On Friday 22 February 2007, a group from Georgetown Solidarity Committee and other Georgetown students braved forecasts of freezing rain to inform K Street of Burger King’s misdeeds towards farm workers in Immokalee, Florida. The students were protesting a Burger King on the 1600 block of K Street as part of a larger campaign against Burger King orchestrated by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). Recently, the CIW brought Burger King a proposal in which Burger King would use its leverage as a major purchaser of tomatoes to pay one cent more per pound of tomatoes picked by a farm worker.

Check out GSC's update from last weekend's actions, which ran yesterday in the DC newsletter "Union City": click here or see copied text below.