Nominee's Background:
Greg Asbed is an organizer with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in Florida. The CIW is a community-based worker organization. Our members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida.
We strive to build our strength as a community on a basis of reflection and analysis, constant attention to coalition building across ethnic divisions, and an ongoing investment in leadership development to help our members continually develop their skills in community education and organization.
From this basis we fight for, among other things: a fair wage for the work we do, more respect on the part of our bosses and the industries where we work, better and cheaper housing, stronger laws and stronger enforcement against those who would violate workers' rights, the right to organize on our jobs without fear of retaliation, and an end to indentured servitude in the fields.
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Progressive Criteria:
The Department of Agriculture will: Support sustainable agriculture;
Work to ensure the American people a safe, varied and plentiful food supply;
Put public health and environmental safety above corporate, political or regional interests;
Support family farming and encourage healthy economic development of rural communities;
Work to protect the Commons: public lands, air and water, biodiversity, unpatented seed stock;
Promote humane farming;
Work to avoid hurting poor farmers in poor countries with unfair competition from subsidized US crops.
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