• January 14, 2008:
  "Smithfield Employees Win MLK Holiday"

• December 10 , 2007:
  STATEMENT ON FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT RULING ON SMITHFIELD
• December 3, 2007:
  "Fans, faith leaders, musicians, labor leaders to join Porltand Demonstration against Celeb Chef Paula Deen Tonight"
  

• November 29, 2007:
  "Paula Deen Stirs Controversy in Portland"
• November 15, 2007:
  "Aldermen to Join Protest against Celeb chef Paula Deen at Chicago Theater"
• November 13, 2007:
  "Protest against celeb chef Paula Deen at Chicago Theater for her Support of Abusive Pork Company"
• November 13, 2007:
  "H.G. Hill incites outcry over stocking pork produced by abused workers"
• November 2, 2007:
  "Colorful protest against celeb chef Paula Deen by Washington, DC fans"

• October 30 , 2007:
  "Larry King Asks Celebrity Chef Paula Deen If She'll Meet Abused Smithfield Workers"
• October 15 , 2007:
  "Statement from Smithfield Workers in Tar Heel, NC about Company Breaking off Talks"

• August 28 , 2007:
  "Harry Belafonte calls on Smithfield packig to meet with workers and union."
• August 23 , 2007:
  "Boston and surrounding cities officially drop Smithfield pork products in support of workers converging on shareholders meeting next week "
• August 21 , 2007:
  "National Organizations, Workers Will Converge on Smithfield Shareholders Meeting to Press for Resolution of High Profile Dispute with Company."
• August 7 , 2007:
  "Smithfield Workers Walk Out, Stage Sit-in over lack of Drinking Water"

• July 27, 2007:
  "Legal Challenge to Smithfield's Hog Production Increase Filed: Widespread Environmental Hazards and Worker Safety Cited"

• July 5, 2007:
  "Presidential Master Chef Still Waiting on Response from Paula Deen"

• June 28, 2007:
  "Paula Deen Draws Protests in Charlotte"
• June 27, 2007:
  "Nation's only African American Presidential Master Chef asks Deen to end Smithfield Partnership"
• June 26, 2007:
  "Paula Deen Stirs Controversy in Charlotte"
• June 20, 2007:
  "Smithfield Workers to Meet With Presidential Candidate John Edwards"
• June 14, 2007:
  "'Prayers For Our Papas' Father's Day Protest at Home of Harris Teeter CEO in Charlotte"
• June 13, 2007:
  "Smithfield Intimidates Workers over Drinking Water and Safety Investigation"
  
• June 4, 2007:
  "'Calling' For Justice Rally Asks Harris Teeter to Remove Smithfield Tar Heel Pork: a High Tech Cell Phone Protest in Asheville"

• May 30, 2007:
  "Shreveport Community, Faith, Civil Rights Leaders and Workers Tell Celebrity Chef Paula Deen That "It Ain't All About the Cookin'"
• May 24, 2007:
  "Smithfield Workers File OSHA Complaint over Lack of Clean DrinkingWater and Safety Hazards"
  
• May 14, 2007:
  "United Nations Investigates Smithfield Packing's Treatment of Immigrant Workers"
  

• April 16, 2007:
  "Unions, Churches, Workers Turn Up Heat on Celebrity Chef Paula Deen"
  
• April 4, 2007:
  "Presidential Candidate John Edwards Calls On Smithfield CEO to Allow a Union at North Carolina Plant"

• March 30, 2007:
  "Harris Teeter Protests Grow to 22 Cities Nationwide "
  
• March 28, 2007:
  "Harris Teeter Target of Protests in 16 Cities for Selling Pork from Abusive Packing Plant"
  
• March 14, 2007:
  "Scores of Injured Workers Will Testify Against Smithfield's Attempts to Increase Production by One Million Hogs Per Year"
  
• March 12, 2007:
  "Workers Join Environmentalists to Testify Against Smithfield Packing's Efforts to up its Slaughter Rate"
  

• February 27, 2007:
  "Smithfield products banned at Michigan Store"
• February 13, 2007:
  "Smithfield's Firing of North Carolina Workers Prompts Senator Kennedy to ask Department of Homeland Security for a Temporary Suspension of Regulations"
  
• February 7, 2007:
  "Controversial pork plant spotlighted at Congressional Hearings"
  
• February 5, 2007:
  "Clergy, Consumer Advocates, Civil Rights and Immigrant Rights condemn Smithfield over arrests, intimidation of workers, and fear"
  
• February 1, 2007:
  "Clergy, Civil Rights and Immigrant Rights Leaders Condemn Arrests and intimidation of workers"

• January 25, 2007:
  "Union Condemns Arrests of Workers at Smithfield Plant in NC"
  
• January 17, 2007:
  "Smithfield Workers MLK Protest Cut Production Twenty-Seven Percent"
  
• January 15, 2007:
  "Reverend Jesse Jackson calls on Company to Not Punish Workers for Celebrating Martin Luther King Day"
  
• January 12, 2007:
  "Smithfield Packing will Punish Workers who Celebrate Martin Luther King Day, Company Says"
  
• January 10, 2007
  "Walkout Looming at Smithfield Packing over Martin Luther King Day"
  

• December 14, 2006:
  "PBS's NOW Examines Workers' Struggle at Smithfield Packing"
• December 6, 2006:
  "Boston Area Fifth Graders Call On Supermarkets to Drop Pork Products from Company Implicated in Worker Cruelty"

• November 27, 2006:
  "Clergy and Civil Rights Leaders Call on Harris Teeter to Stop Selling Smithfield’s Problem Pork"
  
• November 17, 2006:
  "Smithfield Workers Walk Out of World's Largest Pork Plant"
• November 17, 2006:
  "Trabajadores en la planta de Smithfield en Tar Heel, Carolina del Norte, continúan en huelga por segundo día"

• 08/30/2006:
  Protest August 30th at Sharholders Meeting.
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• "Smithfield's Fight With Workers Expands to Europe"


• "Smithfield faces new challenge with national consumer education campaign."
  
  
• "Immigrant workers help launch landmark national campaign"
  


• "Chicago immigrant rights coalition lead landmark national campaign"
  


• "Atlanta Churches, Civil Rights Groups throw support to immigrant workers"
  


• "DC immigrant rights groups help lead national campaign"
  
  

Union, Organizing Fight, Tangles With Celebrity Cook
The New York Times- 04/20/2007
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Deen asked to split with pork plant
Savannah Morning News- 04/20/2007
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Pork & Dean: A Problem Pairing?
The Washington Post - 04/17/2007
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Can Paula Deen Butter Up Her Critics?
The Express - 04/12/2007
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Businesses Skeptical of New Federal Program
The Washington Post - 01/29/2007
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Protest dents production
The Fayetteville Observer - 01/23/2007
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Denied A King Day Holiday, the Smithfield Workers Among the Ones He'd be Fighting For Today
Balck America Web - 01/17/2007
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Slaughterhouse Sees Absences On King Day
Los Angeles Times - 01/16/2007
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King Ceremony Inspires Workers
The Fayetteville Observer - 01/16/2007
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Laborers Stage MLK Day Protest
The News & Observer - 01/16/2007
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Smithfield Shames Dr. King
The Nation - 01/13/2007
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Workers Seek King Holiday
Richmond Times-Dispatch - 01/12/2007
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Smithfield warns workers not to skip work on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Associated Press - 01/12/2007
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Smithfield workers threaten walkout on Martin Luther King holiday
Associated Press - 01/11/2007
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Smithfield meets with workers, offers to discuss holiday for 2008
Meating Place - 01/12/2007
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Smithfield workers set to walk Monday for King Holiday
Meating Place - 01/11/2007
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King Day sparks Union's new fight with Smithfield
The Daily Press - 01/11/2007
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Workers at Smithfield Foods want M.L.K. off
ABC11TV - 01/10/2007
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Pork packers threaten walkout: petition calls for paid MLK holiday
The News & Observer - 01/11/2007
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Smithfield plant workers could walk out
The News & Observer - 01/10/2007
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Smithfield plant workers want MLK Day off
The Fayetteville Observer - 01/11/2007
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Boss Hog: America's top pork producer churns out a sea of waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in EPA history. Welcome to the dark side of the other white meat.
ROLLING STONE - 12/14/2006
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Pork protestors gather at grocery store
NEWS 14 CAROLINA - 12/4/2006
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Harris-Teeter targeted by Smithfield protesters
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - 12/4/2006
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Protesters appeal to Harris Teeter Objects to stores' buying from Tar Heel pork plant
STAR-NEWS - 12/3/2006
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Grocery chain targeted by Smithfield protesters
WWAYTV3 - 12/3/2006
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Pork protest goes to stores Chain pressured in Smithfield fight
THE NEWS & OBSERVER - 12/3/2006
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Grocery store protest supports pork plant workers
ASHEVILLE CITIZEN TIMES - 12/3/2006
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50 protest Harris Teeter's policy of selling Smithfield products. Packing Company under scrutiny for alleged abuse, mistreatment of workers
HICKORY DAILY RECORD- 12/3/2006
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Harris Teeter site of Saturday protest
HIGH POINT ENTERPRISE - 12/3/2006
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Spanish Press Coverage

Encararon a patrones por abusos Multitud sorprende a propietarios de empacadora Smithfield en Virginia
Que Pasa Online - 09/11/06
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Plantas de Procesamiento: deres de trabajodores inmigrantes
EcoLatino - 7/10/2006
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Pushed to the Limit
Atlanta Latino Article#1 - 6/29/2006
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The Value of the Worker
Atlanta Latino Article#2 - 6/29/2006
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Denuncia Abusos en fabrica de embutidos
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