Grand Rapids Press Fails to Report Local Connections to Taco Bell Boycott

February 24, 2004 1:24 AM |

Today the Grand Rapids Press ran an AP wire story about the upcoming "2004 Taco Bell Truth Tour". While it is good that the Press finally had some coverage of the low wages paid to people picking tomatoes for Taco Bell in Immokalee, Florida (conditions have been described by outsiders as tantamount to slavery) and the farmworker-led and student-supported movement against Taco Bell, the paper failed to make connections to local campaigns. A Grand Valley State University student group, Students Against Sweatshops has been working on the Taco Bell boycott for three years by educating and organizing students in order to remove Taco Bell from campus.

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