UPCOMING EVENTS!

3 UPCOMING EVENTS:

1. Niagara Migrant Worker Health Fair - Sunday, June 24 at the Centennial Arena in Virgil, Niagara-on-the-Lake, 2-6pm. Volunteers, particularly (but not exclusively) Spanish speaking, are needed to come and assist at the fair. This is your chance to interact with and learn more about migrant farm workers and get to know the people at the Migrant Workers Interest Group-Niagara. Please be in touch with Janet if you're interested in coming. We need a volunteer count in advance. Carpooling can potentially be arranged. Come out and support this exciting initiative!

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2. This Monday, June 11 and Tuesday, June 12, CBC Ontario Today is planning to feature discussions about temporary foreign workers on the show. Please tune in and call in if you have experiences you'd like to share, or encourage any workers you may know to do so. http://www.cbc.ca/ontariotoday/2012/06/08/june-11-12-temporary-foreign-workers-in-ontario/

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3. Finally, below please find an invitation from Chris Ramsaroop, of Justicia for Migrant Workers. Chris has been actively involved in supporting the survivors and families of the Hampstead crash which killed ten agricultural workers in our area. They would like to organize a memorial this July to commemorate the six month anniversary of the tragedy in our region. Please read his message below and be in touch with him if you're willing to take part at <ramsaroopchris@gmail.com>. As you may recall one of the original intentions of the WRMWIG was to organize an action around this tragedy, given that these workers lived in our region. We hope that some WRMWIG members will step up to help make this a reality.

Message from Chris Ramsaroop:

Some of us in Justicia have had conversations with the survivors of the Hampstead accident about organizing an event to commemorate the accident and to remember the victims. The weekend of July 6/7th will be the sixth month anniversary of the accident and some of us in J4MW want to organize around this date (either that weekend or the following weekend) so that the accident is not forgotten nor our calls for an inquest into the accident.

We have proposed the idea to several groups of workers as well as the survivors of the accident and it seems that there is keen interest to organize something. The survivors have requested going to the site of the accident and doing a vigil there. Around the time of the accident I know that we had discussed about organizing an event in Kitchener and possibly driving as a caravan to the site. I think that it would be great to revisit the idea. If we can get a space in Kitchener to hold and event with some music, speakers (and some food) we could have people meet in Kitchener as a central location and from there drive up as a caravan. I wanted to put this out to see if there is local community interest in this event and if there would be a few people willing to help with this action
Contact: <ramsaroopchris@gmail.com>