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Southwest Florida Community Radio Station Voice of Farmworkers Has Transmitter Problems

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Tags: Radio Concencia, Gerardo Reyes, Adrian Alcantar, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Fair Food Campaign, tomato, slavery, Publix, WMNF

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll discuss the problems facing a radio station that serves farmworkers in South Florida. And later we’ll open the phone lines. But first- one listener comment about yesterday’s program—yesterday we got into a short discussion about program changes and the mix of music, news and talk on WMNF. Here’s what one listener had to say:

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None years ago in the southwest Florida community of Immokaleee, a group of wo...

Immokalee workers protest Publix in Lakeland listen

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Tags: Immokalee farmworkers, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, slavery, Publix, Lakeland

As WMNF reported Friday, over the weekend, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers marched from downtown Tampa to the Publix Supermarket headquarters in Lakeland as part of their "Campaign for Fair Food."

They are calling on Publix to pay one penny more per pound to tomato pickers, and to issue a statement condemning slavery in the agricultural fields of Immokalee where several cases have come to light in the past few years.

On Saturday, farmworkers and supporters...

Farmworkers March For Justice

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Tags: farmworkers, slavery, Publix, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, tomatoes, minimum wage

Good afternoon, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Robert Lorei. A caravan of farm workers from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) – and hundreds of consumers from across the country will march for three days from Tampa to Lakeland on April 16-18 to demand that Publix join a growing partnership among farm workers, Florida tomato growers, and retail food giants aimed at ending decades of farm labor abuse in Florida. The march will culminate on Sunday afternoon, April 18, with a public concert...