Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
[CIW News] “Burger Sting”: New articles on growing BK campaign!
As the Campaign for Fair Food turns its sights on Burger King, the press is picking up on the growing campaign.
The Miami New Times, Miami’s alternative weekly, ran a great short piece on the children’s letters to Burger King last week, entitled “Burger Sting.”
The article begins, “It can’t feel good to get scolded by a nine-year-old. How about 100 of them? Burger King vice president Steven Grover might feel like he’s been sent to the corner after receiving several dozen handwritten letters of reprimand from children accusing his company of being stingy when it comes to paying farm workers…”
You can find the article at the CIW site: www.ciw-online.org .
And the Asian American Journalist Association (AAJA) website features an article and video short covering the BK campaign and the August 1st protest in Miami, which coincided with the AAJA’s annual convention there. You can find the video and the article in its entirety here: http://www.aajalink.com/2007/node/119.
Here’s an excerpt: “Norberto Jimenez’s back is surprisingly straight for a man who shoulders 32-pound buckets of tomatoes for 10 hours every day. But instead of picking the red globes Thursday afternoon, Jimenez chanted and shook signs alongside scores of other angry farmworkers, activists and religious leaders at a Miami Burger King restaurant.”
Stay tuned for more as we build toward the big November protest in Miami and more exciting action for Fair Food across the country in the months ahead - thanks,