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Coalition of Immokalee Workers > Wendy's boycott

“We are called to honor human dignity for all, to honor the dignity of work…”

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[caption id="attachment_26013" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Barry University students pledge to join the Wendy's Boycott and the national student fast.[/caption]Dozens of students from Catholic universities join rolling student fast, call on Ohio State University President Michael Drake to keep his word to OSU students and help protect farmworkers' fundamental human rights!Just as Vanderbilt students broke their 7-day fast earlier this week, dozens of >> Read More

Roll on! University of Notre Dame, Georgetown University, John Carroll University to join national student fast…

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[caption id="attachment_25974" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Student fasters at the University of Notre Dame, who will join Georgetown University and John Carroll University in a rolling fast of Catholic Universities this week.[/caption]Students at several of country's largest Catholic universities unite to announce series of rolling 48-hour fasts throughout this week! PLUS:  Read the reflections of Vanderbilt, Tampa Bay, Ohio State students as they come >> Read More

As rolling student fast enters second month, Vanderbilt students answer the call loud and clear!

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Like Tampa area fast, Vanderbilt action snowballs, doubles within days of launch and catches the attention of University administration, local media...Following yesterday's exciting news of the series of 3-day fasts rolling through university campuses in the Tampa Bay region -- and of the critical call to action from students at OSU -- we have yet another inspiring update today, this time from >> Read More

PHOTO REPORT: Nationwide student fast keeps rolling!

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
New College, Valencia College students break five-day fast, vow to continue the Campaign:  "This University will continue to fight for the rights of farmworkers, and for all human rights"...Students at Vanderbilt, University of Tampa, Eckerd College and University of South Florida take up the torch as national rolling student fast for farmworker justice continues!After five long days of fasting -- an act >> Read More

“Keep your word! Cut the contract with Wendy’s!” OSU students take demands to Board of Trustees meeting!

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[caption id="attachment_25643" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Student fasters protest in front of Wendy's Headquarters during the Return to Human Rights Tour last month.[/caption]PLUS: Students at New College of Florida begin five-day fast in solidarity with OSU's Boot the Braids campaign!Last month, farmworkers from Immokalee and hundreds of allies converged on Columbus, Ohio, for a major mobilization and parade at the peak of the Return >> Read More

OSU and Wendy’s: Taking stock of a troubled relationship…

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  Or if you prefer your proverbs biblical, "Do not be deceived: Bad company corrupts good character." (1 Corinthians, 15:33) After Wendy's latest public relations play, OSU administration must decide how far it will allow its fast-food partner to drag a proud university down into the mud... Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac is generally credited with popularizing the colorful aphorism, "He that lieth down with the >> Read More

VIDEO: The Return to Human Rights Tour returns to Florida and a huge final march and rally at Tampa Wendy’s, Publix!

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Farmworkers, students, religious leaders, union members and everyday consumers let Wendy's, Publix know that the fight for Fair Food only grows stronger the longer they hold out...Yesterday, in the final action of the 14-day, 14-city Return to Human Rights Tour, nearly 300 Floridians converged in Tampa, Florida, to welcome the Coalition of Immokalee Workers home with a massive rally and march from the Publix >> Read More

National religious leaders stand with the OSU fasters: “The student fast taking place at OSU is an inspiring act of solidarity…”

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[caption id="attachment_25598" align="aligncenter" width="640"] One of 19 students on a weeklong fast on the campus of The Ohio State University[/caption]Declarations of support for student fasters at OSU flood in as fast enters Day 4: National Farm Worker Ministry, T'ruah, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee send blistering statements to Wendy's, OSU administration;CIW welcomed back to Chicago on Return to Human Rights Tour!We begin with an update >> Read More

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

Posted on by Coalition of Immokalee Workers
"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