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The CIW's annual "Year of the Worker" party was a HUGE success this year, as CIW members gathered to celebrate what is sure to be a year of important victories in the Taco Bell boycott campaign, as well as to build momentum for the "Taco Bell Truth Tour"! More than 1,500 gathered over the course of the day-long party -- check out the photos below for an idea of how the day unfolded (and the evening, for that matter!).

 

The day started off with quizzes and a joke contest for the early-arriving children in the crowd...	... Then things got a little more serious, as the speeches and music started. Here, an organizer with the Carpenters' Union, Local 1641 out of Naples, addresses the crowd...
... And Joel Garcia -- with an incredible voice, a spirit overflowing with solidarity, and a sense of humor that really started the day rolling -- serenaded the crowd with traditional favorites. Some of you may recognize Joel from "Sabado Gigante"...	... Then came the "Taco Bell Tomato-Toss"... Borrowing a page from our friends in Los Angeles, we put together a little target of our own, and young and old took turns sending a few split-fingered fastballs Taco Bell's way...
... This budding superstar worked on his high, hanging curveball, at Taco Bell's expense. With a keen sense of trajectory (follow the red arrow to see the tomato -- suspended Matrix-like -- as it makes its way to the target), he won a CIW t-shirt with a bulls-eye. We just might put together an all star team and take our Los Angeles brethren on in a toss off...	... Then this guy stepped out of the crowd and wowed all those gathered with his professional form... Hey, wait a minute, that's not just any guy, that's Fernando Arau, star of Spanish-language television from Miami to LA..!
... And with the tomato-toss concluded, it was time for Fernando Arau and his "show". This was his third straight year joining us for our annual party, and every year the event and Fernando just keep getting better...	... There's no doubt that Immokalee appreciates his sincerity and "compañerismo" with our community -- one of the poorest towns in the United States -- where he visits every year, watching (and helping) the movement grow..
.. and his sense of humor isn't too shabby, either!..	... Fernando introduced his wife, Rosalinda ("la mujer de la chancla voladora," who has also joined us every year) to the crowd...
... and in honor of his three years of standing with the CIW, the party organizing committee presented Fernando with a plaque. While we know that he has won many more important and prestigious awards, this plaque is priceless, because it comes from our hearts...	.. After the show, committee members grabbed a group photo with Fernando and Rosalinda...
... and the party continued, late into the night, with the music of the band "Magia del Amor", a group that kept everyone bouncing and, after several command performance encores, left everyone happy and wanting more...	...Well, almost everyone... Taco Bell took a beating, and it seems to have colored the little fella's day... Turn that frown upside down, buddy, we'll be out there in LA to see you again soon enough...