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Wendy’s Shareholder Resolution News, Part One: Resolution calling for documentation of Wendy’s claims of social responsibility gaining real momentum ahead annual meeting…

Wendy’s Shareholder Resolution News, Part One: Resolution calling for documentation of Wendy’s claims of social responsibility gaining real momentum ahead annual meeting…

[caption id="attachment_28182" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Thousands march in the streets of New York City outside the downtown offices of hedge fund giant Trian Partners, Wendy's largest shareholder, during the Time's Up Wendy's March in March 2018.[/caption] 2021 shareholder resolution seeks facts on whether, and how, Wendy's enforces its Supplier Code of Conduct... Financial Times: Responsible investment organization ShareAction calls Wendy's shareholder >> Read More
Podcast Recap: “Reimagining Grocery”, from Food + Tech Connect…

Podcast Recap: “Reimagining Grocery”, from Food + Tech Connect…

"The power of the purchasing order" to protect workers and prevent human rights violations in retail food brands' supply chains takes center stage in dynamic panel discussion... In early February, the CIW’s Gerardo Reyes and Greg Asbed joined a panel convened by Food+Tech Connect, a leader in the growing "good food innovation movement," to explore the role and responsibility of >> Read More
CBS News, Politico raise the alarm about vaccination efforts leaving farmworkers behind…

CBS News, Politico raise the alarm about vaccination efforts leaving farmworkers behind…

[caption id="attachment_33936" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Fair Food Program farmworker harvesting cherry tomatoes (Florida, 2021).[/caption] Florida Agricultural Commissioner: "I’ve asked [FL Governor Ron DeSantis] since December to make farmworkers among those eligible next for vaccines, which he refused to do... The lack of empathy and concern for the working people who put food on our tables is appalling.” As the COVID-19 pandemic >> Read More
“The contract at the heart of our community is founded on trust”…

“The contract at the heart of our community is founded on trust”…

[caption id="attachment_33812" align="aligncenter" width="2000"] Southwest Florida allies join Immokalee residents in calling for justice for Nicolas Morales at a vigil held earlier this month in Immokalee.[/caption] Sheriff Rambosk's words, actions erode the trust essential to effective policing in Immokalee; The time to rebuild public trust, and reform policing in Immokalee's farmworker community, is now. In 1987, police officers in Memphis, >> Read More
Open letter from Nicolas Morales Jr., 13: “I Demand Justice for My Dad.”

Open letter from Nicolas Morales Jr., 13: “I Demand Justice for My Dad.”

"Ever since that day I have been sad, lonely, angry, and grieving the loss of my dad.  There is not one day I don’t think about him and wish things could’ve been done differently to still have my dad here... It has torn my life apart." Since we first called for transparency and accountability for the killing of Nicolas Morales, >> Read More
BREAKING: Major victory in the Ohio State “Boot the Braids” campaign!

BREAKING: Major victory in the Ohio State “Boot the Braids” campaign!

[caption id="attachment_29772" align="aligncenter" width="850"] Protesters leave hundreds of red carnations at the doorstep of the Ohio State University administration building nearly two years ago to the day, following a march to the OSU campus through Columbus, Ohio, in March of 2019.  The flowers – given first to the OSU students who held a sit-in on March 7th, and then to >> Read More
#JusticeforNicolas Vigil Media Roundup

#JusticeforNicolas Vigil Media Roundup

[caption id="attachment_33822" align="aligncenter" width="2000"] Friends and family of Nicolas Morales, who was brutally killed by Collier County Sheriff's Deputy Corporal Pierre Jean in September of last year, are joined by Immokalee community members and Southwest Florida allies at last Sunday's vigil calling for justice for Nicolas and meaningful reforms to prevent police violence in the future in Collier County.[/caption] Brent >> Read More
Nicolas Morales Jr., 13: “There is not one day I don’t think about him… The police cannot get away with what they have done.”

Nicolas Morales Jr., 13: “There is not one day I don’t think about him… The police cannot get away with what they have done.”

Over 100 farmworkers, religious leaders, students and Southwest Florida allies come together at vigil to call for justice for Nicolas Morales, killed last September by Collier County Sheriff's deputies; Family, community leaders demand accountability, real transparency, and effective mental health intervention to prevent future police violence in Immokalee;  Nicolas Morales, Jr., 13, pens a heartbreaking letter to Collier County Sheriff's >> Read More
4PM THIS SUNDAY: Call for justice, community vigil for Nicolas Morales to be held in Immokalee!

4PM THIS SUNDAY: Call for justice, community vigil for Nicolas Morales to be held in Immokalee!

[caption id="attachment_33753" align="aligncenter" width="796"] Second Vice President James Buchanon of the Lee County NAACP addresses Southwest Florida media, calling for an independent federal investigation of the Collier County Sheriff's Office in the wake of the killing of farmworker Nicolas Morales.  Behind him, a banner reads Golpear a uno es golpear a todos – "An injury to one is an injury >> Read More