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H-2 Worker is a 1990 documentary film about the exploitation of Jamaican guest workers in Florida's sugar cane industry. It was directed by Stephanie Black, and won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for documentaries in the 1990 festival. [1]
TheSugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida dates began in the 1950s when 16 farmers met to discuss joining together with other farmers in the Glades Area, west of West Palm Beach, Florida, and southeast of Lake Okeechobee, to form a farming cooperative. In July 1960, 54 farmer-members chartered Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida.
Pages in category "Sugar industry of Florida" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. ... Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida; T.
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Jun. 16—DALLAS 100 Black Men of America Inc. and Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers are joining forces to grow their partnership, a press release stated. As of Wednesday, 100 Black Men of America ...
One of the most disgraceful floats in the Amazing Kingdom's nightly parade is entitled "Migrants on a Mission," portraying cheerful Caribbean farm workers dancing in Florida's sugar cane fields; Hiaasen's subsequent novel, Strip Tease, focuses on the sugar cane industry's exploitation of migrant labor, and the workers' squalid living conditions.
One person stopped and peered through the Fudge Factory’s glass window. Then another. And another. They stopped to see Peter Vrinios carry on a family tradition that began 125 years ago.
At a cost of $200 million, the power plant would produce energy from sugar cane stalks and woody waste that would be delivered via Florida Power and Light to an estimated 46,000 homes. [17] After the partnership dissolved, Flo-Sun began operating the biomass power plant on its own in 1996 and expanded it to the largest in the nation by 2006 ...