By Richard Blake
Fight Back Florida is a network of progressive students, labor activists, and workers throughout Florida that fight for accessible education and the rights of working families.
By Ellen McHugh
For every pair of TOMS shoes bought, the company will send another pair to kids in need all over the world. But what about the workers in Argentina, China and Ethiopia who make them?
By Laura Landry
On March 25, citizens of Gainesville marched from the UF campus to City Hall in response to Rick Scott’s budget cuts as part of Fight Back Florida’s day of action. TFP presents a multimedia documentary.
By Nadine Navarro
Why UF agreed to join the Workers Rights Consortium Every day, average Americans drive to their jobs, work for about four hours and then take a legally mandated lunch break for 30 minutes to an hour. After about four more hours of work, they go home. But Gina Cano and Lowlee Urquia’s workdays were nothing [...]
By Chelsea Hetelson
The three-day Harvest of Hope Foundation Music and Arts Fest is back for its second year, March 12-14, at the St. Johns County Fairgrounds in St. Augustine. The Harvest of Hope Foundation, a “non-profit organization that provides financial, educational, and service-oriented aid to migrant farm workers all over the country,” according to its web site, [...]
By Joe Richard
Going to work in a restaurant is like going to prison. You deal with snitches, scabs, backstabbers, dealers, narcs, dirty cops and crooked shitheads in positions of power. The knives, the drugs, the turf wars, the punishing of creative expression. The wages are low, and maybe because of this, cigarettes are worth more than money. [...]
By Kristen Abdullah and Richard Blake
As we made the four-hour journey south to tomato-town Immokalee, Fla., we ran through the itinerary for the long weekend to come and familiarized ourselves with the 40-plus pages of reading material that we were supposed to have completed three weeks before. The thick packet of literature included stories like “Immokalee family sentenced for slavery,” [...]
By Travis Pillow
“The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want…” – Mark 14:7 “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” – Mark 8:36 Dear Tim Tebow, Over the four years we’ve been attending this university together, I feel like [...]