2010 Black Eagle Award Recipients, International and Academic

The Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award was established 11 years ago to recognize exceptional activists who make outstanding contributions to the fight for justice in Canada’s agriculture industry.

Every year, Black Eagle Award recipients are named in several different fields of activism that include Labour, Legal, Political, Cultural, International, and Academic categories.

This week, we focus on the 2010 Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award recipients for the International and Academic categories.

 

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ufcw.ca: new and improved!

Welcome to the latest version of ufcw.ca! The National Office recently re-launched UFCW Canada’s award-winning website to better provide UFCW Canada activists, friends and supporters with more timely, multi-media information, and to offer users with easier navigation options.

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The World March of Women 2010

In 1995, the Quebec Women’s Federation organized the March for Bread and Roses in Montreal to protest against the poverty that afflicts millions of women and small children around the world.

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Local 1869: Seven years strong

Despite Winnipeg’s brisk autumn wind, UFCW Canada Local 1869 members and their families gathered outside recently to enjoy a picnic and celebrate their local union’s seventh anniversary.

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Thanks to Ag workers

Across Canada families gathered to enjoy the Thanksgiving weekend— a harvest mainly made possible by migrant agriculture workers separated from their families thousands of miles away.

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