FARMWORKERS MARCH IN LOS ANGELES MARCH 1-5

CIW Taco Bell Truth Tour Staff
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>Please circulate widely!
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>Announcing: The 2004 Taco Bell Truth Tour
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>Key dates:
>Feb. 27 -- Rally at Yum! Brands headquarters, Louisville, KY
>March 2-5 -- March on Taco Bell heaquarters, LA to Irvine, CA
>March 5 -- Massive rally outside Taco Bell corporate headquarters,
>Irvine
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>For more details on how you can join Immokalee workers on the
>2004 tour:
>email us at workers@ciw-online.org
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>Description: Clear your schedules, pack your walking shoes, and
>get ready to
>join farmworkers from Immokalee on the 2004 Taco Bell Truth
>Tour!
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>A caravan of workers and allies will leave Immokalee on Feb. 25th
>and head
>north to Yum Brands (Taco Bell's parent company) corporate
>headquarters in
>Louisville, Kentucky, for the first of two major actions aimed at
>moving the
>fast food giant to clean up human rights abuses in its supply
>chain.
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>The Louisville rally will take place on Friday, Feb. 27th, with a full
>program
>of music, speakers, and political theater! The Louisville rally is a
>great way for
>boycott allies from east of the Mississippi who can't make it all the
>way to
>California to make their voices heard in the fight for fair food.
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>Following the Louisville rally, the caravan will head west across
>the country
>toward Los Angeles and a massive action at Taco Bell
>headquarters in Irvine,
>California. Starting on March 2nd, Immokalee workers will lead a
>three-day
>march, from East LA to Irvine, taking the boycott to millions of
>consumers on
>Southern California streets. The march will culminate in a huge,
>day-long
>rally on March 5th -- a political, musical, cultural festival that will
>shake
>the foundations of a fast-food industry built on the exploitation of
>workers and
>consumers alike.
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>With public attention to the modern-day slavery and sweatshop
>conditions in
>Florida's fields at an all-time high -- including the November
>presentation of
>the 2003 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award to three CIW
>members --
>this year's action promises to be the most powerful yet in this
>growing,
>grassroots campaign. Join us in Louisville and LA and as we ring
>the Bell for
>justice in 2004!
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>For more information, email us at workers@ciw-online.org, or visit
>our website
>at http://www.ciw-online.org ! Thanks, and see you soon - Coalition of
>Immokalee
>Workers
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