Taco Bell Truth Tour Visits St. Louis
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
The Taco Bell Truth Tour is in full swing this week. Farm workers and their allies are visiting cities across the country to draw attention to conditions that workers endure to produce tomatoes for Taco Bell. The fast food chain is being boycotted because of their policies allowing for the exploitation of farm workers. The boycott is endorsed by the National Council of Churches USA and the United Church of Christ. Andrew Stelzer, my friend and former colleague from Portland, is now a reporter at WMNF in Tampa and is in St. Louis today covering the tour as it makes its way across the country. The above picture is of us from earlier tonight at the Eden Campus. Make sure you join the Taco Bell Boycott. Click here for the updated news links - including Andrew's stories. The most current list of religious groups backing the boycott includes:
* National Council of Churches of Christ (in the U.S.A.)
* United Methodist Church
* Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
* United Church of Christ
* Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
* Alliance of Baptist Churches
* American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
* Buddhist Peace Fellowship
* Episcopal Migrant Ministry
* Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
* Unitarian Universalist Migrant Ministry
* Pax Christi USA
* Pax Christi International
* Catholic Labor Network
* Interfaith Worker Justice (Chicago)
* National Farm Worker Ministry
* Bishop John Nevins, DD, Diocese of Venice (FL)
* Peace and Justice Office, Diocese of Venice (FL)
* California Council of Churches
* New Orleans Province of the Jesuits
* Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
* Sisters of Mercy Region 2
* Ohio Council of Churches
* Florida Council of Churches Commission on Social Justice
* The Christian Church in Florida (Disciples of Christ)
* North Carolina Council of Churches Farmworker Ministry Committee
* Church Women United of Illinois
* Florida Church Women United
* Florida United Church of Christ Women
* Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida
* Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida
* Tampa Farm Worker Supporters
* Sarasota/Manatee Farm Worker Supporters
* South Florida Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
* Orange County (CA) Interfaith Committee to Aid Farm Workers
* Apostolic Catholic Church (SW Florida)
* Fiath Presbyterian Church (Austin, TX)
* First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Findlay, OH
* The Session of Lakeview Presbyterian Church, Florida
* Religious Society of Friends, Ft. Myers Meeting