Immigration and Globalization Working Group Discussion

The truth about Puerto Rican Coffee

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:19:52 -0400

Dear UALE working group on immigration and globalization,

I am attaching an expose by a farmer in Puerto Rico sent by a colleague in the Education School here. The file that is in Spanish includes charts and a copy of a signed document that is not in the translated files. Please forward to anyone else that you know of who can help get some attention for this problem and/or would know of places that may help publish it.

Thanks,
Lynn Duggan

(Click on link above to download English and Spanish versions of the expose.)

Forwarded email:

Dear Lynn:

I am writing as your area of specialty came to mind regarding the attached letter that came to me from a coffee farmer in Puerto Rico. In short it is the same old story that has been plaguing Puerto Rico, big companies have forced local farmers to sell their land/crops for next to nothing and then "allowed" the farmers to "work" the land for a wage that is not living, sometimes renting the land back to the owner again for a fee that is they are not able to meet based upon the price the companies then buy the coffee from them, and turned those relationships into multimillion dollar enterprises for stockholders. AS a result the people of Puerto Rico live in poverty and are forced to find other ways to make a living like drugs. Death tolls are out of control as a result of this stolen economy. The attached piece is what I am calling and expose written by one farmer who refuses to sell.

If you know folks who may be able to help get some attention for this problem and or places that may help publish the piece please send it on or let me send it on.

Yours;
Gus

Gus Weltsek
<gweltsek@indiana.edu>

Immigration and Globalization Working Group

Immigration/Globalization Task Force Meeting Friday

rclarkbennett — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:57:50 -0400

Dear Immigration/Globalization Task Force Members,

Some of you may have already received the following notice from Judy Ancel, but we're re-sending it through the website to be sure:

The UALE Immigration Globalization Task Force will hold its first meeting under new facilitators (Robin and Judy) on Friday May 27^th at 1pm (CENTRAL time). That’s 2pm EASTERN and 11am PACIFIC time.

We’re using Free Conference Call number: 805-360-1000 with Access code 699-585# Please send agenda items to ancelj@umkc.edu and robin-clark-bennett@uiowa.edu Agenda items: · Cananea followup · Follow up of other resolutions (US aid to labor repression in Mexico and interpretation) · Planning for the year and how do we balance our work between o 2012 UALE Conference o Our non-conference role(s) · Functioning of Taskforce and membership Please see attached minutes of our meeting in New Orleans for details. Please RSVP Judy Ancel, Director The Institute for Labor Studies The University of Missouri-Kansas City 211 Haag Hall 5100 Rockhill Road Kansas City, MO 64110

Immigration and Globalization Working Group

Labor's New Globalism: American Prospect Special Report December 2010

Tess Ewing — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:34:45 -0500

Ruth Needleman asked that this special report from the American Prospect be shared with the Immigration/GLobalization Working Group.

Immigration and Globalization Working Group