South Central Farmers Discussion Panel Upcoming
By Bryan Moats • Apr 3rd, 2008 • Category: Civil Rights, Environmental Justice, Social Justice, SustainabilityIf this is your first time here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. You may also want to checkout our list of organizations and books if you want to learn more about what this site is about.
This is a forwarded Media Advisory from the South Central Farmers in Los Angeles. Read on, California friends!
South Central Farmers Health and Education
1702 E. 41st St. Los Angeles, CA 90058
southcentralfarmers@hotmail.com
Registered Organic Production
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: 800-249-5240
April 2, 2008
Sunday, April 6th from 12pm to 6pm
South Central Farm Tianguis
With Special Guests
*Coalition of Immokalee Workers*
Environmental Justice & Worker’s Rights Bilingual Panel
With: Coalition of Immokalee Workers,Bus Riders Union, Global Women’s Strike,
Frente Contra Las Redadas, South Central Farmers, Eastside Café, and more…
Moderated by: Margaret Prescod Host/producer “Sojourner Truth” on KPFK
Musical performances by:
Olmeca, In Lak Ech, Los Poets Del Norte, Danza Azteca,
Y más….
Located at 1702 E. 41st St. LA, Ca, 90058
(corner of Long Beach Av. /41st St.)
For more information contact:
1-800-249-5240 - - southcentralfarmers@hotmail.com - - www.southcentralfarmers.com
About the CIW: After 2 successful campaigns–one against Taco Bell and the other against McDonald’s– the CIW is now targeting Burger King. But Burger King is not only denying their responsibility for the subpoverty wages and sweatshop conditions faced by farmworkers in their tomato supply chain, they are also working with tomato growers to take away what was won with Taco Bell and McDonald’s.
Burger King denies farmworker poverty and modern-day slavery, even though at the end of November another case of slavery was uncovered in Immokalee and is currently in federal court– a case that involves over a dozen workers that were forced to work against their will, chained and locked in a u-haul truck at night, and beaten when they tried to escape. The CIW has launched a national petition campaign to gather signatures from all over the country to take to Burger King at the end of April. In the same way that abolitionists in Britain and the U.S. did petition drives and boycotted sugar and other products produced by slaves, 200 years later the CIW is launching a similar campaign to end modern-day slavery in the fields today.
More infomation about the petition campaign at: http://www.ciw-online.org/2008_Petitions/index.html
About the South Central Farmers: As part of their commitment to keep Bringing Food to the ‘Hood, the SCFHEF hosts a monthly Tianguis marketplace in collaboration with various community-based organizations, artisans, and local merchants. Every first Sunday of the month, the Tianguis transforms public space surrounding the original 14-acre farm into a site for healthy eating, healthy economics, and healthy relationships.
For more on the history of the South Central Farmers visit www.southcentralfarmers.com
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Bryan Moats is an illustrator, designer and art technology geek at WKU. He lives with his amazing wife, two dogs and three cats in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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