Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada has been named the winner of the 2023 Ontario Speaker's Book Award. Written by migrant justice organizer Gabriel Allahdua with Edward Dunsworth, the book is a first-hand account of the challenges faced by those who come to Canada to work
From John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath and Woody Guthrie’s song “Deportee,” to Edward R. Murrow’s 1960 Harvest of Shame broadcast and Canadian filmmaker Min Sook Lee’s documentary Migrant Dreams, the brutal working and living conditions of exploited farm workers have been periodically documented in piercing challenges to the conscience of anyone who eats
In just over a decade in Canada, St. Vincent native Gabriel Allahdua has transformed himself from a migrant farm worker to an advocate for worker’s rights, an activist-in-residence in university and now an author of a memoir.
In just over a decade in Canada, St. Vincent native Gabriel Allahdua has transformed himself from a migrant farm worker to an advocate for worker’s rights, an activist-in-residence in university and now an author of a memoir.
In just over a decade in Canada, St. Vincent native Gabriel Allahdua has transformed himself from a migrant farm worker to an advocate for worker’s rights, an activist-in-residence in university and now an author of a memoir.