Romeo Ramirez: Hearing the Voice of the Oppressed

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This week we replay my 2005 interview with one of 2003's Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award winners, Romeo Ramirez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.  I recorded this interview int eh weeks before Taco Bell's parent company, Yum! Brands Inc., agreed to pay the tomato pickers one penny more per pound of tomatoes, effectively doubling the workers' pay.

I was struck, as I listened again to this interview, that humans will do horrible things to one another in pursuit of greed.  Having just celebrated Holy Week, the reality that Jesus died for people such as this is too overt to ignore.

There is a very simple thing we can do right now to help this situation:  Sign Oxfam's petition encouraging Burger King to join Taco Bell and McDonalds in honoring the human rights of the workers by improving their wages.

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