Charge: "Modern-Day Slavery in the State of Florida!"

On Saturday morning, Aug. 14, 2010, at Baltimore, MD's Inner Harbor, I interviewed two Human Rights activists, Brigitte Gynther and Oscar Otzoy. They are members of the "Coalition of Immokalee Workers," (CIW). It is sponsoring a mobile "Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum," which has recently been touring the northeast part of the country. See for details: http://www.ciw-online.org/ Their group has assisted federal officials "in prosecuting six cases of modern-day slavery in Florida." As recent as Dec. 2008, two farm labor employers were convicted in a "servitude" situation, that, according to the CIW, the U.S. Attorney Doug Molloy labeled: "One of Florida's biggest, ugliest slavery cases ever!"

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Slavery
• Florida
• farmworkers
• Coalition
• Immokalee Workers
• US Attorney
• Doug Molloy
• Brigitte Gynther
• Oscar Otzoy
• Guatemala
• William Hughes

[Gulfporter]

Note the techniques here.

Talk about slavery and the "verify it" with Oscar by asking about "low wages, long hours, and difficult working conditions." The two are not the same. Yes, ag work pays minwage for hard work- no ag work is not slavery.

Also, you'll note that the CIW/SWP woman refers to the slavery case in prosecution, but FAILS to mention that those enslaving the illegal aliens were themselves illegal aliens and NOT the farmers.

All in all this video is a lie, which is a shame.

[soccerdude601]

you'll never see these stories in the main stream media.

[oojamaflipper]

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