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Northern
New Jersey Fair Food Alliance Individuals and organizations in Northern New Jersey aiding farmworkers in their fight for fairness and dignity. |
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here Take Action for Fair Food (from www.ciw-online.org)  -Drop into your local McD's and let the manager know you support fair wages and real rights for farmworkers in McDonald’s tomato supply chain. Download the manager letter here and send us a picture of yourself dropping off the letter!. Click here for the letter in Spanish. |
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| Monday,
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11th, 2006 - Hey everyone, -- In exciting campaign news, our allies at Chicago Jobs With Justice and United Students for Fair Trade have officially endorsed the Alliance for Fair Food! We’re looking forward to working together with Chicago JwJ and USFT in the months ahead. If you belong to an organization that is interested in joining the AFF, contact us today! - Also, this holiday season, take a moment to vote for McDonald’s for a special recognition: The 2006 Jobs With Justice Grinch of the Year! For the unwillingness of this multi-billion-dollar giant to pay just a penny more per pound of tomatoes to improve the lives of farmworkers in its tomato supply chain, McDonald’s truly deserves the label of “Grinch.” Visit www.jwj.org today to cast your write-in vote for McDonald’s, and click here for more campaign background & talking points. - Finally, today, students at Purdue University continue their hunger strike, now in its 24th day, demanding their university purchase its apparel from suppliers who guarantee their workers the right to organize and a living wage. Visit www.purduehungerstrike.org for more info, and take action in solidarity with the hunger strikers by clicking here. - A special note - former Chilean dictator Pinochet has died, never having been brought to justice for his many crimes (committed with U.S. support). Check out Indymedia and Democracy Now for more news and analysis. - And as always, stay tuned to the SFA and CIW sites for all the latest news and analysis from the Campaign for Fair Food. Thanks, SFA __________ Marc Rodrigues Student/Farmworker Alliance |
DEC. 23rd: Fair Food Meeting 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 Speaker: Ashwini Jaisingh of Student Farmworker Alliance. - There will also be a short film and poems from the Bread is Rising Poetry Collective. ALL ARE INVITED The following organizations have co-sponsored this event (thank you!) Anti-Racism Committee of the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood - Bergen County Branch, People’s Organization for Progress - Northern NJ Socialist Party - Residents Against Racism 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. Mass 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 |
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| NYC Fair Food Coalition of the Immokalee Workers Student-Farmworker Alliance Alliance for Fair Food. |