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Wendy’s Frosty! CIW, allies have tough questions for Wendy’s execs at annual shareholder meeting, get cold shoulder…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Wendys frosty! @CIW, alies bring tough questions at #shareholder meeting..." url="https://ciw-online.org"] Drama in Dublin... CIW to CEO Emil Brolick:  "Why would you deny your shareholders the opportunity for Wendy’s to be part of the premier program for corporate social responsibility in the nation?" Yesterday morning, the CIW and dozens of members of the amazing Ohio Fair Food joined Wendy's shareholders, >> Read More

An open letter to Wendy’s shareholders from the Campaign for Fair Food on the eve of the 2014 annual meeting…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Dear @Wendys shareholders..." url="https://ciw-online.org/"] Are you sure your company is on the right path?  Is standing against the tide of progress for farmworkers really worth another year of protests, bad press, and increasing public scrutiny?... Dear Wendy's shareholder, Tomorrow is the big annual meeting in Dublin, Ohio, your chance to hear from your company's executives and officers about the successes >> Read More

Ms. Foundation to Wendy’s: “Show the necessary leadership and sign a Fair Food Agreement”…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="#WomensRights champ @MsFoundation enters ring in @Wendys campaign! #FairFoodProgram " url="https://ciw-online.org/"] Today's open letter to Wendy's CEO Emil Brolick calls Fair Food Program "imperative to improving working conditions for women farmworkers who face sexual harassment and assault..." The Ms. Foundation for Women, the storied champion of women's rights and a longtime supporter of the Fair Food movement, stepped into the ring today on >> Read More

Mother’s Day brought the kids out in NYC, too, for an art-filled Wendy’s protest!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="#MothersDay brought out kids of #NYC, too!" url="https://ciw-online.org"] Midtown Workmen's Circle school kids put their art skills and love for social justice into action to call on Wendy's to join the Fair Food Program... The Midtown Workmen's Circle School is a New York City institution, part of a storied, nationwide Jewish organization founded in 1900.  Here's how they describe >> Read More

The Nation: “Why are students protesting Wendy’s and Publix?”…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="#NowIsTheTime Tour, #FairFoodProgram catch attention of @TheNation and @TakePart" url="https://ciw-online.org/?=18968"] Answers to that question and more, with all the latest press from the Fair Food front! Even as we gear up for what is sure to be an exciting April -- the month ahead is already overflowing with events, including the recently-announced screening of "Food Chains" at Tribeca, the CIW's visit >> Read More

Hundreds of Walk Free members call Wendy’s CEO Emil Brolick in wake of big Dublin march!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="100s of @WalkFree members call @Wendys CEO Emil Brolick in wake of action!" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18945"]   Callers demand farm labor justice from Wendy's CEO who helped get the Fair Food ball rolling back in 2005 at Taco Bell... Walk Free, the international anti-slavery organization that earlier this year raised over 400,000 emails to Publix CEO Ed Crenshaw calling on Publix >> Read More

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

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[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

You CAN go home again…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Short title" url="the URL"] CIW returns to Louisville, the birthplace of Fair Food, to visit with dear old friends and rekindle powerful alliances for the Wendy's campaign! In March, 2005, Taco Bell's parent company Yum Brands, based in Louisville, KY, signed the first-ever Fair Food agreement with the CIW after four long years of boycott.  During those four years, >> Read More

“Mr. Brolick, we are here to invite you to finish what you helped start…”

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Mr Brolick: we are here to invite you to finish what you helped start" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18536"] 750+ march on Wendy's headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, as Now Is the Time Tour lets Wendy's know Ohio is Fair Food Territory!  On a bracingly cold but brilliant day in Dublin, Ohio, over 750 marchers -- including farmworkers from Immokalee, allies from around the >> Read More

Three generations of CIW women, three hundred workers and consumers, celebrate International Women’s Day by calling on Wendy’s to join the movement for farmworker rights!

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="3 generations of CIW women, 300 workers & consumers, gather outside of @Wendys for @InternationalWomensDay" url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=18512"] Moving march, vigil in Columbus, Ohio, perfect prelude to today's big March on Wendy's Headquarters in Dublin... After gathering from all four corners of the Fair Food Nation -- with buses and vans pouring into Columbus over the course of the day from >> Read More