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Why the Slow Food Movement Needs to Help Stop America's Slave Labor
Business  (tags: human rights, farm workers, slavery, fast food, Immokalee, Florida, agriculture, business, crime, government, abuse, humans, society, economy, corporate, consumers )

Tom
- 234 days ago - alternet.org
If you eat tomatoes, in America, between the months of December and May, chances are some were picked by slaves. Immokalee, Florida, is where 90 percent of the nation's winter tomatoes are grown. We need to be in solidarity with those who grow our food.
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Sign Petition: End Sweatshops and Slavery in the Fields
Business  (tags: human rights, farm workers, slavery, fast food, Immokalee, Florida, agriculture, business, crime, government, abuse, humans, society, economy, corporate, consumers )

Tom
- 234 days ago - tinyurl.com
Burger King and other food industry leaders have not only refused to join Yum! Brands and McDonald's in working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to improve farm labor conditions, but have actually sought to reverse gains made by workers.
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Farm Bosses Plead Guilty to Enslaving Immokalee Workers in Florida Tomato Harvest
Business  (tags: Florida, Immokalee, Slavery, human rights, labor laws, successful prosecution, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, industry-friendly, "third-party" monitoring group, Intertek, Burger King, slavery charges )

Alba
- 426 days ago - ciw-online.org
Yesterday, at federal court in Ft.Myers, FL, farm bosses from Immokalee pleaded guilty to "numerous charges of enslaving Mexican & Guatemalan immigrants, brutalizing them & forcing them to work in farm fields, 1 of most extreme stories of exploitation...
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Migrant Tomato Workers Face Chronic Abuses
Business  (tags: Abuse Of Power, Farming, Florida, Laws, Poverty, Temporary Workers )

Barry
- 564 days ago - opednews.com
Southern Poverty Law Center describes the plight of farm workers, especially in the Southeast, were labor laws are scarce and enforcement even scarcer. This is a topic for legal and illegal immigrants alike.
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Tomato-Pickers Feeling Spied On - Campaign of Dirty Tricks Tied to Burger King
Business  (tags: US, Florida, Burger King, tomato pickers, CIW, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, the Student/Farmworker Alliance )

Alba
- 569 days ago - news-press.com
Who'd spy on a couple of nonprofit human rights groups? Who'd hire professional infiltrator to sit in on their planning sessions? Who'd attack them on Web for their efforts to improve lives of workers who pick produce for world's largest fast food chains?
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Video: Reporters Blow Whistle on Monsanto Threats To FOX News Re Hormone Report Never Aired   video
Business  (tags: US, Florida, Fox TV, Monsanto, BGH, milk, secrecy, conspiracy, Canadian hearings )

Alba
- 608 days ago - youtube.com
Husband-&-wife investigative team join wi Florida's top consumer groups to reveal BGH story; provide details of their suit charging Fox TV, threatened by Monsanto, with violating whistleblower act. Canadian & UK public got different version than US on BGH
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You're Not Alone If You Can't Make House Payment!
Business  (tags: economy, housing market, mortgage payments, california, florida, forclosures, ohio )

Thankful
- 723 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Homeowners across the U.S. are increasingly having trouble making their mortgage payments on time, but borrowers in metro areas of California, Florida and other housing markets are accounting for the biggest spikes in foreclosure filings
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