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ACTION ROUND-UP: Farmworkers, students and religious allies rally for farmworker justice in Sarasota, Philadelphia, and Miami!

ACTION ROUND-UP: Farmworkers, students and religious allies rally for farmworker justice in Sarasota, Philadelphia, and Miami!

[caption id="attachment_29270" align="aligncenter" width="800"] 100+ students protest alongside farmworkers in Miami, Florida, during a series of November protests in the national Wendy's Boycott.[/caption] CIW's Nely Rodriguez in Miami: "What we are asking is that Wendy’s stop abandoning human rights protections for farmworkers, that they don’t tolerate sexual harassment of women, and that we all move forward with this new day >> Read More
ACTION ALERT: Student/Farmworker Alliance announces “Pulling Back the Curtain on Wendy’s” Week of Action, Oct. 22-28!

ACTION ALERT: Student/Farmworker Alliance announces “Pulling Back the Curtain on Wendy’s” Week of Action, Oct. 22-28!

Today, we bring you big news from the Student/Farmworker Alliance, the ever-growing, national network of students and young people who have been keeping the heat cranked up on Wendy's all year long!  This week, students announced their October National Week of Action, with the theme of "Pulling Back the Curtain on Wendy's".  So mark your calendars, Fair Food Nation, because >> Read More
“Where shooting is a pleasure”:  Parkland students put Publix in the hot seat for political contributions to “NRA sellout”…

“Where shooting is a pleasure”: Parkland students put Publix in the hot seat for political contributions to “NRA sellout”…

  Parkland students notch another victory in fight for common sense gun reform with protest at Florida grocer Publix; Publix's pledge to "never knowingly disappoint our customers or the communities we serve" prompts cries of hypocrisy, calls for supermarket giant to drop resistance and join the Fair Food Program... Last week, Florida's "hometown grocer," Publix, found itself trending on Twitter — >> Read More
Brown U student leader takes Wendy’s to task in forceful call to action…

Brown U student leader takes Wendy’s to task in forceful call to action…

[caption id="attachment_28185" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Students join over 2,000 protesters in New York City last month in the Time's Up Wendy's March[/caption] Brown U student, Natalie Lerner: "... it is on us as students, young people, and daily consumers to say that we will not stand for sexual assault on our campus or in the fields... We must elevate real, enforceable >> Read More

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

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

THIS WEEK: 60+ student and youth leaders converge on Immokalee for annual Encuentro!

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret MeadWith Labor Day weekend in the rearview mirror, the summer of 2017 is officially over and fall is in the air.  On college campuses across the country, that can only mean one thing: The students are back into town! >> Read More

Extra, extra! Student/Farmworker Alliance Encuentro gathering in Immokalee set for September 7-10…

This fall, scores of students, youth to descend on Immokalee for weekend of strategy in Wendy's Boycott!For more than a decade, the Student/Farmworker Alliance, a nationwide network of hundreds of students and youth, has harnessed the action and energy of young people to provide unwavering dedication to farmworkers' basic human rights.  And yet, it seems that when it comes to the Wendy's Boycott, young >> 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

“Voluntary codes like the one promulgated by Wendy’s are too often little more than a sham…”

International labor rights expert James Brudney pens powerful op/ed for OSU campus newspaper comparing Fair Food Program and Wendy's corporate code of conduct; On the FFP: "Twenty-five years ago, few observers in this country would have thought that what CIW and FFP have accomplished was conceivable... The FFP and CIW have secured basic labor standards protections for tens of thousands of tomato >> Read More

“We are called to honor human dignity for all, to honor the dignity of work…”

[caption id="attachment_26013" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Barry University students pledge to join the Wendy's Boycott and the national student fast.[/caption]Dozens of students from Catholic universities join rolling student fast, call on Ohio State University President Michael Drake to keep his word to OSU students and help protect farmworkers' fundamental human rights!Just as Vanderbilt students broke their 7-day fast earlier this week, dozens of >> Read More