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Boot the Braids!… Student-led Wendy’s campaign set to hit the road running this coming school year!

Posted on August 26, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="Immokalee prepares for #2014Encuentro! Students & youth from #FairFoodNation make plans for @Wendys this fall..." url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/08/encuentro/"] With the annual Student/Farmworker Alliance "Encuentro" just around the corner, student and youth leaders of the Fair Food Nation train their sights on Wendy's with an echo of the seminal "Boot the Bell" campus-based movement... [caption id="attachment_19941" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Members of the Student/Farmworker >> Read More

“Whether it’s two or two hundred, I’ll participate in every march until we win!”

Posted on March 14, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#Jacksonville to @Publix: Whether its 2 or 200, I'll participate in every march til we win..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18697"] Joined by students from the River City Science Academy and Jacksonvillians for Fair Food, CIW tour crew leads a march of 200+ from Wendy's to Publix down busy Jacksonville streets... [video mp4="https://ciw-online.org/wp-content/uploads/jacksonville_hp_420.mp4" webm="https://ciw-online.org/wp-content/uploads/jacksonville_hp_420.webm" ogg="https://ciw-online.org/wp-content/uploads/jacksonville_hp_420.ogv" poster="https://ciw-online.org/wp-content/uploads/Jacksonville_hp_poster_31.png" width="600" height="330" loop="true" controls="false" preload="true" skin="native" align="center"] >> Read More

Publix Truth Tour crew brings Fair Food gospel to Publix’s newest market, North Carolina!

Posted on October 1, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#PublixTruthTour brings #FairFoodNation to @Publix's newest market, NC!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=16538"] Educational swing through the Tar Heel state gets warm reception from student, faith, community and corporate allies... Over the course of four days in North Carolina -- days that took them on a whirlwind tour through Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, and Asheville -- the Publix Truth Tour crew met >> Read More

Fair Food Nation brings summer heat to Wendy’s!

Posted on August 9, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

Carmen Esquivel, CIW: "For us, one cent more is another spoonful of food in the pot to be able to feed our families." Fox 4 TV Wendy's Week of Action takes off with high energy actions across the country!... Consumers and farmworkers across the country officially launched the Wendy's Week of Action with three phenomenal protests on Saturday, August 3rd, with >> Read More

Wendy’s Week of Action (August 3-11) has begun!

Posted on August 4, 2013October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_15462" align="aligncenter" width="523"] As part of their annual conference last week in Los Angeles, over 100 leaders from Rooted in Community, the national grassroots network that empowers young people to take leadership in their own communities, "delivered a letter to the manager of Wendy's asking them to come to the table to discuss paying more money per pound so >> Read More

“Northeast Tour for Fair Food”

Posted on December 11, 2008October 15, 2020 by CIW

December 2 - 10, 2008 Day 9 - New York City [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="288"] On their last full day in NYC, the Tour crew visited some long-time allies -- the kids at St. Lukes school in the West Village, a school that, among other things, endeavors to help its students "become active, responsible, and contributing members of the school >> Read More

Notre Dame students visit their local arches…

Posted on October 15, 2006October 15, 2020 by CIW

Notre Dame students braved the elements and carried their message to South Bend McDonald's restaurants last week. Check out the pictures below!: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="252"] Notre Dame students gathered for a night of visits to South Bend McDonald's...[/caption] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="252"] Delivering the manager's letter (click here to download your copy now!) and discussing their concerns about labor >> Read More

Critical Analysis of the report, Economic Impact: Tomatoes in Florida, Report 1

Posted on April 30, 2006October 15, 2020 by CIW

produced by the Center for Reflection, Education and Action Bruce Nissen Director Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy (RISEP), Florida International University nissenb@fiu.edu 305-348-2616 The report Economic Impact: Tomatoes in Florida, Report 1 was commissioned by the McDonald’s Corporation and completed by the Center for Reflection, Education and Action (CREA) in April 2006. An examination of the conditions and >> Read More

STUDENT SOLIDARITY ACTIONS, NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER

Posted on March 24, 2006October 15, 2020 by CIW

STUDENT SOLIDARITY ACTIONS, NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, AND A FLOOD OF NEW AFF ENDORSEMENTS ON THE EVE OF THE 2006 TRUTH TOUR!... Click here for the Press Release for the National Day of Prayer. From a rush of new endorsements for the Alliance for Fair Food to plans for student and religious actions to support the CIW's 2006 McDonald's Truth >> Read More

SEPTEMBER 24th MARCH FOR PEACE IN WASHINGTON, DC — 500,000 STRONG!!

Posted on September 25, 2005October 15, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="288"] The CIW -- with a delegation more than 40 strong, including allies from the Student/Farmworker Alliance and Interfaith Action -- joined the historic March for Peace in Washington, DC, this past September 24th.There they marched with hundreds of thousands of Americans who came together from across the country -- and across all the many age, class, >> Read More