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Part One: “The New Day is not something that’s going to happen, the New Day is happening right now”…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title="Extreme Makeover of the Florida tomato industry, Part One..." url="https://ciw-online.org/?p=19054"]   Since 2010, a metamorphosis has been underway in the Florida tomato industry, while in Mexico the industry's counterpart has only sunk deeper into a morass of violence, corruption, poverty, and exploitation... The quotation at the top of this post came from the Rev. Roy Terry of the United >> Read More
“Farmworker Freedom March”

“Farmworker Freedom March”

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MEDIA CONTACT Gerardo Reyes (CIW), 239-503-0950 Lucas Benitez (CIW), 239-503-0133 Julia Perkins (CIW), 239-986-0891 Farmworkers, Consumers Come Together for "Farmworker Freedom March" from Tampa to Lakeland, Hometown of Publix Supermarkets Landmark three-day event calls for “Freedom from forced labor, poverty, abuse” Immokalee, FL (April 14, 2010) – A caravan of farmworkers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) – an internationally-recognized >> Read More
Shining a rotten apple

Shining a rotten apple

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Shining a rotten apple Two farms that used workers held against their will in the Navarrete slavery case were certified as “socially accountable” by the grower-controlled monitoring agency called "SAFE" (Socially Accountable Farm Employers) When news of Florida's latest slavery prosecution hit the headlines last December, one crucial bit of information went largely overlooked.   The paragraph below, tucked into >> Read More
Worker to Judge: “Bosses should not beat up the people who work with them”…

Worker to Judge: “Bosses should not beat up the people who work with them”…

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In the midst of a growing uproar over Tallahassee's controversial statements on slavery in Florida, Friday's sentencing in the Navarrete case (pictured here, from the left, are farm bosses Geovanni and Cesar Navarrete) provided a horrifying reminder of the raw brutality of forced labor and the enduring shame of an agricultural industry seemingly addicted to exploitation... Four Immokalee family members >> Read More
Press Release: Sixth Immokalee slavery case suspect arrested Group accused of keeping beating, stealing from Immokalee laborers

Press Release: Sixth Immokalee slavery case suspect arrested Group accused of keeping beating, stealing from Immokalee laborers

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FORT MYERS NEWS-PRESS Pat Gillespie pgillespie@news-press.com January 18, 2008 In one of the largest slavery prosecutions Southwest Florida has ever seen, authorities arrested a sixth suspect Wednesday, charging her with making money off unpaid illegal immigrant farm workers. Antonia Zuniga Vargas appeared in court for the first time Thursday to listen to the charges: conspiring to make money off workers >> Read More
How about a side order of human rights?

How about a side order of human rights?

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Fred Grimm, The Miami Herald Dec. 16, 2007 Immokalee -- Cheap tomatoes start here. At the slave house on Seventh Street. The squat beige stucco house three blocks off Main Street in Immokalee hardly suggests that the Navarrete family was getting rich using intimidation, locked doors and the strong-arm tactics to maintain their low-wage undocumented work crews. The only signs >> Read More

Fresh allegations of “human slavery” emerge from the tomato fields of Immokalee

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Federal prosecutors say workers picking tomatoes locked in trucks, chained, beaten by bosses for trying to escape; Four arrested November 20th was a momentous day in Immokalee. On November 20th, according to court documents filed last week, three tomato pickers made their way to the Collier County Sheriff’s office after having escaped two days earlier through the ventilation hatch of >> Read More