Sunday, November 09, 2014

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From Florida to Denver, Wendy’s hears from a fed up Fair Food Nation…
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With the fall picking season just around the corner, farmworkers in Immokalee and Fair Food activists across the country crank up creative Wendy’s actions…
Between farmworkers returning to Florida for the start of the new harvest season and allies in cooler climes taking to the streets for vibrant Fair Food protests, it is safe to say that fall is finally here!  And after three great Wendy’s actions last week, you can be fairly certain that the fast food giant is also sensing a change in the air.
The always inspiring Denver Fair Food, pictured above, took advantage of the Day of the Dead holiday to put together a colorful Wendy’s action in Colorado; T’ruah’s “Tomato Rabbis” headed to Wendy’s in Naples, Florida, to make their voices heard during a multi-day exchange with the CIW; and Ohio Fair Food hit up Wendy’s headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, to take the fast food chain to task for failing to support farmworker women’s rights.  We’ve prepared a brief report from all these high-energy actions:
First up: #TomatoRabbis visit Immokalee…
T’ruah — the “Rabbinic Call for Human Rights (that) brings together rabbis and cantors from all streams of Judaism, together with all members of the Jewish community, to act on the Jewish imperative to respect and advance the human rights of all people” — brought a delegation of rabbis to Immokalee last week for an extended visit with the CIW and a tour of the Fair Food Program...
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