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Political activities
CA SVE SD-07 · Series · Aprox. 1970 - 1995
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Series consists of materials pertaining to Diamond’s political activities outside of her work with the labour movement. This includes the feminist movement, Gay liberation, and solidarity actions. The bulk of the records pertain to Diamond's work with the Revolutionary Workers League in the 1970s. The RWL was formed in 1977 through the fusion of two Canadian-based Trorskyist parties, the Revolutionary Marxist Group and Groupe Marxiste Revolutionnaire. Diamond was active in organizing within the group until her resignation over the lack of engagement from the RWL to the concerns of the Gay Liberation movement.

Other activities present in the records include Bread & Roses, Amelia Productions, the first Canadian Lesbian Conference, Jews Against Zionism, and efforts to save the Vancouver Transition House. More records connected to Diamonds political activities can be found in series 04: Writings and Exhibitions.

Sara Diamond
Griffin, Betty
CA SVE SD-01-02-01-07 · File · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

File consists of video interviews with Betty Griffin. Subjects include: Boeing factory work in WWII; Mayday Parade; Powell Street grounds demonstration; equal pay; Worker’s Educational Association; Miss Production contest; the war effort and Fascism.

Margaret “Betty” was born in 1922. After her first year of university she supported the war effort by working in the aviation manufacturing industry with Boeing at their main factory on Sea Island. She became a union supporter and organizer. Her husband, Harold “Hal” Griffin, was associate editor of the Pacific Tribune in the early ’50s. In 1959, Betty became an elementary teacher in Burnaby. She quit when she became pregnant in 1963 and no maternity leave was available. On her return to teaching four years later she joined the BCTF negotiating team, helping to establish maternity leave and indexed pensions. She was given an honourary lifetime membership for her 14 years of service. She was Past-President of the Burnaby Teachers’ Association. At the age of 92 she declared her hobby was “Fighting injustice.” She died on May Day, May, 1, 2017.

CA SVE SD-04-01-064 · File · 1988
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Contains thirteen copies of the catalouge for "Trade Initiative: 3 Programmes of Canadian Video," curated by Sara Diamond and Gary Kibbins in 1988 at VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Sara Diamond
CA SVE SD-04-01-061 · File · 1983
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Contains four copies of the exhibition catalouge "The Second Link: Viewpoints on Video in the Eighties," curated in 1983 by Lorne Falk at The Walter Philips Gallery at the Banff Centre, Banff Alberta.

Sara Diamond
CA SVE SD-04-01-060 · File · 1993
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Contains two copies of the catalouge "Shared Techlines: video art from the Pacific Rim," curated in 1993 by Jill Scott and Ilene Segalove at ARTSPACE, Auckland, New Zealand.

Sara Diamond
The Banff Centre
CA SVE SD-06 · Series · 1992 - 2005
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Series consists of records pertaining to Diamond's time working at The Banff Institute between 1992 - 2005. In 1992, she was appointed director of the Television and Video Program at Banff. Diamond later led the creation of the Banff New Media Institute (BNMI), which she was the director of from 1995 - 2005. During her time at the BNMI, she oversaw extensive programming of institutes, conferences, recurring workshops, and annual exhibitions. With Sarah Cook, Diamond co-edited the book “Euphoria & Dystopia,” documenting the history of the BNMI and the events which moved through the space. Diamond also produced an unpublished manuscript titled “Flesh Eating Technologies,” containing work presented at a conference of the same title which occurred at the BNMI.

Sara Diamond
Godfrey, Lil
CA SVE SD-01-02-01-06 · File · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

File consists of 3 video interviews with Lil Godfrey. Subjects include: Logging at Lake Cowichan; domestic challenges; IWA Women’s Auxiliary; 1946 strike; Gordon’s general store; Indo-Canadian community in the Cowichan area; trade unionists labelled communists.

Harriet Lillian Godfrey, nee Greenwell, (1915-1999) was born in Extension, Vancouver Island. Her father was a third generation miner. The family had mined in Wellington, BC, Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, Durham and Northumberland, England. Lillian trained as a teacher, however, there were no jobs available during the depression so she took on housework jobs. She married logger Ralph Clement Godfrey (1904-1994) in South Wellington in 1937 and the settled in Lake Cowichan. Lil joined the IWA Women’s Auxiliary in 1940.