Open letters, press releases, and more
It’s spring time… Which means that thousands of agricultural workers from Mexico, Jamaica and Guatemala have started to come to the Okanagan Valley. These workers will toil throughout the season, producing much of the food that ends up on our plates. Despite the contributions of seasonal agricultural workers to the community, there are few supports to help them feel welcome […]
Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW) and Radical Action with Migrants in Agriculture (RAMA) are writing to express our outrage concerning the actions of the Vernon RCMP detachment in releasing to the public, personal information of four Mexican migrant workers employed under the auspices of the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP). We believe that the RCMP has infringed on the rights […]
During the week of July 20, 2015, several news sources, including Castanet Media, the CBC, HuffingtonPost, Vancouver Sun, and KelownaNow, published stories about four Mexican farmworkers who had not been seen since late June 2015. We, the undersigned, are outraged at the sensational and overtly racist coverage of this ‘story’, which reinforces and perpetuates negative stereotypes of Mexicans as criminals. […]
RAMA is excited to be participating in Okanagan College’s first International Development Night tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday, April 8th, from 4-6pm at the Kelowna campus. Through our work with migrant farmworkers, we challenge the often artificial distinction between global and local, and between “international” and “community” development. There is always work to be done in our neighbourhoods, communities, and countries of […]
Initially published by rabble.ca. “Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family.” — Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations Today, on December 18, 2014, Radical Action with Migrants in Agriculture (RAMA) will be joining countless groups around the […]