Launching Your Campaign

› Set up a meeting with your campus dining director
To kick off their campaigns, students are meeting with their dining services directors to discuss the conditions under which the food on their campuses is produced - and the concrete steps Sodexo can take to end farmworker exploitation. Send us an email to get tips on setting up and carrying out your own meeting. (Scroll down for additional campaign resources.)

› Send a letter to corporate headquarters
Download the "student letter to Sodexo." Edit the letter with the name of your group and school and mail it to Sodexo corporate headquarters. You can also use the letter to gather petition signatures to demonstrate student support.

Next Steps

› Follow-up.
Keep contacting your campus dining director to hold them accountable to the next steps you agreed to and/or information you asked for at the meeting.

› Consciousness + Commitment = Change
Create consciousness and awareness to build student support on your campus. Tactics include using the table tents in your dining halls, speaking in sympathetic professors' classes, holding SFA/CIW-related film screenings and campaign presentations, and submitting articles and letters to your campus or local newspapers.
› Click here for an example of an op-ed that you can adapt locally.

› Organize an action on your campus
Click here for ideas of actions you can hold on your campus and in your community today! Send us an email to share pictures from your action and let us know what you're up to. For a comprehensive organizing kit, including a step-by-step guide to setting up and carrying out your meeting with your campus dining director, flyers, talking points, a free educational DVD, stickers, buttons, and more, contact us at organize@sfalliance.org.

› Connect with other students & join the conversation! SFA members organizing on the ground can be each others' greatest resource - check out our local contacts page for a list of folks "dining with dignity" and get in touch. (Want to be listed as a local contact? Let us know.) To keep up with with all the latest campaign developments, subscribe to our low-volume listserv by sending a blank email to: sfa-announce-subscribe@lists.sfalliance.org. We also have an SFA-wide discussion list, used to share strategy and action ideas around the campaign and broader movements for social justice. Contact us if you're interested in joining that list!

› Research!
Educate yourself (and try to dig up some dirt) on Sodexo. Our friends at the Real Food Challenge and the Stir it Up Campaign have tons of great info online. If you have your hands on your campus's contract or any other info you think would be valuable to the campaign, let us know!