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2001 programs



#208 Jack Scott Memorial

Taped Sunday January 14 at the memorial for Jack Scott in Vancouver at the Maritime Labour Centre who died December 30 2000 at his home in Vancouver. He was a socialist and labour activist most of his life and was in the Communist Party (CPC) for decades until he was expelled in the 1960s. He was ahead of his time in urging Canadian control of Canadian unions. In his later years, he became an inspiration and mentor for the generations of activists that followed him, including many who are in the leadership of B.C.'s labour movement today.

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#209 Getting Zapped: the Shocking Cost of Energy Deregulation

#1 of 3 - Featuring: Bill Moore-Kilgannon, Alberta's Parkland Institute
Natural gas and electricity deregulation under free trade was supposed to be great for consumers. Instead it has produced skyrocketing prices and shortages, including the recent electricity "blackouts" in California. At Getting Zapped, British Columbians heard about the California and Alberta experiences, and about what BC needs to do to avoid "getting zapped" by energy deregulation.

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#210 Getting Zapped: the Shocking Cost of Energy Deregulation

#2 of 3 - Featuring: Winona Hauter, Public Citizen, Washington, D.C.; and Marjorie Griffin-Cohen, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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#211 Getting Zapped: the Shocking Cost of Energy Deregulation

#3 of 3 - Featuring: Marjorie Griffin-Cohen, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Jim Sinclair, B.C. Federation of Labour

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#212 Circle of Hope: Addication Treatment on Demand

Recovering drug addicts, family of addicts, corrections and enforcement officers, local residents, church activists, AIDS activists, political leaders and others participated recently in a Circle of Hope "community circle" meeting at the Aboriginal Friendship Centre in Vancouver. The Circle of Hope Coalition Society, which hosted the meeting advocates a harm reduction model for dealing with addiction, arguing that criminalizing addiction with an American-style "war on drugs" is futile. Instead, addiction needs to be seen as a medical problem that can only be overcome with compassionate solutions.

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#213 Maude Barlow: Global Showdown

Council of Canadians chair Maude Barlow, taped Saturday March 3 in Vancouver was promoting "Global Showdown: How the New Activists are Fighting Global Corporate Control" (Stoddart Publishers), a new book she and Tony Clarke of the Polaris Institute co-wrote on the growing movement which first gained mainstream attention during the Battle of Seattle against the WTO in 1999.

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#214 IWD 2001 / IDERA Youth Anti-Discrimination vids

Celebrating International Women's Day 2001, and March 21, Day Against Discrimination, 4 segments including: IDERA Youth "PSA" videos - 5 short anti-discrimination Public Service Announcements by young people for March 21, an IDERA / AMES project. ROCK FOR CHOICE 2001 - a report from the "Choice Words" Spoken Word cabaret at this year's Rock for Choice, by working TV volunteer Nikola Marin. IWD 2001 - highlights from this years event held March 10 in East Van. Pay Equity demo - at the Legislature before the new session opened on Wednesday.

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#215 Health Care? or Tax Cuts? plus FTAA Teach-In

Produced for the Hospital Employees' Union, a look at a fundamental choice British Columbians face in the coming election between the tax cuts promised by Liberal Leader Gordon Campbell, or social services including health care. This video looks at Ontario, another Canadian jurisdiction where voters opted for tax cuts promised by a premier closely allied with Campbell. Now the Ontario health care system has been decimated.
Everybody's Business: highlights from the recent teach in on the FTAA, the Free Trade Area of the Americas.

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#216 More Buses! Lower Fares! Calling All Lower Mainland Bus Riders #1

After raising fares with a promise to improve service last year, TransLink is now canceling orders for new buses and announcing cuts to the bus system. At the same time it is forcing a strike with bus drivers, who haven't had a real increase in pay in 11 years. The only bright spot in the local transit scenario is that transit workers, transit users and environmental activists are getting together and organizing. Taped Saturday March 24, 2001 at Vancouver City College, More Buses! Lower Fares! was a unique public forum on public transit. This week we feature bus driver and transit union activist ( CAW 111) Jim Houlahan

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#217 It's the Buses Stupid! Calling All Lower Mainland Bus Riders #2

Lower mainland transit workers, transit users, environmentalists and others rally and present briefs to a TransLink board meeting, hours before the public transit company forces a transit workers out on strike. Also picket line interviews at Oakridge transit centre, and Hospital Employees' Union job action rally.

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#218 Quebec City / "March At the Arch" FTAA Protests

April 21 protests against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Summitt in Quebec City, plus FTAA solidarity protest locally, the "March At the Arch" at the Peace Arch border crossing.

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#219 Quebec City FTAA Protest #2

More from the protests in Quebec City, against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Summitt.

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#220 VESTA Public Forum on the 2001 Vancouver School Board Budget

The 3rd annual VESTA ( Vancouver Elementary School Teachers' Association ) forum on the Vancouver School Board (VSB) Budget on Wednesday April 25, 2001 @ Langara College, Vancouver

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#221 Bob Jackson Memorial

Highlights from the July 2000 memorial services in Powell River and Vancouver for 1935 On to Ottawa trek veteran, and lifelong labour and social activist and Communist, Robert "Bobby" Jackson.

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#222 CUPE Public Forum on Water

The Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) is considering a plan to privatize the new water treatment plant which will provide drinking water to lower mainland residents. Who should be managing our water resources? Private business or elected governments? Can global trade agreements like NAFTA and FTAA make it difficult to get control back once we've handed it over? Who can we trust to provide water that's safe, affordable and accountable? These are some of the questions examined at the Canadian Union of Public Employees - B.C. Division (CUPE BC) Public Forum on Water, Thursday May 24, 2001 in Vancouver. This week, Barry O'Neill, President of CUPE BC.

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#223 CUPE Public Forum on Water

As above, this week, Elizabeth May, Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada..

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#224 Public Forum on Water

Taped June 5, 2001 at the Vancouver Public Library, sponsored by the Council of Canadians, the Society for Promotion of Environmental Conservation (SPEC), and the Labour Environmental Alliance Society - this week featuring David Cadman of SPEC and Marvin Hunt, Chair of the GVRD Water Committee.

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#225 Public Forum on Water / Nurses O/T Protest / On to Ottawa Commemoration

As above, from the June 5 Water Forum, this week featuring Barry O'Neill, President of the B.C. Division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Also this week, B.C. Nurses rally to protest mandatory overtime and
on June 7 in Regina, highlights from the ceremony to dedicate a plaque commmemorating the 1935 On to Ottawa trek.

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#226 "Dream of Green"

We return to the issue of genetic engineering this week with "Dream Of Green", a student video production, done by undergraduates at Simon Fraser University's Communications Department. This video looks at both the pros and cons of the current debate about Genetic Engineering and Genetically Modified food. Its constructed as a conversation between GE advocates and opponents and, as such, it manages to cover the main issues in the controversy.

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#227 Water for People and Nature / GVRD Victory celebration

This week we begin an series of programs taped last weekend at the Water for People and Nature Forum on Conversation and Human Rights, held July 5 - 8 at the University of British Columbia's Chan Centre. The conference was sponsored by the Council of Canadians so we begin our series, appropriately, with COC Chair Maude Barlow, speaking at the opening plenary.
Also this week: Highlights from the July 11 celebration at the Plaza of Nations to celebrate citizen victories against water privatization in both Kamloops and here in the lower mainland.

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#228 Water for People and Nature

As above, this week featuring Judy Darcy, President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, speaking at the opening plenary.

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#229 Water for People and Nature

As above, this week featuring Dr. Vandana Shivaspeaking at the opening plenary.

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#230 Water, Water, Everywhere?

Part 4 of our summer series on water, this week featuring the broadcast premiere of Water, Water, Everywhere? a new video done by students from the school of Communications at Simon Fraser University on the coming global water crisis.

This video was a term project for a special course called "Advocacy Documentary Video Production". Professor Roger Howard determined in advance that the course project would focus on water, to coincide with the Council of Canadians "Water for People and Nature" conference held last month at UBC. As a result, students had access to water activists from around the world and the video they produced has a global perspective

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#231 Last Show on Shaw

Highlights of 8 years of community access programming including the 1993 anti-NAFTA rally, 1994 "Hay Equity" comedy sketch, 1995's Union Drag (car races), and the 1996 Women's March Against Poverty.

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