Pictures from Today’s Consecration Ceremony of Janitors’ Fast

Beginning today at 1:00pm, dozens of janitors and their supporters from the San Jose community and faith groups are fasting to call on Cisco Systems to revoke the unjust layoffs of nearly half of their subcontracted janitorial staff.  Religious leaders including Rev. Bill Leininger, Deacon Steve Herrera, Rev. Gerald Sakamoto, and Rev. Rebecca Kuiken led a “Beginning the Fast” worship service  at the shrine of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church in Santa Clara, California. (Pictures at left and below)

The fast will continue until Tuesday, June 9, when there will be a major protest action in downtown San Jose.  Keep checking this website for updates, or bring a donation – food for the families effected by the layoffs, a monetary donation, or plain old solidarity, to the janitors at their protest camp outside of Cisco headquarters, at 300 E. Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA.

“My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove one must fast and pray” – Mahatma Gandhi