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Inequality.org: “Power is at the crux of the Fair Food Program”…

Posted on March 7, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

CIW's Gerardo Reyes: “Nelson Peltz is a key player within the structure of Wendy’s. He’s the president of a hedge fund called Trian Partners... They invest a lot of money, profit a lot, and have a lot of power. But they refuse to use it. So we are going to their headquarters to ask them to exercise their power in >> Read More

ORGANIZING REPORT: New York City gets fired up for the Freedom Fast!

Posted on March 5, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Actress Erika Alexander sends a message to Wendy's: Join the Fair Food Program! Award-winning playwright Eve Ensler to farmworkers preparing to fast: "Keep going, brave, beautiful women. I am with you, and all of us at V-Day and One Billion Rising - countless activists around the world - stand with you today, rising in the name of justice for all >> Read More

REGISTER NOW: The Freedom Fast and Time’s Up Wendy’s March are coming!

Posted on January 30, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

A beautiful flyer, a brand-new website with all the details, and a list of caravans from around the country... we've got what you need to join the CIW's major spring action in New York City, March 11-15! It is that time of year: An advance organizing crew from Immokalee has settled into the Big Apple, the site of this year's >> Read More

ANNOUNCED: Farmworkers to hold 5-Day “Freedom Fast,” March 11-15, outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz!

Posted on December 20, 2017October 15, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_27079" align="aligncenter" width="500"] CIW members and allies gather at the ceremony breaking their weeklong fast outside Publix headquarters in 2012. The fast was featured in the James Beard Award-winning film "Food Chains".[/caption] Demanding freedom from sexual violence and slavery in the fields where Wendy's buys its tomatoes, farmworkers from Immokalee and their allies will hold "Freedom Fast"! Fast will take >> Read More

Univision: “In Mexico’s fields, farmworkers live as if they were slaves every day”…

Posted on December 12, 2017October 15, 2020 by CIW

Human rights report: "In addition there is organized crime. In the last decade, more than 200 farmworkers have disappeared in this country without a trace." What does Wendy's have to say about its produce partner of choice? Not a thing... When the CIW announced its call for a national boycott of fast-food giant Wendy's on March 5th, 2016, in New York >> Read More

Looking for fresh gift ideas this holiday season? Give the gift of human rights!

Posted on December 8, 2017October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[smartslider3 slider="16"] Click on any of the images above to make your holiday gift purchase today! The 2017 Fair Food Holiday Gift Guide is here! Find all the very latest in books and posters on the Fair Food Program, beautiful Campaign for Fair Food t-shirts, and original holiday e-cards... Not sure what to get your family and friends this holiday season? Tired >> Read More

MEDIA ROUND-UP: From NYC to Palm Beach, Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz’s hometown papers lift up Fair Food…

Posted on December 6, 2017October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Following protests in New York City and West Palm Beach, national and local news shine spotlight on Wendy's refusal to join the Fair Food Program and do its part to support efforts to end sexual violence against women in the fields... Last Sunday afternoon, farmworker women and their families, alongside South Florida allies, kept a fall season of action rolling with a protest at >> Read More

U of Michigan Report: “The Fair Food Program is the most comprehensive social responsibility program in the U.S.”

Posted on December 4, 2017October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Students from the University of Michigan protest outside of the campus Wendy’s, urging passing students to join the national boycott last spring.[/caption] The Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights’ recommendation to the University of Michigan President: “Become a signatory of the Fair Food Program.” Meanwhile, UMich and Ohio State students team up to Boycott Wendy's at >> Read More

CIW’s Lupe Gonzalo on Nelson Peltz refusal to meet following massive march in NYC: “This was not as simple as refusing a group of people…”

Posted on November 23, 2017October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

“... It was an acceptance of the violence and sexual harassment that continues to happen in the fields.” PHOTO REPORT: 250+ march to the New York offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz to demand an end to sexual violence against women farmworkers! During Manhattan’s packed rush hour on Monday evening, well over two hundred consumer allies from around New >> Read More

TODAY: Stand with farmworker women by calling Wendy’s Board Chairman Nelson Peltz!

Posted on November 20, 2017October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_22933" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CIW members, Fair Food allies outside the office of Wendy's Board Chairman Nelson Peltz in New York City at the launch of the nationwide boycott in March of 2016.[/caption]CIW Women to Wendy's leadership: "We need Wendy’s to join its peers in order to expand these crucial, life-changing gains to the hundreds of thousands of farmworker women who >> Read More