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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
- 256 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
- 256 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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Tenants' Private Data Available on Internet-Landlords' File Lists Mental Health Issues, Social Insurance Numbers
Business  (tags: tenants, landlords, personal information, identiy theft, toronto, ontario, canada, tenant rights, human rights, privacy, corruption, dishonesty, ethics )

Cheryl Su
- 267 days ago - thestar.com
Private information for landlords about tenants, including social insurance numbers and mental health issues, can be accessed on the Internet.A database kept by Toronto company Landlord's Source Centre yesterday showed intimate details about 1,393 tenant
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To Die For - Colombian Human & Labor Rights Lawsuits Vs. Coke
Business  (tags: Coca-Cola Company, Colombia, Coke bottling plants, anti-union campaigns, union rights, human rights, intimidation, threats, violence, torture, danger, murders, death squads, Councilman, Hiram Monserrate, Queens, NY, outrage, lawsuit )

Alba
- 434 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Colombia- most dangerous place in world for trade unionists- since 1986, 2,500 have been killed. Coke claims not liable for murders at Coke bottling plants, but holds secret talks to pay for silence & unions' disappearance. Verdict scheduled 2009.
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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
- 448 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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The Hidden Face of Primark Fashion
Business  (tags: india, human rights, child labor, primark )

Dave
- 524 days ago - guardian.co.uk
The huge fashion store Primark sacked three of its suppliers last week after an investigation uncovered the brutal reality children as young as 11 labouring in Indian refugee camps to produce some of its cheapest high street garments.
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Immigration Issues End a Pennsylvania Grower's Season
Business  (tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Campaign 2008, farmers, immigrants, day laborers, human rights, fair wages )

Blue
- 604 days ago - nytimes.com
In Clarks Summit, Pa., the new politics of immigration has put Keith Eckel, one of the largest tomato growers in the Northeast, out of business
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Groceries on the Computer, and Immigrants in the Cold
Business  (tags: human rights, jobs, labor, unethical, immigrants, computer, groceries, protesters, consumers, dishonesty, marketing, accountability )

Holly
- 705 days ago - nytimes.com
Fresh Direct's great successes have been built on a low-wage, transient workforce anchored by illegal immigrants.
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Action Alert: Tell Wal-Mart: Stop Sourcing From Sweatshops
Business  (tags: americans, consumers, wal-mart, unethical, human rights, business, china, dishonesty, labor, money )

Holly
- 745 days ago - globalexchange.org
..nearly 70% of Wal-Mart's goods are made in factories in China, a country where garment workers are often kept under 24-hour-a-day surveillance and can be fired for even discussing factory conditions.
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COLOMBIA: Foreign Firms Cash in on Generous Mining Code
Business  (tags: Colombia, human rights, ethics, energy, exploitation )

Julia
- 764 days ago - ipsnews.net
(IPS) - These are prosperous times for Canadian mining and oil companies extracting resources from Colombia. Never mind that the U'wa are being expulsed and killed. Never mind that there's a war going on killing Colombians so that multis can cash in big.
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How Top London Law Firms Help Vulture Funds Devour Their Prey
Business  (tags: ethics, greed, capitalism, human rights )

Julia
- 766 days ago - business.guardian.co.uk
Many debt relief campaigners had been hoping that the headlines about a $50m lawsuit against Zambia by a so-called "vulture" fund earlier this year would mark the end of this controversial legal action.
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Vultures in Pursuit of £1bn Threaten Debt-Relief Deal
Business  (tags: business, ethics, human rights, greed, capitalism )

Julia
- 766 days ago - business.guardian.co.uk
Legal action worth almost £1bn by "vulture funds" against some of the world's poorest countries poses a threat to the debt cancellation deal agreed by the G8 at Gleneagles in 2005, the International Monetary Fund warned at the weekend.
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