I spent most of my life living in a neighborhood off Immokalee road. That stretch of asphalt starts near the ritzy beaches of the Gulf Coast, passes the entrances of numerous gated gulf course communities, continues on through undeveloped and farm lands, and ends in it's eponymous city, Immokalee, home of modern day slavery. A strange route that starts in luxury and ends in poverty, that no one seems to want to travel down.Today two members of the Navarrete family in that town were sentenced for
If you buy your tomatoes at a major supermarket or eat at McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell or Subway, then you may well be biting into the blood-and-sweat product of forced- labor-induced plantation agriculture, a.k.a. slavery, from the fields of Immokalee, where crack-cocaine meets whips and chains.The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a community-based worker organization, fights for the rights of Florida's low wage workers, and one of its members penned an open New Year's message to America. Y
