Senate hearing, dirty tricks continue to make headlines, editorial pages… Need some motivation to get those last few hundred signatures on the petition in your community?
First, click here for a full report and exclusive photos from the historic Senate hearing.
Then, check out the opinion pieces and the NPR story below for a shot of righteous indignation to get your motor running:
- Read the Miami Herald op/ed penned by three US senators (Senators Dick Durbin, Bernie Sanders, and Sherrod Brown), "We must treat farmworkers fairly," from 4/21 here
- Read the Bradenton Herald editorial, "Pickers merit penny," from 4/18 here
- Read the report and analysis of last week’s hearing from The Nation from 4/17 here
- Read the Palm Beach Post editorial, "Slavery? Let’s find out," from 4/20 here
- Read the St. Petersburg Times editorial "Farmworkers denied one cent," from 4/14 here
- Read Senator Bernie Sanders’s op/ed, "The Harvest of Shame," Huffington Post, from 4/15 here
- Read the scorching editorial from the Ft. Myers News-Press on the dirty tricks campaign, "Burger King should wise up," 4/16
- Hear the National Public Radio story from 4/18 here