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| January 26, 2018, El Vocero Hispano TV and MLA's Teresa Hendricks discuss barriers to justice for people of poverty, complicated by limited English proficiency and cultural morays in criminal and civil cases.
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Boy For Sale. Going Cheap
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Ben O'Hearn on Human Trafficking at MaryWood
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Human Trafficking Exposed January 28, 2018, Grand Rapids Dominican Sisters hosted a prayer service for victims of slavery and trafficking. As stated by their
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For purposes of slave and sex labor, desperate men, women, and children are drawn into a vortex of degradation.
There is a sociological and economic truth of the deplorable worldwide industry in human trafficking." Migrant Legal Aid's Attorney Ben O'Hearn spoke about Michigan's human trafficking problem. Teresa Hendricks spoke about interventions and solutions to exploitation of labor.
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In the Fields of the North, by Davis Bacon, Shows Exploitation of Migrant Farmworkers in the USA
"I don't claim to be an unbiased observer," writes activist and photographer David Bacon, who has documented migrant farmworkers in California's breadbasket for 30 years. "I am on the side of immigrant workers and unions in the United States and share their struggle for rights and a decent life."
Davis's book, "In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte," combines black and white portraiture with interviews and oral histories of his subjects to reveal the reality of laborers.
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H-2A Workers: Complain? Get Fired. Go Sue!
Samuel Mayorga Salas speaks about why he came to the United States for work and why he and others decided to go on strike from their jobs at Sarbanand Farms on Friday, Aug. 11, in Sumas. Salas is one of about 70 temporary farmworkers who were fired after going on strike in protest of working conditions and the death of one of their coworkers. Full article
H-2-A Worker Strike, Lawsuit
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Florida's Migrant Worker Problem
Labor advocates say established farmworker communities such as Immokalee are being destroyed while employers cherry-pick young males from Mexico and other countries with no fair-labor laws. The system is abused by recruiters who illegally charge migrants substantial fees. And employers who want to cheat workers can get away with it because they have the upper hand - in the current anti-immigrant climate, more than ever.
Gregory Schell, an attorney with Southern Migrant Legal Services, tells the story of a Mexican laborer who complained to his foreman about being shortchanged.
"The foreman told him, well, yes, you are being cheated, but I have the magic pen," Schell says. He explained that the foreman recorded the names of returning workers and, when he came to "a complainer, the pen ran out of ink."
The worker was a named plaintiff in a federal class action against Sorrells Brothers Packing Co. of Arcadia, east of Sarasota. The lawsuit claimed the citrus concern failed to pay sufficient wages to dozens of workers as required by federal law and the H-2A program.
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