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Maquiladora Organizing |
MAI Inquiry series |
The MAI |
Public Meeting on Leaky Condos |
Bombs Away! |
Award Winners
(VVTV) A web-based working TV special project, for the 1999 Vancouver Civic Election
Vancouver's Voice is a coalition of the labour-backed COPE (Committee of Progressive Electors) and the Green Party, to challenge the right-wing / developer-controlled NPA ( or so called "Non-Partisan" Association ) in the 1999 Vancouver Civic election.
Since 1996, the city of Vancouver has endured one-party rule as the business/developer backed NPA has held all seats on Vancouver City Council, Vancouver Park Board and Vancouver School Board. The new Vancouver's Voice coalition is determined to bring democracy back to city government.
working TV's Heather Nicholas on the street, asking citizens about the issues that affect them, from one of 10 daily VVTV On The Street webcasts.
With barely 10% of the budget the NPA has for advertising, the COPE-Green coalition is using the web and e-mail to get the word out.
No more blurry jerky images with muffled and distorted sound!!! working TV has achieved our best quality webcasts ever with this campaign. With the use of a T1 internet connection, courtesy of Communicopia, we have been able to webcast, for the first time ever, at ASDL or LAN data rates of 220kps (compared to typical rates of 20kps or 34kps). Viewers with high-speed cable modems or ADSL connections have been able to watch VVTV webcasts with image and sound quality equivalent to broadcast television!
BC Campaign to Honour "Mac Pap" Veterans
working TV #94, RT: 27:30, January 09, 1998
working TV #131, RT: 27:30, December 11, 1998
Justice delayed is justice denied, and the veterans of Canada's Mackenzie Papineau Battalion have been denied justice for 60 years now by the Canadian government. Click here for working TV's Mac Pap pages, and the B.C. "Monumental" Campaign to honour their contribution to the fight against fascism.
Click here for Eugene Plawiuk's definitive Spanish Civil War website.
MAI Inquiry series
working TV #122, RT: 27:30; first broadcast October 09, 1998
MAI Inquiry (#1 of 3)
Taped September 25 & 26 in Vancouver, the first of three special programs with highlights from the MAI Inquiry's "citizens' search for alternatives" to the MAI, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment.
Marjorie Griffin CohenFeaturing: Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Chair of Womens' Studies at Simon Fraser University; Joan Smallwood, MLA (NDP) and chair of the BC Legislature's Special Committee on the MAI; and Ontario based actor and activist, R.H. Thomson.
Joan Smallwood, MLA (NDP) and chair of the BC Legislature's Special Committee on the MAI Ontario based actor and activist, R.H. Thomson.
working TV MAI Inquiry One Hour Special RT: 57:30; first broadcast October 11, 1998
MAI Inquiry Special (#2 of 3)
The second of three special programs with highlights from the MAI Inquiry's "citizens' search for alternatives" to the MAI, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment.
Featuring: keynote speech by Toronto based CBC TV host and author, Judy Rebick;
Canadian Auto Workers union president Buzz Hargrove;
and comments from Murray Dobbin of the Council of Canadians and an award presentation of cash from the Council of Canadians to APEC Student Protestors.
Murray Dobbin presents award to APEC Student Protestor Annette Muttray. Award will be used for legal fees in the students ongoing legal battle against the RCMP and the Federal Government.
working TV #123, RT: 27:30; first broadcast October 16, 1998
MAI Inquiry (#3 of 3)
The third of three programs, this one from the "Roundtable" sessions taped Saturday September 26 at Vancouver City College, with Chief Saul Terry, Union of BC Indian Chiefs; Steve Shrybman, West Coast Environmental Law Association; Jean Swanson, End Legislated Poverty; Buzz Hargrove, Canadian Auto Workers.
Steve Shrybman
Jean Swanson
Labour Day
a one working TV special program featuring
Solidarity special1. Bordertown: the B.C. broadcast premier of this 38 minute documentary by Pat Harrison and Borys Kit. Bordertown presents the straight facts and lays out the complexity of the North American trade situation without jumping to judgements or easy answers.
Still from Bordertown: Factory closed and abandoned in Cornwall Ontario. The owners moved operations to Maquiladora zones in Mexico to exploit some of the cheapest labour in the world.
Tijauna-Mexico Border, just
south of San Diego California - the busiest border crossing in the world.
It moves from the Mexico-US frontier, where unemployed Mexican workers run the gauntlet of the U.S. Border Patrol, to San Diego, to Washington D.C., to Ottawa and finally to Cornwall Ontario, where formerly well-paid factory workers now work part-time in bingo parlours.
2. Union Organizing in Mexico's Maquila's - A regular half hour program, from Labour Day 1998 with highlights from the solidarity campaign to support striking Han Young workers in Tijuana Mexico.
The MAI and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty
two one hour specials from the January 29, 1998 "Public Forum on the MAI", featuring Maude Barlow.
Few Canadians know anything about the MAI, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment. Yet our federal government, together with their counterparts in other industrialized nations, is poised to sign this deal that will drastically affect our quality of life and our ability to determine our national destiny.
Public Meeting on Leaky Condominiums
held at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Vancouver on April 14th 1998.
Leaky condominiums like this one are a billion dollar problem here in the lower mainland. Tens of thousands of homeowners are affected. Last week the B.C. Federation of Labour, together with the New Westminster and Vancouver Labour councils, and the Provincial Council of Carpenters held a public meeting on leaky condominiums.
Bombs Away:
Airshow Canada, Globalization, and the New International Arms Trade.
co-produced by working TV and End the Arms Race, and the Fraser Valley Chapter of Project Ploughshares.
Written and Produced by Steven Staples.
Directed by Steven Staples and David Thiessen.
Researched by David Thiessen.
VHS 28 minutes.
Released: November 20th, 1997.working TV award winners
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