Immigrant farm laborers who cultivate the raw food products used by Taco Bell and other fast food chains will discuss the exploitation they are facing in a program titled "The Everyday Face of Globalization: Fast Food, Farmwork and You" Friday, April 12, at 7 p.m. at the Resource Center of the Americas, 3019 Minnehaha Ave. in Minneapolis.

Members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will talk about their struggle and their boycott of Taco Bell. The coalition is a community-based organization of Hispanic, Haitian and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout Florida. It includes workers in Immokalee, Florida, who pick tomatoes. Currently, they earn 40 cents per 32-pound bucket of tomatoes, the same rate since 1978. They must pick 4,000 pounds of tomatoes to earn $50 in a day.

The coalition is agitating for fair wages, dignity on the job, better housing, the right to organize without fear of retaliation and an end of what it calls indentured servitude in the fields.

For more information
Phone the Resource Center, 612-276-0788, ext. 31