Dokumentation "The Pickers" mit Podiumsdiskussion

In the organizer's words:

We want food without exploitation. But to achieve this, we need to change the existing system!

📽 Film event "The Pickers" with panel discussion
📆 April 25 from 6:30 pm in the New Senate Hall of the University of Cologne (Albertus-Magnus-Platz)
✨️ Free admission

More than two million seasonal harvest workers work in European agriculture. They are an important part of our food production. However, this work often means living in inhumane conditions, being paid below the minimum wage, inadequate health care and disregard for basic freedoms and human rights. The film follows several harvest workers in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Germany as they harvest olives, oranges, strawberries and blueberries. They take center stage, they are given voices and faces, they tell their stories defiantly and bitterly.

The film also shows solutions, describing how the EU Parliament fought for a new Europe-wide supply chain law that makes supermarkets more responsible. And documents how a cooperative in southern Italy produces fair oranges and thus creates humane conditions for its workers.

We are showing this moving documentary as part of the *We want a FAIR PICK* campaign, including a panel discussion.

The panel on the topic of fair harvest

We talk about the implementation and protection of supply chain legislation, social responsibility, questioning certification procedures and exploring alternative distribution models with:

• Berîvan Aymaz, Green Party candidate for mayor of Cologne
• Dr. Kristian Möller from appellando GmbH (Alliance for Effective Complaint Mechanisms in Supply Chains)
• Martin Schüller from Fairtrade Deutschland e.V. (Development Policy, Climate & Environment Officer)
• Marijke Mulder from FEMNET e.V. and köllektiv e.G.

The panel will be moderated by Dorothea Marcus, cultural journalist, radio reporter and Köllektivista.

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