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 […]
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. […]
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 […]