An author and activist will be in Chatham next month to give a first-hand account of his life as a migrant worker.

An author and activist will be in Chatham next month to give a first-hand account of his life as a migrant worker.

CK Local Immigration Partnership and the Chatham-Kent Public Library will present Gabriel Allahdua, author of Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada, on Sept. 15 at noon at the Chatham Cultural Centre.

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He will speak about the themes in his book regarding the hidden cost of Canada’s food system.

“As a migrant farm worker in Canada, I was called essential — but treated as disposable,” he said in a release. “Tied to a single employer, denied basic human rights, and excluded from the protections other workers take for grante

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