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University of Notre Dame
students "Boot the Bell" following
hard-fought campaign!!... Singer/Activist
Ricky Martin endorses the boycott... Hurricane
Charley hits farmworker communities... CIW
holds Congressional Briefing, and more!...
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Before we launched the
national Taco Bell Boycott in April of 2001,
we had been organizing locally for many
years in an effort to modernize labor relations
in Florida's fields and improve wages and
working conditions for our members. Click
on the link below for:
* More on CIW history
* FAQ's about the Taco Bell Boycott
* Press archive from the Boycott
* Major action archives... >>
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You and your friends -- your
fellow students, neighbors, co-workers, or
members of your church -- are the very heart
of this campaign! If you want to help make
FAIR FOOD a reality, follow the link below
to bring the Taco Bell boycott to your community.
You'll find:
* Organizing tools, including postcards, flyers,
psa's for your local radio station, &
more...
* News and info on the wildly successful "Boot
the Bell" campaign... >>
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Learn more about slavery in
Florida's fields today, the CIW's efforts
to investigate, uncover, and bring slavery
operations to justice, and how major food-buying
corporations benefit from the exploitation
of US farmworkers...
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Media by and about CIW: Through the years we have documented our struggle, telling our story in our own words, with dispatches from the front lines of the Taco Bell boycott. We've even started our own low-power community-radio station -- WCIW. Click here for an extensive library of CIW videos, plus music, public service announcements you can use on your local station, and more!... >> READ MORE
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"For my part, I will be urging my constituents, the
13 million members of the AFL-CIO and their families,
to boycott Taco Bell products until this issue is resolved."
~ John Sweeney AFL-CIO In a letter to YUM Brands
board member James Dimon, CEO of BankOne.
Below is a partial list of the many organizations and
individuals that have formally endorsed the Taco Bell
Boycott. Click on the following link for a full list
of endorsers:
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ENDORSERS
INDIVIDUALS
:: Tom Morello, Audioslave
(formerly, Rage Against the Machine)
:: Noam Chomsky (professor, MIT)
:: Congresswoman Linda Sanchez, D-CA
:: Susan Sarandon
:: Eric Schlosser (author, "Fast Food Nation")
:: Ricky Martin
:: Naomi Klein (author, "No Logo")
LABOR
:: American Postal Workers Union (APWU)
:: Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
:: United Farm Workers (UFW)
:: Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
:: San Francisco Labor Council
:: South Florida Jobs with Justice
GLOBAL JUSTICE
:: United for Peace and Justice
:: Food First
:: Global Exchange
:: Mexico Solidarity Network
:: United for a Fair Economy
STUDENT
:: Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan
:: United Students Against Sweatshops
:: United States Student Association
:: Student/Farmworker Alliance
:: Student Labor Action Project
RELIGIOUS
:: National Council of Churches
:: United Methodist Church
:: Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA)
:: United Church of Christ
:: Pax Christi USA
COMMUNITY/OTHERS
:: National Family Farm Coalition
:: National Lawyers Guild
:: Anti-Slavery International
:: ACORN
:: School of the Americas Watch
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