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    "The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
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    :: Sunday, August 07, 2005 ::

    A Welcome Return to Enforcing Labor Laws - by Robert Scheer, AlterNet
    Ten years ago this week, I was awakened by a phone tip that California labor department inspectors were about to free scores of Thai slave workers from a garment factory in El Monte.

    "Did you say slaves?" I asked my informant in disbelief, as I hurriedly dressed to go to the site. The Smithsonian Institution in 1998 made this case a part of its exhibit on U.S. sweatshops, calling it a low point in the sad history of U.S. exploitation of undocumented laborers.
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