Thursday, January 4th, 2007
Building Solidarity in NYC
On Friday, December 29th, almost thirty people from an alphabet soup of organizations came to hear Marc Rodrigues of the Student-Farmworkers Alliance discuss the current state of the Immokalee farmworkers coalition and their campaign against retail giant McDonalds. A long time organizer with the Left Turn magazine/network as well as campus-based, anti-war and global justice movements, Marc moved to Florida in 2005 to coordinate student support for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Marc discussed the history and tactics of the 2005 Taco Bell Boycott victory, the decade long popular struggle of the C.I.W., and what supporters here can do in the impending fight with McDonalds.