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Taco Bell Truth Tour Rally @ World Headquarters
Coverage of speakers and performers who converged on the world headquarters of Taco Bell in Irvine with hundreds of people from throughout the country to send the company a message.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers take their struggle against the largest restaurant corporation in the world, Yum Brands Inc. and their subsidiary Taco Bell; on the road in an effort to improve living conditions in the tomato fields of southwest Florida. Farmworkers who pick the tomatoes that Taco Bell buys have not received a raise since 1978 and must pick up to 2 tons of tomatoes to make $50. The following rally is the culmination of the second Taco Bell Truth Tour, and comes over 3 years since the official boycott started(April 2001). Read more about the CIWs' efforts to bring Taco Bell to the table to become part of the solution in Florida's farmworkers' fight for dialogue and a fair wage.
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http://www.ciw-online.org
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February 2003
"In a powerful show of support for the hunger strikers' cause, more than a thousand people crowded into the hunger strike site on a Friday afternoon, and had a day they wouldn't soon forget. Here, JG & Havikenhayes played the song they dedicated to the hunger strikers -- "Hunger Days" -- which shook Taco Bell headquarters with its chorus of "Yo no quiero Taco Bell, no quiero Taco Bell"!"
http://ciw-online.org/CIW%20hunger_strike_site/hunger_strike_daily_report.html
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/1/boycott_taco_bell_song.mp3
"In a powerful show of support for the hunger strikers' cause, more than a thousand people crowded into the hunger strike site on a Friday afternoon, and had a day they wouldn't soon forget. Here, JG & Havikenhayes played the song they dedicated to the hunger strikers -- "Hunger Days" -- which shook Taco Bell headquarters with its chorus of "Yo no quiero Taco Bell, no quiero Taco Bell"!"
http://ciw-online.org/CIW%20hunger_strike_site/hunger_strike_daily_report.html
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/usermedia/audio/1/boycott_taco_bell_song.mp3
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