Nicholas Pasquarello

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Unitarian Universalists Join the Call for Wendy's Boycott

On June 22 over 50 Unitarian Universalists gathered outside the Wendy’s on Woodruff & High calling attention to the nation-wide boycott of the Ohio-based fast food chain.  The protest happened in tandem with the Unitarian Universalist Association, with hundreds of thousands of members…

Farmworkers, Ohio Consumers to Demonstrate Outside Wendy’s Annual Shareholder Meeting

Dublin, OH – Wednesday, May 28th, at 9:00am, Columbus and Dublin-area clergy, students, and residents with Ohio Fair Food will join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) — an award-winning organization of Florida farmworkers — for a demonstration outside the 2014 Wendy’s Annual Meeting of…

Students Take Action to “Boot the Braids”, Demand Ohio State Ends Complicity in Wendy’s Human Rights Abuses

On April 15, 50 students and community allies lead by the Ohio State Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA) gathered to deliver a message to the Wendy’s location on campus in the Wexner Medical Center: that they will not tolerate OSU’s continued business with Wendy’s; a company which refuses to support…

Columbus Becomes National Focal Point of Farmworker Struggle

Over 20 years ago, a handful of farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida started meeting in a borrowed room of a local church. They gathered to discuss the routine conditions they experienced in the fields: sub-poverty wages, wage theft, sexual harassment and, in the most extreme cases, modern-day slavery…

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