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Farmworker Legal Services of New York, Inc. (FLSNY) is a not-for-profit corporation providing free legal services and legal education to New York's agricultural workers. FLSNY's lawyers and paralegals provide a wide range of legal advocacy on behalf of farm workers.  FLSNY seeks to assure that agricultural employers and housing providers in New York and nationwide comply with the law, that government entities respect farm workers' civil rights, and that the public is educated about farm worker rights under existing laws and the exclusions from existing labor laws that protect other types of workers

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Article: Groups sue U.S. to get farmer info to workers  
By: Stephen Franklin
Date: 12/14/2007
Date Posted: 12/14/2007
Link to Article:   Chicago Tribune
Short Description: Two farmworker advocacy groups Thursday sued the U.S. Labor Department, contending that the agency's failure to release information on farmers that hire guest workers hurts U.S. and foreign workers.

Article: Crime Gangs Make Billions From Bulgaria Sex Slaves  
By: Reuters
Date: 12/12/2007
Date Posted: 12/14/2007
Link to Article:   New York Times
Short Description: The trafficking of Bulgarian women as sex slaves brings in about 1.8 billion euros ($2.6 billion) a year for the gangs behind it, making it the country's most profitable criminal activity, a report said on Wednesday.

Article: Farmworkers Protest at Burger King HQ  
By: Associated Press
Date: 11/30/2007
Date Posted: 12/5/2007
Link to Article:   CNN Money
Short Description: Tomato Pickers Protest at Burger King HQ Over Low Wages. Farmworkers, union members and activists marched through city streets to Burger King headquarters Friday to protest low wages for tomato pickers and alleged exploitation of field workers.

Article: A Health Plan for Wal-Mart: Less Stinginess  
By: Michael Barbaro and Reed Abelson
Date: 11/13/2007
Date Posted: 11/14/2007
Link to Article:   The New York Times
Short Description: For much of the last decade, the retailing behemoth Wal-Mart Stores has been associated with stingy health care as much as low prices.

Article: Glare of Fires Pulls Migrants From Shadows  
By:
Date: 10/27/2007
Date Posted: 11/1/2007
Link to Article:   The New York Times
Short Description: Fires of California Article

Article: Op-Ed Columnist: Today's Hidden Slave Trade  
By: Bob Herbert
Date: 10/27/2007
Date Posted: 11/1/2007
Link to Article:   NY Times
Short Description: As a society, we’re repelled by the slavery of old. But the wholesale transport of women across international borders and around the U.S. to serve as prostitutes stirs very little outrage.

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