Tag: Harvest of Shame

See the movie, speed the movement…

See the movie, speed the movement…

[hupso title="READ: See @FoodChainsFilm, speed the movement... @FairFoodProgram" url="https://ciw-online.org/blog/2014/11/food-chains-harvest/"]   The seminal CBS Reports documentary "Harvest of Shame" (the Youtube version of which is embedded here, above) first aired on the day after Thanksgiving, 1960.  In a time when the airwaves were dominated by only three networks, the Edward R. Murrow classic reached millions of Americans and shocked the nation, an >> Read More

The real news out of the Florida tomato industry…

From the 1960 PBS piece “Harvest of Shame” to modern-day slavery cases and disturbing reports about sexual harassment, it is now an indisputable reality that farm labor is one of the most fundamentally impoverished and abusive -- and fundamentally necessary -- jobs in the United States. Though no less deplorable, the existence of these conditions is neither new nor surprising >> Read More