People are coming here for the Super Bowl to party MUT 24 Coins and have fun — for the glitz and the glamour,” says Ibis Boggiano, a 52-year-old Cuban immigrant who lives in Miami and is one of the fasting protesters, speaking through a translator. “We want people to understand the reality of what it means to live here — the struggles we go through every single day.”

Boggiano has worked for LSG Sky Chefs for two and a half years, preparing hot meals to be served on planes. Paying her rent and her bills hasn’t gotten any easier, though, which connects her to the eight other fasters who have set up an encampment in Terminal D at the Miami airport.

Their financial situations have gotten so dire that they chose to spend six days consuming nothing but water, sleeping on cots at the local. Boggiano and her fellow protesters, some of whom have traveled from as far away as San Francisco and Minneapolis, are hoping that seeing the juxtaposition between a group of workers literally putting their bodies on the line and the cheery polish of a city putting on an enormous, publicly subsidized cheap Madden NFL 24 Coins party will force people to pay attention to the unfair working conditions they’re facing.