with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Nov. 16, 2011
Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr
kombatrock on Nov 14, 2011
On Sunday, Nov 13th at 3 PM, a few dozen tomato pickers from Immokalee will join scores of Sarasota allies to picket outside the Publix that opened this week at 2031 Bay St. Protestors are calling on Publix to take part in the CIW’s Fair Food accords, hailed by the New York Times this summer as “possibly the most successful labor action in the U.S. in 20 years.” The CIW’s Fair Food agreements dramatically lift farmworker wages and improve their work conditions, and are signed by top leaders of the fast-food and foodservice industries, including Taco Bell and McDonald’s, the two stores that sandwich the just opened Publix.
Immokalee Workers vs. Publix with commentary by Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. His latest books are Death of the Liberal Class, and The World as It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.
see
Tomatoes of Wrath by Chris Hedges
Whistle While You Work with Michael Parenti and Greg Boozel (2007; must-see)
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