Women Farm Workers Protest Wendy's Sexual Violence in the Fields - 58:59
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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