Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Hello everyone!
All around the country, from now through November 4, Student Farmworker Alliance members are hitting the streets in Burger King protests as part of the “Kingdoom” Days of Action. Click here http://www.sfalliance.org/ BKfall07list.html to find an action taking place near you.
Plus, we’re just one month away from the historic mobilization at Burger King’s headquarters in Miami! Make plans today to join us for a weekend of action, education and celebration that can’t be missed. Check out all the details here: http://www.ciw-online.org/2007_BK_March/index.html
and contact us at organize@sfalliance.org for more information and for help mobilizing your community to Miami.
Thanks,
SFA
Monday, October 29th, 2007
The “Kingdoom” Days of Action are upon us, and we have over 20 actions and events taking place around the country - check ‘em out at http://www.sfalliance.org/BKfall07list.html .
Please confirm that the information listed for your action/event is correct, and if it’s not, let me know.
Also, don’t forget to snap some pictures and send them to me at marc@sfalliance.org!
Check out the resources page at http://www.sfalliance.org/resources.html for a great, scary-looking King mask, flyers, manager letters, and other tools you can use during the Days of Action.
The next few days will be crucial as SFA puts pressure on Burger King to stop the lies and come to the table to work with the CIW. But even more crucial and huge is going to be the Nov 30-Dec 1 march, rally and mobilization in Miami, home to BK headquarters.
Please make plans today to bring yourself and members of your community to join
us in Miami for a weekend of action, education and celebration as we unite with
farmworkers and their allies from around the country to tell BK that it’s time for them to “GET OUT THE WAY” of progress and our vision of fair treatment, fair wages and dignity in the fields of Florida and beyond…
Check out http://ciw-online.org/2007_BK_March/index.html and http://www.sfalliance.org today for more info!!
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
SFA Encuentro a huge success, “2 months of action” coming up!
Hey everyone,
November 30 may be the official end of hurricane season, but for Burger King it will instead represent the culmination of a “perfect storm” of organizing by the CIW’s student and youth allies.
At this year’s Encuentro, we laid the groundwork for an upcoming 2 months of education, consciousness-raising, and action to bring Burger King to the table to work with the CIW to improve farmworker wages and working conditions, including:
- SFA days of action to coincide with CIW Florida tour - first week of October: Hold a film screening, campaign presentation, or flyer at your local BK - contact us and check out http://sfalliance.org/action.html and http://sfalliance.org/resources.html for more ideas.
- “Kingdoom” days of action - late October: Creative actions taking on the BK brand with a Halloween theme…
- Major mobilization and march on BK headquarters, Miami - late November
Visit http://sfalliance.org today for all the latest news, a report from the Encuentro, new videos, and more!
thanks,
SFA
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
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,
–Coalition of Immokalee Workers