The last two weeks have gone by in a blur. Between recovering from the exhausting, five-day Freedom Fast and navigating the flood of media that ensued when the Wendy’s Boycott unexpectedly went viral last week (thanks to Wendy’s outrageous claim that farmworker women were “exploiting” the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements), we’ve hardly had a chance to catch our breath here at CIW headquarters since returning from New York City. Among the many things lost in the post-fast flood: the Freedom Fast Media Round-Up, our effort to capture and convey the full breadth of coverage of the five-day protest at the heart of the country’s largest city. And the coverage was indeed impressive. With stories in major national outlets like Newsweek, reports in New York’s own local powerhouses like the Village Voice, and even a video recap of the huge culminating march in Mexico’s leading progressive news outlet, La Jornada (below), the farmworkers’ week of action in New York made national and international headlines:
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