Farmworkers Kickoff Campaign on Capitol Hill!
Meet 9:15am, front gates to take the bus downtown!
Email Ashwini (aj94) for more info.
-----
CIW petition signing ceremony in Washington DC
DC friends and allies,
Join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and allies for a kick off signing
ceremony of the national petition campaign to end sweatshops and modern-day
slavery in the fields!
On March 13th at 10:30am, at the Senate Swamp (in the Capitol Hill Park across
from the Senate Russell Office Building on Constitution and Delaware), the CIW
will be accompanied by Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Dennis Kucinich,
the Robert F. Kennedy Center, United Students Against Sweatshops, Organic
Consumers Association, and many others to publicly sign the petition and speak
out in support of the farmworkers' Campaign for Fair Food.
The petition demands that Burger King and other food industry leaders work with
the CIW to improve wages and working conditions for the workers who pick their
tomatoes, and join in an industry-wide effort to eliminate modern-day slavery
and human rights abuses in Florida's fields. The petition will also serve
notice that those who sign are "prepared to stop patronizing Burger King now,
and other food industry leaders in the future, should they fail to do so."
The launch of this petition campaign comes on the heels of a January 2008
federal indictment for the seventh case of modern-day slavery to emerge from
Florida's fields in the past ten years.
Standing together - as workers and consumers - we can make it the last.
Be a part of the latest major initiative in the Campaign for Fair Food today.
* CIW National Petition Campaign:
http://www.ciw-online.org/2008_Petitions/index.html
* Join the Movement: Ideas for collecting -- and how to submit -- your
petitions: http://www.ciw-online.org/2008_Petitions/join.html
* Download the petition here:
http://www.ciw-online.org/2008_Petitions/files/08BK-Petition.pdf
Petition campaigns and consumer actions by British citizens helped hasten the
abolition of the British slave trade in 1807. The CIW petition campaign honors
the 200th anniversary of the US ban against the importation of slaves (1808),
and echoes key strategies of the early abolitionist movement.
Let us together - workers and consumers - launch a modern petition campaign to
end modern-day slavery and the everyday sweatshop conditions that enable slavery
to flourish in the 21st century.
If you are interested in attending the signing ceremony, please contact
workers@ciw-online.org