Student/Farmworker Alliance leaders convene in Immokalee for a face-to-face planning weekend on the Wendy’s Boycott!
Student/Farmworker Alliance leaders from across the country come together to turn up the pressure on Wendy’s!
Anyone who knows anything about the two-decade old Campaign for Fair Food knows the all-important leadership role students have played in winning the legally-binding agreements — with now fourteen of the world’s leading food brands — that put the teeth behind the groundbreaking Fair Food Program’s human rights standards. Without those agreements, there would be no market consequences for human rights violations on Fair Food Program farms; without those agreements, 35,000 workers (and growing) would still face rampant sexual harassment and assault, systemic wage theft, and even forced labor, on the job, without recourse; and without those agreements, there would be no Fair Food Program.
And so whenever student leaders with the Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA) come together from across the country to make plans for turning up the heat in the Campaign for Fair Food, we here at the CIW are eager to receive news of the gathering, and to share that news with you! And that’s exactly what happened last weekend in Immokalee, which means we have the report, hot off the presses, for you today from the SFA itself.
So, without further ado, here below is the latest dispatch from the front lines of student organizing ahead of the major Follow the Money March, (including a special video treat at the end of today’s update…). Enjoy!:
