Tomorrow night's Talk

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Wednesday, May 2, 8pm at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission at 9th...
>From Enclosures to Industrial Fast-Food:
Immigration and Work and Agriculture....

Immigration is as old as history, but major population shifts don't begin
until common lands become enclosed in the late feudal period. Today the
process continues with the replacement of subsistence agriculture in the
global south with agribusiness export crops. Loss of land starts the
movement of populations into cities, eventually leading to migration across
borders too...
When people leave home they take their favorite foods with them. Over the
past century waves of immigrants have brought with them many different kinds
of foods to California, which slowly have merged into components of
"California Cuisine"... Ironically--perhaps tragically--the folks who are
immigrants these days very often find themselves working in the fields for
agribusiness (even the newly organic businesses) OR in the restaurants and
hotels of SF, often in kitchens and food service sector...
*video clips:* 1) occupation strike in Paris at a McDonalds by largely
African immigrant workers; 2) scene from Peter Watkins' movie "La Commune"
wherein a group of Algerians sits around a table talking about immigration
and capital--in 1871!
*Speakers; Grey Kolevzon, Chris Carlsson, and Glenda Drew*

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