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Activism involvement

This series contains records related to the different associations and political movements that Adams was involved in after he moved to Vancouver in the late 1960s. The series is largely focused on two organizations/movements: the Vancouver American Exiles Association (VAEA) and the Galindo Madrid movement.

In the mid 1960s, as the war in Vietnam ramped up, those wishing to avoid being drafted into the American military began to leave the United States and settled into new countries, including Canada. In 1968, deferments for those attending university or college were dropped, and as a result, a larger amount of war resisters moved to Canada to avoid being enlisted in the army. Those who resisted the war were threatened with arrest if they ever returned to the United States.

VAEA was an organization, in which Adams played a central role in, that fought for amnesty for American war resisters living in Canada. VAEA also provided support and resources for Americans who had come to Vancouver to escape the draft. The records pertaining to VAEA include correspondence written by or to VAEA members; meeting minutes; interviews that Adams or other VAEA members gave about the organization and about amnesty for war evaders; research material; and journal and news clippings related to Anti-Vietnam protest and amnesty movements both in Canada and the United.

The other major movement Adams was involved in was the Galindo Madrid case. In 1976, Galindo Madrid came to Vancouver from Chile, claiming refugee status from the Chilean Government. Madrid lost his case with the Government of Canada and was sentenced to be deported back to Chile. However, the Vancouver Chile Association, a small but vocal group, protested this deportation and aimed to save Madrid from being sent out of Canada. Vancouver NDP MP Svend Robinson even sheltered Madrid in his own home while a defense team was formed to help keep Madrid in Canada. Records pertaining to this case include news clippings and research related to the political situation in Chile; correspondence; financial records documenting the Galindo Madrid defense movement; leaflets and bulletins; and news and journal clippings related to the case in Vancouver. Madrid was eventually allowed to stay in Canada.

Other records include other activities and movements that Adams was either a part of or took an interest in, mainly in the Vancouver region, but also around Canada and the United States. These records include conference materials and proceedings; bulletins and newsletters; correspondence; and other research material either created by or collected by Adams.

Activism collections

In addition to being involved in many political and social justice movements, Adams also avidly collected items related to those causes. This series contains three subseries: the leftist literature collection; the poster collection; and the button collection.

This series contains newspapers; magazines; newsletters, bulletins, and pamphlets; brochures; booklets; books; posters; and buttons.

1988 Newspapers

Includes the issues of the following newspapers:
CO-OPservations (Summer 1988)
Latin America Connexions (May/June 1988)
People's Daily World (September 1988)

1984 publications

Includes the following publications:
Solidarity with the People of El Salvador flyer
British Columbia Blackout (Jan 6-20; Feb 3-17)
Bug Canada

1983 publications and reports

Includes the following publications:
Our Socialism: Democratic Workers Party (March 1983)
Report - Chile: The Fruits of Unfair Labour
Take BC Out of the Crisis - Communist Party of Canada
Songs for the March
Withdraw the Budget and Accompanying Legislation: Statement of the BC Provincial Committee, Communist Party of Canada, October 15, 1983
The Providence: Vancouver, BC, February 21, 1983
Restraint and Recovery: The Next Steps - Province of British Columbia
What this Country did to us, It did to Itself: A Report of the BC Human Rights Commission on the Farmworkers & Domestic Workers

1982 newspapers

Includes the issues of the following publications:
Kinesis (February 1982)
The News (February 9, 1982)
Folio (May 1982)
Draft NOtices (May-June 1982)
Vancouver East: The Mitchell Report (Summer 1982)
The Guardian: Independent Radical newsweekly (December 8, 1982)
British Columbia Blackout (Dec. 1982 - Jan 1983)

1978-1979 publications: labour

Includes the following publications:
Manifesto for the Labour Movement: Dump McDermott! Dump the Bourgeois Policy in Trade Unions by the Marxist Leninist Organization of Canada
Radical America vol. 12, no. 6 (1978)
The Organizing of Mexicano Agricultural Workers: Imperial Valley and Los Angeles, 1928-34: An Oral History Approach by Devra Anne Weber
The El Monte Berry Strike of 1933 by Ronald W. Lopez
Postal Workers Struggle Continues
Labour College of Canada
The Ultimate Con
Labor and Politics in British Columbia by Maurice Rush, Communist Party of Canada
BC Fed. Delegates: Unite Around a Program of Action by the Workers Communist Party
On the Trade Union Movement
Look for the Union Label
Down with Bourgeois Election Fraud!

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