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Updated: 03/09/2013 08:02:12AM
She marches for a better life for her son
SUN PHOTO BY RONALD DUPONT JR.
Talking before marchers begin their trek Friday in Venice, Lupe Gonzalo talks about how work conditions are improving for farm workers but how they need to get better. She talked about sexual harrassment of women in the farm fields.
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Lupe Gonzalo and her husband Leonel pick tomatoes in Imokalee. The pickers are not covered by minimum wage laws.
Thursday, they and nearly 100 other pickers and supporters walked through Venice on their way to the headquarters of Publix Super Markets in Orlando, seeking the chain’s cooperation on a penny-per-pound increase in pay.
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