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Justice Campaigns mobilizes people around the country in support of US policies that will lead to the abolition of sex trafficking and modern-day slavery and the creation of public justice systems abroad that protect the poor.

What’s in an overfilled tomato bucket? 45 cents.

By Seth Wispelwey  -  Mon, 07/16/2012

Look again at this photo. There’s something wrong. Tomato farms that join the Fair Food Program don’t have buckets that look like this one. But it’s not the bucket; it’s what inside!

The photo shows pickers hauling buckets that are “overfilled” by the new standards established by the Fair Food Program (FFP).  In fields where tomatoes are grown under a Fair Food Agreement, buckets can only be filled to the rim, ensuring that workers are not underpaid and overworked.

According to the independent Fair Food Standards Council, the “age-old practice of forced overfilling of picking buckets [was

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Featured Recipe: Food Blogger Ali Ebright

Mon, 07/16/2012

Each week, the Recipe for Change campaign will feature a tomato recipe from a leader in the movement to end slavery, both here in the United States and around the world. You can sign up to get these recipes, along with information and stories on slavery in Florida's tomato fields and ways you can take action this summer. You'll receive one email per week between July 4th and Labor Day. 

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Holly's News From Washington - July 2012

By Holly Burkhalter  -  Tue, 07/10/2012

Last month was a big month in the fight against trafficking. On the same day the U.S. State Department issued the annual Trafficking Persons (TIP) Report, Gary Haugen, founder and president of International Justice Mission received the abolition movement’s highest honor.

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