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…
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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…
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…