The CIW is today spear-heading the Taco
Bell boycott. But before we launched the national boycott in April of
2001, we had been organizing locally for many years in an effort to
modernize labor relations in Florida's fields, improve wages and working
conditions for our members, and eliminate modern-day slavery.
To learn more about the history of the
Coalition, you can go to the CIW site
where you'll find all the non-Taco Bell info on the Coalition from 1995
to 2001, including past CIW campaigns, Press Archives, Photo Galleries,
and more!
1997 General Strike
Immokalee, Florida
Or, you can simply click on some of
the links here below to go directly to the pages from the CIW site that
interest you... just remember to hit the back button on your browser
to return to the boycott site!:
Student/Farmworker Alliance
-- an incredibly active, creative student movement for justice
with a network of young people in high schools and universities
from Florida to California
Kensington Welfare Rights Union
-- a leader of the movement of the poor for the poor, spearheading
the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
PCUN, UFW,
FLOC -- Farmworker organizations
fighting hard for economic and social rights in Oregon, California,
and Ohio
No Logo -- A site inspired
by the book by Naomi Klein that is a great resource for political
activism and analysis
United Students Against Sweatshops
-- You've heard of the anti-sweatshop movement, maybe? USAS
helped make "sweatshops" a household term...
Indymedia
-- The ONLY media source you'll ever need
Human Rights Tech
-- Are you a community organization in need of technical support?
Click on the link and all your tech questions will be answered...
Mexico Solidarity
Network -- A great boycott ally in the Chicago area, and
an even better resource for news and analysis on the fight for
human and economic rights in Mexico
Campaign for
Labor Rights -- Speaking of great allies, the CLR has a
powerful network of activists across the country that mobilize
to fight sweatshop conditions from the factories of Asia to
the fields of Florida
Landless Peasants Movement
(Brazil) -- Only the most impressive, most powerful political
movement in the world today (site in Portugese, but you can
click on the English link for a better idea...)
Tampa Bay Action
Group -- TBAG is one of the most active progressive/community
organizations in Florida (and the CIW is an honorary member..)
Prebyterian Church,
USA - boycott site -- PCUSA has really put its weight behind
its endorsement of the boycott, and you can see that here at
their site
Labor Council for Latin American
Advancement -- a national Latino trade union association
representing 1.4 million Latino working men and women in 43
international unions in 64 chapters in 17 states and Puerto
Rico -- and they endorsed the boycott!
Adbusters -- Culture
jamming headquarters, the place to find logos bent backwards
against their corporate owners
Global Exchange
-- a human rights organization dedicated
to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around
the world. ...
Coalicion de Derechos
Humanos/Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras -- a human rights
organization truly on the front lines, fighting for immigrant
rights and against growing anti-immigrant violence, including
racist border vigilantes, in the Southwest.
