Matt NoyesJul 8, 2024

Mellow day on the farm. No CSA delivery this week so we had time for maintenance, including switching row cover.

On the drive home we had an interesting conversation about clean/dirty, attractive/disgusting, kind/cruel and the way these ideological concepts play out, for example in the discrimination against so-called buraku people in Japan. The film Okuribito is a depiction of this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departures_(2008_film)
#farmclub #farmlabour #kegare #部落解放同盟

Departures (2008 film) - Wikipedia

indianflashMar 10, 2024
When #incomes fall and #workloads increase, #children are often pulled out of #school to help with #farmlabour or #income-generating activities. This perpetuates the cycle of #poverty and limits their future opportunities, says #FAO.
https://indianf.com/rural-women-climate-change/#:~:text=%C2%A0When%20incomes%20fall%20and%20workloads%20increase%2C%20children%20are%20often%20pulled%20out%20of%20school%20to%20help%20with%20farm%20labour%20or%20income%2Dgenerating%20activities.%20This%20perpetuates%20the%20cycle%20of%20poverty%20and%20limits%20their%20future%20opportunities.
Climate Change is Stealing Rural Women 's Livelihoods - Indian Flash

Climate Change is Stealing Rural Women 's Livelihoods

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MusiqueNow   ✡️ 🇵🇸 Dec 12, 2023

#Kenya to send 1,500 #agricultureworkers to Israel amid #farmlabour shortage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KMKaxfPU6M

The arrangement is problematic and exploitative.

#PermanentCeasefireNOW
#CessezLeFeu
#CessateIlFuoco
#EndTheOccupationNOW🇵🇸

Kenya, don't do it!!!!

Kenya to send 1,500 agriculture workers to Israel amid farm labour shortage

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Christy Kelly-BissonAug 14, 2023
“Foreign workers must have a work permit for a minimum of 12 months to qualify for the MSI program, according to the province. But the federal seasonal agricultural worker program program only allows workers to be in Canada for a maximum of eight months.” #cdnpoli #nspoli #novascotia #cdnag #farmlabour #migrantworkers #nooneisillegal
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/jamaican-migrant-worker-with-cancer-federal-healthcare-1.6935989
Migrant worker with cancer in N.S. will get temporary federal health-care coverage | CBC News

Kerian Burnett, a migrant worker from Jamaica who was diagnosed with cancer last year, has recently learned she will getting federal health-care coverage until her temporary resident status expires in January.

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Christy Kelly-BissonAug 14, 2023
“A long-term solution requires Canada to create more pathways to permanent residency, and move away from its dependence on the labour of migrants whose lives are held in precarity by design.” #cdnpoli #cdnag #canlab #farmlabour #migrantjustice #nooneisillegal https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/undocumented-workers-still-waiting-for-the-status-they-were-promised/
Undocumented workers still waiting for status they were promised

Canadians are dependent on migrant workers – the pandemic proved as much. So why are we failing them?

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NewsBot 1000Dec 4, 2022
Pacific Islander-led rugby league revolution is in full swing in this Aussie Rules stronghold https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-04/stawell-rugby-league-team-driven-by-pacific-islanders-/101721182 #news #SportsOrganisations #ImmigrationPolicy #RugbyLeague #FarmLabour #Sport
Stawell's first rugby club fosters sense of camaraderie and a home away from home among Pacific migrants

From the balmy Samoan village of Asau to country Victoria, Storrs Ualesi has always carried rugby in his soul.

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NewsBot 1000Dec 2, 2022
Labour hire firm director's drug trafficking past leads to record fine https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-12-02/victorian-company-fined-for-breaching-labour-hire-laws/101726578 #news #Law,CrimeandJustice #FarmLabour
Ung Services and director Nico Keat fined almost $500k after Labour Hire Authority probe

Ung Services and its director Nico Keat have been slapped with almost $500,000 in penalties following an investigation by Victoria's Labour Hire Authority.

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NewsBot 1000Nov 29, 2022
Meet Eve, the robot fruit picker who is here to 'fix a big problem' https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-11-30/robot-fruit-picker-eve-farm-worker-shortage/101688090 #news #CropHarvesting #Horticulture #FarmLabour #Robotics
Eve the robot fruit picker to help horticulture industry tackle labour shortages

Fast-tracked by the federal government during the human farm worker shortage, Eve the fruit-picking robot prototype is expected to be ready for harvest next year.

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