TEDxFruitvale - Maisie Greenawalt - Conference Opener
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When it comes to addressing the problems of farmworkers, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. But what we do know is that a cheap food system built on the backs of the poor is immoral and unsustainable. About Maisie Greenawalt, TEDxFruitvale host: Maisie is cofounder and president of the Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation and vice president o... Read more
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Maisie Greenawalt - Conference Opener
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)When it comes to addressing the problems of farmworkers, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. But what we do know is that a cheap food system built on the backs of the poor is immoral and unsustainable. About Maisie Greenawalt, TEDxFruitvale host: Maisie is cofounder and president of the Bon Appétit ...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - José Gutierrez - Leaving the Fields Behind
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)When José was 11, newly arrived from Mexico, his father warned him of the hard work in the peach orchards. His dad said, "This is the type of job you'll be doing if you don't focus in school." José decided to help out his family while in high school, by picking alongside his father. But ultimatel...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Barry Estabrook - Following the Money in Lake Apopka, FL
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)What happened on the shores of Lake Apopka, Florida, was an unprecedented environmental and human tragedy. Looking at who profited from it and who paid for it is a stark reminder of how little we respect and value the men and women who feed us. About Barry Estabrook, author of Tomatoland: Stin...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Wayne Pacelle - Animals, Humans: We're All Connected
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)How did we go from animal husbandry, where farmers cared for their animals, to "meat science"? From a relationship with living beings, to treating them like a commodity? Those who abuse animals are likely to abuse other people, and that includes farmworkers. About Wayne Pacelle, President and C...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Gerardo Reyes-Chavez - Making Corporations Pay
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The Coalition of Immokalee Workers represents tomato pickers in Florida, a group with seemingly no power in our society. Yet the CIW has moved some of the largest corporations in the world to pay Florida workers a penny a pound more for their efforts -- which adds up to serious money -- as well a...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Arturo Rodriguez - Why We Need Unions More Than Ever
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The laws on the books are often not the laws that exist in the fields for farmworkers. Sixteen California farmworkers have died of heat stress since 2005, when a law requiring shade was passed. Farmworkers need to band together to look out for their own interests. About Arturo S. Rodriguez, pr...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Nikki Henderson - The Black Power and Farmworker Movements
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Surely two of the biggest social justice movements of the 1960s were working together? Yes, they were -- but the shared history of the Black Power and César Chávez movements isn't well known. The Black Panthers supported the United Farm Workers' grape boycott by directing members away from Safewa...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Maria Catalan - From Farmworker to Farm Owner
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)A third-generation migrant farmworker, Maria Catalan was born in Guerrero, Mexico, where she helped her parents on the family farm before immigrating to the United States in 1986. For many years she worked for California's biggest farms, picking broccoli and carrots. Then she enrolled in a progra...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Flavio Cornejo - What Farmwork Does to A Body
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)The human body was not designed to stoop low to the ground for eight or more hours a day. Here's what happens to it. About Dr. Flavio Cornejo, farmworker physician: Flavio is an associate chief medical officer for Salud Para La Gente, a federally designated community health clinic, and partici...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Sanjay Rawal - Filming the Faces Behind Our Food
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Sanjay Rawal's most recent completed film, Challenging Impossibility, was about the unlikely weightlifting exploits of the spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy and played in over 50 festivals. His current production is a feature-length documentary that focuses on farm labor, the roots of inequity in the...
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