Guestworkers Sue California Farm Labor Contractor Written by barb howe Friday, 22 August 2008 19:44 The Sacramento Bee this morning has a story on yet another case of abuse under the H-2A program. Two dozen guestworkers have sued a California farm labor contractor saying they were cheated out of wages, offered less work than originally promised and housed in filthy conditoins. …
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Guestworkers Sue California Farm Labor Contractor
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Emergency Preparedness Should Include Everybody!
http://www.harvestingjustice.org/index.php/occupational-safety/182-emergency-preparedness-farmworkersEmergency Preparedness Should Include Everybody! Written by barb howe Thursday, 21 August 2008 17:21 As Tropical Storm Fay floods my home state of Florida, the Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) paper has a timely story about the dangers to non-English speaking populations when language barriers impede people's access to emergency information. …
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Farmworker News Roundup #6
http://www.harvestingjustice.org/index.php/farmworker-news/181-news-roundup-6Farmworker News Roundup #6 Written by barb howe Thursday, 21 August 2008 14:52 Hot, hot, hot: Stories on heat-safety: More farm deaths in heat despite CA crackdown (AP) California Department of Labor shuts down labor contractor for heat-safety violations. …
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A Labor Day Attack on Farmworkers
http://brainshrub.com/component/option,com_myblog/show,A-Lab...by: Bruce Goldstein "Amid all the hype of hurricanes and political conventions, the Bush Administration is about to launch a major attack on the nation's farmworkers..." Entire story here: http://www.harvestingjustice.org/index.php/immigration-labor-rights/187-a-labor-day-attack-on-farmworkers
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A Labor Day Attack on Farmworkers
http://www.citizenorange.com/orange/2008/08/a-labor-day-atta...as we expect they will any day, we plan to ask you to tell Congress to prevent those regulations from every taking effect. For more information on the H-2A regulatory changes, and news as it develops, please our H-2A News page on our website. ====== Cross posted on www.harvestingjustice.org ======
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what? who said that?
http://melissafurlong.blogspot.comfree food? psh. mass produced food is good enough for me! And then when I started working here at the Farmworkers Unit, I started considering what it meant to buy organics out of concern for the workers who pick and spray the foods. There was a big caseagainst AgMart a couple summers ago that one of our colleagues is collaborating on, where they found that a corporate giant (AgMart) was guilty of all these pesticide violations, and three women that summer gave birth to children with extreme birth
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http://www.citizenorange.com/orange
http://www.citizenorange.com/orangeillustrates the pervasive problems of guestworker programs. See their website for more info about the rally or to sign a petition in their support. Their blog has daily updates on the campaign. If you need the short version, Harvesting Justice has a good summary of the case (and for more information of guestworker programs generally, Farmworker Justice has a detailed explanation of the different kinds of guestworker programs in the US, including history and critiques).
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Rally in DC today in support of Indian guestworkers
http://www.citizenorange.com/orange/2008/06/rally-in-dc-toda...illustrates the pervasive problems of guestworker programs. See their website for more info about the rally or to sign a petition in their support. Their blog has daily updates on the campaign. If you need the short version, Harvesting Justice has a good summary of the case (and for more information of guestworker programs generally, Farmworker Justice has a detailed explanation of the different kinds of guestworker programs in the US, including history and critiques).
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30 Stories to Read
http://quinnell.us/sspb/?p=1522s Electoral Reform Package: Progressive Homeschoolers of Florida - Sen. Nelson Proposes Scrapping Electoral College in Reform Package, Tallahassee Leaders Forum - I actually have something positive to say about Sen. Nelson!, Barb Howe - The Human Cost of Profit Over People: Carlitos’ Story: “Corporate responsibility is not just another liberal platitude for Carlos (Carlitos) Herrera-Candelario of Immokolee, Florida. The three year-old was born with spinal abnormalities, has no
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The Human Cost of Profit Over People: Carlitos' Story
http://www.citizenorange.com/orange/2008/03/the-human-cost-o...{Crossposted from Harvesting Justice, a new interactive website from the DC-based non-profit Farmworker Justice.] Corporate responsibility is not just another liberal platitude for Carlos (Carlitos) Herrera-Candelario of Immokolee, Florida.
