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“On Common Ground”: CIW, faith leaders come together in NYC for “an extraordinary conversation”…

Posted on February 6, 2019October 15, 2020 by CIW

Campaign for Fair Food event in New York brings together theologians, farm labor human rights activists in what by all accounts was a moving evening of reflection... On Monday, January 28, faith allies packed into Wallace Hall at St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church on Park Avenue in New York – a dozen or so blocks north and a million >> Read More

Media round-up! Wendy’s Boycott making news from California to New Jersey…

Posted on May 17, 2018October 15, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_28482" align="aligncenter" width="689"] B'nai Keshet Synagogue Hebrew School student Elliot Morley, 12, with his parents Alan Morley and Carol Schlitt, and interested customer Deron Braxton of Bloomfield, NJ delivers letter to local Wendy’s manager on Saturday, April 28, 2018. PHOTO BY ADAM ANIK OF MONTCLAIR LOCAL[/caption] Cal State East Bay ethnic studies professor: "Wendy’s doesn’t really care how tomatoes >> Read More

Wendy’s Board Chairman and billionaire investor Nelson Peltz to rabbis: “I have plenty of rabbis in my life…”

Posted on June 9, 2017October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_26304" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A delegation of rabbis from T'ruah: A Rabbinic Call for Human Rights in the main lobby of the offices of Wendy's Board Chairman, Nelson Peltz, in Manhattan this past Monday[/caption]Rabbis to Peltz: "Mr. Peltz had better prepare himself to have more and more rabbis in his life."T'ruah: "Each day that you continue to turn your back >> Read More

From the “Things that Make You Go Hmmm” Department…

Posted on January 9, 2017October 16, 2020 by CIW

Wendy's caught up in bizarre anti-semitic meme scandal... T'ruah (The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights) calls on burger giant to publicly "reject designation as official burger of Neo Nazis"... An exceedingly strange bit of news came across the Campaign for Fair Food's radar screen last week when word of Wendy's use of a well-known racist hate symbol (known as "Pepe >> Read More

“Plant righteousness for yourselves, harvest the fruits of goodness.” (10:12)…

Posted on December 28, 2016October 16, 2020 by CIW

[caption id="attachment_22085" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Fair Food Program education session in South Georgia, June 2015[/caption]"Tomato Rabbi" Rachel Kahn-Troster of T'ruah pens a powerful Chanukah reflection on the Fair Food Program... Writing on the first night of Chanukah, Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster (Director of Programs of the CIW's long-time ally T'ruah: Rabbinic Call for Human Rights) took to the pages of the Interfaith Worker Justice >> Read More

National religious leaders visit CIW, fields, learn first-hand about the Fair Food Program!

Posted on November 21, 2016October 16, 2020 by Coalition of Immokalee Workers

[caption id="attachment_25004" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Rabbi leaders from T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights visit Fair Food Program farm in Florida[/caption]Leaders of Presbyterian Church (USA), T'ruah bear witness to transformative changes underway in FL agricultural industry thanks to the Fair Food movement, commit to spread Wendy's Boycott nationally...Over the past six weeks, we’ve brought you reports from the Fair Food odyssey that was >> Read More

Modern Farmer article traces history of Fair Food movement…

Posted on December 18, 2015August 27, 2020 by CIW

Modern Farmer magazine: Fair Food Program uses "smart logic" by creating "an incentive to [do the right thing], and a consequence if you don't..." This month, an excellent article by James Beard Award-winning author Tracie McMillan ("The American Way of Eating") was published in the well-circulated American quarterly magazine, Modern Farmer. Titled "Labor Gains," the article traces the twenty-year arc of the Fair Food movement and >> 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

You can run, but you can’t hide from Fair Food! Part II…

Posted on July 15, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="#TomatoRabbis storm the castle!" url="https://ciw-online.org/"] Rabbinic delegation visits Wendy's Chairman Nelson Peltz at his Park Avenue office, demands answers on human rights and the Fair Food Program... Last week we brought you the story of a live TV interview that took a surprising turn when CNBC reporter Jane Wells decided to grill Wendy's CEO Emil Brolick on why the company continues to >> Read More

Religious leaders around the country call on Wendy’s: “Lead Wendy’s to be a part of the common good…”

Posted on June 4, 2014October 16, 2020 by CIW

[hupso_hide][hupso title="60+ religious leaders call on @Wendys: Lead Wendys to be a part of the common good..." url="https://ciw-online.org/"] "We've witnessed the powerful partnerships between workers, growers and corporations, whose collaboration is transforming an industry once mired in slavery to one now founded on dignity and respect..." The campaign to shepherd Wendy's into the growing Fair Food movement continued to gain momentum >> Read More