Migrant Rights Network Organizes We Feed You Campaign on Canadian Agriculture Day
One of the images posted on twitter by Migrant Rights Network for Canadian Agriculture Day.
Every
year since 2016 on February 23 the Canadian agri-business monopolies
and Canadian federal and provincial governments organize Canadian
Agriculture Day to
celebrate "Canadian agriculture and food and the people who produce it."
This year the Migrant Workers' Network organized an online campaign
to highlight the indispensable work that migrant farmworkers do to
plant, tend and harvest food. The aim of the campaign was to highlight
the demand for Canada to recognize these workers' right to status. Many
have been coming to Canada for decades, tied to one employer and
separated from their home communities and families for long periods.
Migrant
Rights Network called on everyone to use the official hash tag
#CdnAgDay to popularize the slogan: We Feed You and post photographs to
"reveal the truth about who feeds us and join in migrant farm workers'
fight for equal rights and justice." Migrant workers and their allies
from Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean responded, posting photographs
highlighting the struggle for migrant workers' rights, including
permanent status and to highlight the important work that they do in
Canada's farms.
This article was published in
February 26, 2021 - No. 11
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/WF2021/Articles/WO08114.HTM
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