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Naples photographer Michelle Tricca is working to alter the perception of Immokalee, Florida with larger-than-life murals. “The Face of Immokalee” is an effort to honor, humanize and put a face to the people of the predominantly agricultural community.
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A new, larger-than-life public art exhibit "The Face of Immokalee" captures the true face of the community with black and white portraits of residents.
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Light blue cans of black beans line Centro Juan Diego’s food pantry, where volunteers pack them away with bags of rice to hand out to the people lined up outside. The halls are lined with palettes of ready-to-eat meals and bottled water. Centro Juan Diego feeds clients year-round. But after Ian, she said, the need quadrupled.
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Latin American migrant workers help fill Florida's construction worker shortage. But many feel overlooked by hurricane relief — and demonized by Florida’s governor.
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The second episode of Detention By Design follows the revealing story of Abel Jean-Simon Zephyr, a Haitian who arrived in Miami by boat in 1973. He asked for political asylum, but authorities - caught flat-footed - paid the sheriff's office at remote Immokalee, Florida, to hold him and others at its tiny jail. It marked the miserable, and at times tragic, beginning of the modern immigration detention system.
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Health workers are continuing to provide life-saving COVID-19 information and other health resources throughout the community of Immokalee.
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Farmworkers marched through Palm Beach, urging Wendy's chairman to end 'modern-day slavery' on farmsArtists, faith communities and farmworkers with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers marched in Palm Beach to urge Nelson Peltz, board chairman of Wendy's, to join the Fair Food Program. Peltz owns the hedge fund Trian Partners and has a home in the Town of Palm Beach. His hedge fund is the company’s largest shareholder.
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There is a community garden tucked behind the Mission Peniel food distribution and outreach center in Immokalee. It’s called “Cultivating Abundance” and features produce not normally found in stores, but which is prolific in the native countries of many of the town’s inhabitants.
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The unexpected death of the brother of long-time Redlands Christian Migrant Association, or RCMA, employee Gloria Padilla motivated her to create a community health fair in Immokalee.