Comedian Colbert takes up farmworkers' cause

[Ian David]

By Juliana Barbassa
The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — In a tongue-in-cheek call for immigration reform, farmworkers are teaming up with comedian Stephen Colbert to challenge unemployed Americans: Come on, take our jobs.

Farmworkers are tired of being blamed by politicians and anti-immigrant activists for taking work that should go to Americans and dragging down the economy, said Arturo Rodriguez, the president of the United Farm Workers of America.

So the group is encouraging the unemployed — and any Washington pundits or anti-immigrant activists who want to join them — to apply for some of the thousands of agricultural jobs being posted with state agencies as harvest season begins.

All applicants need to do is fill out an online form under the banner "I want to be a farmworker" at www.takeourjobs.org, and experienced field hands will train them and connect them to farms.


(Jim Cooper / The Associated Press) - In this April 9, 2008 file photo, Stephen Colbert is photographed at his office in New York. In a tongue-in-cheek call for immigration reform, farm workers are teaming up with comedian Colbert to challenge unemployed Americans: Come on, take our jobs.

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http://www.modbee.com/2010/06/24/1225244/comedian-colbert-takes-up-farmworkers.html

[keith the dem]

1. There are few people I admire more than Colbert.

The Tommy Smothers of our time.

[progressoid]

2. Are they back with new shows this week?

:shrug:

[Omaha Steve]

3. K&R!