Tomato workers in Florida face low wages, harsh working conditions, and – on occasion – rape and even slavery. Major tomato buyers including four of the five largest fast food giants have agreed to pay an extra penny a pound on condition growers treat workers with minimal decency. Wendy's is holding out. So we collected pennies as charitable donations to Wendy's so the multi-billion dollar company can afford to do the right thing.
Gar Lipow
Gar W. Lipow is a temporary arrangement of atoms with strong opinions, an old 3rd generation Jewish Red, a lifelong socialist and activist. His book Solving the Climate Crisis through Social Change (Praeger, 2012) tied climate chaos to class, gender, race, and national inequality. He has written for Red Pepper, Z Magazine, Znetwork, Review of Radical Political Economics, New Politics, and Grist.
Gar receives food stamps and Medicaid, but remains notoriously ungrateful to our lords and betters for the crumbs that fall from their tables.
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