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And they’re off! The Return to Human Rights Tour hits the ground running in Gainesville…

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"Wendy's, prepare yourself:  Today, we begin this tour for human rights, because we are all human beings and we all deserve respect..."After many months of preparation and organizing, CIW members and a core group of allies set out from Immokalee yesterday before dawn on an unseasonably cool spring morning for the 14-city Return to Human Rights Tour!  Today, we bring you the first of the tour's >> Read More

Alliance for Fair Food announces National Day of Prayer and Fasting in support of OSU student fast!

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[caption id="attachment_25465" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Last week, Ohio State University students declared a weeklong fast to begin March 20th calling on the university administration to cut Wendy's campus lease unless the fast-food giant joins the Fair Food Program.  Here they are seen at a gathering yesterday in Columbus painting protest art ahead of next week's actions.[/caption]As CIW members and allies in Immokalee >> Read More

Labor expert: “There’s no reason this model can’t work across the United States…”

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[caption id="attachment_25453" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CREDIT: Christian Science Monitor[/caption]"A SHIFT IN THOUGHT: Florida’s tomato pickers took on some of the country’s biggest retailers and fast-food chains – and won, transforming working conditions in the tomato fields. Now they and their allies are trying to take the fight to new fields and new industries."  Christian Science Monitor article on CIW's Worker-driven Social >> Read More

BREAKING:  OSU students, Columbus community announce weeklong fast in lead up to Return to Human Rights Tour!

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[caption id="attachment_23568" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Hundreds of Fair Food supporters joined the Workers' Voice Tour in a march through Columbus, Ohio, last year.[/caption]"We are fasting in solidarity with farmworkers who have had to go hungry while harvesting the food we all eat because of Wendy’s indifference to their exploitation..."Just this morning, members of Ohio Fair Food -- including students at The >> Read More

It’s still a pig…

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  Wendy's latest public relations ploy in response to Campaign for Fair Food isn't fooling anyone... Sometimes, you just have to hand it to Wikipedia.  It can be a wonderful resource, with clear, concise definitions of just about every concept under the sun.  Here’s a good example, brought to mind by the very latest news out of Wendy’s public relations department: Lipstick on >> Read More

Who doesn’t love a parade?… Immokalee workers launch call for artwork ahead of Parade for Human Rights!

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We are only one month out from the culmination of the Return to Human Rights Tour in Columbus, OH, and the big Parade for Human Rights is coming up fast... So what are you waiting for?  Join the Art Team today!Just two years ago, the CIW and thousands of allies flooded the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida, for a massive and >> Read More

DONATE TODAY: Help fuel the Return to Human Rights Tour!

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$10,000 to traverse 2,000+ miles:  We need YOUR help to send CIW members on the upcoming human rights tour!In just one month, we will be packing up the protest art, finalizing last-minute details, and loading luggage and precious supplies onto a bus parked in the evening light outside of the CIW's community center in the small, dusty town of Immokalee, Florida.  That bus will carry >> Read More

Off Broadway… in Immokalee!

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Popular education theater brings home message of courage, resilience in Immokalee...Each and every Wednesday -- since the founding of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in the early 90's through the intervening 25 years, without pause, to last night -- farmworkers have gathered at the CIW center in Immokalee for the weekly community junta.  Across those countless meetings we have parsed the >> Read More

A Tale of Two Roadside Farm Stands…

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Or why Wendy's is not like you. And why you should join us for the Return to Human Rights Tour this March 16-29! Join us, if you will, in a brief thought experiment: What would you do if you were in the market for some fresh tomatoes and you happened upon a roadside farm stand — an idyllic, pastoral produce stand, its >> Read More

Check out the route! 2017 Return to Human Rights Tour only two months away…

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2,000-mile route of major spring action charts path from Immokalee through the heart of Wendy's territory in the midwest... It's official!  The countdown from eight weeks until the Return to Human Rights Tour has begun.  As we announced back in December, CIW members and their allies will embark on the longest protest action in a decade, from March 16th to 29th, joining forces with thousands >> Read More