March 12, 2014 |
Statements
Remembering Women Farm Workers
On a very rainy International Women’s Day in B.C, I drove out to Abbotsford to the heart of the rich agricultural land in the Fraser River Valley. Members of the local community gathered there to honour three women who died in a tragic van accident on the way to their work in the production of our food. On the morning of March 7, 2007, Sarbjit Kaur Sidhu, 31, Amarjit Kaur Bal, 52, and Sukhvinder