Listen to the "Smoking Gun" with dan lb on WHPK 88.5 FM Chicago this monday 3-4 pm

Learn about the Taco Bell Boycott and the campaign to kick Taco Bell out of the University of Chicago.
Live interviews with Francisco Martine, a farmworker from immokalee florida and Ella Hereth, of the U of C anti-sweatshop coalition.

Francisco Martínez is a farmworker and a five-year member of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). Martínez harvests oranges, tomatoes and other crops throughout Florida. Upon arrival in the US he was enslaved on a Florida plantation. He and some co-workers escaped, documented their case, and eventually sued their former “employers.” In December 2002, Francisco’s former holders were convicted of slavery charges and sentenced to 12 years in prison. He is 24 years old, married and has two daughters aged 4 and 2. Francisco will discuss the plight of farmworkers, the Taco Bell boycott, and their historic struggle for justice in the fields. Jason from the Mexico Solidarity Network will translate..

Ella Hereth is 3rd year undergraduate at the University of Chicago, majoring in gender studies. She is also an organizer with the chicago student labor action project (SLAP), and helped organize the demonstration against the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue TABD last november. As a member of the University of Chicago anti-sweatshop coalition, she helped start a campaign to kick Taco Bell off campus. While Taco Bell still remains the only national brand in Hutchinson Commons dining hall, Ella will give us the scoop about current negotiations between student govt, the anti-sweatshop coalition and the administration to find a replacement.