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A leader in the fight: From the Naples Daily News

Posted on January 31, 2006October 15, 2020 by CIW

From the Naples Daily News [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="256"] The caption reads: "Laura Germino, right, coordinator of the anti-slavery campaign for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, talks to Coalition members, students, and religious allies during a training meeting at the Coalition offices in Immokalee. During the meeting, the group talked about developing a code of conduct for the agricultural industry >> Read More

NEWS-PRESS TO FOOD INDUSTRY: “CONVICTED SLAVER SHOULDN’T BE BACK IN BUSINESS”!

Posted on December 27, 2005October 15, 2020 by CIW

The lead editorial in the Ft. Myers News-Press, entitled "Convicted slaver shouldn't be back in business," concludes: "Until big, respectable names start being linked with "forced labor camps" and "slavery," the whole wink-and-a-nod system will continue to be a profitable, if inhumane way to get cheap fruits and vegetables to fast food chains, restaurants and our dinner tables." Click here >> Read More

CIW DELEGATION JOINS FORCES WITH FAMILY FARMERS IN NORWAY

Posted on October 6, 2005October 15, 2020 by CIW

CHECK OUT THE REPORT FROM DAYS 9 - 11 OF 2005 EUROPEAN TOUR! Click here... CIW delegation heads to Europe -- birthplace of the growing Fair Trade movement -- on two-week tour to enlist new allies in global campaign for fair wages and working conditions in the fast-food industry's supply chain... Will meet with UN and ILO officials and union, religious, >> Read More

SLAVERY IN NORTH FLORIDA AGRICULTURE

Posted on June 12, 2005October 15, 2020 by CIW

Another report of slavery in Florida's agricultural industry, this time among workers in the white potato and cabbage fields of northern Florida, recently hit news stands across the country. The case was initially reported to federal authorities by the CIW. From the widely published AP report: "'The coalition was contacted by workers at the camp', said Laura Germino, a leader >> Read More

Collier groups work to address human trafficking problem

Posted on May 11, 2005October 15, 2020 by CIW

The Naples Daily News By Janine A. Zeitlin May 11, 2005 Putting human trafficking on the front-burner in Collier County government could result in locating victims in day-to-day government work and striking the root of slavery, advocates say. Decision-makers stamped May as Human Trafficking Awareness Month at Tuesday's Collier County Commission meeting, while lauding the work of two Collier-based groups >> Read More

CIW FEATURED IN 30-MINUTE DOCUMENTARY ON FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS!

Posted on March 6, 2005October 15, 2020 by CIW

...PLUS, CHECK OUT THE NEW PHOTO ESSAY ON IMMOKALEE PUBLISHED BY BBC NEWS IN A SPECIAL REPORT ON GLOBAL SLAVERY!... In honor of Labor Day, Free Speech Radio News aired an excellent half-hour documentary about the CIW's struggle for farmworker justice, the successful Taco Bell boycott, and the road ahead as farmworkers from Immokalee and their allies across the country >> Read More

LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR CIW TESTIMONY

Posted on March 5, 2005October 15, 2020 by CIW

LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR CIW TESTIMONY TO INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHT FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (USA), CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, GLOBAL RIGHTS, HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS INITIATIVE, OXFAM AMERICA, ROBERT F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL CENTER ON HUMAN RIGHTS, AND US HUMAN RIGHTS NETWORK March 2, 2005 Santiago A. Cantón, Esq. Executive Secretary Inter-American Commission >> Read More

‘Modern-day slavery’: Peruvian smuggling case puts national spotlight on industry that authorities say exploits immigrants

Posted on September 21, 2004October 15, 2020 by CIW

Newsday: HUMAN TRAFFICKING By Bart Jones, Staff Writer Their plight has catapulted Long Island back into the national immigration spotlight - 59 Peruvian men, women and children who federal authorities say were held in virtual captivity by three of their compatriots. The undocumented immigrants worked two and sometimes three jobs a day, handed over their pay to their alleged captors >> Read More

For pickers, Slavery tastes like tomatoes

Posted on March 30, 2003October 15, 2020 by CIW

By Greg Asbed, Special to The Palm Beach Post When farm workers from the camped outside of Taco Bell corporate headquarters in Irvine, Calif., last month -- with dozens staging an unprecedented hunger strike, calling on Taco Bell to take responsibility for sub-poverty wages and labor abuses in the Florida fields where its tomatoes are picked -- they asked reporters >> Read More

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Posted on October 18, 2000October 15, 2020 by CIW

Fort Myers News-Press, Oct.18, 2000 Drama marks 'modern-day slavery' trial By Peter Franceschina Sitting on the witness stand in federal court, the 20-year-old Guatemalan woman wouldn't look at the man accused of kidnapping her from her mountain village and taking her to the farm fields last fall to work in indentured servitude. She wore traditional Guatemalan clothing, an embroidered >> Read More