On January 18, 2018, faith leaders allied with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will fast and demonstrate outside of Wendy’s restaurants across the country in solidarity with farmworkers’ struggle for dignity, respect, and basic human rights in the fields.
The national action will commemorate the historic conclusion of six farmworkers’ 30-day hunger strike, which took place in Immokalee twenty years ago that day. Though incredible progress has been made since 1998 though the CIW’s Presidential Medal-winning Fair Food Program, farmworkers’ prophetic call for justice in the agricultural industry continues. On January 18, we will call upon the leadership of Wendy’s to join their peers, listen to their consumers, and finally sit at the table with their workers by joining the Fair Food Program.
Participants in this national action are called to fast throughout the day on January 18, and to bear witness to the injustice of Wendy’s refusal to join the Fair Food Program. Participants are asked to choose a local Wendy’s restaurant and organize a public component to their fast: a flyering event, a demonstration, a pray-in, a vigil, or some other form of protest.
Sign up to participate: http://www.allianceforfairfood.org/january-18-national-fast
The vigil in NYC will be at 10:30 am at 280 Park Avenue on January 18th. It’s really important that participants RSVP by signing up for the fast so that they can be provided in advance with the details.
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