{"id":1809,"date":"2011-07-01T17:24:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T21:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/hispanics-and-farmers-strike-in-moultrie.html"},"modified":"2011-07-01T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T21:24:23","slug":"hispanics-and-farmers-strike-in-moultrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/hispanics-and-farmers-strike-in-moultrie.html","title":{"rendered":"Hispanics and farmers strike in Moultrie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Mauldin wrote for the Moultrie Observer 29 June 2011,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/moultrieobserver.com\/local\/x1435407607\/Stay-at-home-protest\"><br \/>\nStay-at-home protest:<br \/>\nLatinos hope to show their impact<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crrel.usace.army.mil\/ierd\/icejam\/icejam.htm\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.crrel.usace.army.mil\/ierd\/icejam\/nstatue.gif\"><\/a><br \/>\nColquitt County\u2019s Latino community is gearing up to make its presence<br \/>\nknown by, well, disappearing, at least as much as possible for the<br \/>\nlargest minority group.<\/p>\n<p>\nOn Friday, the day a strict new immigration law takes effect, many will<br \/>\nstay home from work and refrain from shopping to help make others aware<br \/>\nof the impact of their contributions in the county.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just workers participating:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWith many farmers on board with the Friday boycott, Garza said that many<br \/>\npeople have been encouraged to participate in the boycott and attend<br \/>\nthe rally.<\/p>\n<p>\nColquitt County vegetable grower Kenny Bennett, who sponsored one of<br \/>\nthe buses making the trip on Saturday, said that Hispanics have a large<br \/>\nbase of support among farmers for the boycott even though it will cost<br \/>\nthem money from the loss of labor that day.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re backing it 100 percent,\u201d he said. \u201cI wish they\u2019d do it<br \/>\nnational. The average person does not realize how important the Hispanics<br \/>\nare. Everything they eat all over this country is put up by them. The<br \/>\ngeneral public doesn\u2019t know how important they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nWithout migrant labor, Bennett said that American fruit and vegetable<br \/>\nproduction would shift to countries south of the U.S. border and prices<br \/>\nwould jump significantly. Those countries also allow the use of pesticides<br \/>\nbanned here.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bottom line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cThey pay taxes,\u201d he said. \u201cThey pay Social Security, they pay<br \/>\nincome taxes. When they pay Social Security they don\u2019t get that back,<br \/>\nwe use that money and go to war with it. It\u2019s free money.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIf you deport these people, you need to pull the Statue of Liberty<br \/>\nout of the water. This country was built on immigrants. It just makes<br \/>\nmy blood boil.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We don&#8217;t need to contribute to the incarceration machine by building a private prison in Lowndes County.<br \/>\nSpend that tax money on rehabilitation and education instead.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Mauldin wrote for the Moultrie Observer 29 June 2011, Stay-at-home protest: Latinos hope to show their impact: Colquitt County\u2019s Latino community is gearing up to make its presence known by, well, disappearing, at least as much as possible for the largest minority group. On Friday, the day a strict new immigration law takes effect, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,202,1113,48,40,14,15,2,1381,72,178],"tags":[8750,8817,1948,4167,4169,8701,4025,4173,8830,8730,4172,3687,7,4168,4166,8810,4171,383,4170,8749],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-agriculture","category-cca","category-code-enforcement","category-community","category-economy","category-education","category-government","category-immigration","category-incarceration","category-vlcia","tag-agriculture","tag-cca","tag-colquitt-county","tag-farmer","tag-fruit","tag-georgia","tag-hispanic","tag-immigrant","tag-immigration","tag-incarceration","tag-income-tax","tag-latino","tag-lowndes-county","tag-migrant-labor","tag-moultrie","tag-pesticides","tag-social-security","tag-taxes","tag-vegetable","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}