4 mS Letters ery! Howrigan, Canadian Farmworkers on, writes: Every May, English students, Mors, friends and families. get together to ‘orate a South Vancouver hall, eat a lot 1 and try a little gidda dancing. It’s f graduation ceremony of sorts — where ceive their English as a Second Lan- certificates. every November, the Canadian mMworkers’ Union ESL Crusade reacti- &S the process, seeking out more tutors ‘Students. lutors are trained by ESL professionals le methodologies of Paulo Freire, Nina erstein and others. Workshops will liarize them with literacy techniques, MWworkers’ issues, the Punjabi commun- ind language. hits four years the crusade has reached Punjabi farmworkers and their families. irfge number of the students are women in Chobotuck, Burnaby, writes: As tmas, 1986 approaches, parents and involved with children are increas- ‘Concerned about the amount and type Vertising which toy manufacturers at young children. Their main area of Tn is the promotion of war toys and _! toys of aggression, such as GI Joe, ; , Transformers, and other similar RANKIN & COMPANY Barristers & Solicitors - 4th Floor, 195 Alexander St. ~ Vancouver, B.C. V6A IN8& 682-2781 Offers a broad range of legal services including: Personal Injury & Insurance claims Real Estate & Conveyancing Divorce & Family Law © Labour Law * Criminal Law Estates & Wills ecco Pasian ee rere |_MARY BA jl over 40 who have never learned English because of their dual domestic/financial workloads. . During the farmworking season they get up at 5a.m., are driven in labor contractors’ van to where they will pick vegetables and berries 10-14 hours a day, travel two hours back to their homes and prepare for more of the same. During the off-season, domestic duties and lack of transportation keep them from attending community education classes. By taking the classes into their homes and working in small family groups the ESL Crusade effects surprising results. Learning to communicate in English means they will be better equipped to determine and demand their rights as farmworkers. Learning English is a crucial step in breaking the dependency on labor contractors who: As James I. Hymes, a past president of the National Association for the Education of Young Children states, “play turns child- ren into social human beings. Play times are practice sessions in not being too bossy, not being selfish or grabby and not being too meek, or too mild, or too shy. Play starts a child on the way to becoming civilized — a companion, a contributor.” Bearing this in mind, it is difficult to see how the type of playthings promoted on the average child’s four to seven hours of Saturday television viewing could have any positive, civilizing effect on behavior. In 1984, ‘The War Toy Debate,” took place in B.C. Child psychologists, educa- tors, sociologists, lawyers, pediatricians, and the board and advisory panels of The Society for Children and Youth, and The Children’s Resource Centre all participated, along with many others. The majority of the participants were also parents. The debate defined a “war toy” as a replica of an instrument which has no other use but the destruction of human beings. It noted that Sweden, France, Finland, Britain, Ger- many and Austria have taken action to abolish the production of war toys. As of 1984, Quebec has prohibited the advertising of war toys on Saturday morning children’s television. The 1984 conference came to the following conclusions: e A good toy is one which presents the child with many choices and play varia- isit the : USsh For all your travel needs, big or small. Let Globe Tours find the best way for you. Note new address: GLOBE TOURS 2720E. Hastings St. Vancouver, B.C. i Phone; 253-1221 is Farmworkers need ESL tutors @ Take up to a 30 per cent cut in wages, already below the minimum; @ Hold back wages, sometimes to the end of the season, and then declare bank- ruptcy; @ Fail to keep accurate records which can lead to disqualification from Unem- ployment Insurance benefits. The unmonitored use of pesticides makes farmwork the third most hazardous occu- pation in North America. Reading English is a step towards a safer industry. We are recruiting 20 tutors this year — experience preferred but not necessary. A network of other tutors and ongoing sup- port provide valuable training in a stimulat- ing environment. Classes run from January to April, with training held in early December. Call us at 430-6055 or Cheryl Howrigan at home: 879-9749, War toys are ‘symbols of horror tions; one which stimulates the child to inte- ract creatively with the environment by questioning, exploring, investigating, and manipulating elements in the environment. Therefore war toys have limited play value. e@ War toys are a symbol of horror which, when purchased by parents and adult friends of a child, transmit the mes- sage that destruction of human beings is condoned. In a one-day conference about toys held at Douglas College Nov. 1, keynote speak- ers Rick Cruneau and Marg McNeil upheld the findings of the 1984 War Toy Debate with only a few additions. They noted that television networks are not necessarily sel- ling a product, but promoting an image (often false), and selling an audience to the sponsors. In the U.S., five of every seven toys sold are toys of violence. In Canada this percentage is not as high, as they esti- mate that two out of five toys would be war toys, but since 1984 the sale of war toys in Canada has increased 800 per cent. In 1985, manfaucturers made over $800 million profit on Canadian toy sales, and it is pre- dicted that 1986 profits will exceed one bil- lion dollars. The B.C. Home and School Federation has, over the years, voiced its concern about advertising directed at children, and felt that the promotion of toys of violence is not in the spirit of its resolution in support of the UN Declaration of the rights of the child. We therefore appeal to all parents and peo- ple working with children to protest about promotion of war toys. Our children must learn to be co-operative and creative thinkers. Violence and brutality must not be accepted as a normal learning experience if the future generation is to see that nuclear holocaust and war are evils that must be prevented. 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