- MSC-102-0-6-5
- Sub-series
- 1982-1995
Sub-series consists of editions of the Deol Society News, as well as an information brochure about the society.
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Sub-series consists of editions of the Deol Society News, as well as an information brochure about the society.
Public meeting, Mission 05/05/79
Public meeting, Mission 05/05/79
File consists of 19 photographic negatives from a Farm Workers’ Organizing Committee meeting in Mission, BC, on May 5, 1979.
Public meeting, Abbotsford Aug 81
File consists of 33 photographic negatives and 30 prints of a Canadian Farmworkers Union meeting in Abbotsford, BC.
File consists of 20 photographic negatives and 10 prints from the third public Farm Workers’ Organizing Committee meeting, held at David Thompson Secondary School, Vancouver, on June 9, 1979. Speakers included Raj Chouhan, International Woodworkers of America (IWA) Regional Council President Jack Munro, and Chairperson of the Labour Advocacy and Research Association Ujjal Dosanjh. Includes a paste-up of photographs for a Punjabi article on this meeting in The Farmworker Vol. 1, no. 1 (August 1979).
Project proposal : March 1984-March 1987 – Legal services for farmworkers
Sub-series consists of proposals, reports, correspondence, and photographs relating to projects both internal and external, undertaken or contributed to by the Canadian Farmworkers Union and its members. These projects include cultural events, educational programs, photography projects and exhibits, and documentary videos, as well as research-based awareness projects. Records include production and event photographs, planning documents, and reports.
Records in this sub-series include material relating to the films A Time to Rise (Uthan da Vaila) (1981), produced and directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro with assistance from the National Film Board (NFB), which documented the history of the farmworkers’ struggle and the Canadian Farmworkers Union; Farmworkers Zindabad! (1985), written and directed by Craig Berggold and Sukhwant Hundal, which dramatized the Hoss Farming Company strike of 1984; and To Pick is Not to Choose (1985), directed by John Greyson for Tolpuddle Farm Labour Information Centre in Ontario. Also included are records relating to the photography exhibits “A Time to Change: South Asian Farmworkers of the Fraser Valley” (originally created in 1983 and exhibited numerous times) and “I would like to tell you a story… Health & Safety Regulations NOW!” (1986) by Craig Berggold. The sub-series also includes records of a health and safety campaign as well as the Technology Impact Program (TIP), a research project which gathered information about pesticide use on berry farms in BC.
Project criteria (Internal S-2 F)
Project 5768BX0 [Canadian Farmworkers Union finances – Canada Works]
File consists of financial records relating to a Canada Works grant project.
File consists of records relating to a Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society study of worker legislation, workers’ rights, and farm labour contracting.
[Progress report and information package, possibly for potential donors]
Programming and project reports, correspondence, and photographs
Sub-series consists of records relating to projects undertaken by the Deol Society, including ESL classes, the Health Improvement Project (which entailed the production of the film Caught in a World of Pesticides, produced by Mae Burrows and Helena Cynamon), and the production of the film Kicking the Habit. Records include project-specific grant applications, project descriptions, progress reports, as well as photographs of the production of Caught in a World of Pesticides.
Programming and project records
Series consists of records relating to programs for farmworkers run by the Canadian Farmworkers Union, as well as external programs participated in by the union or its administrators, and various union projects. Records include ESL program planning and teaching materials, farmworker safety educational material, and documentary films and exhibits.
The series is arranged into four sub-series: English as a Second Language (ESL) training materials and photographs ([1965]-1987); General programming correspondence, photographs, and educational material ([198-]-1998); Project files and photographs ([1979]-Printed 2013 (originally created 1986)); and Meeting minutes, correspondence, photographs, and other records relating to collaboration with other organizations ([198--ca. 1997]).
[Press release regarding assessing daycare needs of farmworkers]
Press coverage of [Canadian Farmworkers Union ESL] Crusade
File consists of newspaper clippings and one photographic print.
[Press conference photographs]
File consists of 4 photographic prints of a press conference which included Sukhwant Hundal, Hari Sharma, and Art Kube.
[Poster for public meeting with viewing of A Time to Rise, Abbotsford, 20 December 1981]
[Poster for public meeting with viewing of A Time to Rise, Abbotsford, 20 December 1981]
File consists of 16 photographic negatives of a Canadian Farmworkers Union organizing trip to Port Alberni, BC.
File consists of handwritten notes on organizing workers.
Plan of Action : Canadian Farmworkers Union, January 1982 – June 1983
File consists of 34 photographic negatives of a graduating ESL class.
Photographs, legal records, and correspondence relating to complaints, strikes, and rallies
Sub-series consists of photographs, legal documents, correspondence, and other records relating to individual farmworkers’ complaints, strikes, and the union’s participation in numerous rallies and protests. Records include numerous photographs of strikes and rallies, and an audio recording of a protest.
File consists of 29 photographic negatives of a Canadian Farmworkers Union event featuring a performance by bhangra dancers.
[Photographs of solidarity meeting with other organizations]
File consists of 7 photographic prints of a meeting possibly relating to Operation Solidarity or the Solidarity Coalition.