{"article":{"id":15349,"heading":"BOYCOTT TACO BELL TRUTH TOUR ALMOST HERE","author":"Chantel","created":"2002-03-06 22:10:47","modified":"2005-08-15 00:54:35","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:54:35","article":"<p>FEEL FREE TO FWD THIS EMAIL  <br><br>  <br><br> ONLY 9 DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE NATIONAL CRAVAN KICKSOFF FOR THE <br><br> TACO BELL TRUTH TOUR!!!! <br><br> March 1-17, 2002  <br><br> (VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED, SCROLL DOWN TO BOTTOM OF EMAIL) <br><br> WITH <br><br> RISE UP 2002 IN LA on March 10,2002 <br><br> The Coalition of Immokalee Workers needs your help to make Taco Bell a part of the solution in Florida's farmworkers' fight for dialogue and a fair wage          <br><br> By contracting for cheap tomatoes grown and picked by farmworkers paid sub-poverty wages in Florida, Taco Bell contributes significantly to the continued misery of farmworkers and their families. We believe that the large corporations that buy Florida tomatoes must step up to their responsibility by demanding, and obtaining, changes in the shameful pay and working conditions suffered by the men and women who pick their tomatoes. <br><br> IRVINE CA, Monday, March 11 <br>  <br>  March on Taco Bell Corporate Headquarters!! <br><br> Need housing in LA for March 10th and 11th, or... <br>  <br> Want to register yourself or your organization for the RISE UP 2002 conference in LA on March 10th or...  <br>  <br> Live in or near LA and need a FREE BUS RIDE to the march and protest in Irvine on March 11th...  <br>  <br>   <br><br> RISE UP 2002!!!!!! <br><br>  <br><br> A 2-DAY NATIONAL CONVERGENCE IN LOS ANGELES... bringing together labor, student, faith-based, and community organizations from around the country to share our struggles and our strategies for the future, to learn from and support the exciting immigrant worker organizing taking place in Los Angeles today, and to face corporate greed head-on in an historic march on Taco Bell corporate headquarters -- all in two jam-packed days! <br><br> Uniting Locally-based Organizing Struggles <br>  <br> and the Global Justice Movement  <br>  <br> to End Sweatshops from the Factories to the Fields <br>  <br> March 10, 2002 <br>  <br> Rolfe Hall, UCLA campus <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>&amp;<br><br>&amp;<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>&amp;<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><\/p>\n","contact":"tbboycott@yahoo.com","link":"http:\/\/www.boycotttacobell.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"BOYCOTT THE BELL!!!","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2002\/03\/boycott_ta.txt","filesize":"15.1 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2002\/03\/15349.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}