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Farm Workers

The Fair Food Project Tells Farmworkers' Stories (VIDEO)

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Sustainability, Farming, Food Justice, Social Justice, Video, Food Politics, Farm Workers, Local Food, Green News
Paula Crossfield

If you eat, you rely on farmers, but you also rely on the labor of 2.5 million farm workers in the United States who earn wages below the poverty limi...

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Labor Department Tries To Roll Back Last-Minute Bush Rules

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: H-2a, Farm Workers, Bush Administration, Foreign Workers, Labor Department, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Labor Department is trying again to roll back Bush administration regulations that made it easier for farmers to hire temporary...

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Words: Words Parents Use Can Make a Difference for Life. Words Can Send You into Space or Tear You to Pieces

Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Farm Workers, Jose Hernandez, Words, Migrant Workers, Self-Esteem, Parenting, Advice, University, Education, Nasa, Summer, College, Space, Astronauts, Schools, Love, Confidence, Family, Living News
Ramon Resa, MD

Say positive things about your children. Tell them you believe in them. If you let them know that they can accomplish anything if they put their minds to it, they will.

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Bananas! The Shocking Film Dole Doesn't Want You To See

BigGreenBoulder | Dave Burdick | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Bananas the Film, Video, Dole, Food Politics, Food, Bananas, Farm Workers Sue Dole, Farm Workers, Green News

If you enjoyed Food, Inc., but wanted more of the flavor of protest and outrage that Boulder County has seen during the GMO beet debate, "Bananas!" ma...

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Chipotle And Food, Inc.'s Off Screen Drama

Grist | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Steve Ells, Food Inc., Food Politics, Sustainablity, Food, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Chipotle, Chipotle and Food Inc, Farm Workers, Green News

The fast-food chain would be sponsoring free screenings of the film at 32 theaters nationwide. It would also be distributing material promoting the fi...

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Exclusive Video: Martin Sheen Speaks Out for Farm Workers

Sarah Newman | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: United Farm Workers, Senator Dean Florez, Takepart.com, Martin Sheen, Maria Isabel Jimenez, Farm Workers, California, Politics News
Sarah Newman

We can't truly enjoy the bountiful summer harvests until the workers who plant and grow them are treated with dignity.

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Are You Worthy? It's Time to Question Meritocracy

Phillip Martin | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Farm Workers, Foreclosures, Merrill Lynch, Poverty, Molly Secours, Bank of America, Rick Santelli, Wall Street Bonuses, Meritocracy, Home Foreclosures, Politics News
Phillip Martin

Rick Santelli's self-righteous outburst directed at down-on-their-luck foreclosed home buyers amounts to what the late sociologist William Ryan termed "blaming the victim."

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California Schemin'

Michael Markarian | Posted 10.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Farm Workers, United Farm Workers, Farming, The Humane Society, Factory Farming, Humane Society, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Farming, Prop 2, Animals, California, Humane Society of the United States, Proposition 2, Industrial Agriculture, Local Farmers, Living News
Michael Markarian

The nation's largest egg producer is also one of the dirtiest; It has been cited numerous times for spilling chicken manure and chicken parts into rivers and streams.

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The Bush Administration's Latest Assault on Immigrant Farmworkers

Bruce Goldstein | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Farm Workers, Department of Labor, Guest Workers, Immigrant Workers, Politics News
Bruce Goldstein

New changes to the guestworker program proposed by the Bush administration would reduce protections and contravene decades of lessons learned about temporary worker programs.

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Green Edge 8 - Saving Lives on Farms in Latin America - Cultivar

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 10.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Farm Workers, Dominican Republic, Pesticides, Cultivar, Cdh, Del Monte, Cede, Green Edge, Mexico, Incap, Pase, Nicaragua, State Department, Haitians, Tesco, Chiquita, Dole, San Francisco Chronicle, Fertilizers, Honduras, sa8000, U.S. Department of Labor, Usaid, Green News
John Tepper Marlin

The safety of U.S. food depends starts with the farms where our food is grown. Last month, congressional hearings on America's largest salmonella out...

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Green Edge 5: Farm Aid in Islamic China

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Farm Workers, Martin Ma, Solidaridad, Social Accountability International, East Turkistan Islamic Movement, Olympics, Terrorism, Skal, Organic, Workplace Standard, Uighurs, New York City, Dutch, Development Agency, World Trade Organization, Kashgar, Olympic Games, sa8000, Max Havelaar, Fair Trade, China, Urumqi, Politics News
John Tepper Marlin

The 8/4 Kashgar attack was not a total surprise: The two attackers were linked to the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), three members of which were executed in a nearby town last month.

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Our Denier-In-Chief Punts While the World Pants

Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Greenhouse Gases, Bush Administration, Global Warming, Climate Change, Farm Workers, California Wildfires, Wildfires, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Is global warming a hazard to your health? Just ask Abdon Felix Garcia, a farm worker in California. Oh, wait! You can't, because he died on Wednesday after working in a vineyard in 108 degree heat.

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