[FLPERMACULTURE] Wave of outrage over latest revelations of slavery reaches British shores!

[Molly Brewton]

Hi Dirk,

Thanks for the posting.  Where (in what country) is Immokalee?  This talks 
about British reaction, but it doesn't say where this took place.

Thanks,
Molly

At 11:25 PM 12/19/2007, you wrote:
>One more giant reason why industrial corporate agriculture is completely
>wack...
>
>forwarded from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers:
>
>One of the UK's biggest national broadsheets published today a
>front page "special investigation" entitled: "Slave Labor that
>Shames America: Migrant workers chained, beaten and forced into debt,
>exposing the human cost of producing cheap food."
>
>Check out the powerful new article at the CIW's website, at:
>
>http://www.ciw-online.org
>
>The article takes an in-depth look at the charges filed by
>federal prosecutors in the latest slavery investigation to emerge from
>the tomato fields in Immokalee. It is accompanied by an
>excellent interview with the CIW's Francisca Cortez.
>
>PLUS... People and Planet, England's largest student and
>youth organization in the fight against sweatshops and exploitation,
>have also joined the fray with an e-action alert on their impressive
>website. Here's a link to the P&P e-action, where you can go and
>take part in the first -- and certainly not the last -- action on
>the Campaign for Fair Food on the other side of the Atlantic:
>
>http://peopleandplanet.org/redressfashion/globallinks/CIW
>
>Seems that a European front is opening in the battle for Fair Food!
>
>Thanks - Coalition of Immokalee Workers
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