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Essential or Expendable? Farmworkers Condemn Lack of Protection and Economic Help During Pandemic

As the coronavirus sweeps through the United States, the country’s 2.5 million farmworkers are continuing to go to work every day, often facing crowded and unsanitary conditions without personal protective equipment, for poverty wages. We speak with Gerardo Reyes Chávez, a farmworker leader with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, who describes the conditions farmworkers in Florida are facing and how they are calling on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to protect farmworkers during the COVID-19 crisis, and with Mónica Ramírez, president and founder of Justice for Migrant Women and co-founder of the National Farmworkers Women’s Alliance. #DemocracyNow Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://ift.tt/2iwSJp0 Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: https://ift.tt/1D4iDTu FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: YouTube: http://youtube.com/democracynow Facebook: https://ift.tt/1dCBcap Twitter: https://twitter.com/democracynow Instagram: https://ift.tt/1dvFEro SoundCloud: https://ift.tt/1azmorZ iTunes: https://ift.tt/1aXKgY9 Daily Email Digest: https://ift.tt/2qRBgyS
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