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It Can't Happen Here |
Webcast of It Can't Happen Here by Gladstone Secondary School theatre students, at "Shake it all Around - are BC schools safe and sound?" seismic safety event organized May 14, 2004 by Families for School Seismic Safety |
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High School Students at Gladstone Secondary joined Mayor Larry Campbell and other political leaders to send a message to government about the importance of seismically upgrading schools, Friday May 14 in Vancouver. Theatre students wrote and performed It Can't Happen Here, a "short seismic satire" full of music, mime and masks. The event featured a collapsing school costume and school house cookies for sale which could be purchased whole or crumbled. Vancouver is on a major seismic fault and geologists tell us to expect a moderate or even severe earthquake in the next 20 - 40 years. It is not a matter of "if", but of "when." The clock is ticking. Dr. Tracy Monk Families for School Seismic Safety spokesperson said "in many neighbourhoods, the school is the most dangerous building to be in during an earthquake. It's a bad piece of luck that schools happen to have been built of some of the most vulnerable materials for a zone of high seismic risk. It's a worse piece of luck that our youngest citizens are spending their days in these buildings." "This is NOT an educational issue," said Monk, "it is a safety and infrastructure issue and it must not be competing for the same funding as education. The physical safety and education of children are both basic human rights. No reasoned society should accept that we have to choose between the two. We cannot continue to tacitly accept this dichotomy by failing to speak out." Click on links below for webcast
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It Can't Happen Here RT: 20:01 |
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