<h4>Wednesday, May 2, 8pm at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission at 9th...</h4><h4><br>
From Enclosures to Industrial Fast-Food:<br>
Immigration and Work and Agriculture....</h4>
<p>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... <br>
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...<br>
<strong>video clips:</strong> 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!</p>
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