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Migrant farmworkers ask Trudeau for Permanent Residency in Canada as they announce caravan to Ottawa
2016-01-22
Justice For Migrant Workers Ontario
Migrant farmworker group Justice for Migrant Workers is launching Harvesting Freedom, a year-long campaign for immigration status upon arrival for migrant farmworkers to mark the 50th anniversary of t...

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Bracero History Archive
Database
The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mex...
Chávez, César
Connexipedia Article
Article
Mexican American farm worker, labour leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). (19...
Connexions Library: Agriculture and Farming Focus
Website
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on farming and agriculture.
Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Website
2009
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful
Rai, Nanky; Majeed, Abeer; Deutsch, Jim; Bailey, Brendan; Garfinkle, Miriam
Article
2013
Toronto Star
Imagine getting injured at work, and instead of going to a hospital or seeing your health-care provider, you are deported from Canada.
Farming Freedom
Howarth, Lorna
Article
2014
Resurgence & Ecologist magazine
A simple agricultural technique could release farmers from the grip of agrochemical corporations. With no patents, no royalties and no licensing fees, this system just benefits the farmers.
Fill the gap: Ontario should insure injured migrant workers
Spence, Melanie; Rai, Nanky; Bozinoff, Nikki; Majeed, Abeer; Garfinkle, Miriam; Deutsch, James
Article
2014
We want to sound the alarm over the unjust federal and provincial immigration and health policies that are based on the exploitation of human labour and xenophobia. Migrants increasingly enter Canada ...
Migrant farmworkers ask Trudeau for Permanent Residency in Canada as they announce caravan to Ottawa
Sources News Release
Article
2016
Justice For Migrant Workers Ontario
Migrant farmworker group Justice for Migrant Workers is launching Harvesting Freedom, a year-long campaign for immigration status upon arrival for migrant farmworkers to mark the 50th anniversary of t...
The Old Braceros Fight On
Paterson, Kent
Article
2016
CounterPunch
Dozens of men assemble to remember their lives as contract guest workers in the United States and discuss the latest news or lack thereof in their decades-old movement to recover the 10 percent that w...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
Voter Suppression
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Rickwood, Darien Yawching (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating?
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2018
Connexions
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant la...
Pesticides, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Acceptable Death
St. Clair, Jeffrey
Article
2015
CounterPunch
In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's 33 out of every 100 -- more than one-in-four Americans die from cancer. These figures come from Dr. Joseph Weissman, a ...

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