Respect Farmworker Rights, Chipotle!

27Jun09

Last week, leaders of the food justice movement — – including Eric Schlosser and Robert Kenner, producer and director of the hard-hitting new documentary ‘Food, Inc.’ — sent a strongly worded letter to Chipotle, the fastest growing company in fast-food, demanding that they live up to its claims of ‘Food with Integrity’ and ‘work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as a true partner in the protection of farmworkers’ rights.

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Tags: Eric Schlosser, farmworker, Food, Food Justice, human rights, immokalee, labour rights, migrant labour, rights, Robert Kenner

Hmong Farmers: Booted Off Their Urban Land

27Oct08

4 acre piece of land farmed by Hmong Farmers in Fresno. The city is trying to push them off the land to build a police substation, the land currently feeds 300
peoples.

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Tags: Agriculture, city, development, ethnic, Food, Hmong, immigrant, insecurity, racial, security, sovereignty, urban