Ohio State University students call on Fair Food Nation to join their fight to Boot the Braids!
For over seven years, waves of Ohio State University students have been working tirelessly to remove Wendy's from their campus, drawing attention to the University's complicity in farmworker exploitation due to its ongoing business relationship with the only major fast-food chain yet to join the award-winning Fair Food Program. Year after year, students have peacefully demonstrated, marched, and even held a courageous weeklong fast in 2017 after the University went back on its promise to students and renewed its contract with Wendy's.
This spring, building on the rich and lengthy history of student organizing at OSU in solidarity with farmworkers, the Undergraduate Student Body passed a unanimous resolution endorsing the Wendy's Boycott and calling on the University administration not to renew the Wendy's lease, which is set to expire on June 30.
As that date grows closer, the students' calls for justice have only been met with inaction on the part of the administration. But the fierce student organizers with the Ohio State Student/Farmworker Alliance are committed to fighting tooth and nail until Wendy's no longer has a home on their campus. And today, leaders of OSU SFA are making the urgent call for the entire Fair Food Nation to join them in their fight to Boot the Braids before time runs out! We need YOU to help us amplify their demands today by taking these two simple actions:
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Click here to send an email to OSU President Kristina Johnson and top administrator Jay Kasey to show your support for the students' ongoing campaign to cut the contract with Wendy's
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Call the President's Office to let her know the time has come for the University to honor its students’ legitimate concerns about Wendy's failure to protect farmworkers' fundamental human rights by joining the Fair Food Program
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Call number: 614-292-2424
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Script: Dear President Johnson, I’m calling in support of OSU students' important campaign calling on the University to cut ties with Wendy's. This semester, the student body made its position clear with the passage of a unanimous resolution calling on your administration to not renew the lease agreement for the Wendy's on campus, expiring on June 30th, due to Wendy’s failure to protect essential farmworkers in its supply chain from discrimination, sexual assault and other human rights abuses by joining the Fair Food Program. It is only right for OSU to listen to student concerns and stand up for farmworkers' rights. We're counting on your leadership on this important issue. Thank you.
The OSU student body has spoken clearly: It’s past time for OSU to end its troubling relationship with Wendy’s until the fast-food giant joins the Fair Food Program. Take action with OSU students today!
For on-the-ground updates on the developing Boot the Braids Campaign at Ohio State, follow OSU SFA on Instagram and Facebook.
