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Ethel Kennedy, widow of the late Robert F. Kenney Sr., was remembered Wednesday for lifting an emerging Coalition of Immokalee Workers out of obscurity when she came to the dusty tomato fields to understand and champion their fights over the decades.
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The USDA has promised some $50 million to provide protection and combat abuse in the agricultural fields.
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A man with a long record of dangerous driving pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to driving under the influence-manslaughter in the deaths of eight Mexican farmworkers whose bus was sideswiped by his pickup truck in central Florida. Dozens more were injured.Bryan Maclean Howard, 41, remains jailed without bond for Tuesday’s crash where the Florida Highway Patrol says he drove his 2001 Ford pickup into the center line on a two-lane road and sideswiped a farmworker bus, causing it to veer off the road, strike a tree and flip over.
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Immokalee farmworkers and others championing causes to end the abuses farmworkers have suffered in the fields carried their message of resistance and hope across the state to Palm Beach this weekend.The first-ever Farmworker Freedom Festival began Friday and continues through Sunday celebrating farmworker culture as well as the gains of the Coalition of Immokalee Farmworkers Fair Food program.
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The three-day festival will be held on the island of Palm Beach starting March 8
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Lucas Benitez is a founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. He is now in the company of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, John Lewis and the 14th Dali Lama of Tibet
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In the past six years Antonia Rios had became a face and the voice of calling for change and dignity.
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Humanitarian-aid orgs say the state’s newest anti-immigration laws will hurt it, in the long run.
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The Fair Food Program, the signature creation of Coalition of Immokalee Workers, is expanding internationally.
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Farmworkers share stories of life in the Florida agricultural fields