Growing Worker Power: Innovative Organizing Across the Food System
Saturday March 18, 2017, 9am-4pm
Room 1700 (Please note room change.), 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)
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
Must register by March 15.