At our visioning meeting tonight we had a guest from the UW branch of United Students Against Sweatshops asking us as the UW Student Farm to support their campaign to kick out Sodexo Inc. from UW's Husky Stadium concession stands. Sodexo has been convicted of numerous violations of human rights concerning their food workers at campuses nationwide, and several other campuses are already boycotting their services. For complete information, see this link: http://kickoutsodexo.usas.org/
Those of us attending the meeting are prepared to put our organization's name on the petition to the Provost to cut UW's contract with Sodexo because we feel it is in line with the Student Farm's mission to promote Food Justice as a social cause. However, we want the whole Farm to have a chance to voice opinions before we put the pen to paper.
In the next 24 hours, please respond to the listserv or post on the Facebook page about this topic if you feel strongly.
Thanks y'all!
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