From: LC (radkid2@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 20:10:22 EDT
From: "coaimmwkr" <workers@ciw-online.org>
> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:38:34 -0000
> Subject: Victories in the Taco Bell boycott!...
>
> Hey everyone -- For some time now, news of successes
> in the Boot the Bell
> campaign has been coming in to Taco Bell Boycott
> Headquarters here in
> Immokalee. School by school, victory by victory,
> students have declared their
> campuses "Taco Bell-free zones."
>
> Well, we are happy to announce that today, after
> confirming all the victories
> we have heard across the country, we are finally
> going public with them!
>
> The following is a list of eight schools -- four
> universities and four high school
> campuses -- that have blocked Taco Bell from setting
> up shop, or forced them
> to stop selling chalupas at their schools (not to
> mention the student
> government of the entire University of California
> system that has endorsed the
> boycott !):
>
> * The University of Notre Dame was going to get a
> Taco Bell on campus...
> until the students organized, conveyed their
> indignation to the administration,
> and blocked the restaurant from doing business on
> campus.
>
> * Duke University stopped selling all Taco Bell
> products following student
> protests there.
>
> * At the University of California at Berkeley, the
> Student Government
> endorsed the boycott, and student opposition helped
> keep a Taco Bell from
> opening there.
>
> * Milwaukee Area Technical College was also going to
> get a Taco Bell, but
> the chairman of the finance committee refused to
> allow the fast-food giant to
> do business on their campus, citing the boycott
> against Taco Bell as the
> primary reason.
>
> * At West High School in Denver, CO, students formed
> an Immokalee Support
> Group and succeeded in getting their school to stop
> buying and serving Taco
> Bell products.
>
> * Sunflower Catholic High School in Florida also
> stopped buying Taco Bell
> products in response to student support for the
> boycott.
>
> * Catholic schools in the Diocese of Gary, IN,
> stopped buying Pizza Hut
> products for the 30 schools in their system. Though
> the diocese did not have
> a contract with Taco Bell, they were able to express
> their support for the Taco
> Bell boycott by cutting off their relationship with
> Pizza Hut, which is also
> owned by YUM! Brands, Taco Bell's parent
> corporation.
>
> * Students at Garamoni High School in Illinois
> raised awareness and
> organized a protest at their school, creating the
> pressure necessary to stop
> the cafeteria from selling Taco Bell products.
>
> The CIW congratulates students at all of these
> schools -- true allies in the fight
> for fair food -- and looks forward to even more
> victories as the Boot the Bell
> campaign really takes off this school year.
>
>
> Support Tomato Pickers, Boycott Taco Bell
> www.ciw-online.org
> 239-657-8311 (office and fax)
> PO Box 603
> Immokalee, FL 34143
>
>
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