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>Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 06:49:20 -0500
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>    1. Taco Bell this Sunday!!! (Ricky Baldwin)
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>Message: 1
>From: "Ricky Baldwin" <baldwinricky at hotmail.com>
>To: imc-print at urbana.indymedia.org
>Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 16:22:33 -0400
>Subject: [UCIMC-print] Taco Bell this Sunday!!!
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>PICKET URBANA TACO BELL THIS SUNDAY!
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>Sunday Sept. 22, 2002
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>High noon
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>Taco Bell on University near Lincoln
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>The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a farmworker organization based in 
>Florida, has called an international boycott of Taco Bell.  Why?
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>“Sweatshops in the Fields”
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>The members of CIW pick tomatoes for Six-L's Packing Co. - Taco Bell's 
>principle supplier of tomatoes – where they receive sub-poverty wages, no 
>overtime pay, no health insurance, no sick leave, no holiday leave, and no 
>pension!  Six-L's pays today what the industry paid as a standard piece 
>rate over 20 years ago – 40 cents per 32-lbs of tomatoes!
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>One Penny More
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>Taco Bell has the power and responsibility to change this situation for 
>the workers who plant, cultivate, and harvest the tomatoes from which they 
>profit.  If Taco Bell were to pay one penny more per pound for the 
>tomatoes it buys from Florida growers, and the growers were to pass that 
>extra penny on to the workers, the rate paid to workers could nearly double!
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>For more information: <http://www.ciw-online.org/>www.ciw-online.org, or 
>call Ricky: 356-2205.
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>Cosponsored by the United Farm Workers, American Postal Workers Union, 
>PCUN, Presbyterian Church USA, United Church of Christ, ACORN, Global 
>Exchange, Campaign for Labor Rights, United Students Against Sweatshops, 
>Student/Farmworker Alliance, Los Angeles County AFL-CIO, San Francisco 
>AFL-CIO, HERE Local 2850, CUE Local 3, Oakland Education Association, 
>Laborers District Council of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Church Women 
>United of Illinois, South Florida Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, 
>Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort, Estabrook for Congress Campaign, Industrial 
>Workers of the World
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