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Activism & Social Movements

	BC Labour Heritage Centre Oral History Collection This collection is comprised of video interviews conducted by volunteers of the BC Labour Heritage Centre Oral History Project. The collection includes full-length interviews with notable activists in British Columbia’s labour movement on topics ranging from experiences at work, picket... more
	Blair Henshaw HIV AIDS Stamp Collection A digitized collection of HIV/AIDS-related stamps, philatelic materials and ephemera collected by Canadian AIDS activist and stamp collector Blair Henshaw (1949-2002), the man responsible for successfully lobbying the Canadian federal government to issue an HIV/AIDS stamp. It features a... more
	Canadian Farmworkers Union Collection Selected publications, documents, and other significant items from the complete Canadian Farmworkers Union collection. 500+ publications, documents, and other significant items from the complete CFU archival collection held by the SFU Library's Special Collections. For more information... more
	CUPE BC historical collection CUPE BC is British Columbia's largest labour union and represents more than 85,000 people working in hundreds of occupations in over 170 locals. These locals include municipalities, school boards, airlines, hospitals, libraries, the ambulance service, colleges, and universities, including... more
	Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs The Fisherman Publishing Society was formed in 1937 to publish The Fisherman, a bi-weekly newspaper. Sponsored by the Salmon Purse Seiners Union and the Pacific Coast Fishermen's Union, and now the United Fisherman and Allied Workers' Union (UFAWU), the newspaper documents industry... more
	Mai '68 Collection The mai '68 poster collection in SFU Library Special Collections consists of posters and handbills created largely by the Atelier Populaire. The collection is important as a source of documentary, artistic and historical evidence of the student protests in France during May 1968. Each day... more
	Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection The Pacific Socialist Education Association’s Pacific Tribune photograph collection comprises over 40,000 35-mm images taken for the weekly Vancouver labour newspaper Pacific Tribune. The images cover a twenty-year period, from 1972 to 1992, one of the most active periods... more
	Secret Feminist Agenda Secret Feminist Agenda was a podcast about the insidious, nefarious, insurgent, and mundane ways we enact our feminism in our daily lives, hosted by academic and podcaster Hannah McGregor. It ran for four seasons, from July 2017 to December 2020, and the first three seasons were... more
	The Shirley Petten Collection In December 1991, Beverly Holmwood, Petten's partner of 20 years, died of hepatitis C. The disease had been the result of a needlestick injury from a contaminated needle while Holmwood was working as a nurse at the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria. In November 1992, Petten won a landmark... more
	Vancouver Punk Rock Collection "A brief noisy movement which still reverberates" is how the New York Times (12 June 2008) described Punk, a movement which was much more than music or clothes; it supported and promoted various social political causes, such as the environment, women's rights, and opposition to... more