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Thank you for visiting
the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation's web site from Rabble.ca.
The DCF was pleased to give a grant
to Rabble.ca in 2008 to help with the update of their
web site and the development of the Activist Toolkit. Please take a minute to learn a little
more about Tommy Douglas' Foundation and should you
have any questions please do not hesitate to contact
us.
If
you were asked to name two great leaders of Canadian
Socialism, it is likely that Tommy Douglas
and M.J. Coldwell would come to mind.
Their life-long contributions to social democracy in
Canada and around the globe are well celebrated.
One dream they shared was to create a Canadian equivalent
to Britain's Fabian Society, an independent left-wing
group unobligated to any other organization or political
party.
In 1971 this dream became a reality with the establishment
of the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation
with Tommy Douglas as it's founding President. In the
words of Tommy Douglas, the Foundation would be "a
gadfly to provoke discussion…to keep the movements on
the left-whether the co-operative movement, the trade
union movement or the political movement- from getting
in a rut."
In 1987, our numbers were strengthened through a merger
with Toronto's Ontario Woodsworth Memorial Foundation.
Click
here to view a video clip of Tommy explaining the Douglas-Coldwell
Foundation.
The
Douglas-Coldwell Foundation is a registered charity.
All donations will be tax receipted.
The Foundation has
released DVDs “The Speeches of Tommy Douglas – Volume
1 & 2”.
Volume 1, introduced
by Shirley Douglas, contains eight speeches made by
Tommy Douglas from 1959 to 1984. Tommy
Douglas’ speeches range from early 1960’s broadcasts
as Saskatchewan’s Premier to his 1983 NDP Convention
speech that received a twenty minute standing ovation.
The DVD closes with a rendition of Mouseland introduced
by Tommy’s grandson, Kiefer Sutherland.
Volume 2 is video
from speeches Tommy made in the House of Commons from
1978-1979. The DVD, introduced by Ed Broadbent, contains
six speeches made by Tommy Douglas in his last two years
in the House of Commons.
For more
information or to order please click here
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