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      <title>Intersection: MacArthur Fellow Greg Asbed On Farm Worker Rights</title>
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      <description>Greg Asbed is one of this year’s MacArthur fellows. Asbed tells Intersection what the award means for his advocacy with farm workers in South West Florida.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img src="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/547b09a/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1060x707+0+0/resize/792x528!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F10%2FAsbed_2017_hi-res-download_4.jpg" alt="Greg Asbed. Photo credit: John D. &amp;amp; Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation"><figcaption>Greg Asbed. Photo credit: John D. &amp;amp; Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation</figcaption></figure><p>Greg Asbed co-founded the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in 1993. He's been named <a href="https://www.macfound.org/fellows/981/" target="_blank">a MacArthur fellow</a>, the only Floridian on this year's list.</p><p> The so-called "genius grant" includes a $625,000 stipend, which Asbed says will go back into the work of the coalition.&nbsp;</p><p>"In my line of work, which is human rights and social change, there is nothing you ever achieve that you do individually," says Asbed.</p><p>"The coalition of Immokalee Workers, this incredible community here, my colleagues over the years, we all won this award together," he says.</p><p>"It's going to help fuel the expansion of our work, extend the protections of the fair food program to more and more workers, and that's what we're fighting for."</p><p>Asbed explains how the Coalition of Immokalee Workers got started and how the Fair Food Program improves conditions for farm workers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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