Forced Labor and a Government Ban
Charity Ryerson investigates human rights and environmental abuse allegations against multinational corporations everyday. But what she and her team found in Central Romana worker camps was like nothi...
30 Mar 17min
Who Bears the Cost
Meet Kina Phillips, part of the grass roots effort in Florida to fight cane burning and encourage the sugar companies to embrace green-harvesting methods. Then, Celeste digs deeper into how the pendin...
30 Mar 26min
Black Snow Falls in Florida
Reporter Lulu Ramadan set out to cover the health effects of burning cane. Now, for the first time, there is data linking Florida residents’ respiratory illnesses to Big Sugar.Big Sugar is a Weekday F...
30 Mar 14min
Trench Warfare
There’s one last jury trial left, one last shot at forcing the sugar companies to make good on unpaid wages. And Dave Gorman miraculously finds new evidence that could clinch it. But that’s when an ob...
30 Mar 58min
The Battle of the Swamp
At the intersection of sugar, nature and influence, you find yourself in just one place: the Everglades, an environmental wonder and disaster. The fight for control and the fight to clean up the massi...
30 Mar 51min
Bittersweet
Meet Cristin Kearns, a dentist turned detective. She's on a mission to uncover the darkly shrewd public relations strategies that the Sugar industry has used to burnish its image and conceal the healt...
30 Mar 49min
The Decision and the Drama
Edward and Dave try to convince a jury that the farm owners have systematically underpaid the Caribbean men who cut their sugarcane. But they lose over and over – three juries in three separate trials...
30 Mar 32min
The American Dream
Exiled brothers Alfy and Pepe Fanjul landed in Florida after the Cuban Revolution with their sights set on one thing: rebuilding their fortune. Their journey to riches includes an FBI investigation, s...
30 Mar 43min
