Shit! This is one of my regular products (Del Monte Sunfresh Tropical Fruits in a jar). Do I stop buying it in protest for suspecting Del Monte of participating in the crackdown process at the plant? Do I switch to local fruit because that's the green thing to do anyway (knowing that fresh fruit spoils quickly for a person living alone)? Or do I just wait until the price goes through the roof and let that make the decision?

*sighs*

i know what you mean. i thought about it for a moment. but this is not del monte doing it. and boycotting would hurt the workers, too. it's one thing if a company is being unfair and the workers are striking or organizing a boycott. but to strike at this wrong, we'd need to boycott our own govt policies...

In Emeryville (next to Oakland), there has been a campaign to get Woodfin Hotels to pay their workers the living wage ordinance passed by the city council and to pay back wages the workers have been cheated out of. This week info comes out that the owner of the hotels Sam Hardage got a Congressman Brian Bilbray to have the ICE invesigate his own workers, which is a violation of ICE regulations about interfering in labor disputes. Here's a press release:

http://www.workingeastbay.org/article.php?id=332

another article:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/ci_6138318

I am a proud British-American, but I never refer to myself as such. My wife is proud of her Japanese ancestors. My sister in law respects her German progenitors, my cousin is proud of his Apache descent.....But we are all now just Americans.

Why cant we all be just plain, unhyphenated Americans. Why can't we all just get along? Unless there are ulterior motives in promoting hate.

but don't you feel united when your British American brothers are beaten up in a park by 20 or 30 people, due to the color of their skin? or mobbed because of the same? don't you feel like standing with them, in name if not in body, when they are unlawfully deported, even though they are legal British Americans?

why can't we all just get along? because there are a lot of ignorant and hateful people out there who have wanted this to be a white nation since the days your ancestors orginally savaged this land with bloody notions of manifest destiny. that's what i think. do you have any ideas?

Why cant we all be just plain, unhyphenated Americans.

i don't know about "plain," i have no interest in that. and as far as hyphens, you tell me: why did you use one? i didn't.

I work at one of the woodfin suite hotels . and I think it if pathetic what mr sam hardage is doing to his workers. treating everyone like shit. Not letting his workers just well work. He pays eveyrone so little and he treats each rase different. I have only seen him a few times and everytime i have seen him i have been ignored and looked down on cause i'm just a worker. I hope all the mexican's get together and just kick his ass.