McDonalds makes it billions not only by selling fast food, but by using
its purchasing power to drive down the price of the tomatoes it buys. This
downward pressure hurts farm-workers the hardest: they earn 40 cents for
every 32 pound bucket of tomatoes they pick, about the same rate that
they’ve been earning since the 1970s!
Farm workers organized and won a boycott against Taco Bell in 2005,
earning an extra penny a pound of tomatoes picked, plus oversight in the
fields to prevent abuse and slavery. Now farm workers are demanding
accountability from McDonalds and need community support to win this
battle.
On Saturday December 23rd, there will be an Alliance for Fair Food
organizing meeting, and we hope you can attend. Please join us to watch a
short documentary on the Immokalee workers campaign and help us build an
Alliance for Fair Food right to support this important campaign.
What: Alliance for Fair Food Organizing Meeting and Pot Luck Dinner
When: Saturday December 23, 2006 @ 5 PM
Where: Unitarian Society of Ridgewood 113 Cottage Place, Ridgewood, NJ (in
the Fellowship Room).
Ashwini Jaisingh of Student Farm worker Alliance will be in the area on
the 23rd and will be making a presentation on the Fair Food campaign and
ALL are invited.
The Alliance For Fair Food campaign is a non-partisan effort. All
organizations and individuals are invited to attend and help us and
encouraged to take part.
Directions:
By car: Route 4 West to Route 17 North. Take the Linwood Ave., West exit.
Continue through four traffic lights. One block beyond the fourth light
(North Maple Ave.), turn left onto Cottage Place. The Society and Reeb
House (administrative offices) are on the left in the second block.
Transit: NJT bus #163 or 175 or NJT Bergen County line train to Ridgewood
Station (station approx. 6 block from meeting
If you are interested in attending this event, RSVP at
njfairfood@anti-racist.org or call Greg at 201-803-7574 More info:
http://allianceforfairfood.org/ http://www.ciw-online.org/
