Marc Rodrigues, 28, originally from Yonkers, NY, lives in Immokalee and is co-coordinator of the Student/Farmworker Alliance, a national network of students and youth organizing in solidarity with the Coalition of
Immokalee Workers.

Rebecca Smith is the coordinator of the Justice for Immigrant Workers
Project at the National Employment Law Project.

Blog Entries by Marc Rodrigues and Rebecca Smith

Governor Crist Should Take a Stand Against Slavery

Posted January 29, 2009 | 04:39 PM (EST)


In December 2008, federal prosecutors from the Department of Justice wrapped up yet another farm labor slavery case in Florida, a case the Chief Assistant US Attorney called one of Southwest Florida's biggest and ugliest slavery cases ever, according to the Ft. Myers News-Press. When the defendants were indicted a...

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