Students, youth set to gather in massive strategy session for the Wendy’s Boycott, Boot the Braids Campaign…
The Campaign for Fair Food has hit its mid-summer stride, building off the breaking news from the Wendy’s shareholder meeting that the fast-food giant would bow to consumer pressure and pull its purchases from Mexico, turning instead to the U.S. and Canadian greenhouse markets to source its tomatoes. Animated by this significant breakthrough in the national Wendy’s Boycott – but conscious that there’s still more work to be done to bring Wendy’s into the Fair Food Program – boycott organizers from the Student/Farmworker Alliance are already looking towards the fall.
And with each fall comes one of the most exciting moments of the Campaign for Fair Food’s yearly calendar: the SFA Encuentro, a high-energy gathering of nearly 80 students and young people who spend a weekend skill-building, strategizing, and deepening their commitment to stand with farmworkers in Immokalee. Here’s the invitation from the Student/Farmworker Alliance:
APPLICATION IS LIVE FOR THE 2018 STUDENT/FARMWORKER ALLIANCE ENCUENTRO: HASTA LA RAÍZ “DOWN TO THE ROOT,” SET FOR SEPTEMBER 20-23 IN IMMOKALEE, FL!
This year, 2018, marks 25 years since the birth of the CIW’s historic struggle to uproot generations of exploitation in the fields. This farmworker-led organization has transformed labor conditions for tens of thousands of workers in the U.S. agricultural industry through the Fair Food Program, creating an international blueprint to eradicate and prevent abuses, from wage theft to sexual assault, in the workplace.
But this work was not done alone. Together with farmworkers, students, young people and community allies have strategized and organized to bring corporation after corporation to the negotiating table with CIW.
This year’s Encuentro gathering will go Hasta la Raíz “Down to the Root” of this incredible history to reflect on lessons CIW and SFA have drawn from past victories and build upon them as the Wendy’s Boycott surges on with more force than ever before...
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