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Fair Food Nation comes together to celebrate International Women’s Day in style with massive march demanding Ohio State University “Boot the Braids”!

Fair Food Nation comes together to celebrate International Women’s Day in style with massive march demanding Ohio State University “Boot the Braids”!

International Women's Day has long been a highlight in the Campaign for Fair Food's annual organizing calendar.  Year after year after year, workers from Immokalee and their Fair Food allies have marked March 8th with creative and deeply moving reflections and actions.  2019 would prove to be no exception.  Again this year, a new chapter was added to that growing >> Read More
PART 1: Ohio State University and the 4 for Fair Food Tour

PART 1: Ohio State University and the 4 for Fair Food Tour

[caption id="attachment_25695" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Ohio State University student fasters at the culmination of their seven-day fast in March 2017.[/caption] On International Women's Day, Ohio State University students will join with farmworkers to march on the president’s office and demand an end to Wendy's contract following years of broken promises by President Michael Drake... Today we bring you the first of >> Read More
U of Michigan Report: “The Fair Food Program is the most comprehensive social responsibility program in the U.S.”

U of Michigan Report: “The Fair Food Program is the most comprehensive social responsibility program in the U.S.”

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Students from the University of Michigan protest outside of the campus Wendy’s, urging passing students to join the national boycott last spring.[/caption] The Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights’ recommendation to the University of Michigan President: “Become a signatory of the Fair Food Program.” Meanwhile, UMich and Ohio State students team up to Boycott Wendy's at >> Read More

PHOTO REPORT: Students nationwide give Wendy’s an “F” for failing to respect farmworker women!

[caption id="attachment_27061" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Students from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill march to the on-campus Wendy's as a part of last week's "Wendy's you're failing farmworker women" Student Week of Action[/caption]Last week, the Student/Farmworker Alliance turned up the heat on Wendy’s with the “Wendy’s, You’re Failing Farmworker Women” national Week of Action!  The high-energy week was kicked off >> Read More

Part Two: “We are not victims — we are not asking for charity, we are calling for justice!”

[caption id="attachment_27009" align="aligncenter" width="600"] CIW's Nely Rodriguez addresses 70+ allies from Columbus in front of Wendy's Headquarters, holding aloft a quilt created by the farmworker women of Immokalee.[/caption]Farmworker Women to Wendy's executives: "We want to work with dignity in the fields."Last Sunday, farmworkers stood alongside religious leaders from across the city of Columbus, Wendy's hometown, for a moving interfaith service >> Read More

A chilling reminder of farm labor conditions in Mexico: 80 farmworkers go missing after reporting labor abuses in the state of Chihuahua…

[caption id="attachment_20791" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Farmworkers are transported to the fields crowded into the back of a truck in Mexico's tomato fields in a photo from the Los Angeles Times' devastating 2014 exposé on labor conditions in the Mexican produce industry.[/caption]Meanwhile, at last month's annual meeting, Wendy's execs tell shareholders concerned about labor rights abuses that the company is "perfectly happy with >> Read More

A Profile in Cowardice…

President Drake, OSU Administration take a stand against students, faculty, faith leaders, international labor rights experts and farmworkers to renew Wendy's contract for three more years; Administration waits until school year over, students safely at home, to announce decision; Students call for Fair Food Nation to join national call-in action to President Drake's office today! Last Thursday, Amanda Ferguson, an OSU >> Read More

PHOTO REPORT: Nationwide student fast keeps rolling!

New College, Valencia College students break five-day fast, vow to continue the Campaign:  "This University will continue to fight for the rights of farmworkers, and for all human rights"...Students at Vanderbilt, University of Tampa, Eckerd College and University of South Florida take up the torch as national rolling student fast for farmworker justice continues!After five long days of fasting -- an act >> Read More

OSU and Wendy’s: Taking stock of a troubled relationship…

  Or if you prefer your proverbs biblical, "Do not be deceived: Bad company corrupts good character." (1 Corinthians, 15:33) After Wendy's latest public relations play, OSU administration must decide how far it will allow its fast-food partner to drag a proud university down into the mud... Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac is generally credited with popularizing the colorful aphorism, "He that lieth down with the >> Read More