Date: 1985-09-01
Description: This proposal gives a succinct history of the CFU's ESL Crusade.
Date: 1985-02-01
Name(s): McGrew, Shirley
Description: The drawings depict a story of the daily lives of Indo-Canadian farmworkers. Each drawing tries to encode problems that farmworkers face. They are used as teaching aides by tutors in the ESL classes. Photocopied drawings (mounted on cardboard 11' x 17") by Shirley McGrew. The sixth drawing is missing and the last drawing was edited out of the series. See A Time To Grow file for curriculum text used by tutors with each drawing.
Date: 1985-02-01
Name(s): Jackson, David, McGrew, Shirley
Description: The drawings depict stories in the daily lives of Indo-Canadian farmworkers. Each drawing tries to encode problems that farmworkers face. The text provides teaching lessons for English applied to political analysis. The drawings that tutor's actually use are 11"x 17" mounted on cardboard and laminated. Drawings by Shirley McGrew and text by ESL coordinator David Jackson. See file 'A Set of Ten Problem Posing Drawings for the Farmworkers ESL Crusade' to view original scanned drawings.
Date: 1985-01-01
Name(s): Berggold, Craig, Faigan, Sybil, Jackson, David
Description: Proposal and budget to produce an ESL student activity workbook based on the video dramatization 'Farmworkers Zindabad'.
Date: 1985-01-01
Name(s): Berggold, Craig, Faigan, Sybil, Jackson, David
Description: A guide to tutors and students for discussion, when using the video Farmworkers Zindabad to teach english. The photo-book uses the language experience problem posing approach to teach oral and written english to farmworkers.
Date: 1986-06-10
Description: A synopsis of issues raised at ESL meeting June 3, 1986. 'Should we have an ESL Crusade next year?'
Date: 1986-02-01
Name(s): Jackson, David, Millard, Joanne
Description: A 214-page ESL tutor's manual to prepare teachers for the 1986 fourth annual ESL literacy classes. Documents include: CFU press clippings; 1983 ESL tutor's diary; Canadian Labour Congress's How Unions Work and Glossary of Labour Terms; A History of Farmwork; History and Culture of the Punjabi Community, Komagata Maru Incident, Sikh religion and Punjabi linguistic information; Pedagogy of Paulo Freire; Living and Learning by David Jackson; Teaching Approach by Nina Wallerstein; Intro to CFU's '…
Date: 1988-02-01
Name(s): Berggold, Craig, Faigan, Sybil
Description: The CFU's 'ESL Crusade' shifted the focus in new teaching aids from work to daily home life themes. This photo story teaches a Poison Control lesson that may also be applied to pesticide exposure at work. The actors seen in the story are CFU's Vice-President Jawala Singh Grewal's family members and young women actor Sithal Dhillon. Photos and design by Craig Berggold.
Date: 1984-05-06
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: CFUs 2nd ESL Crusade ends with first Graduation celebration for all tutors, students, families, union staff and CFU executive at Marpole Community Centre, Vancouver. The film A Time To Rise is shown, food is served and the women dance Gidda and several people join the union. Eleven volunteer tutors taught 40 students between Jan-May 1984. (left to right) Craig Berggold, Sittal Dhillon, David jackson, Pritam Kaur, Sarwan Boal, Raj Chouhan, Mike Fleming, Charan Gill, Jawala Singh Grewal.
Date: 1990-03-31
Name(s): Cavanaugh, Judy
Description: A summary of the video production and distribution for 'Caught in a World of Pesticides'
Date: 1981-01-01
Description: A short list of farmworkers' accidents and deaths in BC Fraser Valley, racist attacks in Okanagan, and exclusion from health and safety laws in Ontario. A financial appeal to support the newly formed union. Cover photo shows Pritam Kaur leaving the fields to join the July 12, 1980 Clearbrook march and CFU organizer Sarwan Boal with bullhorn. Cover photo by Peter Battistoni. Inside photos Jim McDowell.
Date: 1992-04-01
Name(s): Hundal, Sukhwant, Shannon, Esther
Description: This bi-lingual booklet of farm workers legal rights surveys municipal, provincial and federal standards for work, wages, health and safety, pesticide handling and more. Produced in both punjabi and english. Cover illustration by Debra Rooney.
Date: 1986-01-01
Description: Outlines BC provincial minimum wages, average workers' wages and farmworkers wages. Exact date to be determined but after 1986.
Date: 1984-04-09
Description: List of key members of the CFU's Farmworkers Support Committee, including Lawyer Stuart Rush, former staff rep Judy Cavanagh, co-founder Charan Gill, IPANA member Chin Bannerjee, cultural worker Craig Berggold, ESL co-ordinator Joanne Millard, IPANA newspaper editor Hari Sharma, lawyer Calvin Sandborn, Legal clinic co-ordinator Karen Dean, Vancouver Sath writer Sadhu Binning, Bhangra dancer Paul Binning, etc.
Date: 1981-06-15
Description: This proposal was developed to raise funds amongst the non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Attached one-sheet for the film 'A Time to Rise'. Also, see second report dated March 30, 1982. This ma
