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Wendy’s Boycott heats up as 120+ farmworkers, allies take to the streets in Orlando for a spirited summer protest!

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CIW's Cruz Salucio:  Wendy's "cannot run away from farmworkers' human rights..."This past Sunday, even the sweltering, 100-degree heat of a late summer day in Orlando could not suppress the contagious energy of over 120 protesters who packed the sidewalk outside a Wendy's restaurant for a festive afternoon picket.  Seventy farmworkers and their families, many just starting to return to Immokalee after a summer season up north, >> Read More

“Make us hungry for justice!”

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150 Farmworkers and people of faith gather in Naples to celebrate the breaking of a month-long rolling fast by Florida faith leaders, follow service with action at nearby Wendy's...This past Sunday -- nearly twenty years after the late Bishop John Nevins of the Diocese of Venice administered the host to six farmworkers from the CIW as they broke their historic >> Read More

A Tampa Twofer! Return to Human Rights Tour wraps up with a huge march, rally at Tampa Wendy’s, Publix…

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Nearly 300 exuberant Fair Food supporters turn out to welcome the Return to Human Rights Tour back to Florida with a rocking rally and march through Tampa!Now that is what we call a warm, down-home welcome:More than two weeks after embarking on an odyssey that would ultimately cover 14 states and over 2,000 miles, the Return to Human Rights Tour >> Read More

$3.5 million judgment closes books on yet another forced labor case in Florida’s fields…

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[caption id="attachment_25355" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The Ft. Myers, Florida, courthouse pictured here, where the judgment was handed down earlier this month, stands less than an hour's drive from the fields where workers were threatened with guns and sexually assaulted by their field boss.[/caption] Newest case marks ninth forced labor operation brought to justice by CIW's Anti-Slavery Program since 1997, demonstrates enduring perils >> Read More

The Grand Finale! Wendy’s protests from Miami to Chicago highlight final Behind the Braids tour, Weekend of Action…

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[caption id="attachment_24990" align="aligncenter" width="600"] 150+ march for final Behind the Braids Weekend of Action in Miami, Florida, last Sunday[/caption]Hundreds of farmworkers and Fair Food allies, new and old, let Wendy's know nothing will deter the Fair Food Nation as the Wendy's Boycott heads into the new season in high gear!Even as the country continues to adjust to the new political >> Read More

“Boot the Braids!” rings out across campuses throughout the Midwest and Southeast! 

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First round of Wendy's Boycott tours wraps up with visits to four “Boot the Braids” campuses! Picking up where we left off in last week's "Behind the Braids" Tours report, we bring you the latest news from the campaign trail (Campaign for Fair Food, that is, also known as the only campaign news you can proudly share with young children these days...).  This >> Read More

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

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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

Labor Day picket kicks off fall season for Campaign for Fair Food!

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[caption id="attachment_22606" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CIW Women’s Group member, Marta, at Sunday’s Labor Day picket at Publix[/caption]“… It is with these very hands that I supply the tomatoes that you use, from which you profit…”On Monday, we shared a powerful reflection on the global movement for workers’ human rights and the Fair Food Program’s worker-driven, market-powered model — but that was >> Read More

Leaving Publix: Growing wave of longtime Publix customers spurning Florida grocery giant to express outrage over company’s refusal to support Fair Food…

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[hupso title="Leaving @Publix: Growing wave of longtime customers spurning Publix, outraged over company's refusal to support #FairFood" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/05/leaving-publix/"] Life-long customer to Publix: "You have a responsibility to share the loyalty, good fortune and prosperity we’ve given you with the rest of your community." An intriguing new trend is beginning to emerge among once-loyal customers of Publix, and Florida's hometown grocer would do well to take >> Read More
From Florida to Denver, Wendy’s hears from a fed up Fair Food Nation…

From Florida to Denver, Wendy’s hears from a fed up Fair Food Nation…

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[hupso title="From #FL to #Denver, @Wendys hears from a fed up #FairFoodNation..." url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/11/wendys-protests/"]  With the fall picking season just around the corner, farmworkers in Immokalee and Fair Food activists across the country crank up creative Wendy's actions... Between farmworkers returning to Florida for the start of the new harvest season and allies in cooler climes taking to the streets for vibrant Fair Food protests, >> Read More