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FLOC Reynolds Tobacco Campaign

Current Campaigns: FLOC Reynolds Tobacco Campaign
Start Date: October 2007
Summary: Despite several attempts by FLOC President Baldemar Velazquez and FLOC allies, Susan Ivey, CEO of RJ Reynolds, has refused to meet with FLOC to discuss conditions for farmworkers in North Carolina's tobacco fields.

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Farm Worker Supporters Strong Presence at Reynold's Shareholders Meeting

mat 7 march.jpgSupporters of human rights and justice joined the National Farm Worker Ministry and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Friday May 7, 2010 where Reynolds Tobacco held its annual shareholders meeting.

More than 30 farm worker supporters gained access to the meeting by purchasing a share of the company’s stock or by representing someone, through a proxy, who owned one. These included several NFWM staff and Youth and Young Adult Network (YAYA) members from Florida.

nfwm banner.jpgThose inside used the question and answer period to create a dominating presence inside the meeting, giving voice to the real human rights situation for tobacco farm workers in the fields of North Carolina. At the conclusion of the meeting, Rev. Carlton Eversley, President of the Ministers’ Conference of Winston-Salem led the group out singing a civil-rights spiritual.

Reynolds Tobacco's 2009 Annual Shareholders Meeting - NOT Business as Ususal!

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On May 6th, NFWM, FLOC, farm workers and other allies gathered in Winston Salem, NC for a day of actions during the annual shareholders meeting of Reynolds Tobacco (RAI). We were there to tell Reynolds’ management and shareholders that farm workers are stakeholders too!

The day began with a brief prayer service outside of Reynolds led by Kevin Todd, Duke Divinity Field Education Intern at NFWM NC. Together, they read the Litany, “Give us hope in a new day in which all women and men will know justice, peace, equality, and love; A new day when we will no longer need to gather to STRUGGLE for justice but will gather to CELEBRATE justice.”

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