Freedom in the Fields: films about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers

FREEDOM IN THE FIELDS
films about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the fight to end slavery in Florida agriculture

Saturday, March 1st
6:00 pm
at the
Bug Theatre
3654 Navajo St.
addmission is FREE

Join us for an evening of films and discussion about this important struggle for human rights.

Farmworkers in Florida's agricultural industry face a human rights crisis. In the most extreme cases, workers are forced to work against their will in modern-day slavery. There have been 6 successfully prosecuted slavery rings, freeing over 1,000 workers in Florida in the last 10 years alone. More cases are being investigated today. The sweatshop-conditions that farmworkers experience everyday provide fertile ground for such extreme abuses to flourish.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers--a community-based organization of Latino, Mayan and Haitian farmworkers in SW Florida--has led successful campaigns against the coporations that profit from farmworker exploitation and is at the forefront of the struggle against modern-day slavery.

Sponsored by the Denver Fair Food Committee
For more info contact robert@sfalliance.org, 505-980-4220
www.ciw-online.org
www.allianceforfairfood.org