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Senator Bernie Sanders addresses the hearing, joined by Senators Edward Kennedy (shown here on right), Richard Durbin, and Sherrod Brown (not pictured). The senators' opening remarks set the tone for the dramatic hearing to follow...

Collected Press from the April 15, 2008 Senate Hearing:

• "Ending Slavery for Pennies," The Nation, 4/16/08
  
  
• "Senators look into treatment, wages of Fla. tomato pickers: US senators hold hearing on Fla. tomato growers' opposition to plan to boost worker wages," Associated Press (in CNN Money) 4/15/08
  
  
• "D.C. takes up tomato pickers’ plight," Ft. Myers News-Press, 4/16/08
  
  
• "Sheriff: There is slavery in Florida tomato fields," Palm Beach Post, 4/16/08
  
  
• "Florida tomato growers mistreat migrant labor, U.S. Senators argue," Sun-Sentinel, 4/16/08
  
  
• "Immokalee farmworkers have Congress’ attention," Naples Daily News, 4/16/08
  
  
• "Tomato pickers' pay-probe sought," Miami Herald, 4/16/08

Editorials:

• "The Harvest of Shame," Senator Bernie Sanders, Huffington Post, 4/15/08
• "Farmworkers denied 1 cent," St. Petersburg Times, 4/14/08
• "Modern Slavery in Immokalee," The Nation, 4/15/08

Witnesses, from left to right: Lucas Benitez of the CIW, Detective Charlie Frost of the Collier County Sheriff's Department Anti-Trafficking Unit, author Eric Schlosser, attorney Mary Bauer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Reggie Brown of the Florida Tomtao Growers Exchange, and Roy Reyna of Grainger Farms.