I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took on the Fast Food Giants and Won

[Excerpt from jacket] I Am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses workers in Florida\u27s tomato fields: toxic pesticide exposure, beatings, sexual assault, rampant wage theft, and even, astonishingly, modern-day slavery. Marquis unveils how, even without new legislation, regulation, or government participation, these farmworkers have dramatically improved their work conditions. Marquis credits this success to the immigrants from Mexico, Haiti, and Guatemala who formed the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a neuroscience major who takes great pride in the watermelon crew he runs, a leading farmer/grower who was once homeless, and a retired New York State judge who volunteered to stuff envelopes and ended up building a groundbreaking institution. Through the Fair Food Program that they have developed, fought for, and implemented, these people have changed the lives of more than thirty thousand field workers. I Am Not a Tractor! offers a range of solutions to a problem that is rooted in our nation\u27s slave history and that is worsened by ongoing conflict over immigration

The effect of preoperative stoma site marking on quality of life in patients undergoing ostomy surgery

The purpose of this study was to determine if preoperative stoma site marking by a Wound, Ostomy, Continence (WOC) nurse affects patient quality of life. This study used a descriptive design with a convenience sample of 25 ostomy patients. Sixty-three surveys were mailed to study participants and the response rate was 40%. Ten subjects (40%) had their stoma site marked by a WOC nurse preoperatively and fifteen subjects did not. Eleven participants reported that their ostomy was permanent (44%), while fourteen of the participants (56%) state they had a temporary stoma. Thirteen of the subjects had elective ostomy surgery (52%) and twelve (48%) had an ostomy created under emergent conditions. Overall quality of life scores did not differ between the marked and unmarked subjects. However, subjects who did not have their stoma site marked preoperatively had greater problems with pouch leakage (p=.0055) than those who were marked preoperatively

The Vermilion River basin : an inventory of the region's resources

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School Choice by the Numbers: The Fiscal Effect of School Choice Programs, 1990-2006

Calculates the fiscal impact of existing school voucher and tax-credit scholarship programs, and maintains that school choice programs produce substantial savings for states and school districts

[Review of] C. Hart Merriam. The Dawn of the World: Myths and Tales of the Miwok Indians of California

Naturalist C. Hart Merriam devoted the last years of his life to research on Indians of California, meticulously recording and documenting his observations and the knowledge he gained from the various tribes. In 1910, he published a collection of myths and tales told to him by the elders of the California Mewan Indians under the title, The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California. Eighty-three years later the University of Nebraska Press has published a Bison Book Edition of Merriam’s collection. Except for the change in title, the Bison Book Edition is a faithful reproduction of the earlier publication, including the original error in pagination (page numbers 85 and 86 are omitted, although no text is missing). The Bison Book Edition of Merriam’s collection includes a brief but informative introductory essay by anthropologist Lowell J. Bean that provides biographical data on Merriam and historical information on the Miwok Indians (referred to in Merriam’s text as Mewan and/or Mewuk)