Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Farm Workers fast and march in their "Boot the Braids" campaign
against fast-food giant Wendy's to stop sexual violence in the fields
with
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and allies
For years, farmworkers with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and their
allies have called on Wendy’s to join all of its major competitors in the Fair Food
Program, a uniquely successful approach to eliminating human rights abuses in
the agricultural industry. Instead of joining the Program, Wendy’s has taken its
tomato purchases to Mexico, where workers continue to confront wage theft,
gender-based violence, child labor, and even slavery without access to
protections. Now tens of thousands strong, and endorsed by over a hundred
organizations the CIW is asking you to join a boycott against Wendy's, until it
does the right thing.
The struggle against poverty and for freedom must be led from the ground up,
and the farmworkers of the CIW have been some of our bravest leaders these
many years.Building Bridges brings you voices of the shero farm workers who
have been Fasting for Freedom because they believe we need a fundamental
shift in our nation’s moral narrative which places the lives of workers and the
dispossessed at the center. The CIW’s Fair Food Program has given workers
a real voice in the decisions that affect their lives. And, with that voice they are
transforming the agricultural industry where they work – eliminating slavery,
violence, and sexual harassment in fields — where these abuses have
persisted for generations. But, the fast food giant Wendy’s has refused to
support the Fair Food Program — and worse yet, it abandons growers who
are doing the right thing to instead buy from an industry in Mexico — where
they know sexual assault to slavery continue to thrive with impunity — is the
very definition of amoral and unacceptable.”
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