Los Angeles weekly
Taco Bell pickets...
BOISTEROUS,
LOUD AND BIG COMMUNITY SUPPORT!
Activists have been doing weekly pickets
at a Taco Bell on Cesar Chavez Blvd. in historically Chicano East
LA for more than a month. The community response? Si Se Puede! and
a lot of honking horns! 
Every Friday at 6 pm a diverse and
rotating group of 20-25 people gather for an hour or two to make
life miserable for the local TB manager, and to fight against the
miserable conditions of farmworkers in Southern Florida.
Picketers hold up tomato-shaped picket
signs with "Honk for Justice," "Boycott Taco Bell,"
and "Justicia para los trabajadores." Passerbys get leaflets,
brief explanations and usually walk away with a promise to not eat
at Taco Bell.
After weeks of protest many people
already know about the boycott and potential consumers are turned
away regularly. Some pull up to the drive-thru, get a flyer, hear
the chants and drive on through honking their support on their way
to eat somewhere else. Many agree with the Chihuahua on the protestors
banner, "Yo NO quiero Taco Bell!"
Protesters on the West side have launched
their own weekly protest at the corner of Pico and Bundy and are
also getting a fantastic response. A spirited and growing group,
led by UCLA students, meets every Friday at 5pm.
Other pickets are being planned, and
protests are popping up around the Southland. All are building for
when the farmworker's Truth Tour rolls into Los Angeles on September
23rd. A march is being organized that will hit at least four Taco
Bell stores between Hollywood and McArthur Park. The next day, September
24th is the day Taco Bell dreads, when months of organizing will
culminate in a protest at their World Headquarters near Irvine.
Get involved! Its easy, there are
Taco Bells everywhere, and most people immediately agree that a
$5 billion a year company should be able to pay more for tomatoes
picked by workers that make $7,500 a year.
Join us at the weekly pickets:
Westside pickets
Fridays 5:00pm
corner of Pico and Bundy
Los Angeles
Call Steve, 310-204-3995
Eastside pickets
Fridays 6:00pm
Cesar Chavez and Atlantic
Los Angeles
Call Fidel, 562-833-1012
For more information on the farmworkers
and their struggle for humane conditions, check out the website
for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, at www.ciw-online.org. For
more Los Angeles information contact 213
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