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CIW Delegation visits California

Posted on May 15, 2001October 15, 2020 by CIW

CIW DELEGATION VISITS CALIFORNIA From student groups (including United Students Against Sweatshops, MEChA, and more) to community organizations, labor unions, religious organizations, and even some celebrity super heroes (you can't go to LA without bumping into a star or two), response to the Taco Bell Boycott was overwhelmingly positive. Already, plans are underway to organize a coordinated campaign both in >> Read More

The Palm Beach Post: Tomato pickers protest at Taco Bell

Posted on May 2, 2001October 15, 2020 by CIW

By Scott McCabe, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Gerardo Reyes stood outside Taco Bell, worlds away from the Mexican chili fields he picked as an 11-year-old, but still in the middle of his life-long struggle. Reyes and a dozen tomato pickers marched outside the fast-food restaurant in suburban West Palm Beach, asking for a raise to the 40 cents they >> Read More

MAY DAY 2001…

Posted on May 1, 2001October 15, 2020 by CIW

... a day dedicated to the memory of workers fallen in the fight for simple economic justice, was celebrated this year in Florida with actions across the state in solidarity with farmworkers leading that same fight today. May Day this year in Florida was a reminder that no corporation exists without the goodwill of its customers, and that goodwill is >> Read More

Notre Dame Student/Farmworker Alliance turns up the heat!

Posted on April 15, 2001October 15, 2020 by CIW

Since visiting Immokalee during Spring Break, a group of students at the University of Notre Dame has picked up the Taco Bell campaign in Indiana and run with it. They have held teach-ins, written op-eds, leafleted, networked, circulated petitions, AND... organized an impressive, bagpipe-led protest in front of a Taco Bell close to the South Bend campus. Their spirit has >> Read More

Orlando Sentinel Taco Bell protestors call for boycott

Posted on April 12, 2001October 15, 2020 by CIW

Sandra Pedicini Of the Sentinel Staff April 2, 2001 Customers trying to grab a chalupa or burrito for a late lunch at an Orlando Taco Bell on Sunday afternoon were greeted by about 100 protestors wearing costumes, beating drums, and chanting in an attempt to drive them away. The group of farmworkers, college students, church groups and other activists, led >> Read More

Orlando Sentinel: “Taco Bell protestors call for boycott”

Posted on April 2, 2001October 15, 2020 by CIW

Orlando Sentinel "Taco Bell protestors call for boycott" Sandra Pedicini Of the Sentinel Staff Customers trying to grab a chalupa or burrito for a late lunch at an Orlando Taco Bell on Sunday afternoon were greeted by about 100 protestors wearing costumes, beating drums, and chanting in an attempt to drive them away. The group of farmworkers, college students, church >> Read More

CIW GOLDEN BUCKET AWARD FOR CORPORATE IRRESPONSIBLITY GOES TO… TACO BELL!!

Posted on April 1, 2001October 15, 2020 by CIW

FIRST ANNUAL CIW GOLDEN BUCKET AWARD FOR CORPORATE IRRESPONSIBLITY GOES TO... TACO BELL!! (ORLANDO, 4/1/01) Actual quote from prize presentation speech: "We have chosen as the first ever recipient of this award a corporation that has truly risen head and shoulders above the crowd, a corporation that we are sure you will recognize by its achievements, a corporation that... * >> Read More

San Francisco Labor Council Endorses the Taco Bell Boycott

Posted on April 1, 2001October 15, 2020 by CIW

WHEREAS, On April 1st, 2001, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), Florida called for a nation-wide boycott of Taco Bell, following more than a year of denied requests for dialogue with Taco Bell to discuss means to improve the working conditions and pay-rates of the workers who provide Taco Bell with tomatoes; and WHEREAS, farm workers who pick tomatoes as >> Read More

Taco Bell Piñata Party III – Orlando

Posted on April 1, 2001October 15, 2020 by CIW

Piñata Party III - Orlando In the grand tradition of Pinata Party I (Tallahassee) and Pinata Party II (Miami), the Orlando protest (April 1, 2001) included some of the most spirited pinata action to date. Here below is some of that action caught on film. Enjoy! The unsuspecting Dinky pinata moments before the party... The party begins... >> Read More

FIRST ANNUAL CIW GOLDEN BUCKET AWARD FOR CORPORATE IRRESPONSIBLITY

Posted on April 1, 2001October 15, 2020 by CIW