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TODAY: 19 students from Ohio State University, community members from Columbus launch weeklong fast!

Posted on March 20, 2017October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Student/Farmworker Alliance: OSU students, Columbus community launch national call for solidarity as they begin weeklong fast to Boot the Braids!Earlier this month, we shared a breaking announcement of a major escalation in the Wendy's Boycott: Students from The Ohio State University and community members from across Columbus declared that they would launch a weeklong fast in the lead up to the Parade for Fair Food >> Read More

National boycott takes center stage at Wendy’s annual shareholder meeting!

Posted on May 31, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Consumers to Wendy's leadership, shareholders: "It is time for Wendy’s to commit to justice and human rights — to choose meaningful and verifiable rights protections for the workers who pick your tomatoes, rather than continue to uphold a meaningless code of conduct that allows slavery to flourish..."Last Thursday, the Fair Food Nation descended on Dublin, Ohio, the small midwestern town >> Read More

“Tear down the wall!”…

Posted on July 23, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title="Tear down the wall! @DisciplesGA leaders march on @Wendy's in Columbus, OH!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/07/tear-down-the-wall/"]Over 100 Disciples of Christ (Christian Church) leaders march on Wendy's in Columbus, Ohio, call on Wendy's to tear down the wall keeping the fast-food leader from joining the top human rights program in the US food industry today!As announced last week, when leaders of the Disciples of Christ >> Read More

Press Release: “Farmworkers, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Leaders to Hold Vigil at Wendy’s to Urge Fast Food Giant to Join” Fair Food Program!

Posted on July 16, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title="Farmworkers, Disciples of Christ to hold vigil for farmworker justice, call on @Wendy's to join the @FairFoodProgram" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/07/disciples-of-christ-vigil/"][caption id="attachment_22072" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CIW members and allies gather earlier this summer outside Wendy's shareholder meeting in Dublin, Ohio.[/caption]"Wendy's stands alone as the only major fast food chain refusing to join a program described on the front page of the New York >> Read More

Kroger executives reject Fair Food Program (again), offer yet more empty answers at annual shareholder meeting…

Posted on June 29, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title=".@Kroger executives reject @FairFoodProgram (again) at Annual Shareholder Meeting" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/06/kroger-shareholder/"]Kroger CEO: “We expect all our suppliers... to follow our strict code of conduct...”Farmworkers and their consumer allies have attended countless shareholder meetings over the years, from the very first shareholder actions back in the Taco Bell Boycott days, to the Wendy's annual meeting earlier this month in Dublin, Ohio. But no >> Read More

“Is Wendy’s ready to continue alienating young people and consumers rather than join a proven solution to farmworker poverty and abuse?” Ohio Fair Food takes its message straight to Wendy’s shareholders at annual meeting!

Posted on June 3, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title=".@OhioFairFood takes its message straight to @Wendys shareholders at annual meeting!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/06/wendys-shareholder/"] "We want to know that the food we consume does not come at the cost of another person’s dignity..." After weeks of preparation and building excitement, scores of allies from the Ohio Fair Food organizing network made good on their promise to stand alongside Florida's farmworkers this past Monday >> Read More

Ohio Fair Food to protest at Wendy’s Annual Shareholder Meeting!

Posted on May 29, 2015October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title=".@OhioFairFood to protest at @Wendys Annual Shareholder Meeting!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2015/05/wendys-shareholder-1/"] [caption id="attachment_22035" align="aligncenter" width="530"] 300-person march ahead of Wendy's shareholder meeting in 2013[/caption] Building on years of powerful actions, Fair Food allies gear up for fast food giant's annual meeting in Ohio... This week, Wendy's executives are busily preparing for their June 1st annual shareholder meeting, ready to welcome shareholders from across the country to >> Read More

From Florida to Denver, Wendy’s hears from a fed up Fair Food Nation…

Posted on November 7, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso title="From #FL to #Denver, @Wendys hears from a fed up #FairFoodNation..." url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/11/wendys-protests/"] With the fall picking season just around the corner, farmworkers in Immokalee and Fair Food activists across the country crank up creative Wendy's actions... Between farmworkers returning to Florida for the start of the new harvest season and allies in cooler climes taking to the streets for vibrant Fair Food protests, >> Read More

Ohio Freedom School scholars take up the Fair Food banner!

Posted on August 21, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#Ohio Freedom School scholars take up #FairFood banner!" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/08/ohio-freedom-scholars"] 40+ youth march through streets of Columbus to local Wendy's, are barred from entering store... From the Tour de Fair Food in Denver earlier this month to July's convergence of young food justice leaders in Albuquerque, young consumers across the country have taken to the streets this summer to send a message to Wendy's: We care about poverty and exploitation behind the >> Read More

Kroger slams door on human rights at shareholder meeting in Cincinnati!

Posted on June 30, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="FULL REPORT: @Kroger slams the door on #humanrights!" url="https://ciw-online.org/"] CIW delegation turned away despite holding legitimate proxies; 100 stage impromptu march on Kroger headquarters to protest workers' extraordinary exclusion from supermarket giant's annual shareholder meeting... No one saw that coming. Since the days of the Taco Bell boycott in the early 2000's, members of the CIW and their allies have >> Read More