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Thursday, March 08, 2018
ACTION ALERT: This International Women’s Day, 5 ways to support next week’s Freedom Fast…
ACTION ALERT: This International Women’s Day, 5 ways to support next week’s Freedom Fast…
In just three days, nearly 100 farmworkers and allies will set up camp outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz on Park Avenue in the heart of Manhattan. They will gather there to launch a five-day fast to protest Wendy’s unconscionable failure to join the rest of the fast-food industry in fighting sexual violence against women in its tomato supply chain by joining the Fair Food Program.
In preparation for next week’s action, the Fair Food organizing team in New York City has been putting the final touches on the Freedom Fast’s exciting schedule of activities and tallying commitments from local community organizations, women’s rights advocates, unions, students and faith-based groups for the Time’s Up Wendy’s Marchnext Thursday at 5 p.m. at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza. Wrapping up the intensive month-long organizing effort, CIW members Lupe Gonzalo, Julia de la Cruz and Oscar Otzoy will be participating in the NYC leg of the International Women’s Strike this evening, which, in support of the national Wendy’s Boycott, will feature its very own Wendy’s stop along the route of its massive march through Lower Manhattan!
Today, in celebration of the global struggle for women’s liberation, you can make your own commitment to support farmworkers and allies fasting to eradicate sexual violence in the fields! We have assembled a list of five ways you can join thousands of people from across the country in raising the Fair Food banner in the name of farmworker women’s rights! ...
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