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	<title>IMAGINE 2050 &#187; farmworkers</title>
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		<title>Food workers struggle for justice with tomato pickers in Immokalee</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/03/16/food-workers-struggle-for-justice-with-tomato-pickers-in-immokalee/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/03/16/food-workers-struggle-for-justice-with-tomato-pickers-in-immokalee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlos Rich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Do The Right Thing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fcwa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Chain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Workers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Immokalee Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Midwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minimum Wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protesters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publix Grocery Store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tampa Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomato Harvesters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trader Joe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wages]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, I along with a few workers from the Midwest joined hundreds of protesters and Immokalee workers in Tampa, Florida.  This effort to bring more attention to the plight of food workers started in the northeast and made &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/03/16/food-workers-struggle-for-justice-with-tomato-pickers-in-immokalee/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Defend the Rights of Farmworkers</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/02/10/defend-the-rights-of-farmworkers/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/02/10/defend-the-rights-of-farmworkers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Blogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[12 Men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agricultural Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bushel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemical Pesticides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition Of Immokalee Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Company Transportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fungicides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harmful Chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbicides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indentured Servitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pesticides Insecticides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Piecework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty Law Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Poverty Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Poverty Law Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomato Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twelve Hours]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Minnie McMahon Big agriculture must stop exploiting its workers. The majority of America’s agricultural workers are undocumented people subject to sub-human treatment from their employers. Because of their lack of legal status, these workers have limited recourse to advocate &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2011/02/10/defend-the-rights-of-farmworkers/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco Workers&#8217; Lives At Risk, Reynolds Gets Richer</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/06/26/tobacco-workers-lives-at-risk-reynolds-gets-richer/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/06/26/tobacco-workers-lives-at-risk-reynolds-gets-richer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Garvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmworkers Labor Organizing COmmittee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FLOC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicotine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reynolds Tobacco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Ivey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symptoms Of Heat Stroke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Executives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Harvesters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winston Salem Nc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The hardships heaped upon tobacco harvesters are too many to list. Between exposure to heat, pesticides, nicotine, and discrimination, the lives of hundreds of workers in tobacco-producing states like North Carolina are at risk. RJ Reynolds, which controls the tobacco &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/06/26/tobacco-workers-lives-at-risk-reynolds-gets-richer/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Water a Privilege?</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/06/09/is-water-a-privilege/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/06/09/is-water-a-privilege/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jill Garvey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border Enforcement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border Patrol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crossing The Desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dangerous Situations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fresh Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanitarian Aid Workers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Southern Arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trade Agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Farm Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Jugs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, it&#8217;s not. Water is a basic human right. But some people in this country seem to think (or pretend to think) otherwise. I&#8217;ll start with an incident I heard about last week. A volunteer with No More Deaths, an &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/06/09/is-water-a-privilege/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tomato Pickers in Florida Battle Slavery</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/03/19/tomato-pickers-in-florida-battle-slavery/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/03/19/tomato-pickers-in-florida-battle-slavery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Bezrouch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1863]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buckets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chief Assistant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition Of Immokalee Workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Collier County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Day Laborers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fifty Dollars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Battle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Sunshine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor Crist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Tomatoes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigrant Population]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migrant Workers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Modern Day Slavery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modern Slavery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nauseating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty Line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southwest Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Two Tons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walking Distance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Working Conditions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomato pickers in Florida have come a long way in securing workers rights, but the path ahead of them keeps stretching farther. Immokalee is an area in Collier county, and is the state&#8217;s largest farmworker community. The region is predominately &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/03/19/tomato-pickers-in-florida-battle-slavery/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Belief: The Exploitation of Mentally Disabled Iowa Turkey Workers</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/02/25/beyond-belief-the-exploitation-of-mentally-disabled-iowa-turkey-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/02/25/beyond-belief-the-exploitation-of-mentally-disabled-iowa-turkey-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atilissa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bunkhouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cedar Rapids Gazette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Hands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department Of Human Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Des Moines Register]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forced labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry's Turkey Service]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Postville Iowa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sordid Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Squalor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[West Liberty Foods]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If Postville, Iowa is the poster story of meatpacking companies and immigration enforcement run amok, Atalissa, Iowa is the latest snapshot of horrific exploitation of vulnerable workers in the nation’s poultry industry. In recent days the Des Moines Register and &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/02/25/beyond-belief-the-exploitation-of-mentally-disabled-iowa-turkey-workers/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t Bash Immigrants With Your Mouth Full</title>
		<link>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/02/18/don%e2%80%99t-bash-immigrants-with-your-mouth-full/</link>
		<comments>http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/02/18/don%e2%80%99t-bash-immigrants-with-your-mouth-full/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rev. David L. Ostendorf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central American Countries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Theodore Roosevelt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stockyards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban Population]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is no one in this country who eats unless immigrant workers provide the food. From the ground to the grocer, low-wage immigrants, refugees, and other workers of color are the very backbone of the nation’s food system. There is &#8230; <a href="http://imagine2050.newcomm.org/2009/02/18/don%e2%80%99t-bash-immigrants-with-your-mouth-full/">Continued</a>]]></description>
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