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Special Report: Voices of Children of Farmworkers Demanding Driscoll’s Boycott

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“One day—I think it was a Sunday—where we were picking strawberries, it was raining, and it was like super cold, like the wind and stuff like that. And I was kind of feeling a little sick. It was like around 12:00. And I wanted to go home, so I asked my mom. And then she said, if I’m like not feeling well, we should go home. And then my mom told the supervisor. But the supervisor said like, ‘If you guys don’t get back to work, your whole—you guys all will get fired, and then you guys will find someplace to live.’ Like just like right away, like at the same day, you get fired and then you have to find a place to stay.”

- Alfredo Juárez, a 16-year-old who has been picking berries for Sakuma Brothers Farms in Washington state since he was 13. 

Watch our special report from Burlington, Wash. where farmworkers are calling for fairer wages and better living conditions. 

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Saturday marked the international day of action to boycott Driscoll’s, the world’s largest berry distributor. Berry pickers have been organizing for three years at Sakuma Brothers Farms in Burlington, Washington, one of the farms where Driscoll’s buys berries. 

Democracy Now! traveled to Burlington, where Laura Gottesdiener filed a special report on the boycott. We spoke with protesting farmworkers about allegations of stolen wages and child labor practices and toured camps where workers live with their families.

Watch our special report ►

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Watch the debate between Cornel West, Dolores Huerta and Black Lives Matter organizer Melina Abdullah here.

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