From: Joseph Catron (joseph@mutualaid.org)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 18:02:14 EDT
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Subject: CLR: Days of *spooky* Action on Taco Bell
From: "Campaign for Labor Rights" <list-owner@campaignforlaborrights.org>
Date: Tue, October 15, 2002 4:15 pm
To: <labor-alerts@campaignforlaborrights.org> (Labor Alerts)
Labor Alerts
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Posted October 15, 2002
In this Alert:
1. Apologies from CLR
2. Five Days of "Spooky" Action on Taco Bell
3. Working Assets Voting Time
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APOLOGIES FROM CLR
We sincerely apologize for the number of emails you each
received as a result of our last Labor Alert about the
contract fight between the Coca-cola union in Guatemala
and the bottling company, Panamco.
One of the settings within the listserve system was
accidentally changed, and the result was that email
boucebacks were broadcast to the entire list of 12,000
subscribers.
This problem has been fixed and will not happen again.
Again, we are very sorry for any inconvenience this
mistake may have caused. Thanks for your understanding as
well as for your continued awareness and action on issues
of international labor rights.
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FIVE DAYS OF SPOOKY ACTION ON TACO BELL
From October 31 (Halloween) to November 4, activists will
take action at Taco Bell restaurants across the country.
These actions are in support of the Coalition of
Immokalee Workers? (CIW) boycott of Taco Bell. CIW
members pick tomatoes for Taco Bell and currently get paid
what the industry paid as a standard rate in 1979. If
Taco Bell paid ONE MORE CENT per pound of tomatoes it
buys, the workers? wages could nearly double! After years
of campaigning, the Immokalee workers launched a boycott
of Taco Bell to bring their pressure against the company
to a new level with the goal of bringing the company to
the negotiating table.
** These actions will be happening simultaneous to the
Free Trade Area of the Americas ministerial meeting in
Quito, Ecuador. Free Trade's injustice usually goes
faceless and nameless ? the corporations behind the system
often get to ride the coattails of Free Trade without
being connected or accountable to the damage it causes.
These five days of action will clearly link Free Trade
and US farmworker exploitation, using the Coalition of
Immokalee Worker?s boycott against Taco Bell as a solid
example of how workers in this country are resisting both.
Take action against the Taco Bell in your community! Tell
Taco Bell that you prefer fair food over fast food that
exploits farmworkers.
Activists are planing a variety of creative actions as a
part of this nationally coordinated mobilization. Here
are just some of the actions that we have heard about:
~ Halloween leafleting actions, exposing the horrific
truth of Taco Bell's profits.
~ Vampire tomato costumes, and all night haunt-ins at Taco
Bell.
~ A haunted house, full of the evils of farmworker
exploitation and Free Trade.
~ Coordinated "scream-in" (or call-in action) to Taco Bell
headquarters.
~ Teach-ins on the Taco Bell boycott and the Free Trade
Area of the Americas.
Days of Spooky Action organizing packets are available and
include a flyer making the links between Taco Bell and the
FTAA, a sample press release for the Days of Spooky
Action, flyers to copy and hand out at your action, a more
complete list of creative action ideas, and more!
For a packet, just contact Campaign for Labor Rights at:
clr@clrlabor.org, or the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
at: workers@ciw-online.org.
** PLEASE LET US KNO W ABOUT YOUR ACTION. If you are
planning an action at a Taco Bell in your area, please let
us know so we can report back to you on how big our
collective effort against Taco Bell was. Send us an email
with your plans: clr@clrlabor.org. Thanks!
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WORKING ASSETS VOTING TIME
Many subscribers to Labor Alerts use the company, Working
Assets, as their long-distance telephone provider.
Working Assets holds an annual nomination and voting
process for how a portion of its profits will be allocated
to progressive organizations in the U.S.
This year, two of CLRs partner organizations, Sweatshop
Watch and United for a Fair Economy, made the list of 50
finalists. As partner organizations, these groups
sometimes work on campaigns we are mobilizing for. If you
use Working Assets, please consider casting your votes for
these two great organizations ? our work would not be the
same without them.
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In solidarity,
Daisy Pitkin
Campaign Coordinator
Campaign for Labor Rights
202-544-9355
www.campaignforlaborrights.org
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