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4 million-member-strong anti-slavery leader Walk Free enters the fray in Wendy’s campaign!

Posted on October 10, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#antislavery leader @WalkFree launches e-action calling on @Wendys to join #FairFoodNation!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=16713"] International anti-slavery giant Walk Free launches e-action calling on Wendy's to "sign the Fair Food Agreement now and help end slavery forever in Florida’s tomato fields." The Australia-based anti-slavery organization Walk Free -- which boasts a community of over 4 million members -- wrote a novel email >> Read More

ACTION ALERT! Food Sovereignty Prize Winners team up with CIW in New York…

Posted on October 7, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@Wendys picket for farmworker justice in #NYC! Join @CIW & #foodsovprize winners @ Union Sq, 1PM" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=16699"] Wendy's Picket for Farmworker Justice in the Big Apple! Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 1 PMUnion Square (14th Street), NYC Next week, the CIW is headed to NYC to accept the Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute's 2013 Four Freedoms Medal. As the CIW >> Read More

Student/Farmworker Alliance Encuentro 2013 puts focus on Wendys, Publix!

Posted on September 16, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title=".@sfalliance #Encuentro2013 puts focus on @Wendys, @Publix!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=16386"] Students, youth gather for a weekend of planning, convivio with workers in Immokalee... Last weekend, a storied tradition unfolded once again as the Student/Farmworker Alliance convened it's 9th Annual Encuentro in Immokalee. Students and young people hailing from twenty states across the nation converged in the birthplace of the Campaign for Fair >> Read More

Week of Action wrap up: Wendy’s customers fed up with injustice!

Posted on August 20, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

The ever-creative corners of the Campaign for Fair Food share some final messages for Wendy's from the big Week of Action! The Wendy's Week of Action is a wrap, and the Fair Food nation has sent its message loud and clear: Wendy's, we're fed up with the same old injustice every day, we want Fair Food, and we want it >> Read More

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

Posted on August 13, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

[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

Fair Food Nation brings summer heat to Wendy’s!

Posted on August 9, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

Carmen Esquivel, CIW: "For us, one cent more is another spoonful of food in the pot to be able to feed our families." Fox 4 TV Wendy's Week of Action takes off with high energy actions across the country!... Consumers and farmworkers across the country officially launched the Wendy's Week of Action with three phenomenal protests on Saturday, August 3rd, with >> Read More

Wendy’s Week of Action (August 3-11) has begun!

Posted on August 4, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_15462" align="aligncenter" width="523"] As part of their annual conference last week in Los Angeles, over 100 leaders from Rooted in Community, the national grassroots network that empowers young people to take leadership in their own communities, "delivered a letter to the manager of Wendy's asking them to come to the table to discuss paying more money per pound so >> Read More

Wendy’s Week of Action is right around the corner! Take part this August 3-11 and tell Wendy’s to get with the (Fair Food) program…

Posted on July 29, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

Above, the Student/Farmworker Alliance flyer mobilizing members across the country for the upcoming week of action borrows an image from the Taco Bell boycott days. Find an action near you! Ann Arbor, MI: Margaret, mgleeson21@gmail.com Asheville, NC : Claire, claire@interfaithact.org Chicago, IL: Meghan, meghan@sfalliance.org Columbus, OH: Ohio Fair Food, ohiofairfood@gmail.com Denver, CO: Lani, barry.lani@gmail.com Estero, FL: Jordan, jordan@interfaithact.org Louisville, KY: >> Read More

Sabor a sudor…

Posted on July 19, 2013October 16, 2020 by editor

Farmworker families, South Florida allies join forces for spirited picket outside Publix's new store aimed at Latino market in Miami's Little Havana! Publix is making a play for Florida's massive Latino market, but the company's refusal to support farmworkers' human rights through the CIW's Fair Food Program might just come back to haunt the Lakeland-based grocery giant. On the heels >> Read More

Quaker youth to Wendy’s: “What does your heart call upon you to do?”…

Posted on July 8, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

Over 150 Quaker youth, adults march together on Wendy's at national gathering in Colorado, demand Fair Food! On the eve of Independence Day, Quaker youth from around the country organized a free civics lesson for the executives who run Wendy's -- the same executives who, just weeks ago, justified their decision to reject the CIW's Fair Food Program by calling the Program >> Read More