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Farmworkers Plan Major March to Publix; and Peter Breggin MD on the Danger of Psychiatric Drugs

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Tags: CIW, Publix, tomatoes, Peter Breggin, mass shootings, psychiatric drugs

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll speak with a leading expert on mental illness and psychiatric drugs…

And we’ll talk with an organizer of a 200 mile march from Fort Myers to the Publix Headquarters in Lakeland to demand better wages for farmworkers….

But first just a note about our fund drive- we ended our seven day Winter fund drive yesterday and came up about $18,000 short. Since then listeners who missed the seven day drive have been...

Florida farmworkers and supporters refuse food for six days in hopes of better wages listen

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Tags: Coalition of Immokalee Workers, CIW, Publix, tomatoes, fair food, wages, farm workers

Today farm workers and their supporters are in the second day of a six-day hunger strike in front of Publix corporate headquarters in Lakeland. About 60 members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and some of their allies are fasting to protest Publix’s refusal to participate in a program that would provide better working conditions and higher wages for workers who pick tomatoes. Previous protests have led ten companies to participate in the Fair Food program. Gerardo Reyes who works in ...

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...