The March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food reaches Tampa!

The march completed its northward leg yesterday by reaching the city of Tampa, where the marchers were received from start to finish like conquering heroes, a reception that included a massive -- and remarkably creative -- candlelight vigil at a Publix store in Temple Terrace.
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"Don't let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.".....George Jenkins
Do The Right Thing Publix

Immokalee Workers vs. Publix

With commentary by Chris Hedges.

Pilgrimage to Publix

A group of Florida farmworkers and their allies will spend Labor Day bicycling as part of a journey taking them from one of the state's poorest towns to the headquarters of one of
its most profitable companies in a quest for better working conditions.
On Aug. 27, the members of the
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
set off on a 200-mile bike trek from the southwestern Florida farming community
of Immokalee to the Lakeland headquarters of Publix.
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Is Florida the Number One Slave State in the US?
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Coalition of Immokalee Workers Protest

At The Publix On Busch Blvd. In Temple Terrace

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Coalition of Immokalee Workers Coming To Tampa

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The Late, Great Mr.George

"Don't let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.".....George Jenkins
Do The Right Thing Publix

At The Spencerian
Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Tell Publix To Do The Right Thing

Major Demonstrations at Publix
At
1313 South Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa - 2724 West Hillsborough Ave., Tampa
243 Bayshore Blvd., Tampa - 2403 West Azeele Street, Tampa
3838 Britton Plaza, Tampa
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Protest In Temple Terrace, Friday, April 16, 2010
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Tell Publix "Do The Right Thing"

Major Demonstration at Publix
Saturday, March 5 at 2pm
1313 South Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa
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Friday, April 16, 2010, CIW Protest In Temple Terrace

CIW Protest In Temple Terrace

Publix On Busch Blvd.
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Publix People
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Publix Photographer

Farmworker Freedom March

Downtown Tampa To Temple Terrace
Next Friday, April 16
Publix - 5450 E. Busch Blvd. Temple Terrace, Florida
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Hundreds of Farm Workers Protest Publix

Cries for justice and better working conditions for Florida's tomato workers came from more than 500 protesters Sunday during a two-mile march through Lakeland in a demonstration against
Publix Super Markets Inc.......here

BAMCO Backs Florida Tomato Pickers

The gigantic U.S. food-service company Bon Appetit Management Company has partnered with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to take on
Florida’s shamelessly, and infamously abusive tomato growers.........more

Immokalee Slave Masters Plead Guilty

Five Immokalee residents pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to charges of enslaving Mexican and Guatemalan workers, brutalizing them and forcing them to work in farm fields. The 17-count indictment in the case - one of the largest slavery prosecutions Southwest Florida has ever seen - was originally released in January.........here
Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Tomato Pickers Win Victory With Burger King

BKC has agreed to pay an additional net penny per pound for Florida tomatoes to increase wages for the Florida farm workers who harvest tomatoes. To encourage grower participation in this increased wage program, BKC will also fund incremental payroll taxes and administrative costs incurred by the growers as a result of their farmworkers' increased wages, or a total of 1.5 cents per pound of tomatoes...........here

Slavery In Florida

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"We used to own our slaves but now we just rent them,".........Edward R Murrow

What a Whopper

There is a human rights crisis in Florida's fields. Farm laborers are being paid poverty wages while working long hours without overtime pay. There is even physical abuse and wage fraud by crew leaders, supervisors, and growers.........here

Burger King Espionage In The Sunshine State

In Florida, groups organizing for tomato pickers’ rights say they might have been spied on and vilified online by the fast-food conglomerate Burger King. The Fort Myers News-Press traced threatening emails directed at the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Student/Farmworker Alliance to Burger King’s corporate headquarters in Miami, Florida.........here

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

U. South Florida Protesters Grill Burger King

Chanting slogans such as "freedom for farmworkers" and "down with the king," a group of University of South Florida students gathered outside a Burger King on Monday to protest against the low wages paid to the farmworkers who pick tomatoes for the multinational corporation..........more

Slave Labor in Florida’s Tomato Fields

You can act now to urge Burger King to do the right thing and treat these workers with common human decency and respect. Sign the petition to eliminate modern-day servitude in America’s produce fields and join an industrywide effort to eliminate slavery and human rights abuses from Florida’s fields........here