley, while on Sunday, a finale march, pictured above, made its way (quite literally!) through the >> Read More
’06: Students take on McD’s

’06: Students take on McD’s

Posted on by CIW
PUBLIC RELATIONS OR LABOR RELATIONS? Students step into the fray and ask McD's some hard questions! Student and youth voices, so powerful in the successful Taco Bell Boycott, are joining the growing public demand for real action by McDonald's to end sweatshops and slavery in Florida's tomato fields. United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) has added its voice to the chorus >> Read More