"Mouseland" & "Global Pillage" Intro - click here Mouseland - click here Global Pillage - click here Extro - click here

"Mouseland"

and

"Global Pillage"

working TV #155, RT: 27:30 each,
September 24 1999

This week we begin a month long series of "repeats" and outside video broadcasts. We will be taking some time away from working TV production to do some paid video work, and to raise some money to keep working TV on air. So for the few weeks, we'll be featuring repeats of our favourite programs and segments. As well, we'll be airing some of our favourite videos produced by other video producers, some of which we have broadcast before, and some not.

We begin this series with:

"Mouseland"
One of our all time favourites and a Canadian socialist classic, this 6 minute animated short was produced by the United Food and Commercial Workers' Union, with an intro and extro by Hollywood actor Keifer Sutherland. Mouseland features the voice of Tommy "T.C." Douglas, ( Sutherland's grandfather ) the first leader of Canada's NDP (New Democratic Party) and the father of our medicare system. Its about a country called Mouseland, where mice have lived for years represented in parliament by cats, till the day when one little mouse dares to raise the question, "why do mice keep electing cats to represent them? wouldn't we be better off represented by other mice?"

Still from Mouseland: this mouse was jailed as a "Bolshevik" for espousing the radical concept that mice should elect other mice to represent them, rather than cats.

We air Mouseland this week to celebrate the election in Manitoba, where voters threw out the "cats" and elected an NDP Majority led by Gary Doer.

Also this week we feature:

"Global Pillage"
a fine video which documents some of the appalling working conditions endured by workers in other countries who make consumer goods for the Canadian market. This video came to us courtesy of the Canadian Labour Congress Union Trades and Label Department, and was produced by Peter Monet. Its works well as a kind of "consumers guide" to the new Global economy, and a reminder that solidarity is important when we are out shopping too.

Still from Global Pillage: third world women make toys for Canadian consumer market often working in appalling conditions.

working TV #155, RT: 27:30 each,
September 24 1999

 

Want to see this broadcast on TV in your community? Videotapes of these and all working TV shows are available in any format for broadcast on community television channels.

These videotapes are also for sale to the general public - 25$. Students, seniors and under-employed - $15

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