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

[Margaret McCasland]

Immokalee is in Florida: we're talking about produce grown in the US
of A for Big Macs etc sold in the US of A.

On 12/20/07, Molly Brewton <mb105 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 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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