The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a farmworker organization based in Florida, has helped uncover and prosecute five cases of slavery in Florida agriculture since 1997.
February 14, 2005 (Press Release) --
University of Louisville Arts & Sciences Dean Blaine Hudson, Pan African Studies chairperson and community activist Ricky Jones, Coalition of Immokalee Workers activist Romeo Ramirez, and Center for Women and Families attorney Gretchen Hunt will be panelists at Feb. 21’s Confronting Slavery: Past and Present. The panel will be held at 7 p.m. in Strickler 102 on U of L’s Belknap campus. Attica Scott, the coordinator of Kentucky Jobs with Justice, will moderate the event.
This discussion will raise awareness about the history of slavery, as well as the rise of modern-day slavery in agriculture and other industries. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a farmworker organization based in Florida, has helped uncover and prosecute five cases of slavery in Florida agriculture since 1997.
Ramirez, a Guatemalan farmworker who started working in the US fields at 15, went undercover to reveal one such case. The ringleaders of the operation were found guilty of conspiracy to hold workers against their will and sentenced to prison. For his work against modern-day slavery, Ramirez received the 2003 Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is organizing a national rally at Yum Brands offices in Louisville, KY on March 12 as part of their Taco Bell boycott campaign to improve wages and working conditions of farmworkers in Yum Brands’ supply chain.
· Dr. Blaine Hudson, a graduate of the University of Kentucky and U of L, has published articles on African American history, African Americans and education, and the history of slavery, and formerly headed the Pan African Studies department.
· Dr. Ricky Jones, a native of Atlanta and a University of Kentucky graduate, has written a column for the Louisville Eccentric Observer, published a book on African Americans and fraternities (Black Haze: Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities), and will publish Fathers and Sons: Black Men, their Women, Their Wars, and Other Matters and Dying, but Fighting Back: Religious Exploitation, Popular Culture Obsession and Black Resistance.
· Gretchen Hunt, a Boston College Law School graduate, works with the Center for Women and Families representing immigrant survivors of domestic violence, rape and trafficking; she also taught classes at U of L in Women and Gender Studies.
· Attica Scott, a graduate of Knoxville College and the University of Tennessee and a Louisville native, served as Executive Director of The National Conference for Community and a columnist for Knoxville's Metro Pulse. She helped create the Greater Knoxville Civil Liberties Alliance, the LGBTQ Task Force and the Race Relations Center of East Tennessee.
This discussion will raise awareness about the history of slavery, as well as the rise of modern-day slavery in agriculture and other industries. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a farmworker organization based in Florida, has helped uncover and prosecute five cases of slavery in Florida agriculture since 1997.
Ramirez, a Guatemalan farmworker who started working in the US fields at 15, went undercover to reveal one such case. The ringleaders of the operation were found guilty of conspiracy to hold workers against their will and sentenced to prison. For his work against modern-day slavery, Ramirez received the 2003 Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is organizing a national rally at Yum Brands offices in Louisville, KY on March 12 as part of their Taco Bell boycott campaign to improve wages and working conditions of farmworkers in Yum Brands’ supply chain.
· Dr. Blaine Hudson, a graduate of the University of Kentucky and U of L, has published articles on African American history, African Americans and education, and the history of slavery, and formerly headed the Pan African Studies department.
· Dr. Ricky Jones, a native of Atlanta and a University of Kentucky graduate, has written a column for the Louisville Eccentric Observer, published a book on African Americans and fraternities (Black Haze: Violence, Sacrifice, and Manhood in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities), and will publish Fathers and Sons: Black Men, their Women, Their Wars, and Other Matters and Dying, but Fighting Back: Religious Exploitation, Popular Culture Obsession and Black Resistance.
· Gretchen Hunt, a Boston College Law School graduate, works with the Center for Women and Families representing immigrant survivors of domestic violence, rape and trafficking; she also taught classes at U of L in Women and Gender Studies.
· Attica Scott, a graduate of Knoxville College and the University of Tennessee and a Louisville native, served as Executive Director of The National Conference for Community and a columnist for Knoxville's Metro Pulse. She helped create the Greater Knoxville Civil Liberties Alliance, the LGBTQ Task Force and the Race Relations Center of East Tennessee.
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