<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">I had always wondered how Taco Bell kept their prices so incredibly low. Now I know! Check out the excellent boycott website at http://www.ciw-online.org/tz_site-revision/home/home.html. It includes disturbing media reports about what the Justice Dept calls "modern slavery" and press coverage of the farm workers' campaign against Taco Bell, which won them the </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">2003 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">. <BR>
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Date: Thursday, April 8, 2004 3:36:48 PM<BR>
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For three days, Food First staff marched along the 44-mile "Taco Bell Truth Tour" from East L.A. to the Taco Bell headquarters in Irvine, California. For reports and photos from the march, visit</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><A HREF="http://www.foodfirst.org/ciw"> http://www.foodfirst.org/ciw</A></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">.<BR>
The Truth Tour has now sparked national action and mobilization to support the Coalition of Immokalee Worker's demands for justice.<BR>
Now, students from Notre Dame, University of Florida, and Grand Valley State in Michigan are on hunger strikes to pressure their universities to "boot" Taco Bell restaurants from their campuses until the fast food giant assumes responsibility for the slavery conditions under which their tomatoes are picked.<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><B><U> The students need your support</U></B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">. Send an e-mail, call, or fax university administrators now to "Boot the Bell" from college campuses! Go to:</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><A HREF="http://www.ciw-online.org/tz_site-revision/home/home.html"> http://www.ciw-online.org/tz_site-revision/home/home.html</A></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> and</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><A HREF="http://www.sfalliance.org"> http://www.sfalliance.org</A></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">.<BR>
The CIW's struggle for human rights has drawn the support of Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland. AFL-CIO's President John Sweeney has also written a letter to Yum! Brands Board member James Dixon, CEO of Bank One, urging Dixon to support a dialogue between Yum! and CIW and informing him that "13 million members of the AFL-CIO and their families [will] boycott Taco Bell products until this issue is resolved."</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><A HREF="http://www.ciw-online.org/tz_site-revision/home/home.html"> http://www.ciw-online.org/tz_site-revision/home/home.html</A></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">.<BR>
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