[Chicago] Fwd: [ciw-chicago-announce] McDonald´s pickets 10/21 !!!

[Jo Marie]

>From: Melody González <melody at sfalliance.org>
>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:44:22 -0500
>Subject: [ciw-chicago-announce] McDonald´s pickets 10/21 !!!
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>(please forward)
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>Join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in 
>calling on McDonald´s to ensure real rights for farmworkers!
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>Saturday, October 21, 2006
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>Picket with CIW farmworkers and allies at local 
>McDonald´s througout Chicago to educate the 
>community about the human rights abuses in 
>McDonald´s tomato supply chain. Demand McD's 
>work with the CIW to end sweatshops in the fields!
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>10am-12pm:  McDonald´s by Loyola Red Line stop on North Sheridan
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>12pm-2pm:   McDonald´s at Western and Armitrage
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>3pm-4pm:    McDonald´s at Archer and Rockwell
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>4:30-6pm:   McDonald´s at 18th and Blue Island
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>Join us at one or all!  Bring friends and signs!
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>For more information, contact Melody Gonzalez at 
><mailto:melody at sfalliance.org>melody at sfalliance.org or 239-986-0847.
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>Background:
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>Florida tomato pickers toil long days for a 
>piecerate of 40-50 cents per 32-lb bucket of 
>tomatoes, a rate that has not risen 
>significantly since 1978, with no right to 
>overtime pay, no right to organize, and no 
>benefits whatsoever. In the most extreme cases, 
>workers are held against their will and forced 
>to work in conditions of modern-day slavery, 
>from which over 1,000 workers have been freed
>since 1997.
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>In March of 2005, after a 4-year national 
>boycott campaign, the CIW and Yum Brands, Taco 
>Bell’s parent company, achieved a 
>precedent-setting agreement to improve wages and 
>working conditions for workers in Taco Bell’s tomato supply chain.
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>For over a year, the farmworkers of the 
>Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and allies 
>in the religious, student and human rights 
>communities have called upon McDonald’s to 
>follow Taco Bell’s lead and work with the CIW to 
>improve sub-poverty wages and exploitative 
>conditions in McDonald’s tomato supply chain.
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>Unfortunately, McDonald’s has refused to work 
>with the CIW to take these necessary steps. Join 
>farmworkers in calling on McDonald’s to work 
>with the CIW to ensure truly fair wages and real 
>rights in its tomato supply chain.
>
>Visit 
><http://www.ciw-online.org>www.ciw-online.org 
>and 
><http://www.allianceforfairfood.org>www.allianceforfairfood.org 
>for more information.
>
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