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25 Aug 2008

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Coalition of Immokolee Workers [USA]

RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights joins with Anti-Slavery International in joint statement remembering the slave trade and its abolition, demanding an end to modern-day slavery in Florida's fields! [USA]

The joint press release...by the the RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights and...Anti-Slavery International…is the latest expression of outrage over the FTGE's [Florida Tomato Grower's Exchange] obstructionist tactics in the face of a growing call for fair wages and humane working conditions in Florida's fields. …Florida's most conservative growers take comfort in the fact that they don't sell their tomatoes to the public and believe, therefore, that they can thumb their noses at their critics as long as their clients -- this country's multibillion-dollar retail food industry leaders like Subway and WalMart -- are happy…But retail food industry leaders do sell to the public, and do have to answer to the growing public outcry over the failure of the food industry to address the longstanding exploitation of this country's farmworkers…

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