1.0 link 112611 <![CDATA[America's Peasant Class]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robyn-blumner/americas-peasant-class_b_112611.html The list of allegations against the Postville, Iowa, slaughterhouse recently raided by federal officials for its use of illegal immigrant workers reads like a story collectively written by Upton Sinclair, Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Agriprocessors, the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant, is at the center of page after page of sickening accusations. These are contained in an affidavit for a search warrant filed by a federal agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

• Undocumented workers from Guatemala and...

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