The Glaviches farmed about 40 acres of strawberries between them, until they applied DuPont Benlate DF fungicide on their fields in 1989 and in 1990. The chemical left a toxic residue that decreased plant yields, they said, rendering their land virtually worthless for strawberry production. While DuPont compensated the farmers for the two years they used the chemical, the agrichemical giant has refused to pay anything towards crops lost for the rest of the decade. The sisters have been fighting DuPont ever since. U.S. intervention in Colombia One question that came up at a couple of the meetings was Washington's bipartisan drive to provide massive military aid to Colombia, allegedly to stem the drug trade.
Drugs are big business.
Harris found widespread opposition to the police beating of a young Black man after he peacefully surrendered after a car chase, shown on TV the previous evening. A number of Haitian and Latino workers took information about the socialist campaign and several invited the socialists to return the following Saturday. Campaign supporters sold three copies of the new Pathfinder pamphlet, The Working Class and the Transformation of Education , at the two plant-gate events. Harris also addressed meetings at a community bookstore in Orlando and at the University of South Florida in Tampa. His supporters set up a campaign table in front of the student union, selling a dozen copies of the Militant along with a number of Pathfinder books, including Women's Evolution , Socialism and Man in Cuba , and the Communist Manifesto .