Join the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, the Presbyterian Church of the USA, the American Postal Workers Union, the United Farmworkers, United Students Against Sweatshops, Global Exchange, Food First, the Campaign for Labor Rights, the United Church of Christ and many more in formally endorsing the CIW's Taco Bell Boycott, to let Taco Bell know that your organization won't participate in fast food profits made on farmworker poverty.

Here's what David Korten, author of "When Corporations Rule the World," had to say about the boycott when he added his endorsement to the list:

"I strongly endorse the boycott of Taco Bell and other fast food chains that profit from the misery of underpaid workers and pose a threat to family farms and restaurants. To have a society that works we must all become more conscious of the implications of our food and other buying choices. Make it a regular habit to patronize businesses owned by local people that function as part of a responsible community and avoid patronizing global corporations like Taco Bell that care only for their profits. Taco and hamburger stands should be owned and run by local families, not global corporate predators. David Korten, Author, "When Corporations Rule the World"

If you'd like to join our endorsers list, just email us at workers@ciw-online.org and let us know that you or your organization is interested in officially endorsing the Taco Bell boycott. We'd be happy to help you with anything you might need.

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Here is a (still incomplete) list of the official endorsements of the Taco Bell Boycott as of January 31, 2003. For all those organizations that have endorsed the campaign and don't see your name in this list, please email us and we will get you up qickly:

* Tom Morello, Audioslave (formerly, Rage Against the Machine)
* Noam Chomsky, professor, MIT
* Edward James Olmos
* The Indigo Girls
* Chumbawamba
* Eric Schlosser (author, "Fast Food Nation")
* Barbara Ehrenreich (author, "Nickel and Dimed")
* David Korten (author, "When Corporations Rule the World")
* Naomi Klein (author, "No Logo")
* Dolores Huerta
* Julia Butterfly Hill
* Howard Zinn (author, "A People's History of the United States)
* Paul Loeb (author, "Soul of a Citizen")

Labor
* American Postal Workers Union (APWU)
* Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
* United Farm Workers (UFW)
* Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noreste (PCUN)
* Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA)
* United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, UE District 10
* San Francisco Labor Council (SFLC)
* Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union Local 2850 (HERE)
* Coalition of University Employees Local 3 (CUE - Berkeley, CA)
* Oakland Education Association (OEA - Oakland, CA)
* Laborers International Union, District Council (Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota)
* South Florida Jobs with Justice
* The Garment Workers Center
* United Campus Workers (Communication Workers of America, Local 3865, Knoxville, TN)
* Workers Solidarity Alliance (WSA National Office, NY, NY)

Global Justice
* Anti-Slavery International (London)
* Mexico Solidarity Network
* Global Exchange
* Campaign for Labor Rights
* United for a Fair Economy
* Food First

Student
* United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS)
* Student/Farmworker Alliance
* Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC)
* University of California Student Association (UCSA)
* Purdue Organization for Labor Equality (POLE)
* The Movement for Democracy for Education 180
* San Diego State University, Student Government

Religious
* Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA)
* Ohio Council of Churches
* Apostolic Catholic Church
* The Session of Lakeview Presbyterian Church, Florida
* North Carolina Council of Churches Farmworker Ministry Committee
* Florida United Church of Christ Women
* Florida Church Women United
* Church Women United of Illinois
* United Church of Christ
* South Florida Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
* Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida
* Unitarian Universalist Migrant Ministry
* Religious Society of Friends, Ft. Myers Meeting
* Florida Council of Churches Commission on Social Justice
* Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
* Orange County (CA) Interfaith Committee to Aid Farm Workers

Community/other
* National Family Farm Coalition
* Family Farm Defenders
* Community Farm Alliance of Kentucky and Indiana
* National Lawyers Guild
* Florida AIM (American Indian Movement)
* ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
* Florida Green Party
* Long Beach, CA, Green Party
* LUS (Latinos Unidos Siempre) Youth Organization, Oregon
* The Simple Way
* Zapatista Solidarity Coalition - Sacramento, CA
* Bay Area (San Francisco) Radical Women
* Green Party of Brevard County, FL
* The Blue-Green Alliance of the Green Party of Florida
* San Francisco Day Laborers
* Marin (CA) Interfaith Task Force on Latin America
* Liberate Orange County (CA)
* Coastal Convergence Society (Huntington Beach, CA)