Puppets on Parade.MP4
Channel: Margaret Anne McHugh
Date: 2012-05-05

As part of the Halifax NS Mayworks 2012 Festival.  There was a march of puppets, circus performers and drummers from the old brewery market along the waterfron to the Seaport Farmers Market.  The parade was followed by this play = Ethical Food _ Ethical Work about migrant workers.   Unfortunately, the battery died for the last couple of minutes p- explaining the sudden end!  The ending here was followed by a longer more finale of the song, and a speech about the position of migrant workers in this country.   Ask where your food comes from (ship local, shop farmers markets, look for organic!) and importantly who is planting and picking it, how are they housed fed and paid, and why can't they immigrate?   Right now they can only come and work on a farm and then return home - cannot bring family, cannot apply to stay.