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[Atmospheric music]
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[Acoustic guitar music]
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You arrive here
around 7:00, 7:30.
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Then you have to wait for
several hours until the dew is
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Gone from the plant.
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One of the most difficult
things is just to come to a
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Realization how little you
mean to the people that, that
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You are working for.
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I still believe agriculture is
the backbone of America, and
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When you have an industry as
big as agriculture, you've got
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To pay attention
to the labor force.
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The history of farm labor in
the United States is a history
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Of exploitation.
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Plantation and the ghetto were
created by those who had power
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Both to confine those who have
no power and to perpetuate
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That powerlessness.
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All my life I have been driven
to overthrow a farm labor
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System in this nation that
treats farm workers as if they
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Were not important
human beings.
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These people have suffered
tremendously, and uh, grown
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Much more slowly
economically than any other
segment of our society.
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The appalling conditions of
farm workers moved my brother
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To crack down on the abuses,
but too little has changed
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Over the years.
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Their working conditions are
deplorable, but most of them
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Are afraid to demand fair
treatment, because they know
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They'll be fired, blacklisted
or turned over to
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Immigration officials.
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It is terribly important that
we understand how in the year
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2008 slavery, slavery can
exist, and how workers can be
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Treated as badly as they are.
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Most people have no idea that
they're connected to this
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System every time they buy
fresh fruits and vegetables.
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All the fresh fruits and
vegetables in supermarkets
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Arrive there via the supply
chain: An intricate system of
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Distributors, farmers,
and farm workers.
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Supermarkets set all the
rules in the supply chain.
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The prices consumers pay, how
farmers grow their crops, what
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These crops can look and taste
like, and ultimately how much
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Money is left over to pay
workers at the bottom of the
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Supply chain.
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While all the workers who pick
their produce live below the
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Poverty line, these massive
corporations generate a half a
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Trillion dollars a
year in the U.S. alone.
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I think the entire supermarket
business goes out of its way
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So that you're not reminded
of where your food came from.
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If a handful of companies
decided that they wanted to
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Eliminate poverty and
exploitation among farm
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Workers, it could happen
very very quickly.
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Pennies more on purchases of
fresh fruits and vegetables
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Could eliminate this problem.
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Food means...
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To me, it means life.
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It means memories.
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From what I remember
when I was a kid, from my
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Grandfather, he used to tell
me that I should never feel
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Bad about buying an expensive
plate of food once in a while.
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That we work in this life to
be able to not worry about food.
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Sometimes we as farm workers
don't eat because you live in
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A situation where
you go day by day.
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To live hungry while you
are working, that's not a
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Dignified way of living.
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That's not what we want.
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What we want is to be
able to establish change.
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The coalition of immokalee
workers, or cow, is a small
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Group of tomato pickers past
and present dedicated to
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Ending the poverty and
exploitation of fellow
farm workers.
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The cow's fair food program
demands that the large
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Purchasers of tomatoes
acknowledge their reliance on
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Farm workers and do two
things: Pay workers an extra
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Penny for every pound of
tomatoes they pick, which
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Would double their wages,
and help eradicate abuse
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In the fields.
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The cow's latest campaign
is against publix.
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Publix is the largest
purchaser of tomatoes in
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Florida and one of the
highest-grossing supermarket
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Chains in the world.
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[Chanting in Spanish]
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Publix has refused to meet
with the cow or discuss the
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Fair food program, and so
the cow is launching a hunger
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Strike in front of the
publix headquarters.
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A meeting with publix
executives:
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That's all the cow wants.
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If publix simply agrees to
talk, the strike will end.
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Publix has been aware of
our campaign for a while and
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Decided to not respond to the
terrible conditions and unfair
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Abuses taking place within
their tomato supply chain.
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We believe that perhaps today
an executive in there is
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Beginning to think that
sitting down with farm workers
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Might just be a
good thing to do.
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[Indistinct speech]
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This is immokalee, 1960.
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This is a shape up
for migrant workers.
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This is where the humans who
harvest the food for the best
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Fed people in the
world get hired.
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This is an American story
that begins in Florida.
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It has to do with the men,
women and children who harvest
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The crops in this country of
ours, the best fed nation on
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Earth.
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These are the
forgotten people.
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The under-protected,
the undereducated, the
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Under-clothed, the underfed.
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This is CBS reports'
harvest of shame.
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"Harvest of shame" was
broadcast at this time of
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Incredible American
prosperity, where there was
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This notion that the
depression had been left
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Behind and America was
becoming the richest country
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In the world, and
Edward r. Murrow
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Reminded viewers that
there was just this terrible
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Poverty and exploitation
hidden, hidden from view.
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One farmer looked at this
and said "we used to own our"
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Slaves, now we
just rent them."
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Well, I guess they got a
little gypsy in their blood.
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They just like it.
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Lot of them wouldn't
do anything else.
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Lot of them don't
know any different.
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That's all they want to do.
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They love it.
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I think it would be easy to
demonize farmers, and uh, hold
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Them responsible for the
poor wages of migrants.
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That might've been true in
some cases 30 years ago, 40
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Years ago, but that's not
really the problem today.
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If you want to make change, I
think you need to look at the
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People who have the real power
to make the lives of farm
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Workers better, and those are
the people at the very top.
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Farm workers are the
foundation of a massive supply
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Chain that includes farmers
and distributors, but that is
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Dominated by fast food, food
service and supermarkets
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Like publix.
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The power of supermarkets is
rooted in their gross revenue.
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They earn more than monsanto,
Goldman sachs, Microsoft,
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And apple.
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When you talk about grocery
chains, it is very very easy
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To bully the small farmers.
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They are being villainized,
and they know they're being
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Villainized, but
their hands are tied.
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It's a very difficult
world for most farmers.
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Certainly there is this
nostalgic vision of, you know,
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The small family farm where
there was much more control
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Over who you paid and
how much they got paid.
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I think there's a sense now
that everybody is deeply
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Interdependent in this
entire supply chain.
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Agriculture's doing great as
long as you're not a farmer.
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There's been, become such a
disconnect over the last 30
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Years between the ultimate
point of sale
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And the actual production.
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If someone asks me, you know,
what do you do for a living, I
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Tell them I'm a farmer,
it's almost like a joke.
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'Cause, you know, there's not
many people my age doing it
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Anymore.
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But it's really cool,
something to do, you know?
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You watch something
grow every day.
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Commercial tomato growing
in Florida is essentially a
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High-stakes gamble.
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If everything goes right,
if the market conditions are
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Right, if there's not too many
competing tomatoes coming in
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From Mexico, they
can make a bundle.
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But if there's a freeze, as
there is, seems every other
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Year, they can be wiped out.
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All the older guys keep saying
that they've never seen it
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This bad.
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They've never
seen it this bad.
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My dad's been doing it for
28 years, he says this is the
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Worst he's ever seen it.
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This season's been so rough
that if it keeps going on at
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This rate, we're just
going to have to shut down.
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You've got the system where
supermarkets have enormous
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Buying power, you know?
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By their existence, they
shape the whole system.
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But despite having that power,
the supermarkets don't want to
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Be growing the food
themselves, they certainly
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Don't want to be hiring
the farm workers.
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They don't want to take on the
risk of actually producing the
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Foods that get
delivered to consumers.
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At the beginning of the
season, Jacob will sell his
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Tomatoes through a
contract he'd sign with the
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Supermarket.
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But the supermarket was soon
able to buy tomatoes from
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Mexico at a price that
Jacob couldn't match.
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It would now cost Jacob a lot
more money to harvest and pack
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His crop than to let it rot.
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Sucks to have to tell 60
people from here and 100
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People from the farm that we
don't have anything for them
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To do.
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You know they, they worked all
year long to, you know, plant
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The plants and stake them and
tie them and prune them and do
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Everything that's involved,
and then when it comes time
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For them to start making
money, you know, which is
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Essentially when we're
harvesting, now we can't even
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Harvest them.
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It cost us three times what it
cost us a little over a decade
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Ago to grow tomatoes.
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You don't see that translated
into a difference, uh, at the
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Retail level.
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Over the last three decades,
as production costs like
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Seeds, pesticides,
fertilizers, machinery and
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Fuel have increased,
supermarkets have demanded
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That farmers maintain their
prices, thereby dramatically
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Cutting into farmers' profits.
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But supermarkets haven't
always wielded such power over
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The market.
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The supermarket industry
remained relatively stable
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Into the sixties, uh,
and into the seventies.
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Then in the 1980's, Wal-Mart
decides to get into the
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Grocery business.
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Wal-Mart took the model that
was being pioneered by kroger
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And publix and some others
in the seventies and really
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Rewrites the
rules of the game.
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Wal-Mart came onto the scene
and upended the system by
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Buying in larger quantities
and offering produce to
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Customers at drastically
lower prices.
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In order to compete with
Wal-Mart's prices, the
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Industry was forced to
consolidate, leaving only a
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Few large competitors in an
industry that used to have
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Hundreds.
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Every single one of these
supermarket chains, from
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Publix to kroger to, to stop
& shop and giant,
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Not just Wal-Mart.
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All of them, you know,
thirty-forty years ago
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Weren't, were either not
there or just starting.
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But in the space of those few
decades, they've become these
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Massive, you know,
$25 billion behemoths.
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Because now, hundreds of
thousands of farmers have only
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A handful of supermarkets
to sell their produce to.
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These supermarkets have a
historically unprecedented
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Amount of power.
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When a company is able to
dictate the pricing structure
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Down its entire supply chain,
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A free market no longer exists.
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Economists call this
un-free market a monopsony.
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It's not the supermarkets
telling workers out in the
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Fields "you must do this,"
it's supermarkets having
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Contracts with farm owners or
other intermediaries who then
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Have to figure out how
to get those demands met.
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The buyers create this
pressure that makes it
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Impossible for the industry
to work in a normal way.
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In order to be able to produce
more, you have to push the
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Workers to work faster for
less pay
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Or for stagnant wages.
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So if you think about it, they
are creating the poverty
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Of immokalee.
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So they have an obligation
to help us to eliminate this.
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It's a supply chain that
everyone's linked together,
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But you know, the chink at one
end of the chain never really
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Connects to the one all
the way at the other end.
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Hello, can I ask how
you're doing today?
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I'm doing pretty good.
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Yeah.
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I was a little tired yesterday
when we finished the day, but
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Um, this morning I'm
really, really energized.
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I'm hoping for publix
to do the right thing.
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[Cars honking]
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Publix was founded in 1930
by George Jenkins,
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A Florida entrepreneur.
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Like Sam walton, the founder
of Wal-Mart, Jenkins began
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With a single store and built
a multi-billion dollar empire.
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Today, publix has annual sales
of almost $30 billion, and the
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Company has become so
successful in Florida that
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Three out of four people in
the state live within two
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Miles of a publix supermarket.
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When you live here in Florida,
you know, publix pretty much
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The grocery store.
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Where shopping is a pleasure.
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It's not just something we
say; It's in everything we do.
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And part of what makes
shopping a pleasure
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Is saving money.
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Publix has a good reputation
for caring for its own
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Customers and its employees.
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As nice as it is to have an
extra hand, it's great to have
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Some extra change too.
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So you'd think that caring for
the people in the supply chain
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Wouldn't be that
much of a leap.
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Publix: Where shopping
is a pleasure.
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Well, there was this pond
between where the coalition
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Was having its fast a-and
the headquarters, and the
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Employees would come out on
their lunch hours and sit and
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Kind of look over
at these people.
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I guess they would have their
lunch while they watched
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People fast.
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It's ironic in the worst way.
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Publix spends hundreds of
millions of dollars billing
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Itself as your friendly
neighborhood grocery store.
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"We're your neighbors."
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And yet it won't talk with
part of the community that's
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Very much their neighbors.
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The people who pick
their tomatoes.
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Basically, they're
paid per bucket picked.
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They take them over to a
truck, throw them up to this
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Guy on the truck who
dumps the tomatoes in...
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And then he hands
them a little chit.
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At the end of the day,
the chits are totaled.
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Over the course of an average
work day, workers pick, carry
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And throw about 4000 pounds
of tomatoes, earning them
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Approximately $40 a day, or a
little over a penny for each
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Of those pounds.
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That's why the cow is asking
publix to pay just a penny
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More per pound to
double farm worker wages.
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Doing this would cost publix
about $1 million out of their
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$2 billion in annual profits.
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If publix chose to pass on
these costs, a family of four
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Would only need to pay an
extra 44 cents per year for
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Their tomatoes.
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See you tomorrow!
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[Car honks]
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California produces more fresh
fruit and vegetables than any
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Other state.
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It has more migrant farm
workers than any other state.
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A certain kind of exploitation
of migrant labor was perfected
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In California, so I think
if you're really going to
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Understand farm labor in the
United States, you have to
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Understand what's
happened in California.
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California's farm economy has
always relied on ultra-low
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Wage workers.
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First, the mission fathers
enslaved native Americans.
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It evolved into a
predominately Latino labor
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Force, recruited
legally from Mexico.
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In the 1960's, this labor
force, after centuries, found
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A powerful voice for change.
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In 1965, the workers in the
fields said "we're fed up with"
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Being the worst paid
workers in America.
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"We're fed up with being
exploited"
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And they went on strike.
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Cesar Chavez was a farm worker
who got fed up with the abuse
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Of farm workers in the lettuce
fields of California, and
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Helped create the first farm
worker union in the united
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States, the united
farm workers' union.
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And the united farm workers'
union had a profound impact on
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Improving the lives of farm
workers throughout California.
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Farm workers realized that
they could gain power by
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Organizing a union.
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The u.F.W. Soon achieved
historic wage increases
and created
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Support nationwide for
farm workers' rights.
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While running for president
in 1968,
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Robert f. Kennedy visited
California and ended an historic
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Hunger strike with Cesar Chavez.
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What was your discussion
with Cesar this morning?
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I just, uh, just spoke about
today and that, uh, that he's
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Hopeful that uh, that the
efforts that so many of them
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Are making are going
to be successful.
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I was cofounder of the union
with Cesar.
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I was the strike captain,
picket captain, organizer,
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Political director,
negotiator...
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At one point in time, we were
able to get up to 100,000 farm
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Workers organized.
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[Chanting]
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Then, of course there was a
lot of hostility
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Against the union.
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Many of those contracts were
lost and they were not able to
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Regain them.
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[Screaming]
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Chavez!
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During the 1980's, the governor
of California made it more
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Difficult for farm workers to
organize, crippling the u.F.W..
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Wages fell and working
conditions got worse.
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Even in the state's wealthiest
agricultural region,
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Napa valley.
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Without an organization to
defend basic rights, farm
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Workers are vulnerable to
exploitation whether they're
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Part of a supply chain
that delivers goods to a
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Supermarket or one that
produces luxury items
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Like wine.
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There's no other place on
the planet where all of the
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Variables that you need to
produce consistently, like,
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The most excellent wine,
they don't exist consistently
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Anywhere else in the world.
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It's the ideal location to
grow every type of
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Grape variety.
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We are America's premiere
wine-growing region.
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We're second to
none in the world.
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Well, I used to say to my
staff that we're basically
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Fancy farmers.
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I love tomatoes, and I love
strawberries, but I think
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Wine's a little fancier.
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00:35:23,522 --> 00:35:28,227
The wine industry can be a
good financial proposition for
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A wine grower.
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It is the number one valued
finished agricultural product
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In the state of California.
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When you go buy a bottle of
wine for $40, $150, $200 a
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00:35:42,674 --> 00:35:48,414
Bottle, the cost of labor that
brings you that bottle of wine
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Is about 25 cents.
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The landscape may be beautiful
in napa, and along coastal
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Florida, but often the beauty
of the landscape disguises
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00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:05,797
This incredible poverty
that's right there.
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I've seen the evolution
of napa valley first-hand.
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What brought me to the
napa valley was my father.
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00:36:23,282 --> 00:36:26,752
He became President of the
united farm workers' union in
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Napa valley.
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It was a very different
scene then than it is now.
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Today we have two cultures
that coexist parallel to each
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Other, but rarely
is there a bridge.
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There is still sort of
that sense of, um...
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You know, them and us.
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The beauty of napa valley, the
weather, the uh, all of this
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Amazing wines, and
the great food.
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It has been the demise of
affordable housing, because
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Everyone wants to
live in napa valley.
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We have, out of 65, fewer than
5 employees who live in
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The valley.
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00:37:21,740 --> 00:37:26,612
They have to commute
in from long distances.
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00:37:27,579 --> 00:37:29,948
There are more millionaires
in napa than people who are
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00:37:29,981 --> 00:37:31,750
Unemployed.
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00:37:31,783 --> 00:37:33,919
In an inflated real estate
market, it's always hard to
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00:37:33,952 --> 00:37:37,323
Find affordable housing, but
during harvest season when the
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00:37:37,356 --> 00:37:39,591
Number of farm workers in
napa doubles,
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00:37:39,625 --> 00:37:42,260
It's almost impossible.
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00:37:55,774 --> 00:37:59,611
Housing has been the number
one social issue in the
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County.
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00:38:01,847 --> 00:38:05,884
More people came to our front
door looking for housing than
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They did for spiritual solace.
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These are not homeless bums.
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00:38:56,568 --> 00:38:59,671
These are people who are
working eight, ten, twelve
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Hours a day and still have to
sleep outside because of the
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Low wages and because of the
absence of affordable housing
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In napa.
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00:39:09,881 --> 00:39:12,784
You can have legal apartheid
which says if you're a person
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Of color, you can't live
here in this community.
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00:39:17,989 --> 00:39:20,992
Or you can have
economic apartheid.
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00:39:21,026 --> 00:39:23,995
When their shift is over,
they're supposed to go live
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Somewhere else.
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00:39:40,746 --> 00:39:45,617
This rural poverty is
hiding in plain sight.
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These are poor workers working
half a mile from some of the
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00:39:48,620 --> 00:39:52,424
Most expensive houses and
luxurious resorts in the
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00:39:52,458 --> 00:39:54,092
United States.
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00:39:56,462 --> 00:39:59,097
Taste napa valley is the true
party for the napa valley
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00:39:59,130 --> 00:40:00,231
Vintners.
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00:40:00,265 --> 00:40:02,133
It's hard to describe what
takes place in this room,
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00:40:02,167 --> 00:40:05,003
Because it's so energetic.
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00:40:05,036 --> 00:40:07,473
Woo!
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00:40:07,506 --> 00:40:10,676
We have an auction every
year which raises
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Millions of dollars.
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00:40:12,077 --> 00:40:13,445
Bid high, bid often!
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00:40:13,479 --> 00:40:14,680
It's all for charity!
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00:40:14,713 --> 00:40:15,914
$100,000!
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00:40:15,947 --> 00:40:18,584
The bid's here at $100,000,
who's going to come in at 120?
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00:40:18,617 --> 00:40:21,152
Outside our front door is the
most important thing to us,
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00:40:21,186 --> 00:40:23,955
And we want to bring all of
our fortune back to the people
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00:40:23,989 --> 00:40:26,892
Who really live here and
really need the benefit of
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00:40:26,925 --> 00:40:29,027
These auctions.
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I mean, it's a great
combination of people who want
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00:40:32,598 --> 00:40:36,468
To make the equality of
life better for everybody.
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According to the napa valley
vintners' association, over
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The past few decades, the
auction has raised about
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$4 million a year.
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00:40:50,982 --> 00:40:53,619
I think it's great if someone
wants to donate money to a
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00:40:53,652 --> 00:40:57,255
Charity that helps
farm workers.
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00:40:57,288 --> 00:41:01,026
But ultimately, we're not
talking about charity here.
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00:41:01,059 --> 00:41:04,663
We're talking about thousands
of workers who are responsible
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00:41:04,696 --> 00:41:08,834
For a multi-billion
dollar industry in napa.
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00:41:08,867 --> 00:41:12,538
They're entitled
to be paid well.
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00:41:29,588 --> 00:41:32,090
I grew up in a very small town
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Where we're all
indigenous people.
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00:41:35,694 --> 00:41:37,963
I heard that in the united
states I could make enough
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00:41:37,996 --> 00:41:43,835
Money and go to school,
but that didn't happen.
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00:41:44,703 --> 00:41:48,707
I came here in 2000, and I
have to pay a little bit more
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00:41:48,740 --> 00:41:53,579
Than 2000 American money
to pay for the coyote that
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00:41:53,612 --> 00:41:58,149
Introduced people illegally
to the United States.
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00:41:59,618 --> 00:42:01,920
There are something around
3,000,000 farm workers in the
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00:42:01,953 --> 00:42:03,054
United States today.
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00:42:03,088 --> 00:42:05,991
Probably a substantial
majority of those farm workers
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00:42:06,024 --> 00:42:07,726
At this point
are undocumented.
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00:42:07,759 --> 00:42:11,229
Being undocumented means
that you do not have the full
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00:42:11,262 --> 00:42:15,100
Protections of the law, so
you're highly likely to avoid
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00:42:15,133 --> 00:42:18,637
Challenging unfair, even
unlawful working conditions
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00:42:18,670 --> 00:42:21,740
Because you run the risk that
your employer might see to put
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00:42:21,773 --> 00:42:23,909
You in deportation.
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In 1994, four and a half
million people, um, lived in
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The United States who
were born in Mexico.
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In 2008, the Mexican-born
population in the united
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States tripled.
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00:42:36,254 --> 00:42:39,324
Overwhelmingly because of the
displacement of workers and
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00:42:39,357 --> 00:42:45,230
Farmers in Mexico by
large-scale economic changes.
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00:42:45,263 --> 00:42:49,167
In 1994, the north American
free trade agreement went into
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00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,203
Effect, eliminating many trade
restrictions between Mexico
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00:42:52,237 --> 00:42:54,673
And the United States.
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00:42:54,706 --> 00:42:58,610
Nafta caused the price of
crops like corn and coffee to
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00:42:58,644 --> 00:43:01,980
Plummet in Mexico, driving
millions of farmers there
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00:43:02,013 --> 00:43:03,749
Into bankruptcy.
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A burning tractor in
Mexico city's Plaza of the
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00:43:06,284 --> 00:43:07,552
Revolution.
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00:43:07,585 --> 00:43:10,789
Part of a last-ditch effort by
Mexican farm workers who say
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00:43:10,822 --> 00:43:14,192
Their livelihoods are
going up in smoke.
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00:43:14,225 --> 00:43:17,228
Poverty on the farms is
pushing more would-be migrants
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00:43:17,262 --> 00:43:19,998
To look for work in
the United States.
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00:43:23,902 --> 00:43:29,074
Migration is not a,
uh, a voluntary choice.
487
00:43:29,107 --> 00:43:31,076
We force people
into migration.
488
00:43:31,109 --> 00:43:32,811
Force people into motion.
489
00:43:32,844 --> 00:43:36,715
People come here because this
is where the work is, and then
490
00:43:36,748 --> 00:43:40,752
Our immigration policy, I
think, deliberately makes
491
00:43:40,786 --> 00:43:46,624
Their labor cheap by
denying them legal status.
492
00:43:56,768 --> 00:43:59,137
Angel was born and raised in
oaxaca, one of the poorest
493
00:43:59,170 --> 00:44:00,906
Regions in Mexico.
494
00:44:00,939 --> 00:44:03,842
He later grew coffee in his
family's farm, but nafta
495
00:44:03,875 --> 00:44:06,712
Helped to put the family farm
out of business, and so angel
496
00:44:06,745 --> 00:44:08,313
Came to the United States.
497
00:44:08,346 --> 00:44:11,416
He hoped to find work
picking vegetables.
498
00:44:11,449 --> 00:44:15,220
The coffee price went so low
that it didn't make sense to
499
00:44:15,253 --> 00:44:18,724
Work for a whole year and at
the end of the season, not get
500
00:44:18,757 --> 00:44:21,026
Anything back.
501
00:44:21,059 --> 00:44:23,394
Angel was a farm worker for
nearly a decade when he met
502
00:44:23,428 --> 00:44:26,097
Caitlin, whom he began working
with to start an organic
503
00:44:26,131 --> 00:44:28,199
Chicken farm.
504
00:44:32,303 --> 00:44:36,341
I was playing soccer and
out friend brought him to my
505
00:44:36,374 --> 00:44:40,746
Soccer game, and he didn't
speak much English at the time
506
00:44:40,779 --> 00:44:44,182
And I didn't speak much
Spanish, and we kind of said
507
00:44:44,215 --> 00:44:49,020
"Hello, nice to meet you"
and, and that was it.
508
00:44:53,058 --> 00:44:56,427
Yeah, when we started dating,
I would bring her like a whole
509
00:44:56,461 --> 00:45:00,999
Flood of strawberries that I
picked myself, you know, lots
510
00:45:01,032 --> 00:45:02,200
Of vegetables and...
511
00:45:02,233 --> 00:45:04,335
Yeah, or he would show up at
my doorstep, and instead of
512
00:45:04,369 --> 00:45:07,839
With a bouquet of flowers, he
would have, like, a broccoli.
513
00:45:07,873 --> 00:45:10,108
[Laughing]
514
00:45:10,141 --> 00:45:12,978
It was cute.
515
00:45:14,913 --> 00:45:17,448
That's our guard dog, migra.
516
00:45:17,482 --> 00:45:21,753
We name her as, as a joke,
because migra means a border
517
00:45:21,787 --> 00:45:27,926
Patrol and the job of a border
patrol is to chase coyotes.
518
00:45:27,959 --> 00:45:29,795
So that's her job,
to chase coyotes.
519
00:45:29,828 --> 00:45:31,797
That's why we
called her migra.
520
00:45:31,830 --> 00:45:32,798
Migra, come on!
521
00:45:32,831 --> 00:45:33,965
[Dog barks]
522
00:45:33,999 --> 00:45:36,434
Angel's been living in the
United States for 15 years,
523
00:45:36,467 --> 00:45:39,004
And married to Caitlin for
three, but he still hasn't
524
00:45:39,037 --> 00:45:41,506
Been able to gain
legal status.
525
00:45:41,539 --> 00:45:46,778
Most people are aware that
most farm workers in the
526
00:45:46,812 --> 00:45:51,116
United States come here from
other countries, and we have a
527
00:45:51,149 --> 00:45:55,286
Very schizophrenic public
attitude right now where on
528
00:45:55,320 --> 00:46:00,892
The one hand, we are dependent
on the labor of farm workers
529
00:46:00,926 --> 00:46:05,964
To put food on the table, and
yet, um, people are demonized
530
00:46:05,997 --> 00:46:10,301
Because of the fact that they
were born somewhere else.
531
00:46:20,445 --> 00:46:22,948
You can't find U.S. citizens
who are willing
532
00:46:22,981 --> 00:46:24,115
To do this kind of work.
533
00:46:24,149 --> 00:46:27,285
I mean, you can't pay them
enough to, to work this hard
534
00:46:27,318 --> 00:46:30,155
And in this physical of a way.
535
00:46:30,188 --> 00:46:33,224
I think there's definitely a
space for some, some gratitude
536
00:46:33,258 --> 00:46:36,427
Towards the people who are
doing the hard work of growing
537
00:46:36,461 --> 00:46:39,164
The food, whoever
they might be.
538
00:46:42,633 --> 00:46:46,571
There are 200,000,000 in the
world who are living outside
539
00:46:46,604 --> 00:46:49,407
The countries where
they were born.
540
00:46:50,876 --> 00:46:55,313
So there is a tremendous flow
of workers from poor countries
541
00:46:55,346 --> 00:46:57,515
To rich countries.
542
00:46:58,583 --> 00:47:02,487
And this has become very
important to the economies of
543
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,623
Industrialized countries,
partly because it's a very
544
00:47:05,656 --> 00:47:07,525
Low-wage labor.
545
00:47:09,127 --> 00:47:11,162
People often look at
farm worker issues as an
546
00:47:11,196 --> 00:47:13,932
Immigration issue.
547
00:47:14,432 --> 00:47:16,101
It's more than an
immigration issue.
548
00:47:16,134 --> 00:47:18,103
It's a human rights issue.
549
00:47:20,171 --> 00:47:25,276
If you look at the history of
agriculture in our country,
550
00:47:25,310 --> 00:47:26,912
It started with slave labor.
551
00:47:26,945 --> 00:47:31,549
It started with, uh, let's
exploit the weakest group.
552
00:47:32,918 --> 00:47:36,654
An immigration reform policy
that doesn't look at what the
553
00:47:36,687 --> 00:47:41,192
Economic roots of immigration
are, I think, is a joke.
554
00:47:41,226 --> 00:47:44,095
When slavery was abolished,
farmers became obligated to
555
00:47:44,129 --> 00:47:46,631
Pay their workers, but there
were plenty of desperate
556
00:47:46,664 --> 00:47:49,634
People willing to work for
next to nothing
557
00:47:49,667 --> 00:47:52,003
In the United States.
558
00:48:00,611 --> 00:48:05,316
Growers have used wave after
wave after wave of migration
559
00:48:05,350 --> 00:48:10,355
As the source of labor, um,
to make the system work.
560
00:48:14,192 --> 00:48:17,428
Again and again and again,
it's people from ethnic
561
00:48:17,462 --> 00:48:19,297
Minorities.
562
00:48:20,265 --> 00:48:23,701
It is the search
for a new peasantry.
563
00:48:23,734 --> 00:48:28,573
Constantly searching for
a new group to exploit.
564
00:48:28,606 --> 00:48:32,477
We can end that cycle by
creating wages and working
565
00:48:32,510 --> 00:48:35,113
Conditions that are decent.
566
00:48:48,226 --> 00:48:50,395
Immokalee farm workers
are not giving up.
567
00:48:50,428 --> 00:48:54,099
The coalition of immokalee
workers is focusing on publix,
568
00:48:54,132 --> 00:48:57,435
Saying they want them to
put people before profit.
569
00:48:57,468 --> 00:48:59,704
Workers are asking for
one cent more per pound of
570
00:48:59,737 --> 00:49:04,942
Tomatoes to end what they say
is Florida's harvest of shame.
571
00:49:09,147 --> 00:49:11,382
It's just workers
uniting for respect.
572
00:49:11,416 --> 00:49:14,552
The coalition simply wants
publix to come and talk.
573
00:49:14,585 --> 00:49:16,988
Farm workers believe making
progress with publix is
574
00:49:17,022 --> 00:49:19,324
Crucial for striking
agreements with other major
575
00:49:19,357 --> 00:49:22,560
Supermarket chains
across the country.
576
00:49:25,330 --> 00:49:28,166
Immokalee farm workers were
turned away at the door of the
577
00:49:28,199 --> 00:49:31,069
Publix headquarters when they
tried to talk to the ceo about
578
00:49:31,102 --> 00:49:32,203
Pay wages.
579
00:49:32,237 --> 00:49:33,638
Publix said in their official
statement "since first"
580
00:49:33,671 --> 00:49:36,507
Approached by the cow
three years ago, we have
581
00:49:36,541 --> 00:49:40,645
"Consistently viewed this
issue as a labor dispute."
582
00:49:42,247 --> 00:49:46,384
Publix pays fair-market
value for the tomatoes.
583
00:49:46,417 --> 00:49:49,087
We view this as a labor
dispute, and we don't get
584
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,322
Involved in those.
585
00:49:51,356 --> 00:49:52,690
They say it's the
responsibility of their
586
00:49:52,723 --> 00:49:56,094
Suppliers to monitor the
working conditions and manage
587
00:49:56,127 --> 00:49:58,696
Their work force.
588
00:49:58,729 --> 00:50:02,367
What publix is saying is not
correct, because they are the
589
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:06,337
Ones who have the power
to control the market.
590
00:50:07,372 --> 00:50:08,739
It's a supply chain.
591
00:50:08,773 --> 00:50:10,541
Everyone is connected.
592
00:50:10,575 --> 00:50:13,278
Publix is at the top, and the
decisions they make can create
593
00:50:13,311 --> 00:50:16,181
Terrible conditions at
the bottom of the chain.
594
00:50:16,214 --> 00:50:18,616
The struggle for fundamental
human rights isn't limited
595
00:50:18,649 --> 00:50:21,752
Simply to the fields here
in the United States.
596
00:50:23,321 --> 00:50:26,324
Workers at the base of any of
these massive supply chains
597
00:50:26,357 --> 00:50:29,560
That exist around the world
face the same struggles we do.
598
00:50:31,129 --> 00:50:34,332
At least 118 people have been
killed in a massive fire at a
599
00:50:34,365 --> 00:50:36,601
Garment factory in Bangladesh.
600
00:50:36,634 --> 00:50:39,270
The fire broke out at night
as hundreds of garment workers
601
00:50:39,304 --> 00:50:42,273
Were on overtime shifts,
producing clothes bound for
602
00:50:42,307 --> 00:50:46,744
Some major American
retailers, including Wal-Mart.
603
00:50:47,478 --> 00:50:50,481
Wal-Mart is now blaming the
use of this factory on a
604
00:50:50,515 --> 00:50:53,251
Rogue supplier.
605
00:50:53,284 --> 00:50:55,553
And Wal-Mart's
culpability is enormous.
606
00:50:55,586 --> 00:50:57,688
They're the largest buyer from
Bangladesh,
607
00:50:57,722 --> 00:50:59,790
So they make the market.
608
00:51:02,260 --> 00:51:06,164
Why would you even consider
putting human beings in a
609
00:51:06,197 --> 00:51:08,199
Building that could collapse?
610
00:51:08,233 --> 00:51:11,202
Because in the end, they
aren't people to you.
611
00:51:11,236 --> 00:51:14,172
They are just a means to make
money, and a means for profit.
612
00:51:14,205 --> 00:51:15,806
That's all they are.
613
00:51:21,446 --> 00:51:24,149
In the 21st century, the
responsibility for protecting
614
00:51:24,182 --> 00:51:27,252
Workers' rights has to be
shared by the corporations who
615
00:51:27,285 --> 00:51:31,122
Control the supply chains
where those workers toil,
616
00:51:31,722 --> 00:51:34,592
And slowly we're seeing huge
multibillion dollar companies
617
00:51:34,625 --> 00:51:37,862
Forced to recognize their own
responsibility and, and change
618
00:51:37,895 --> 00:51:39,864
The way they do business.
619
00:51:39,897 --> 00:51:42,500
After serious allegations of
forced overtime, under-aged
620
00:51:42,533 --> 00:51:45,270
Labor, after explosions and
chemicals killed and harmed
621
00:51:45,303 --> 00:51:46,337
Workers over there...
622
00:51:46,371 --> 00:51:49,907
Tech giant apple and its
manufacturer foxconn have
623
00:51:49,940 --> 00:51:53,278
Agreed to address workplace
violations affecting workers
624
00:51:53,311 --> 00:51:55,646
Who make apple
products in China.
625
00:51:56,214 --> 00:51:58,916
It doesn't matter if it's
computers or fields here in
626
00:51:58,949 --> 00:52:00,185
The U.S.
627
00:52:00,218 --> 00:52:03,188
Human rights violations at the
base of your supply chain are
628
00:52:03,221 --> 00:52:04,722
Your responsibility.
629
00:52:04,755 --> 00:52:09,260
Workers are suffering
at the bottom.
630
00:52:09,294 --> 00:52:13,264
Publix is creating
that misery.
631
00:52:14,332 --> 00:52:17,235
There are many that we support
in the town of immokalee, and
632
00:52:17,268 --> 00:52:20,638
Many of the farm workers
benefit from the generosity of
633
00:52:20,671 --> 00:52:23,140
Publix supermarkets'
charities.
634
00:52:56,507 --> 00:52:57,475
The farm workers' group vows to
635
00:52:57,508 --> 00:52:59,344
Keep up the pressure on publix.
636
00:52:59,377 --> 00:53:01,712
Though it seems they're at
an impasse, protestors remain
637
00:53:01,746 --> 00:53:04,215
Confident their
message will be heard.
638
00:53:28,273 --> 00:53:31,409
Workers at the base of almost
every supply chain in America
639
00:53:31,442 --> 00:53:33,911
Are guaranteed at least the
minimum wage to the federal
640
00:53:33,944 --> 00:53:37,315
Labor standards act of 1938.
641
00:53:37,348 --> 00:53:39,384
Farm workers, who at the
time were predominately
642
00:53:39,417 --> 00:53:41,819
African-American, were
excluded from this bill in
643
00:53:41,852 --> 00:53:43,854
Order to secure its passage.
644
00:53:43,888 --> 00:53:45,956
It took more than 40 years for
them to be included
645
00:53:45,990 --> 00:53:48,225
In this law.
646
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:51,629
You gotta sign.
647
00:53:52,330 --> 00:53:55,266
In an industry where paydays
happen in a parking lot and
648
00:53:55,300 --> 00:53:58,269
Are administered by middlemen
like labor contractors,
649
00:53:58,303 --> 00:54:00,671
Wage theft is not uncommon.
650
00:54:00,705 --> 00:54:03,808
Even when farm workers do get
minimum wage, they remain far
651
00:54:03,841 --> 00:54:06,377
Below the poverty line.
652
00:54:06,411 --> 00:54:09,647
We know our economy's stronger
when we reward an honest day's
653
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:13,318
Work with honest wages.
654
00:54:13,351 --> 00:54:17,655
But today, a full time worker
making the minimum wage earns
655
00:54:17,688 --> 00:54:21,692
$14,500 a year.
656
00:54:21,726 --> 00:54:25,463
Even with the tax
relief we put in place.
657
00:54:25,496 --> 00:54:28,899
A family with two kids that
earns the minimum wage still
658
00:54:28,933 --> 00:54:31,902
Lives below the poverty line.
659
00:54:31,936 --> 00:54:34,805
Tonight, let's declare that
in the wealthiest nation on
660
00:54:34,839 --> 00:54:38,943
Earth, no one who works full
time should have to live in
661
00:54:38,976 --> 00:54:43,481
Poverty and raise the federal
minimum wage to $9 an hour.
662
00:54:43,514 --> 00:54:46,984
[Applause]
663
00:54:47,017 --> 00:54:51,856
When people have been in
poverty, they don't feel as
664
00:54:51,889 --> 00:54:55,926
Able to voice their resistance
to things, 'cause they've
665
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,463
Already been beaten down in
a class system, which has
666
00:54:58,496 --> 00:55:00,598
Disabled their voice.
667
00:55:03,601 --> 00:55:06,637
Farm workers who complain face
the very real threat of being
668
00:55:06,671 --> 00:55:10,641
Fired and slipping further
below the poverty line.
669
00:55:11,576 --> 00:55:14,479
Because this industry doesn't
effectively police itself,
670
00:55:14,512 --> 00:55:16,414
Government oversight is
essential,
671
00:55:16,447 --> 00:55:18,583
But is sorely lacking.
672
00:55:18,616 --> 00:55:21,986
Florida has only 14 labor
inspectors, for example, to
673
00:55:22,019 --> 00:55:25,656
Monitor over 40,000 farms.
674
00:55:26,757 --> 00:55:30,795
It is an impossible task to
take care of every instance of
675
00:55:30,828 --> 00:55:32,997
Abuse that goes
on in the fields.
676
00:55:33,030 --> 00:55:34,699
It's like you have all the
crime that you always have in
677
00:55:34,732 --> 00:55:36,133
New York City, and you have
two or three cops on the
678
00:55:36,166 --> 00:55:38,636
Entire beat.
679
00:55:38,669 --> 00:55:40,371
They're not going to
be able to do anything.
680
00:55:40,405 --> 00:55:41,872
Now that's what it is
in the fields today.
681
00:55:41,906 --> 00:55:46,377
It's a like New York City
crime spree without any cops.
682
00:55:51,749 --> 00:55:54,985
Only a fourth of the work
force in agriculture is women.
683
00:55:55,019 --> 00:55:57,755
Usually the, the farm owners,
the supervisors, the managers,
684
00:55:57,788 --> 00:55:59,857
They're all male.
685
00:56:36,827 --> 00:56:40,731
Sexual harassment is a
problem for women everywhere.
686
00:56:40,765 --> 00:56:44,034
25% of American women report
experiencing sexual harassment
687
00:56:44,068 --> 00:56:46,136
In the workplace.
688
00:56:46,170 --> 00:56:49,640
In the isolated environments
of the fields however, this
689
00:56:49,674 --> 00:56:54,044
Figure is believed
to be closer to 80%.
690
00:56:55,546 --> 00:56:57,882
Look, it's, it's insane that
anyone's experiencing sexual
691
00:56:57,915 --> 00:57:00,718
Harassment, but to look at
those numbers is an indication
692
00:57:00,751 --> 00:57:06,557
Of what happens when we
have women who are poor...
693
00:57:06,591 --> 00:57:11,028
They have children
and families to feed.
694
00:57:11,629 --> 00:57:15,900
And so they can be
easily, um, harassed.
695
00:57:15,933 --> 00:57:18,803
Because they need the income.
696
00:57:46,731 --> 00:57:49,667
For a woman in the field to be
able to voice what's happened
697
00:57:49,700 --> 00:57:53,804
To her is crucial, but then to
see repercussions and to see
698
00:57:53,838 --> 00:57:55,873
Somebody being held
accountable for that and to
699
00:57:55,906 --> 00:57:57,608
See justice.
700
00:57:57,642 --> 00:58:00,778
We need systems that are more
efficient and that get to
701
00:58:00,811 --> 00:58:04,615
Justice in a quicker,
more immediate way.
702
00:58:07,184 --> 00:58:09,987
In the last five years, there
has been interest from select
703
00:58:10,020 --> 00:58:13,090
U.S. senators in investigating
the physical and economic
704
00:58:13,123 --> 00:58:15,926
Exploitation of farm workers.
705
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,663
But there's been no
legislative action as of yet.
706
00:58:18,696 --> 00:58:21,866
An informal hearing was held
in 2008 to give farm workers a
707
00:58:21,899 --> 00:58:25,570
Voice in exposing the worst
human rights violations, like
708
00:58:25,603 --> 00:58:28,172
Modern-day slavery.
709
00:58:28,205 --> 00:58:33,744
Today we are a very long way
away from immokalee, Florida.
710
00:58:33,778 --> 00:58:36,313
Thankfully, due to the
dedication and hard work of a
711
00:58:36,346 --> 00:58:39,917
Number of people, including
the coalition of immokalee
712
00:58:39,950 --> 00:58:42,753
Workers, the conditions that
exist in the Florida tomato
713
00:58:42,787 --> 00:58:45,055
Fields have begun
to come to light.
714
00:58:45,089 --> 00:58:47,592
I'm very pleased that Lucas
benitez, a co-founder of the
715
00:58:47,625 --> 00:58:51,762
Coalition, could be with us
today to shed even more light
716
00:58:51,796 --> 00:58:54,131
On the subject.
717
00:59:26,764 --> 00:59:31,335
Between 1997 and 2010, more
than 1,200 farm workers were
718
00:59:31,368 --> 00:59:34,639
Freed from slavery
in Southern Florida.
719
00:59:34,672 --> 00:59:38,676
Some of the workers were
U.S. citizens, and in 2007, a
720
00:59:38,709 --> 00:59:42,980
Slavery ring was
discovered in immokalee.
721
01:00:00,397 --> 01:00:03,934
Two brothers, Cesar and
geovanni navarrete, lead a
722
01:00:03,968 --> 01:00:05,870
Slavery operation.
723
01:00:05,903 --> 01:00:09,373
Luring poor farm workers with
the promise of food, housing
724
01:00:09,406 --> 01:00:11,141
And jobs.
725
01:00:11,175 --> 01:00:14,144
Unbeknownst to the workers,
the navarretes were charging
726
01:00:14,178 --> 01:00:17,147
An exorbitant amount
for room and board.
727
01:00:17,181 --> 01:00:19,984
Over several months, the
workers accumulated large,
728
01:00:20,017 --> 01:00:22,920
False debts and
threatened to leave.
729
01:00:22,953 --> 01:00:26,691
In retaliation, the navarrete
brothers beat them and kept
730
01:00:26,724 --> 01:00:32,096
Them confined at night to
the back of a u-haul truck.
731
01:00:32,129 --> 01:00:35,966
After a year of slavery, one
worker noticed a small hole
732
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:38,736
Had formed in the
roof of the u-haul.
733
01:00:38,769 --> 01:00:42,106
He managed to push
through and escape.
734
01:00:57,254 --> 01:01:00,758
Senator Sanders and I happened
to be in immokalee Florida
735
01:01:00,791 --> 01:01:04,428
This January when the U.S.
department of justice released
736
01:01:04,461 --> 01:01:08,465
Its indictment in the
latest slavery case there.
737
01:01:08,498 --> 01:01:12,102
Here are some details
from that case.
738
01:01:12,136 --> 01:01:14,839
The defendants have been
accused of threatening,
739
01:01:14,872 --> 01:01:18,042
Slapping and kicking
farm workers.
740
01:01:18,075 --> 01:01:19,877
Chaining them to a pole.
741
01:01:19,910 --> 01:01:21,078
Beating them.
742
01:01:21,111 --> 01:01:23,881
Locking them inside
u-haul trailers.
743
01:01:23,914 --> 01:01:28,953
Keeping them in debt and
forcing them to work for free.
744
01:01:28,986 --> 01:01:31,455
The indictments read like
something you might see in the
745
01:01:31,488 --> 01:01:37,161
Year 1868, not the year 2008.
746
01:01:37,194 --> 01:01:40,230
These abuses are un-American.
747
01:01:40,264 --> 01:01:44,869
They are unacceptable,
and they must stop.
748
01:01:44,902 --> 01:01:47,004
Thank you.
749
01:01:49,940 --> 01:01:53,510
The law establishes
that slavery is a crime.
750
01:01:53,543 --> 01:01:57,447
The law establishes that
sexual harassment is a crime.
751
01:01:57,481 --> 01:02:00,885
But we still see all
of these things happen.
752
01:02:00,918 --> 01:02:02,486
Why?
753
01:02:02,519 --> 01:02:06,190
It's not a question of how
beautiful it sounds in the
754
01:02:06,223 --> 01:02:07,257
Books.
755
01:02:07,291 --> 01:02:10,460
It is a question of how
effective that enforcement
756
01:02:10,494 --> 01:02:13,831
Mechanisms are.
757
01:03:00,010 --> 01:03:05,015
The coalition began with just
a handful of guys meeting in a
758
01:03:05,049 --> 01:03:07,985
Back room of the local
catholic church in the early
759
01:03:08,018 --> 01:03:12,556
'90's, just to discuss things
that weren't quite right.
760
01:03:12,589 --> 01:03:17,027
And from then, it,
it grew slowly.
761
01:03:44,922 --> 01:03:48,092
Immokalee farm workers take
their protest to the streets
762
01:03:48,125 --> 01:03:51,161
And their anger and frustration
is caught on tape.
763
01:03:51,195 --> 01:03:53,597
Now farm workers are uniting
stronger than ever
764
01:03:53,630 --> 01:03:56,500
Against violence in southwest
Florida's vegetable fields.
765
01:03:56,533 --> 01:03:58,402
And they want to send a message
to the farm bosses
766
01:03:58,435 --> 01:04:00,537
That abuse won't be tolerated.
767
01:04:15,152 --> 01:04:18,455
The cow held dozens of
protests between 1995 and
768
01:04:18,488 --> 01:04:23,327
2000, including a month-long
hunger strike and a 230-mile
769
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:28,432
March that called upon local
farmers to pay higher wages.
770
01:04:40,110 --> 01:04:42,546
The farmers said "we can't
pay you anymore because we're"
771
01:04:42,579 --> 01:04:45,549
Squeezed just like you."
772
01:04:45,582 --> 01:04:48,618
So somebody at the coalition,
just at one of their weekly
773
01:04:48,652 --> 01:04:52,022
Little gab sessions says
"well, why don't we take it to
774
01:04:52,056 --> 01:04:53,924
The end buyer?"
775
01:05:18,648 --> 01:05:20,684
The cow created the fair food
program, which placed the
776
01:05:20,717 --> 01:05:24,021
Responsibility of fair wages
and conditions for workers on
777
01:05:24,054 --> 01:05:27,291
The big buyers of tomatoes
rather than the farmers.
778
01:05:27,324 --> 01:05:30,394
They focused this new campaign
on taco bell and its Mexican
779
01:05:30,427 --> 01:05:32,596
Chihuahua mascot.
780
01:05:44,241 --> 01:05:52,049
[Shouting in Spanish]
781
01:05:52,082 --> 01:05:54,118
Taco bell is profiting from
sweat shops right here in
782
01:05:54,151 --> 01:05:55,685
Florida!
783
01:05:56,486 --> 01:05:59,223
Not only did the cow demand
an extra penny per pound for
784
01:05:59,256 --> 01:06:00,390
Wages.
785
01:06:00,424 --> 01:06:03,260
They also created a code of
conduct to force buyers to
786
01:06:03,293 --> 01:06:06,430
Take responsibility for human
rights violations within their
787
01:06:06,463 --> 01:06:08,165
Supply chain.
788
01:06:08,198 --> 01:06:10,734
Buyers like taco bell would
no longer be able to purchase
789
01:06:10,767 --> 01:06:14,038
Tomatoes from farmers
who broke the code.
790
01:06:14,071 --> 01:06:19,009
We spent four or five years
picketing, demonstrating, and
791
01:06:19,043 --> 01:06:21,545
Eventually taco
bell came aboard.
792
01:06:21,578 --> 01:06:24,214
After taco bell joined the
fair food program, ten other
793
01:06:24,248 --> 01:06:26,550
Huge multi-national
corporations soon joined as
794
01:06:26,583 --> 01:06:30,787
Well, including burger king,
McDonalds, chipotle, and
795
01:06:30,820 --> 01:06:32,556
Trader Joe's.
796
01:06:32,589 --> 01:06:34,558
Farm workers had finally won
some influence within the
797
01:06:34,591 --> 01:06:36,560
System.
798
01:06:37,561 --> 01:06:41,498
Once we started to focus on
the big buyers, there was
799
01:06:41,531 --> 01:06:45,335
Something that started to
change in the industry, and we
800
01:06:45,369 --> 01:06:50,574
Became a little problem
for the big corporations.
801
01:06:50,607 --> 01:06:54,178
These corporations spend
hundreds of millions of
802
01:06:54,211 --> 01:06:56,313
Dollars creating an image.
803
01:06:56,346 --> 01:07:00,284
Whether it's a friendly clown
or a little girl with red pig
804
01:07:00,317 --> 01:07:05,222
Tails or a chihuahua that
talks to you, and that's what
805
01:07:05,255 --> 01:07:08,058
They have at stake.
806
01:07:08,092 --> 01:07:10,294
You can go to almost
any fast food outlet.
807
01:07:10,327 --> 01:07:12,362
Any chain restaurant, and
you're eating a fair-food
808
01:07:12,396 --> 01:07:14,331
Tomato.
809
01:07:25,875 --> 01:07:29,213
But there's still a huge hole.
810
01:07:29,246 --> 01:07:32,182
And that is
supermarket chains.
811
01:07:59,776 --> 01:08:01,645
They're getting the job done.
812
01:08:01,678 --> 01:08:04,481
It's gone from an imaginary
thing to something that's in
813
01:08:04,514 --> 01:08:08,818
The fields and working
very successfully today.
814
01:08:08,852 --> 01:08:11,488
Since its inception, the fair
food program has channeled
815
01:08:11,521 --> 01:08:15,459
Over $11 million in
extra pennies to workers.
816
01:08:15,492 --> 01:08:17,427
It has provided a way for
women to report harassment
817
01:08:17,461 --> 01:08:20,464
Without fear of retribution
and it has eliminated slavery
818
01:08:20,497 --> 01:08:23,767
On the farms that
work with the cow.
819
01:08:24,334 --> 01:08:29,339
I see this as a completely
unique way to approach labor
820
01:08:29,373 --> 01:08:32,476
Relations in agriculture that
no one has, no one has done it
821
01:08:32,509 --> 01:08:33,677
This way.
822
01:08:33,710 --> 01:08:37,113
And it can be a template, I
think, for other industries.
823
01:09:45,515 --> 01:09:48,285
For the first time, a publix
executive has shown up at the
824
01:09:48,318 --> 01:09:50,854
Hunger strike.
825
01:09:50,887 --> 01:09:54,724
Shannon patton, publix's
spokesperson, is just 100
826
01:09:54,758 --> 01:09:57,894
Yards away from
the protestors.
827
01:09:57,927 --> 01:10:00,597
Lucas has been warned that if
he tries to speak to her, he
828
01:10:00,630 --> 01:10:02,832
Will be arrested.
829
01:10:03,733 --> 01:10:05,702
What would happen if you just
walked over there and talked
830
01:10:05,735 --> 01:10:07,237
To Shannon?
831
01:10:25,955 --> 01:10:27,624
Yeah, then, let's just stand
at the edge, I'll wave them
832
01:10:27,657 --> 01:10:28,492
Over, and let's just say
833
01:10:28,525 --> 01:10:30,860
"Can you tell Shannon to come
here."
834
01:10:30,894 --> 01:10:32,028
It's like, there's two people.
835
01:10:32,061 --> 01:10:33,830
Just talk.
836
01:10:33,863 --> 01:10:36,866
If you go there and I happen
to talk to, I talk to Shannon
837
01:10:36,900 --> 01:10:37,767
Right here?
838
01:10:37,801 --> 01:10:38,535
Yeah.
839
01:10:38,568 --> 01:10:39,369
Yeah?
840
01:10:39,403 --> 01:10:40,437
Yeah.
841
01:10:40,470 --> 01:10:44,608
Yeah, if you go there and
ask, yeah, absolutely.
842
01:10:44,641 --> 01:10:46,310
I guess I'll be right back.
843
01:10:46,343 --> 01:10:47,811
Yeah.
844
01:13:37,847 --> 01:13:42,519
[Speaking in Spanish
through a megaphone]
845
01:14:07,777 --> 01:14:11,214
There is a long and
proud history of creative
846
01:14:11,247 --> 01:14:15,752
Nonviolence in this country.
847
01:14:19,122 --> 01:14:22,926
What creative nonviolence does
is it draws out the essential
848
01:14:22,959 --> 01:14:27,531
Character of the person
on the other side.
849
01:14:32,068 --> 01:14:35,572
By ignoring farm workers and
religious people and students
850
01:14:35,605 --> 01:14:38,508
Who all gathered and did
this simple sacrifice, publix
851
01:14:38,542 --> 01:14:42,078
Demonstrated the kind of
disdain that they've shown
852
01:14:42,111 --> 01:14:45,882
Farm workers behind
the scenes for decades.
853
01:16:09,165 --> 01:16:17,340
I'm tired, but with these two
kids and my wife, my bar is
854
01:16:17,373 --> 01:16:21,978
Here, so I'm physical tired
but not, not in my heart.
855
01:16:22,011 --> 01:16:23,680
Not in my spirit.
856
01:16:23,713 --> 01:16:26,115
Yeah.
857
01:16:49,172 --> 01:16:52,341
Exactly 44 years earlier
to the day,
858
01:16:52,375 --> 01:16:55,912
Robert f. Kennedy had ended a
hunger strike with Cesar Chavez
859
01:16:55,945 --> 01:16:57,080
In California.
860
01:16:57,113 --> 01:17:00,116
Part of the Kennedy family's
long legacy of activism on
861
01:17:00,149 --> 01:17:01,718
Behalf of the farm workers.
862
01:17:01,751 --> 01:17:02,886
What message are you sending
out by coming out this
863
01:17:02,919 --> 01:17:04,020
Afternoon?
864
01:17:04,053 --> 01:17:09,025
That, uh, people want
fairness, and social justice.
865
01:17:11,094 --> 01:17:14,163
Ladies and gentlemen,
with you, kerry Kennedy.
866
01:17:14,197 --> 01:17:17,767
I want to address my remarks
today not to all of the
867
01:17:17,801 --> 01:17:21,805
Wonderful people here, but
to the owners of publix.
868
01:17:21,838 --> 01:17:26,209
The farm workers have fasted
for justice and for truth and
869
01:17:26,242 --> 01:17:28,878
They have spoken
truth to power.
870
01:17:28,912 --> 01:17:32,148
Surely, if the farm workers
can go without food for six
871
01:17:32,181 --> 01:17:36,085
Days, you can provide
zero tolerance for sexual
872
01:17:36,119 --> 01:17:37,153
Harassment.
873
01:17:37,186 --> 01:17:41,324
You can stop the slavery, and
you can provide a
874
01:17:41,357 --> 01:17:43,126
Penny per pound.
875
01:17:43,159 --> 01:17:47,697
[Cheering and applause]
876
01:17:47,731 --> 01:17:51,935
Ladies and gentlemen,
Bobby Kennedy junior.
877
01:17:51,968 --> 01:17:55,939
The battle you're fighting,
is a battle not just to get
878
01:17:55,972 --> 01:17:59,008
Higher wages for these
workers, but it's a battle
879
01:17:59,042 --> 01:18:03,446
Against a corporate culture
that says that our margins
880
01:18:03,479 --> 01:18:06,482
Transcend any
kind of morality.
881
01:18:06,515 --> 01:18:10,887
We have to resist the
seduction of the notion that
882
01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:14,858
We can advance ourselves as
a people by leaving our poor
883
01:18:14,891 --> 01:18:17,861
Brothers and sisters behind.
884
01:18:17,894 --> 01:18:22,231
If we cannot win this fight,
we have lost the soul of
885
01:18:22,265 --> 01:18:23,867
America.
886
01:18:25,534 --> 01:18:30,439
[Chanting "we'll be back"]
887
01:18:33,877 --> 01:18:36,746
[Peaceful music]
888
01:18:36,780 --> 01:18:41,117
*
889
01:19:02,906 --> 01:19:05,341
Thank you, thank you,
thank you so much.
890
01:19:22,425 --> 01:19:24,828
This is not something that
farm workers are
891
01:19:24,861 --> 01:19:27,130
Asking as a favor.
892
01:19:27,530 --> 01:19:31,567
It is thanks to the hard work
of thousands and thousands of
893
01:19:31,600 --> 01:19:36,973
Workers in this nation that
food end up in their tables.
894
01:19:40,877 --> 01:19:44,413
I ask every consumer to take
into consideration the fact
895
01:19:44,447 --> 01:19:48,551
That you can do something
about this to make people's
896
01:19:48,584 --> 01:19:51,320
Lives better.
897
01:19:53,923 --> 01:19:57,994
If you eat, you are affected.
898
01:19:58,027 --> 01:20:00,930
Everybody should be concerned
with where our food comes from
899
01:20:00,964 --> 01:20:03,166
And who picks it.
900
01:20:07,336 --> 01:20:11,174
When I think of the great
problems that this country is
901
01:20:11,207 --> 01:20:14,477
Facing and how difficult some of
them are going to be to solve,
902
01:20:14,510 --> 01:20:18,247
This isn't one of them.
903
01:21:13,402 --> 01:21:15,972
[Folk music]
904
01:21:16,005 --> 01:21:18,975
* California, Arizona
905
01:21:19,008 --> 01:21:21,477
* I harvest your crops
906
01:21:21,510 --> 01:21:24,213
* then it's north
up to Oregon *
907
01:21:24,247 --> 01:21:28,184
* to gather your hops
908
01:21:28,217 --> 01:21:31,020
* dig the beets
from the ground *
909
01:21:31,054 --> 01:21:33,689
* cut the grapes
from the vine *
910
01:21:33,722 --> 01:21:36,559
* to set on your table
911
01:21:36,592 --> 01:21:41,464
* that light
sparkling wine *
912
01:21:51,540 --> 01:21:54,410
* it's always we ramble
913
01:21:54,443 --> 01:21:56,645
* this river and I
914
01:21:56,679 --> 01:21:59,348
* all along your
green valley *
915
01:21:59,382 --> 01:22:03,319
* I work 'til I die
916
01:22:03,352 --> 01:22:05,654
* my land I'll defend
917
01:22:05,688 --> 01:22:08,357
* with my life if it be
918
01:22:08,391 --> 01:22:11,327
* 'cause our
pastures of plenty *
919
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:15,598
* must always be free
920
01:22:15,631 --> 01:22:25,674
*
921
01:22:25,674 --> 01:22:37,153
*
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