Posted by Barry on May 24, 2010
●Rainbow Warfare: Greenpeace Sets Sail to Save the Bluefin
●A Raw (Milk) Deal for Wisconsin Democracy
●Supermarket Giant to Fisheries: Clean Up, or We Won’t Buy from You
●Hot Dog! Hunt’s Takes High-Fructose Corn Syrup out of Ketchup
Bluefins’ Last Hope?
Last fall, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunaslived up to its cynical nickname International Conspiracy to [...]
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Posted by Barry on April 1, 2010
Chalk up another one for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), the Florida-based community organization that has been trying for decades to improve the grim lot of migrant tomato pickers, most of whom toil for less than minimum wage. This week, ARAMARK, the giant corporation that supplies food to universities, hospitals, stadiums, and other institutions [...]
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Posted by Barry on November 17, 2009
After more that 15 years of petitions, demonstrations, hunger strikes, and lobbying efforts, members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a group trying to alleviate the abysmal labor conditions in Florida’s tomato fields (including slavery), take adversity as a given in their battle to secure living wages from the giant corporations that control the [...]
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