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Coalition of Immokalee Workers 2008 "Chipocrisy Tour" in Denver: Oct 5-7th

September 24, 2008 by DenverFairFood

Oct 5 2008 1:00 pm

Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) coming to Denver for the 2008 "Chipocrisy Tour", demanding Denver-based Chipotle Mexican Grill stop ignoring human rights of farmworkers and live out the true meaning of its marketing slogan "Food With Integrity"!!

Over a dozen farmworkers and their allies will travel from Immokalee,
FL to Denver during two weeks of education and action. Join the CIW
in Denver for these exciting events:
Sunday, October 5th:
1pm - Picket at the first ever Chipotle restaurant, 1644 Evans Ave
(west of University Blv, near DU)
Evening - Celebration, details TBA

Monday, October 6th:
All Day - Plantón (literally "long wait") outside Chipotle HQ, 1543
Wazee St. in downtown Denver, an all-day protest "waiting" for
Chipotle to do the right thing. Starts first thing in the morning.
Come for all or part.
6:30pm - Vigil outside Chipotle HQ.

Tuesday, October 7th:
Morning til Mid-Day - Plantón outside Chipotle HQ continues. Come for
all or part
Mid-day - Send off for the CIW, details TBA

If you would like to invite a member of the CIW to speak with your
church, class, union or other group about their efforts to obtain
human rights for farmworkers, contact robert@sfalliance.org or
505-980-4220.

BACKGROUND:
Florida tomato pickers toil 10-12 hour days and earn just 40-50 cents
per 32-lb bucket of tomatoes, a wage rate that has been stagnant for 30 years. At this rate, a farmworker must pick and haul 2 TONS of
tomatoes to earn $50 in one day. Farmworkers work long hours without overtime pay, the right to organize, healthcare, or benefits of any kind. In the most extreme conditions, workers are held and forced to work against their will in modern-day slavery rings. The CIW, a
Florida farmworker organization, has uncovered and assisted in
successful prosecutions of 7 modern-day slavery rings in the fields,
freeing over 1,000 workers in the past decade.

Through hard-fought campaigns, the CIW has reached agreements with
Yum! Brands (owner of Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut and others),
McDonald's and Burger King to improve wages and protect the human
rights of farmworkers picking tomatoes used by these companies. Most recently, Whole Foods - the world's largest retailer of "natural foods" - reached a similar agreement with the CIW. However, Chipotle
refuses to cooperate with CIW and has instead pursued ways to avoid its responsibility for ending farmworker exploitation.

Chipotle has staked its claim as the sustainable agriculture leader in
the fast-food industry. Its marketing slogan - "Food with Integrity" -
is unambiguous.

Yet the company's definition of "sustainable" is apparently
unconcerned with the egregious exploitation of farm labor in Florida's
tomato fields. And you don't have to take our word for it. Here's the
company's vision of sustainable agriculture as defined by none other
than Chipotle's founder and CEO, Steve Ells:

"We decided long ago that we didn't want Chipotle's success to be tied to the exploitation of animals, farmers, or the environment."

Should farmworkers be included in that definition? We think so, and in
the language of this election season, that's a debate we're happy to
have. So let the debate begin, with the 2008 Chipocrisy Tour stopping
in Austin, TX, Kansas and Denver, and may the best vision of
sustainable agriculture win!

Denver Fair Food Committee
for more info: www.ciw-online.org, robert@sfalliance.org 505-980-4220

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*9:AM Thurs, PT!*: Call-in radio w Alison Weir & JEFFREY BLANKFORT!‏
12 hours 47 min ago
Anonymous

Alison Weir will host the Council for the National Interest's new call-in radio show, "CNI: Jerusalem Calling" . Her featured guest will be JEFFREY BLANKFORT -- anti-Zionist Jewish-American journalist, writer, lecturer and activist.

WHO IS THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT REALLY WORKING FOR?
16 hours 8 min ago
Anonymous

Ken Salazar
Secretary Of The Interior
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240

 

Dear Ken Salazar:

We are writing to ask for your assistance with a serious problem that involves modifying and tampering with public records, corruption, deceit and unfair treatment of the general public regarding the Bureau Of Land Management’s planning process and handling of public comments for the John Day Basin Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement and other matters. The Western Oregon Plan Revisions should be fresh in your mind and the John Day Basin Resource Management Plan is a sister to the WOPR, except it will govern public lands in Central and Eastern Oregon instead of Western Oregon. The JDBRMP & EIS has followed in the footsteps of its sister plan from the onset and it is just as problematic, unreasonable, misleading and wrong. It would serve the public interest best if the JDBRMP & EIS were discarded in the same fashion as the Western Oregon Plan Revisions.

First, it is important that you understand that public records were tampered with and modified. Prior to that other questionable and misleading actions took place throughout the planning process for the John Day Basin Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement.

Next, it is important that you know that all efforts, work, input and analysis provided by wildlife biologist Monte Kuk and possible associates for the John Day Basin RMP & EIS is likely inaccurate, biased, insincere, flawed and modified to benefit only the private sector and not the general public. We believe if a truthful process had been followed and the flawed analysis, science and other data was researched, corrected, reworked and all misleading information removed that it could greatly influence and change the outcome of the Final Environmental Impact Statement and Record Of Decision.

Freedom of Religion in Libertarian Spain
21 hours 17 min ago
Anonymous

                                               Freedom of Religion in Libertarian Spain
                                                                 By Nicholas Evans
                                   Part 2 of the ‘Libertarian Spain in the 1930’s’ series*

    Libertarianism** (aka anarchism) has always been known as a movement that generally prefers various kinds of democratic socialist economies. 1. These same socialist economies are based, in the opinion of libertarians, on realistic and practical amounts of human freedom. 2.

As Kropotkin states,

All Libertarians uniquely prefer the “enfranchisement of man from … the state as well as from those of capitalism.” 3.

Human freedom for everyone includes freedom of religion.

This is why we find the major writers in the libertarian Mutualist, Collectivist, and Communist schools supporting religious freedom.

Proudhon, a Mutualist, and the libertarian of small businessmen and co-operative businesses states***:

FERNANDO LUGO, FALSO Y AMBIGUO
1 day 19 hours ago
Anonymous

Dijo Bertrand Arthur William que la humanidad tiene una doble moral, dado que una predica y no practica y la otra practica pero no predica. Para comprobar cuánta razón tenía este pensador nacido en Gales, basta observar el comportamiento de los actuales gobernantes de Paraguay.

Mientras el clérigo-presidente Fernando Lugo se relaja con un crucero en el Caribe, y su secretario de emergencias Camilo Soares se castiga en el balneario de los paraguayos ricos, San Bernardino, la prensa anunció esta semana la patética noticia del fallecimiento de doce personas en el interior del Paraguay como causa de la desnutrición.


Indudablemente, el gobierno de Lugo es un excelente ejemplo de cómo los valores morales se pierden sepultados por los económicos. La indignación que sus seguidores mostraban desde la oposición, evidentemente era apenas lo que Herbert George Wells señalaba como simple envidia con aureola.

LA CORRUPCIÓN DEL GOBIERNO DE LUGO

Si los escándalos de connotaciones sexuales dejaron atónita a la ciudadanìa, nadie se imaginó que paralelamente, la corrupción en la administración del "obispo de los pobres" Fernando Lugo iría a superar a sus inspiradores, los gobiernos colorados. La realidad, evidentemente, ha superado a la ilusión.
Si alguien aún tiene dudas, un breve sumario de los escándalos por corrupción del gobierno mesiánico, que supuestamente redimiría al Paraguay de sus males:

views of Gu, Johnson, and Frank: is globalization wrong: China, India and new world leadership
1 day 20 hours ago
Anonymous

The China and India Factor and the Overstretch of the US Hegemony in the 21st century: opportunities, challenges, conflicts and development

4 books that can change your mind in 2007 about the geo-politic and geo-economic dynamics going on

Interviews by Jorge Nascimento Rodrigues, editor of Gurus online. tv

George Zhibin Gu (顾志斌), author of two new books, "China's Global Reach", and "China and the New World Order";

Chalmers Johnson, author of "The Sorrows of Empire"

André Gunder Frank, author of the forthcoming "ReOrient the Nineteenth Century" (a sequel of his 1998's "ReOrient")

FIRST STORY

A view from an insider

George Zhibin Gu

CHINA IS BECOMING A GLOBAL THEATER

"A new power balance will emerge gradually and most likely indirectly"

INTERVIEW

First idea: "Today, most Chinese would prefer to be the one just following the leader. That is a safe play, and a better alternative"

The full engagement of China with the world means Daguo Xintai ( "mentality of global power") or Heping Jueqi ("peaceful rise" as Zheng Bijian introduced in 2003)? Has China a "mission" as a global power as the Portuguese, the Dutch, the British, and the US had in the past 650 years?

Who is Turning Off the Lights in America
1 day 21 hours ago
Anonymous

Who is Turning Off the Lights in America
By Tim Redmond

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WARREN BUFFET & BILL GATES ~ YOUR COUNTRIES 45 MILLION POORER CITIZENS NEED YOUR LOBBYING HELP ...
3 days 23 hours ago
Anonymous

** SATANS WARRIORS IN OUR U.S.CONGRESS ARE PLAYING THE DEVILS ADVOCATE WITH 45 million POORER AMERICANS HEALTH & WELL BEING **

AND SO, MY FELLOW POOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS:ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRIES HEALTH*CARE INSURANCE COMPANIES CAN DO FOR YOU- ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR COUNTRIES HEALTH*CARE INSURANCE COMPANIES ~

~ SADLY CERTAIN AMERICAN MILITARY SUPPORTERS FROM BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES IN OUR U.S. CONGRESS HAVE NOW BEEN BOUGHT OUT TO ABANDON THE HEALTH & WELFARE OF POORER MILITARY PARENTS AND SIBLINGS OF OUR ACTIVE DUTY WORLD~WIDE ENLISTED SOLDIERS….

~ A VOTE FOR AMERICAN HEALTH*CARE 4 OUR AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING POOR CITIZENS,IS ALSO A CLEAR VOTE FOR OUR POORER AMERICAN MILITARY FAMILIES WHO OFFER UP THEIR CHILDREN TO SERVE IN OUR U.S. MILITARY FORCES WORLD~WIDE ~

PRESIDENT OBAMA ~ THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND OUR ACTIVE DUTY U.S. MILITARY FAMILIES FROM POOR FAMILIES BACK HOME DESERVE TO BE ENLIGHTENED AND INFORMED ABOUT THE SPECIFIC FAMILY NAMES OF ALL THESE NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL BEHIND THE SCENE BILLIONAIRE HEALTH*CARE INSURANCE COMPANIES(MAJORITY SHAREHOLDER INVESTORS) WHO ARE ATTEMPTING TO CONTROL THEIR FUTURE PROFITS OVER THE HORROR OF KNOWING THAT 45,000 POORER AMERICANS DYING EVERY YEAR DUE TO THE LACK OF PROPER HEALTH*CARE…

IT IS NOW VERY OBVIOUS TO MOST AMERICANS THAT CERTAIN U.S.CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS (FROM BOTH OUR POLITICAL PARTIES) OF THE FREE WORLD HAVE ALREADY MADE UP THEIR MINDS TO SELL OUT OUR 45 MILLION MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS… 4 RE~ELECTION MONIES…

** OUR BRAVE AMERICAN ACTIVE DUTY U.S. MILITARY AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE RISKING AND LOSING THEIR LIVES FOR ALL OF USA ALSO HAVE POORER PARENTS AND SIBLINGS BACK HOME WHO ARE DYING WITHOUT HEALTH*CARE**

*PRESIDENT OBAMA ~ PLEASE MAKE A SPECIAL POINT OF ASSURING OUR AMERICAN MILITARY WORLD-WIDE THAT YOU WILL FIGHT FOR THEIR LOVED ONES HEALTH*CARE BACK HOME ALSO!!!

CUBANUESTRA. FERNANDO LUGO, SUMARIO DE ESCÁNDALOS SEXUALES Y CORRUPCIÓN
5 days 20 hours ago
Anonymous

Dijo Heinrich Heine que si un delito no se convierte en escándalo no existe para la sociedad. Parafraseando a Heine, podríamos decir que si el gobierno de Fernando Lugo no sufre un periódico escándalo por corrupción o inmoralidad, simplemente no existe.

666 WARRIORS IN OUR U.S. CONGRESS WILL BE DEFEATED WITH GODS SINCERE RELIGIOUS FOLLOWERS PRAYERS......
6 days 1 hour ago
Anonymous

** satans warriors in our u.s.congress are playing the devils advocate with 45 million poorer americans health & well being **
~ sadly certain american military supporters in our u.s. congress have now been bought out to abandon the health & welfare of poorer military parents and siblings of our active duty world~wide enlisted soldiers….
** a vote for american health*care 4 our american middle class and working poor citizens,is also a clear vote for our poorer american military families who offer up their children to serve in our u.s. military forces world~wide**
president obama ~ the american people and our active duty u.s. military families from poor families back home deserve to be enlightened and informed about the specific family names of all these national & international behind the scene billionaire health*care insurance companies(majority shareholder investors) who are attempting to control their future profits over the horror of knowing that 45,000 poorer americans dying every year due to the lack of proper health*care…
it is now very obvious to most americans that certain u.s.congressional leaders of the free world have already made up their minds to sell out our 45 million middle class and working poor americans… 4 re~election monies…
~ and so, my fellow poor american soldiers:ask not what your countries health*care insurance companies can do for you- ask what you can do for your countries health*care insurance companies ~
** our brave american active duty u.s. military around the world who are risking and losing their lives for all of usa also have poorer parents and siblings back home who are dying without health*care**
*president obama ~ please make a special point of assuring our american military world-wide that you will fight for their loved ones health*care back home also!!!

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