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Join the SEAC national council in support of the Fast for Famished during this Food Crisis. The fast is starting throughout the U.S. this Friday, the 23rd for three days. The fast will be broken Sunday the 25th at 6 P.M. Join comrades from Agricultural Missions, Inc (AMI), the Community Farm Alliance (CFA), Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), Grassroots International (GRI), the Kentucky Interfaith Taskforce on Latin America and the Caribbean (KITLAC), the Oakland Institute (OI), the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA), the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC), Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), Sustainable Agriculture of Louisville (SAL), World Hunger Year (WHY) and other individuals for any duration, be it the entire or just a single meal!

The CIW is launching a national petition drive to demand that Burger King and other food industry leaders work with the CIW to improve the wages and working conditions of the workers who pick their tomatoes, and join with the CIW in an industry-wide effort to eliminate modern-day slavery and human rights abuses from Florida’s fields. The petitions will serve as notice that those who sign are “prepared to stop patronizing Burger King now, and other food industry leaders in the future, should they fail to do so.” The campaign comes on the 200th anniversary of the US ban against the importation of slaves, and echoes key strategies of the early abolitionist movement that helped hasten the end of slavery in the 19th century.