Migrant Farmworkers Poem by Saiom Shriver
Migrant Farmworkers
Cesar Chavez's soul..
May his kind loving light
the aid of each of us
........ignite
Migrant farmworkers
sometimes standing waiting for
hours for assignments
Wages stolen or cheated
out of minimum wage
Backbreaking work in the fields
with no water, no toilet, no shade
Bathed in killer gas and liquid
insecticides
Given filthy housing
Their children provided no schools
Their loved ones having no doctors
Sometimes chained in slavery
Sometimes children forced to sweat in the fields
Unionizers beaten, sometimes killed
http: //www.fairfoodprogram.org/
Migrant Worker Hazards
https: //www.revealnews.org/episodes/farm-to-fork-uncovering-hazards-in-our-food-systems/#segment-when-working-conditions-are-ripe-for-change
Countless violations by farm owners
http: //www.tbo.com/news/business/labor-department-uncovers-violations-in-central-florida-agricultural-operations-20141119/
Child labor
https: //www.hrw.org/news/2011/11/17/child-farmworkers-united-states-worst-form-child-labor
http: //ufw.org
Thank you to wksu.org for broadcasting a program on this topic on Dec 5,2015
Cesar Chavez's nonviolence included not eating animals or fish
http: //fotonin.com/
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5/4/2024 1:27:36 AM # 1.0.0.1119
Excellent! Stark and biting, the way it needs to be!