An internal review at Nabisco headquarters concluded Thursday that the women gathered on its front lawn, now numbering in the hundreds, had not addressed the company in any form since Day 9, and that the bullhorn had been used exclusively since then to announce when the coffee was ready.
“We kept waiting for the demand,” said a Vice President of Corporate Affairs, reviewing security footage. “There’s no demand. There’s a woman explaining HOMA-IR to a circle of people with notebooks. There’s a sign-up sheet for something called a bean dip pivot. We are not on the agenda.”
The review found that on Day 11 a nurse practitioner had set up a folding table and begun drawing fasting labs. On Day 14 a retired pharmacist started a daily session on reading a denial letter. On Day 19 someone installed a lending library in a cooler.
“The last time anyone looked at the building was Monday,” the review noted, “and that was to ask if they could run an extension cord.”
Executives who had prepared a settlement framework, a listening-session format and a statement of shared values confirmed that none had been requested.
Reached at the lawn, Cat Clark said she had not forgotten about the company. “We’re just busy,” she said. “They know where we are. We’re the ones in the chairs.”
At press time the review recommended the company “consider whether it is still a party to this,” and a second review was opened to determine what “this” is.
