Migrant Workers Symposium

Sponsered by SFU 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, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 W. Hastings St.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Coast Salish Territories

Organizers: Anelyse Weiler (University of Toronto) and Gerardo Otero (Simon Fraser University)

Must register by March 15: http://bit.ly/2l1Q2RC

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, Simon Fraser University, discussant

Session 3: Jane Pulkingham, Simon Fraser University, chair

- [Agriculture Workers Alliance/UFCW - unconfirmed]

- Jill Bucklaschuk, University of Guelph

- Kendra Strauss, Simon Fraser University

- Anelyse Weiler, University of Toronto, Justice for Migrant Workers, discussant