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TODAY: Stand with farmworker women by calling Wendy’s Board Chairman Nelson Peltz!

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[caption id="attachment_22933" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CIW members, Fair Food allies outside the office of Wendy's Board Chairman Nelson Peltz in New York City at the launch of the nationwide boycott in March of 2016.[/caption]CIW Women to Wendy's leadership:  "We need Wendy’s to join its peers in order to expand these crucial, life-changing gains to the hundreds of thousands of farmworker women who >> Read More

Starting today (Friday, 11/10), the Harvest without Violence Campaign hits New York City!

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Farmworker women take fight to end sexual violence to the doorstep of Wendy's Board Chair, Nelson Peltz...CIW Women's Group to remind Peltz of his fellow CEO's words of warning (Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook):  “If you know something is happening and you fail to take action, whether you are a man or a woman — especially when you are in power — you are >> Read More

Part One: CIW Women’s Group Harvest without Violence Tour arrives in Columbus!

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Farmworkers debut new Harvest without Violence Mobile Exhibit, join forces with religious leaders from across Columbus, ahead of protest at Wendy's corporate headquarters... This past weekend, the CIW Women's Group, accompanied by CIW members and allies, rolled into Columbus, Ohio, on the first of two Harvest without Violence Tours.  The ensuing days were a whirlwind of consumer education and action in support >> Read More

ACTION ALERT: “Wendy’s, You’re Failing Farmworker Women” National Week of Action, Oct. 21-28!

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Students step up to the plate, fight side-by-side with farmworker women to end sexual violence in Wendy's supply chain!Right up until the final days of last spring semester, Wendy's unconscionable decision to shift its tomato purchases to Mexico rather than participate in the Fair Food Program had students across the country up in arms.  Between the historic rolling Fast for Farmworker Justice and the colorful >> Read More