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Friday, February 23, 2018
Boston! Get on the bus to NYC!-Protest Wendys' With The Farmworkers
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is gearing up for what is sure to be another memorable action in the Wendy's boycott.
Farmworkers from Immokalee, together with their consumer allies, are launching the five-day Freedom Fast outside the Manhattan hedge fund offices of Nelson Peltz, Wendy’s largest shareholder and Chair of its Board of Directors. The Fast will demand that Wendy’s join the rest of the fast-food industry in supporting the Fair Food Program’s groundbreaking worker protections, and will protest the ongoing human rights abuses faced by workers in Mexico’s produce industry where Wendy’s currently buys its tomatoes.
The Freedom Fast will then culminate with a massive march on March 15 in the heart of Manhattan.
Interested in coming to NYC to support? Register for the bus coming to the action from Boston!
Some quick details:
The Boston bus will be leaving Wednesday, March 14 at 11:00am.
We'll be returning to Boston late at night the same day.
With 14 multinational corporations on board with the Fair Food Program, we know that allies like people of faith and student have played a critical role supporting farmworkers in their struggle. Now is the time -- we need you there with us.
For years now, Wendy’s has turned a deaf ear to workers’ and consumers’ calls to join the Fair Food Program. Worse yet, in response to pressure to join the FFP, Wendy’s abandoned its longtime Florida tomato suppliers altogether and shifted its purchases instead to Mexico, where sexual harassment and assault in the fields are endemic and farmworker women are intimidated into silence by a culture of fear, violence, and corruption.
The time is up for corporate leaders, like Mr. Peltz, who have the power to end sexual violence against women in their supply chains and yet, do nothing. For market giants like Wendy’s, refusing to take meaningful action to end sexual violence in the supply chain — when a proven solution is right at their fingertips — is no longer an option.
PS, if you're no longer in Boston, whoops!Here's a page with all the buses: Ann Arbor, Columbus, Boston, Providence, New Haven, Washington DC, Chapel Hill NC, Miami, Ft Meyers, Naples, Tampa, Gainesville, Sarasota!
Additionally, if none of these places are where you are, but you want to organize a caravan, contact us at organize@allianceforfairfood.org
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