By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 liquor giant Bacardi Ltd., whose U.S. operations are based in Coral Gables, publicly pledged its support for Ukraine and announced that it had “paused exports to Russia and froze advertising” there. That was then
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
The mass release of emails covering presidential aspirant Jeb Bush’s years as governor omitted at least a dozen emails documenting behind-the-scenes lobbying support he gave to liquor giant Bacardi.
This story was done in collaboration with VICE News.
By Michael Grabell, ProPublica
A photo from the CBS documentary ‘Harvest of Shame, left, and Chicago temp workers on a bus in the early morning hours of Jan. 18, 2013 Photo: CBS News, Sally Ryan for ProPublica
CRANBURY, N.J. – Half a century ago, the legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow came to this pancake-flat town in central New Jersey to document the plight of migrant farmworkers for a television special called “Harvest of Shame.”
Today, many of Cranbury’s potato fields have been built up with giant warehouses that form a distribution hub off Exit 8A of the Jersey Turnpike. But amid this 21st century system of commerce, an old way of labor persists.
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