Have you ever given thought to where our food comes from? It's a long process from farm to table, and it all begins with the farm workers. We simply would not have tomatoes in our sandwiches and in our salads, for example, if it were not for these hard-working souls. Farm workers have been among the lowest paid employees in the job market, many of them living with slave-like conditions: long hours in the hot sun with little pay and few breaks, sexual harassment and rape in th

Looking for fast food? Boot the Braids. Back in November, I got the chance to meet Gerardo and several of the farmworkers at a protest aganist Wendy's chairman of the board, Nelson Peltz, on Park Ave in NYC. "Their burgers may be square, but their food ain't fair" is the chant you'll hear from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Why should you Boot the Braids? The Student Farmworker Alliance has a campaign in place to boycott Wendy's on college campuses and in communities ac