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H-2 Worker

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Producer(s)Stephanie Black
Director(s)Stephanie Black
Release Date1999
Work In ProgressNo
Runtime70minutes min
Format(s)none
Language(s)English
Youth MediaNo

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“H-2 Worker” is an award-winning documentary on the 10,000 Jamaican men who were brought to Florida each year for six months under a temporary “H-2” visa to harvest sugar for American corporations.
Awarded Best Documentary and Best Cinematography at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, the film exposes the travesty of justice taking place around the shore’s of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee, a situation which had been one of America’s best kept secrets.  The film documents the living and working conditions reminiscent of the days of slavery on sugar cane plantations; housed in overcrowded barracks, poorly fed, denied adequate treatment for their frequent on-the -job injuries, paid less than minimum wage, and deported if they do not do exactly as they are told.  As a film which impacted on issues of public policy, “H-2 Worker” was also screened for the United States Congress and the Florida State Legislature.

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Related IssuesEconomic Justice, Human Rights, Immigration, International, Canada, Carribean Islands, Central America, Middle East, Politics/Government, Arms and gun control, Legal Reform, Racial Justice, Racial Discrimination