On Wednesday, February 23rd, from 5pm to 7pm, on Zoom, please join the Kawartha World Issues Centre (KWIC) and the Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Society (SAFSS) for a film night that explores migrant labour in Canadian agriculture. Before the pandemic, over 20,000 people worked in seasonal agriculture in Ontario alone, arriving from countries including Mexico, Jamaica, the Philippines, Thailand, Nicaragua, and Vietnam through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP).

We will be showing two films, The Hands That Feed Us and Migrant Dreams. The Hands That Feed Us is a local short documentary, by filmmaker Shahed Khaito, and tells the story of Julie Fleming and Roberto Garcia at Circle Organic. (https://nccpeterborough.ca/the-hands-that-feed-us/)

Migrants Dreams is a documentary by director Min Sook Lee and producer Lisa Valencia-Svensson, that tells the undertold story of migrant agricultural workers struggling against Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) that treats foreign workers as modern-day indentured labourers. Under the rules of Canada’s migrant labour program, low wage migrants are tied to one employer. (http://www.migrantdreams.ca/synopsis)

Register by Evenbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/film-night-exploring-migrant-labour-in-canadian-agriculture-tickets-272412682667

We hope to see you there!