Migrant Workers Symposium
Sponsered by ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Labour Studies, Latin American Studies, International Studies, Humanities, and UBC Farm and Latin American Studies, and the Trudeau Foundation.
Growing Worker Power: Innovative Organizing Across the Food System
Saturday March 18, 2017, 9AM-4PM
Room 1700, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings St.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Coast Salish Territories
Organizers: Anelyse Weiler (University of Toronto) and Gerardo Otero (¶¡ÏãÔ°AV)
Must register by March 15:
Session 1: Lenore Newman, UFV, chair
- Amy Coplen, Portland State University
- Geraldina Polanco, University of Waterloo
- Anthony Peeples, Restaurant Opportunities Center United Chicago
- Amy Hanser, University of British Columbia, discussant
Session 2: Hannah Wittman, University of British Columbia, chair
- Rebecca Fuentes and Kathleen Sexsmith, Worker Justice Center of New York, Workers' Center of Central New York, Cornell University
- Robyn Bunn, Radical Action with Migrants in Agriculture Okanagan
- Anelyse Weiler, University of Toronto, Justice for Migrant Workers
- Gerardo Otero, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, discussant
Session 3: Jane Pulkingham, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, chair
- [Agriculture Workers Alliance/UFCW - unconfirmed]
- Jill Bucklaschuk, University of Guelph
- Kendra Strauss, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
- Anelyse Weiler, University of Toronto, Justice for Migrant Workers, discussant