Thursday, March 8, 2007
As a native Kansan who lived for half a year in Immokalee, Fla., I read with great interest your story “1 Billion Angered.”
I conducted research there regarding modern-day slavery and found that the work of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers — the farmworker group calling on McDonalds to remedy the human rights abuses in their supply chain — has helped to liberate more than 1,000 people held in bondage, the ugliest expression of the day-to-day oppression tomato pickers regularly endure there.
Particularly because Florida`s agriculture lobby is so powerful within state politics, I agree wholeheartedly with the farmworkers’ tactic of targeting fast food leaders to end the injustices they suffer. After all, the Golden Arches, among others, makes its profit from these hard-working people’s misery.
Enough is enough. Kudos to all those in Lawrence who are supporting the farmworkers’ efforts to abolish slavery, as well as the poverty wages and deplorable working conditions which constitute the norm in the fields thereby enabling slavery to flourish.
Jordan Buckley
Nebaj, Guatemala
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