United Workers

In their latest effort to expose the realities of farmworker exploitation and forced labor in the fields of Florida, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is on a Northeast Tour of their Modern-Day Slavery Museum. We are excited to host the CIW and the Modern-Day Slavery Museum on their stop through Baltimore. This Saturday, August 14, the museum will be parked all day at McKeldin Square at the Inner Harbor.

The Florida Modern-Day Slavery Museum is a cargo truck outfitted as a replica of the trucks involved in a recent slavery operation, in which workers were chained at night inside a truck and forced to work during the day. The exhibition, which was put together in consultation with workers who escaped forced labor operations and academics on the history of slavery in Florida, sheds light on the phenomena of modern-day slavery, why it persists and what are its solutions. It draws the line from past to present and from farmworkers to the major corporations that exert a powerful downward pressure on wages and working conditions. But most importantly as the museum makes stops in communities across the North East, it is drawing the line between all of us to the conditions of farmworkers and creating a connection to struggles for dignity and justice all over.

And what better place for the Modern-Day Slavery Museum to stop than Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, the site of another modern-day phenomena—poverty-zone development. So Join us this Saturday in viewing this incredible exhibition and learning more about how we all can be a part of envisioning a future free from poverty and forced labor.

To read more about the Modern-Day Slavery Museum and their most recent stops, go to http://www.ciw-online.org/

Baltimore Stop:

When: Saturday, August 14th 10 AM-8 PM

Where: McKeldin Square at the Inner Harbor (Pratt St. and Light St.)