Immokalee Workers
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</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LittleSis research analyst Derek Seidman profiled Trian Partners, the powerful hedge fund behind Wendy’s, and its billionaire CEO Nelson Peltz, who refuses to meet the modest demands of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. The article - written for <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mpss/c/gA/ni0YAA/t.2s6/CoFMKH9bToGzDiMXCOX_cQ/h20/G6q3peQASTBhWBqtfhfNpcxpJUg9cRDwXydsuC53ERKuExRr98rWKXsLgAidP2ufFiLz6UfSY144sLIhLfExuIJmaGxUVoet2RSl-2FUyVrSYY6e19lFi8qGF4p7s9fJq5Wdi-2Bdmr-2B7ydrDD0LSZohNPGiPPlix-2B0qPPbnwDYtKi-2FJMGJPP3V-2BtCakyAXwdWKJCadYKOliPBnrkyDMYm4mBvgzoPxxUMNUyo03bIGsKkb4JzTn-2B9G15Zy8nLVItwL-2BseBQVDKiqCnRORcW-2BaqfpNdP611-2F0pQLaxYt6NyjWDep8LBHDWFZ-2FxrLUz1bewVbxz7THmQ3ivcuupdql7wxSAHyfR8CPYLOHiXbVxTgWFOlnMQIPzeqSgo5IItqkLtc9TAPB0LEvLgveMoW-2FtLFVLLN6YHf-2BLSIElfQVW8RnfiGlJ-2BJkpDQsHNbAPAZ5FkKXajiHN0QQi2dKYv-2F5LTocAbYT9-2Bkyc6EdwL-2FTFCq3AzyXtjE6Kw87bSr6ERkxy3P2G4x9AFuvYw-2BojYl7oV2mf0fXFsUbyMfA-2BtthkpHYOvB7iJpBO-2FR3QL0BNO-2FOHCA" style=""><em>Truthout</em></a><em style=""> </em>and reposted at <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mpss/c/gA/ni0YAA/t.2s6/CoFMKH9bToGzDiMXCOX_cQ/h21/IGbuxRGxf-2FM66JIJ8i1XmlKpM4f-2FAtZ3n7NY22ycLYmGkOuDHtFfuZp1jFy3He4XLB1-2B3TaVIFGkemWxBXJMGVzxNGCv-2B4j5K611nyeepL-2FjOGJUAGGqHFnl244nNVvrxwDW8pjYMNTYVB5YP-2FWK5dNoLDNnKJlPfPeeCnO0QnWPlKJqIYJzJkaMO2BnDHLxJO-2FJmEAE0crOHWdI9BvZrsSKuAJudpDs6pSczNMgqi5yYzlzyWn-2BJnot-2BtFNbekp3LocIlfJ6u-2F0AM8wnb0iMyzoTo9yAS-2FVwVlsul7jDmWiyImYFjiXFE5rNTmUWFOfpW4igCL68BfoLUCQzwJPxDIsUjAxxr-2BlIc4fjVljecE-2BWBjiVTIYDVhA60Sd72-2FvitF1wKjVZzZj6l3vK3Nh3Xps4wDkWeKTOqzjD-2Bw365qWkJzY2tA-2Bw7gBqkJqpq08jchYjA6quKgEfXWkNfK7jn2NtIvSaka-2BO8Pp5XSvDa354qkNBJisaqBafVc6SNDVEmym1sP5vsFXruTw18czb1eGN0pymvNc94lCtKDPbLhYBNenUbR3gXsYUXlu3aQsqJEk4Qqq9Q4dZltECV9Nmwby7-2BEjzlyCG-2Bl9skgsdWQ-3D" style=""><em>Eyes on the Ties</em></a> - went viral and was shared over 80,000 times on Facebook alone, making it one of our most widely-read stories ever. (Check out what the Coalition of Immokalee Workers had to say about the article <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/mpss/c/gA/ni0YAA/t.2s6/CoFMKH9bToGzDiMXCOX_cQ/h22/HkXsXQs1QkiGsMoPUd01YjREFfcrelgMYU9juHaauwsgHp06TqRp9fJWQGm0YF9ueGrCBShYS4So9o4UBuQyeFxqMIUyo1IhZf-2F8MuitdzjJ0aAM0m5Dd0kBiwGEDc7aBNu2jORTiQrA-2FM-2FY0-2BCHe0wQoNuMB-2BHpkwYLsaPrRkRxEkTY4oqdz1y-2BpIVUDIY-2FWEoLUN0TiI0TOSXv0IatfOOoqD-2FwZP6EtIIu5SzGCP1gBxBvrqBOUVKzE-2BMfxJeHp8t9tyAJRFNAVuTr8Mw1HWeq0h4eq2lKCh3ubik4CRKoNpKyx4kFHxhQlmjfk-2FTNZw64-2BhHxZUQ8l6qcaOyCJ1C-2FjAe6sHOmQERdAxvHjyGfiv-2B-2B8JeozHjDDl5JVEWP0gQlFXRzZCdVqfjFHp8qOdFfOqRcb0hLGc0ihUadF-2Fi5778FmgOz6EATxaSkRDaI2pzFUIYcibeBwC0HYm8S1uU6Y7Zg09iy0IJZdH-2BCex4w4wJr-2BN2hZHLe8DRlcFh0" style="">here</a>).</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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Those raises brought the <span style="font-weight: bold;">tomato</span> picking piece rate back to pre-<wbr />1980 levels (the piece rate had fallen below those levels ... effectiveness, noting, "When I first visited <span style="font-weight: bold;">Immokalee</span>, I heard appalling stories of abuse and modern <span style="font-weight: bold;">slavery</span>.</font></span></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Raj Patel exposes </span><a href="http://rajpatel.org/2010/02/19/black-history-now/" class="external text" title="http://rajpatel.org/2010/02/19/black-history-now/" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 16.704px; background: url("http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/skins/monobook/external.png") 100% 50% no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255);">modern slavery</a><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in Florida tomato fields: "workers were chained inside trucks, charged $5 for a shower, and made to work for pennies a day, suffering heinous physical abuse from their employers. Their suffering is bought cheap, at $2 a pound in the supermarket. Yet for picking those tomatoes, the average worker earns about 45 cents for a 32 pound bucket. And far too many earn much less." His newer book </span><a href="http://rajpatel.org/2009/10/27/the-value-of-nothing/" class="external text" title="http://rajpatel.org/2009/10/27/the-value-of-nothing/" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 16.704px; background: url("http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/skins/monobook/external.png") 100% 50% no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Value of Nothing</a><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> also has extensive info on food. </span><a href="http://fora.tv/2010/01/06/Raj_Patel_The_Value_of_Nothing" class="external text" title="http://fora.tv/2010/01/06/Raj Patel The Value of Nothing" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 16.704px; background: url("http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/skins/monobook/external.png") 100% 50% no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video talk</a><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> for example, the </span><a href="http://fora.tv/2010/01/06/Raj_Patel_The_Value_of_Nothing#chapter_03" class="external text" title="http://fora.tv/2010/01/06/Raj Patel The Value of Nothing#chapter 03" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 16.704px; background: url("http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/skins/monobook/external.png") 100% 50% no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255);">slavery</a><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span><a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/Tomatoland.html?id=-krDqrc_HWwC" class="external text" title="http://books.google.com/books/about/Tomatoland.html?id=-krDqrc HWwC" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 16.704px; background: url("http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/skins/monobook/external.png") 100% 50% no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255);">In his new book, Tomatoland,</a><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> food writer Barry Estabrook details the life of the mass-produced tomato — and the environmental and human costs of the tomato industry, including </span><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/06/slavery-in-the-tomato-fields/240140/" class="external text" title="http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/06/slavery-in-the-tomato-fields/240140/" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 16.704px; background: url("http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/skins/monobook/external.png") 100% 50% no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255);">slavery.</a><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/06/28/137371975/how-industrial-farming-destroyed-the-tasty-tomato" class="external text" title="http://www.npr.org/2011/06/28/137371975/how-industrial-farming-destroyed-the-tasty-tomato" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 16.704px; background: url("http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/skins/monobook/external.png") 100% 50% no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255);">audio interview and excerpt</a><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 5/11. </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-klein/tomato-farming-florida-immokalee_b_1381421.html?ir=Green" class="external text" title="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-klein/tomato-farming-florida-immokalee b 1381421.html?ir=Green" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 16.704px; background: url("http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/skins/monobook/external.png") 100% 50% no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255);">Video</a><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> but </span><a href="http://www.ciw-online.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.ciw-online.org/" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; line-height: 16.704px; background: url("http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/skins/monobook/external.png") 100% 50% no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255);">Coalition of Immokalee Workers</a><span style="line-height: 16.704px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, that amazingly effective immigrant farmworkers’ rights group, went up against Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Safeway, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe’s, and they won. [vpozosbe@ucsc.edu Victoria Pozos], a FoodWhat alumna, whose mom is a farm laborer in Watsonville, is currently at UCSC studying Farm Labor Justice and most recently worked with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Florida learning about and advocating for their Fair Food Campaign nationally.</span></font></div></div>