Justice for Farm Workers  in Florida and Beyond

Speaker: Chris  Hicks
Time: May 18th at 6.30pm

Place: First  Universalist Unitarian Church
7202 E 21st Street North

WSU YDS leader Chris Hicks will report on his  experiences during the  April 16-18 Freedom March from from Tampa to the Lakeland, Fla..  The  march, organized by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Student  Farmworker Alliance brought demands to the headquarters of the grocery chain Publix Super Markets Inc.

As U.S. unions and workers  struggle to gain or protect living-wage jobs, benefits and the right to organize, it is easy to forget that thousands of workers in this country not only don't enjoy such basic labor  rights, but are actually working quite literally in slavery.
 

One grassroots group, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, has single-handedly pushed the issue of slavery into public  consciousness during the past decade, raising awareness with nationwide  campaigns and working with prosecutors to break up human slavery rings.