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From my 2014 blog The Considerate Omivore... The irate grower cut off conversation. “I’m giving you to the count of five to get off my property. Five, four, three…” Union organizer Raul Jimenez stood firm. “Two! One!! Okay lock him up.” The sheriff snapped on the cuffs. This is what I saw late last night … Continue reading Handcuffed in defense of farmworker rights
From my 2014 blog The Considerate Omnivore... Danny should feel comfortable here and the tomato pickers should see him as one of their own. But he doesn’t, and they don’t. Eighteen-year-old Daniel Guzman is in a labor camp in the South Carolina Lowcountry, some 500 miles away from Immokalee, Florida where he grew up in … Continue reading 500 miles from Immokalee
From my 2014 blog The Considerate Omnivore... Thanks to a recent feature on The Daily Show and a slew of media attention (links below) a lot more people are now aware of the problem of children working in U.S. tobacco fields. This attention is a very good thing, but the problem goes way beyond tobacco: … Continue reading It ain’t just tobacco
Michael Durbin 