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Press Release: Wendell Berry, Paul Krugman, CIW comment on upcoming Four Freedoms Awards…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="CIW, Wendell Berry, Paul Krugman comment Upcoming #FourFreedoms Award in #NYC in Oct!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=16129"] Roosevelt Institute announces time, place for October awards gala!  The October 16th award ceremony in New York City is approaching, and this week the Roosevelt Institute issued a press release with details on the upcoming gala  and quotations from the various laureates -- including novelist >> Read More

Wendy’s Week of Action Sweeps through Midwest on Way to East Coast!

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[caption id="attachment_15749" align="aligncenter" width="523"] Members of Chicago Fair Food gather outside of a Wendy's in the heart of the Windy City during the Wendy's Week of Action.[/caption] From Chicago, IL, to Providence, RI, the late summer front of protests takes Wendy's by storm! Wendy's long, hot summer raged on this past week, and based on the colorful protests that sprang >> Read More
Get with the Program, Wendy’s!

Get with the Program, Wendy’s!

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CIW's message, action at shareholder meeting strike a chord with national press... Scenes from a shareholders' meeting: As Wendy's CEO Emil Brolick wound up his presentation at last Thursday's annual meeting, just ahead of the highly-charged Q&A session, he unveiled an attractive powerpoint presentation centered around a graph that charted the course for the company's continued growth and success in the future. >> Read More

Hair Raising!

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CIW members, 300 of their closest friends, formally introduce themselves to Wendy's with massive march, protest in New York City... Next up: Thursday's shareholder meeting Well, if it wasn't clear already, it certainly should be now: The Campaign for Fair Food has arrived at Wendy's doorstep, and it's not leaving until the final fast-food holdout joins the Fair Food Program and does >> Read More
With the Wendy’s shareholders’ meeting in NYC just around the corner, the pressure is rising on the final fast-food holdout…

With the Wendy’s shareholders’ meeting in NYC just around the corner, the pressure is rising on the final fast-food holdout…

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Head of Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), farmworker mothers, pen letters to Wendy's calling on the hamburger giant to do the right thing ahead of next week's national actions Before joining Wendy's in September of 2011 as President and CEO, Emil Brolick served for several years as CEO of Taco Bell. It was during his tenure with Taco Bell, in 2005, that >> Read More

Modern-Day Slavery Museum Northeast Tour Days Eight, Nine and Ten, New York City

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Aug. 2-4, 2010 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="288"] To kick off Week Two of the tour, the Modern-Day Slavery Museum spent three very busy days in New York, a Northern city heavily implicated in the history of chattel slavery.This long-forgotten history is best reflected at African Burial Ground National Monument (pictured above), a 6.6-acre burial ground in Lower Manhattan that was >> Read More
STUDENT/FARMWORKER ALLIANCE CALLS FOR “DAYS OF ACTION” MAY 11-12 — BE PART OF THE ACTION!

STUDENT/FARMWORKER ALLIANCE CALLS FOR “DAYS OF ACTION” MAY 11-12 — BE PART OF THE ACTION!

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STUDENT/FARMWORKER ALLIANCE CALLS FOR "DAYS OF ACTION" MAY 11-12 -- BE PART OF THE ACTION!... Plus, check out the report from last weekend's exciting "Clean Clothes, Fair Food" conference in NYC, and all the latest news from the Campaign for Fair Food! UPDATE: 5/14/07... Click here to see the exciting report from the SFA's Days of Action, with pics from >> Read More