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The Real Food Chain

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March/April
2012
Vol. 21
Number 2
ISSN: 
0897-2613

 

 

From farmworkers to warehouse workers, RESIST grantees are fighting for justice throughout the real food chain. This Newsletter is not just food for thought...but for action.

Table of Contents:

The Real Food Chain
By Joann Lo

Deathrice Jimerson works in warehouses outside of Chicago. Chicago is a major logistics hub, the only place in North America where six Class I railroads (the largest type of railroad) meet, connecting all corners of the continent. In the fall of 2010, Dee was hired by the temporary work agency Reliable Staffing and sent to work at a Walmart warehouse run by a subcontractor called Schneider Logistics.

Many Farms, One Movement

Dena Hoff is a pretty busy person. In Eastern Montana, right on the Yellowstone River, Dena took a break from working on her farm to chat with RESIST. With her husband, Dena has been farming here since 1979.

Organizing at the Borders
By Carlos Marentes

In El Paso, Texas, just a few feet from the US-Mexico border, sits an unlikely 8,000 square foot building. It is the only building like it anywhere along the border—and not just physically.

What happens inside the building is more even more remarkable than where it is located.

Immigrant Rights and Agricultural Justice
By Brendan O’Neill

After a year of farmworker ‘consultas,’ Migrant Justice launched a groundbreaking multi-issue campaign called “Immigrant Rights & Agricultural Justice” in 2012.

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