MOBILIZATION AGAINST WAR & OCCUPATION PRESENTS...

A Time to Rise

10:50

This film documents the untenable conditions encountered by Indian immigrant workers in British Columbia that provoked the formation of the Canadian Farmworkers Union, and the struggle to build the CFU. Shot over a period of two years, the film is eloquent testimony to the progress of the workers’ movement despite the hostile response of growers and labour contractors to the threat of unionization.





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