What: Join us at Rep. Delbene’s office to ask her to vote no on fast track Trade Promotion Authority. Currently before Congress, this bill would pave the way for quick passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secretive trade deal referred to as “NAFTA on steroids.” Rep. DelBene has not yet said that we can count on her vote against fast track, so we’ll deliver shoes with the message “Don’t walk away from workers.” Bring an old pair of shoes if you have them!
Dear Readers:Meet Alejandrina. She was 11 when Los Angeles Times journalists first began reporting her story. Alejandrina, a little girl who likes lip gloss and longs to go to back to school, works 14 hours a day picking chile peppers for a farm that supplies a U.S. distributor.
Mexican law requires workers to be at least 15, but Alejandrina is among an estimated 100,000 children younger than that who work the fields. As she told The Times: “I work because we don’t have any money and we need money to eat things.”
This marks the fourth and final piece in our Product of Mexico series, an investigation into conditions on Mexican farms that supply Americans with much of our tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and other produce.
I want to thank all of you for reading this important series and sharing it with others. Here’s a sneak peek at a videocoming Monday that features Marosi and Bartletti talking about the reporting behind this eye-opening series.
P.S. We’ve created some extra content available only to our subscribers. Bartletti, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist whose interest in photography dates back to his service in Vietnam, has covered Mexico for decades. He shares some of his best photos and memories of what it took to capture the images.
Updated information is now available. An updated list of retail consignees has been posted for recall 075-2013 – Hawaii Firm Recalls Frozen, Raw Chicken Products Due To Possible Temperature Abuse, Dec. 20, 2013.
Hawaii Firm Recalls Additional Frozen, Raw Chicken Products Due To Possible Temperature AbusePalama Holdings, LLC, a Kapolei, HI establishment, is expanding its recall of raw, frozen marinated chicken products to approximately 24,784 pounds because they may have experienced temperature abuse in the distribution chain, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The expanded recall covers all teriyaki chicken products produced at the company’s Kapolei, HI plant with “Best by” dates ranging Sept. 24, 2014 to November 6, 2014.
Updated information is now available. An updated list of retail consignees has been posted for 074-2015 – California Firm Recalls Dried Sausage Products Due To Possible Contamination With Staphylococcus Aureus Enterotoxin, Dec. 19, 2013.
Updated information is now available. An updated list of retail consignees has been posted for recall 075-2013 – Hawaii Firm Recalls Frozen, Raw Chicken Products Due To Possible Temperature Abuse, Dec. 20, 2013.
Updated information is now available. An updated list of retail consignees has been posted for recall 071-2013, Ontario, Canada Firm Recalls Prosciutto Ham Product For Possible Listeria Monocytogenes Contamination (Dec 6, 2013).
Imagine if a mining company came onto your land without your approval and tried to dig for gold where your ancestors were buried.
For the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) Indigenous Nation in northern Ontario, this is the situation they are currently facing. And it’s not even the first time.
The KI community has opposed and defeated mining companies seeking to violate their traditional lands before, first in 2008 when Platinex wanted to mine their lands, and again in 2010 when De Beers did the same. RAN activists stood with the KI community in the past, and it’s incredibly important that we do so again.
The KI community is located about 600 miles north of Thunder Bay, Ontario, over 200 miles from any road, deep in the Boreal Forest. Aside from being critical to the lives and livelihoods of Indigenous peoples like the KI, the Boreal is also home to a vast array of wildlife and represents a massive carbon storehouse. We all have a stake in protecting the Boreal Forest and the rights of the Indigenous peoples who live there as stewards of the land.
As the KI community says in their Water Declaration and Consultation Protocol: “Together we can protect this sacred water for all people, all animals, all plants and all life.”
The Canadian government has gone to great lengths to cater to mining companies over the rights of Indigenous communities, ignoring treaties signed in good faith and even criminalizing legitimate protest against the destruction of Indigenous lands. Please take action today.
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