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Even local food movement groups who advocate for both social justice and sustainable food production have not made migrant labour a priority concern. Popular education, based on Freirean problem-posing methods and Gramscian notions of engaging contradictions, can use arts-based approaches to tap both minds and hearts in efforts to mobilize food activists to work for migrant worker justice. This essay examines the potential and limitations of an installation of Mexican-style altars, entitled “Local Food/Global Labour,” that aims to catalyze dialogue between food activists and labour activists around the issue of global migrant labour in local food production.  \nRésumé  \nLes travailleurs agricoles migrants se trouvent non seulement en marge des systèmes alimentaires canadien et mondial, mais ils sont aussi en marge de la conscience populaire sur le travail derrière les aliments que nous consommons. Même les groupes et mouvements alimentaires régionaux, qui prônent la justice sociale et la production alimentaire durable, n’ont pas fait du travail migratoire une question prioritaire. L’éducation populaire, fondée sur les méthodes freiriennes pour poser un problème et les notions gramsciennes pour présenter une contradiction, peut avoir recours à des approches artistiques pour rejoindre tant les esprits que les cœurs en vue de mobiliser les activistes de l’alimentation en faveur de la justice pour les travailleurs migrants. L’article se penche sur le potentiel ainsi que les limites d’une installation d’autels à la mexicaine, qui a pour nom Local Food/Global Labour (« Aliments locaux/Travail mondial ») et qui vise à catalyser le dialogue entre les activistes de l’alimentation et les activistes du travail sur la question de la mondialisation du travail migratoire dans la production alimentaire locale.  \nKeywords: migrant workers, food justice, arts-based education  \nIntroduction  \nIt took a tragic highway accident in February, 2012 that killed 10 Peruvian migrant workers (Mackrael, Morrow, Freeze, & D’Aliesio, 2012) to awaken many Canadians to the reality that much of our local food is produced by temporary  \nCanadian Journal of Environmental Education, 18, 2013 59  \nglobal labour. This became an educable moment as progressive magazines posed the difficult question to environmentalists and local food activists: “In the quest for just and sustainable food practices, why is nobody talking about organic farming’s dependence on migrant labour?” (Crane, 2012, p. 18); a Briarpatch issue focusing on “Decolonizing Food” featured an article “Food for All! Food Justice Needs Migrant Justice” (Adrangi & Lepper, 2011), also challenging food activists to take up this complex issue.  \nYork student at Feast of the Fields, Ontario, 2009  \nI had just returned from a California conference on Labour Across the Food System, 1 which brought together academics and activists working on issues of labour within both the industrial and alternative food systems. It was a rare gathering of people working in different sectors of the food chain, from farming and processing to restaurant and retail contexts. There I had shared some preliminary results of research, in collaboration with Environmental Studies graduate student Kirsten Cole, probing southern Ontario local food activists about how they were, or were not, addressing the migrant worker issue; we were finding that it was indeed a “difficult” conversation.  \nAs a researcher of the global food system (Barndt, 2008) and as an activist/ researcher in the local food movement,2 I have experienced intimately the tension between labour activists and food activists, feeling that t","cbCaidQphhu4oeZd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidQphhu4oeZd","pdf",3946519,21,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Context: local food and migrant labour\n## Activists and the “difficult” conversation\n## Theoretical foundations and arts-based cultural production","[{\"question\":\"Why does the article argue that migrant labour is often missing from public food debates?\",\"answer\":\"It states that migrant agricultural workers are marginalized not only in food systems but also in public consciousness, and that even local food justice groups have not prioritized migrant labour.\"},{\"question\":\"What educational approach does the article propose to mobilize food activists?\",\"answer\":\"It proposes popular education using Freirean problem-posing methods and Gramscian ideas about engaging contradictions, combined with arts-based approaches.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the installation “Local Food/Global Labour” function in the argument?\",\"answer\":\"The article examines an installation of Mexican-style altars designed to catalyze dialogue between food activists and labour activists around global migrant labour in local food production.\"}]","Blessings on the Food, Blessings on the Workers - Arts-based Education for Migrant Worker Justice | PDF",1792083375,53]