(thanks rachel) "slavery plain and simple" petition to end slavery
Late Fall last year, my friend posted on live journal the news article regarding the slavery case that occurred during the town carnival. I was in the CIW office when the men arrived at the office their wrists still sore from being chained and shackeled in a UHaul. I know the U.S. sees the term "slavery" as something archaic. long gone. I know there's not much being said about this year being the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery from the U.S. even though Britain even came out with a movie "Amazing Grace" last year, and in london last year the oldest abolitionist organization recognized the organizing efforts in Immokalee against slavery. Sooo, yeah, just like it started in 200 years ago with a petition. Immokalee has pergamino, and is pushing this pergamino, an international petition against basically the same shit they fought against 200 years ago.
visit this site,
http://www.ciw-online.org/2008_Petitions/index.html
what my friend posted:
"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
a box truck where they had been held against their will by their
employer. The three men told police of an Immokalee-based tomato
harvesting slavery ring in which workers "were beaten and forced to
work exclusively for the Navarrete family," according to an article
entitled, "Family accused of enslaving workers at Immokalee camp" in
the Naples Daily News (12/7/07).
On that same day, November 20th, Andre Raghu, global managing director
with the supply chain monitoring group "Intertek," told the readers of
the Miami Herald that his company's audits of Florida tomato operations
"have found no slave labor." Mr. Raghu was quoted in the Herald as
part of a high-profile press junket organized by Burger King and their
new partners in public relations, the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange
(FTGE), to counter CIW claims of a human rights crisis in Florida's
tomato fields.
And so, on November 20th, while well-paid executives assured the world
that all is well in the Florida's fields, workers in Immokalee were
recounting to Sheriff's deputies how they had to break out of a locked
U-Haul truck to escape from their employers..."
Read more here: http://www.ciw-online.org/no_slave_labor.html
At the same time, I've been debating when to go to tallahassee. No one is very reachable. But I planned to go up there during my spring break, organize something. I'm trying to get 8000 signatures as my own florida goal. veremos.
visit this site,
http://www.ciw-online.org/2008_Petitions/index.html
what my friend posted:
"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
a box truck where they had been held against their will by their
employer. The three men told police of an Immokalee-based tomato
harvesting slavery ring in which workers "were beaten and forced to
work exclusively for the Navarrete family," according to an article
entitled, "Family accused of enslaving workers at Immokalee camp" in
the Naples Daily News (12/7/07).
On that same day, November 20th, Andre Raghu, global managing director
with the supply chain monitoring group "Intertek," told the readers of
the Miami Herald that his company's audits of Florida tomato operations
"have found no slave labor." Mr. Raghu was quoted in the Herald as
part of a high-profile press junket organized by Burger King and their
new partners in public relations, the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange
(FTGE), to counter CIW claims of a human rights crisis in Florida's
tomato fields.
And so, on November 20th, while well-paid executives assured the world
that all is well in the Florida's fields, workers in Immokalee were
recounting to Sheriff's deputies how they had to break out of a locked
U-Haul truck to escape from their employers..."
Read more here: http://www.ciw-online.org/no_slave_labor.html
At the same time, I've been debating when to go to tallahassee. No one is very reachable. But I planned to go up there during my spring break, organize something. I'm trying to get 8000 signatures as my own florida goal. veremos.