El Maltrato de Trabajadores en Canada: Discussion con Irma Pineda Santiago
Escuche la entrevista aqui: https://www.adn40.mx/videoteca/opinion/reporte-adn-40/videos/2020-01-28-11-55/poetisa-zapoteca-irma-pineda-santiago
RAMA responds to the B.C. Fruit Grower’s Association
What follows is an open letter to members of the B.C. Fruit Growers Association. Dear Members of the BC Fruit Growers Association, We are writing in response to an article published in The Daily Courier on May 14, 2018 regarding a message that was sent to your membership about so-called “radical labour activists.” We are deeply concerned about the […]
Jamaican farmworkers in the Okanagan say working in Canada is “faster money, faster death”
After the tragic death of Sheldon McKenzie, the migrant farmworker who was denied adequate healthcare and died of workplace injuries, Radical Action with Migrants in Agriculture (RAMA) and migrant farmworkers across the Okanagan Valley are expressing their deep concern for risks to workers’ health and safety. Sheldon, a Jamaican citizen, had been working in Canada as a temporary agricultural worker […]
Racism in the News: Response to Missing Mexican Migrant Workers Articles
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. […]