Go to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers website for the latest news on the growing petition campaign.
And, click here to sign the Petition to End Sweatshops and Slavery in the Fields now!
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In our last update, we brought you the news of the Organic
Consumers Association and its 850,000 members lending their muscle to
the growing petition campaign. Today we want to share with you a few
of the plans that Fair Food activists across the country have
developed in their communities to spread the word and collect
signatures:
* In the Twin Cities, “We are making
t-shirts to hand out to local groups to sign. We stenciled Exploitation
King on the front and wrote the last clause of the petition on the back
of some of them, and we’ll ask organizations to decorate and do their
own thing with the rest of them.”
* At the University of Notre
Dame, “We want to make life-size silhouette’s of farmworkers and stand
them up on the sides of the walkway between DeBartolo and LaFortune.
They will have facts about the poor living conditions, the atrocious
wages, and other facts… The other thing we were going to do is take
pictures of all the people who signed the petition and make them into a
large mosaic that would be a larger picture of workers in the fields.”
* In Philadelphia, the Prometheus Radio Project (long-time CIW ally and
inspiration for the CIW’s own low-power radio station,
Radio Conciencia) are collecting signatures on strips of paper that
will be placed in a piñata to be whacked on April 28th outside BK
headquarters in Miami at the grand petition delivery action!
You can be part of this growing campaign.
Thanks – Coalition of Immokalee Workers