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:: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 ::
Time to bring immigrant workers out of the shadows, labor leader says By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota
"He was left under that tree to die like a dog," said Baldemar Velasquez, founder and president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC). "The old spirit of slavery and indentured servants is still alive and well . . .
"You don't know these people," Velasquez said of migrant workers. "They work in the shadow of American life."------------------------------------------- posted 12:18 PM :: reference link ::
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