RE: Palm Beach Post News series on Migr ant Farmworkers

[Guest guest]

Hello: I was not able to connect to the site you mentioned; any ideas? I'd

really like to read that series of articles

thanks

jane

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Ruiz [sMTP:jruiz@...]

> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:28 PM

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> Subject: [ ] Palm Beach Post News series on

> Migrant Farmworkers

>

> From Greg Schell:

> For the past nine months, several reporters from the Palm Beach Post have

> been investigating farm labor problems in Florida, particularly as they

> relate to undocumented farmworkers. This week, the newspaper published an

> extensive three-part series on the investogator's findings. The work is

> quite comprehensive, and even includes a first person account from a

> reporter who crossed the Arizona desert with a group of undocumented

> farmworkers, and then rode with the workers in a coyote's vehicle from

> Arizona to Florida. Among other things, the articles profile living and

> working conditions in Wimauma, Fellsmere, Lake Worth and Immokalee. The

> series also discusses the huge societal costs that the abuse and

> mistreatment of farmworkers imposes both on American society and in the

> social fabric of the home villages in Mexico and Guatemala.

> The articles are all collected on the website maintained by the

> Sarasota/Manatee Farm Worker Supporters. By the way, this is a terrific

> website that has collected more articles and news on Florida farmworkers

> than any other, so it's worth checking out periodicially:

> http://www.smfws.com/#Articles <http://www.smfws.com/>

>

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> Ruiz

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