This series contains records related to Myrna Wood's activities in Toronto, Montreal and New York. It includes the essay "Sisters, Brothers, Lovers... listen," she co-wrote for the final conference of SUPA (Student Union for Peace Action) on Labor Day weekend 1967 in Goderich. It also contains the essay "Bread and Roses" written with Kathy McAfee calling for a movement to organize working class women. This series also highlights Myrna Wood's participation in a peace movement meeting with the Vietnamese National Liberation Front in Cuba.
The Toronto Wages For Housework Committee (WFH) fonds contains mostly textual documents, two posters and one group of photograph negatives. It contains WFH administrative documents as well as flyers, speeches, pamphlets, and correspondence with related organizations such as Wages Due Lesbians, Women Against Rape, Family Benefits Working Group, and Wages For Housework groups in Canada and internationally. Also included are newspaper clippings which illustrate the Wages for Housework campaign during the 1970s. - Le fonds du Toronto Wages For Housework Committee contient principalement des documents textuels, deux affiches et un ensemble de négatifs photographiques. Il contient des documents administratifs de l’organisme ainsi que des dépliants, des discours, des brochures et de la correspondance avec des organisations connexes telles que Wages Due Lesbians, Women Against Rape, Family Benefits Working Group, et des groupes Wages For Housework au Canada et à l'étranger. On y trouve également des coupures de presse qui illustrent la campagne Wages for Housework au cours des années 1970.
This file contains a transcript of a speech made at a committee conference, stop press from the Wages for Housework committee (19 June 1979), a newsletter for a lesbian stand-up, media release from the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (24 March 1979), newspapers and letters about marches and demands, booklet and newsletters on The Women's Building in Winnipeg (21 February 1979), press releases, Wages for Housework committee calendar and plans, campaign news from the Toronto Wages committee, as well as posters, pamphlets and newsletters from the Wages for Housework committee.
This file contains rally pamphlets for a Wages for Housework event, transcripts of speeches that took place during the rally, including speeches from women, mothers, lesbians, houseworkers and more, as well as a newsletter discussing the aftermath of the rally.
This file contains a statement on matrimonial property laws in canada, background notes on the federal law reform commission's working paper: The Family Court, as well as newspaper clippings about matrimonial laws in Canada.
These photographs consist of an interview between INTERCEDE's Judith Ramirez and three members of The Ad Hoc Committee of Filipino Domestic Workers for Landed Status. The members are Fely Velasin-Cusipag, coordinator for the Toronto chapters of the International Association of Filipino Patriots (IAFP) and the Coalition Against the Marcos Dictatorship (CAMD), Zeny Dumlao of the Philippine Women’s Guild, and Columbia “Coco” Tarape-Diaz of the INTERCEDE Steering Committee.
This file contains a report produced by Selma James: "Women, The Unions And Work or What Is Not To Be Done", which discusses women's further integration into the work force as a form of liberation.
