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1998 programs


Running time 27:30 for all programs
except "One Hour Specials", (listed separately below)

#94 Mac Pap "Monumental Campaign

Mac Pap "Monumental" Campaign: It has been 60 years since the veterans of the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion volunteered to fight fascism during the Spanish civil war. Most were labour and social activists. Consequently, their heroism still has not been recognized by Canada's government though nearly half these "Mac Paps" died fighting for democracy in that struggle. Today in BC, a group of friends and veterans are raising funds for a monument at the BC legislature to honour the sacrifice of these forgotten heroes.
the best of workingTV, focus on...the Mac Paps, video online
working TV #94 January 09 1998 �; Slim Evans 1998

#95 BC Fed Convention

BC Fed Convention. Highlights from the 42nd Annual Convention of the BC Federation of Labour, held December 3, 4 & 5 1997 at the Trade and Convention Centre in Vancouver; this week featuring the opening address by BC Fed President Ken Georgetti.
working TV #95 January 16 1998 �; Slim Evans 1998

#96 BC Fed Convention

BC Fed Convention. Highlights from the 42nd Annual Convention of the BC Federation of Labour, held December 3, 4 & 5 1997 at the Trade and Convention Centre in Vancouver; this week featuring an address by BC Premier Glen Clark.
working TV #96 January 23 1998 �; Slim Evans 1998

#97 January 28 Canadian Federation of Students National Day of Action

January 28 Canadian Federation of Students National Day of Action video from the march and rally in downtown Vancouver.
working TV #97 January 30 1998 �; Slim Evans 1998

#98 Part 1 - The MAI and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty

Part 1 - The MAI and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty Public Forum on the MAI, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, held January 29 1998 at the Vancouver Public Library, featuring speeches by Ian Waddell for the Government of British Columbia and Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians.
the best of workingTV, focus on...the MAI, video online
working TV #98 Februrary 06 1998 �; Slim Evans 1998

#99 Part 1 - The MAI and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty

Part 2 - The MAI and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty Public Forum on the MAI, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, held January 29 1998 at the Vancouver Public Library, featuring the question and answer period and panel discussion.
the best of workingTV
working TV #99 Februrary 13 1998 �; Slim Evans 1998

#100 2nd International Women’s Conference Against APEC (1st of 3 )

The first of 3 programs with highlights from 2nd International Women’s Conference Against APEC held in November 1997 at the Plaza of Nations in Vancouver. This week featuring the opening prayer from Faye Edgar, Coast Salish Nation, and the keynote address from Jeannette Armstrong, Okanagan First Nation.
working TV #100 Feb 20 1998

#101 2nd International Women’s Conference Against APEC (2nd of 3 )

The second of 3 programs with highlights from 2nd International Women’s Conference Against APEC held in November 1997 at the Plaza of Nations in Vancouver. This week with a look at East Timor, and as well, an update on the MAI, or the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, from the Public Forum hosted by NDP MPs Libby Davies and Svend Robinson.
working TV #101 Februrary 27 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#102 2nd International Women’s Conference Against APEC (3rd of 3 )

The third of 3 programs with highlights from 2nd International Women’s Conference Against APEC held in November 1997 at the Plaza of Nations in Vancouver. Features reports from women in Chiapas Mexico, Bangladesh and China.
working TV #102 March 06 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#103 Safe Work, Safe Workload

Safe Work, Safe Workload video, produced for the 44,000 member Hospital Employees' Union. Also, short reports on the 1998 International Women's Day march and rally in Vancouver; Shell Boycott campaign in support of the Ngoni people of Nigera, and the Citizens' Weapon Inspection Team, led by NDP MP Libby Davies, with a citizen's inspection of the US nuclear submarine base, in Bangor Washington.
the best of workingTV
workingTV #103 March 13, 1998, �; Slim Evans 1998

#104 Bombs Away

Bombs Away: Airshow Canada, Globalization and the New International Arms Trade, co-produced with the End the Arms Race and the Fraser Valley Chapter of the Project Ploughshares.
the best of workingTV, focus on...Bombs Away
workingTV #104 March 20, 1998 �; Slim Evans 1998

#105 Members In Crisis

Members In Crisis!: video produced for the Hospital Employee' Union (HEU), describes the crisis facing nearly 2,000 disabled health care workers on Long Term Disability or "LTD" pay. Also Campbell River HEU rally and Citizen's Weapons Inspection Team.
working TV #105 April 24 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#106 Mayday 1998 (Part 1 of 2)

Mayday 1998 ( Part 1 of 2 ) and a celebration of our 5th Anniversary On Air: Includes Welcome to new East Kootenay viewers; MAI update; Korean Mayday phone interview; Mayworks update; and music from our first 5 years.
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working TV #106 Mayday 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#107 Mayday 1998 (Part 2 of 2)

Mayday 1998 ( Part 2 of 2 ) Webcast in streaming video.: The New Internationalism; an interview with LabourStart webmaster and author Eric Lee; plus Mayday 1998 reports from Vancouver Canada, Havana Cuba, and Seoul Korea.
video online 1998 Producer's Pick, Favouite Show of the Year
working TV #107 May 8 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#108 Protecting Public Health Care from Private Greed (Part 1 of 2)

Protecting Public Health Care from Private Greed (Part 1 of 2): The first of a two part series from the opening Public Forum held in Ottawa's Radisson Hotel, at the April 16 - 19 Protecting Public Health Care from Private Greed conference, sponsored by the Canadian Health Coalition and the Canadian Labour Congress.
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working TV #108 May 15 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#109 Protecting Public Health Care from Private Greed (Part 1 of 2)

Protecting Public Health Care from Private Greed (Part 2 of 2): The second in a two part series from the opening Public Forum held in Ottawa's Radisson Hotel, at the April 16 - 19 Featured speakers include Claudia Fagan of U.S. Physicians for a National Health Program, actress Shirley Douglas, Kathleen Connors of the National Federation of Nurses Unions, Health Policy Analyst Michael Rachlis, and Colleen Fuller, author of Caring for Profit.
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working TV #109 May 22 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#110 The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen

The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen: Murray Dobbin, speaking on his new book, "The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen" at a Vancouver Public Library public forum. Dobbin argues that we are now living in a corporate age, one that threatens the very foundations of democracy where governments answer to transnational corporations and not to citizens.
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working TV #110 June 12 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#111 Women's Work Ghetto

Women's Work Ghetto: on community sector health care workers who are paid $3 to $4 an hour less than those who do identical work in hospitals. Plus "Women Welders Grad": the BCIT graduation ceremony at Vancouver Shipyards of women welders who will build new high speed aluminum BC Ferries; and "Striking Images": a video news release produced by striking CEP members using working TV's facilities.
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working TV #111 June 19 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#112 "The Wall"

"The Wall": Part 2 of a 2 part series. A new video we have just produced for the Hospital Employees' Union on the struggle of community sector health care workers, currently bargaining with B.C. health care employers. They are paid $3 to $4 an hour less than workers who do identical work in hospitals. "Restauronics Cafeteria Dispute": cafeteria workers at Langara college, members of CUPE 15, are taking on Restauronics, the multinational food industry giant in a dispute for fair wages and conditions.
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working TV #112 June 26 1998 � Slim Evans 1998


#115 Vandana Shiva ( 1 of 2 )

From her public lecture at the Vancouver Public Library on June 15 1998, world-renowned scientist/activist, Vandana Shiva. In partnership with local communities and social movements she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in New Delhi in 1982 to address the most significant ecological and social issues of our time. She has achieved international recognition for her contributions to the fields of women and the environment, bio-technology and intellectual property rights as well as ecological issues related to agriculture. Her Vancouver lecture was titled: Whose Freedom? Which Freedom? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights vs. the GATT Treaty for Inhuman Rights
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working TV #115 August 21 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#116 Vandana Shiva ( 2of 2 )

Vandana Shiva, Part 2
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working TV #116 August 28 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

Labour Day Solidarity Special #1 – see one hour specials (below) - includes "Bordertown" video on NAFTA
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working TV September 4 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#117 Labour Day Solidarity Special #2 A Labour Day celebration with reports from around the world, including a report produced in solidarity with striking Han Young truck chassis workers in Tijuana Mexico, some of the first Maquila workers to form an independent union and challenge the power of giant multi-national employers and NAFTA. Also news from Seoul, South Korea, and reports from friends at station DUTV Cable 54 in Philadelphia, who have put on air in their city.
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working TV #117 September 4 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#118 Labour Day Solidarity Special #3

Welcome to Squamish, and to the new Committee of Labour in that community, including highlights from the first Squamish labour day picnic;a new broadcast partner at Squamish Community 10 TV; and a labour day interview with Tesse Lowinger and Jennifer Wiebe, the Squamish teens who organized the first Macdonalds restaurant in North America. This week’s feature: Long Term Care Crisis, a new video we have just produced for the B.C. Nurses Union on the staffing crisis in Long Term Care facilities.
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working TV #118 September 11 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#119 Make it Public! / Free Speech Fight

Make it Public! the broadcast premier of a video we have produced for the Health Sciences Association (HSA) on the campaign to make public previously privatized laboratory testing facilities . . .
Free Speech 1: Democracy Street - A student's activist's view of the upcoming inquiry into the actions of the R.C.M.P at last November's APEC Summit in Vancouver. The first of a series with Dennis Porter.
Free Speech 2: we meet the folks at Free Speech TV in Boulder Colorado who have put working TV on air in 50 American cities, and around the world on the Internet.
Free Speech 3: your feedback.
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working TV #119 September 18 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#120 Protesters Win Award / New MAI video

Protestors Win Award - "Democracy Street", the group APEC protestors formed to press their case against the RCMP, was selected this week to receive the Carol Geller Human Rights Award.
Protest Background 1. - this week focusing on (now deposed) General Suharto of Indonesia.
Free Speech Internet Television: last week we introduced Free Speech Cable Television that has put working TV on air in 50 American cities. This week we meet their Internet affiliate, which is webcasting working TV around the world. A Crash Course for Citizens On the MAI - everything you needed to know ( It’s bad eh!) about the Multilateral Agreement on Trade, in just 10 minutes!
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working TV #120 September 25 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#121 Questioning the "Sun" / MAI Inquiry / Beyond the Pepper spray-

Questioning the Sun - just a week after the Vancouver Sun fabricated an NDP "scandal", we report on a NewsWatch Canada study, prepared by Communications students at Simon Fraser University. It proves what we all suspected to be true: the Vancouver daily newspaper has gotten worse since Conrad Black took over.
MAI Inquiry - the first of 8 Council of Canadians Inquiries to be held across the country. This week, an excerpt from the keynote speech by CBC TV host Judy Rebick.
Beyond the Pepper Spray - as the Public Inquiry into the RCMP at APEC begins, we look at what motivated the protests in the first place.
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working TV #121 October 2 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#122 MAI Inquiry, #1 of 3 working TV #122 October 9 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

The first of 3 full length programs taped September 25 in Vancouver, with highlights from the Council of Canadians MAI Inquiry. This was the first of 8 such events across the country, described as a "citizens' search for alternatives" to the MAI, the Multilateral Agreement on Investment. Speakers include Marjorie Griffin Cohen from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative; Joan Smallwood, NDP MLA and chair of the BC Legislatures Special Committee on the MAI; and R.H. Thomson, an Ontario based actor and activist.
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working TV #122 October 9 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

MAI Inquiry Special, #2 of 3 - including keynote speech by CBC TV host and author Judy Rebick. see one hour specials, below

#123 MAI Inquiry, #3 of 3

The third of 3 full length programs taped September 26 in Vancouver, with highlights from the Council of Canadians MAI Inquiry Roundtable sessions: speakers include Chief Saul Terry, Steve Shrybman from the West Coast Environmental Law Association, Jean Swanson from End Legislated Poverty, and Buzz Hargrove from the Canadian Auto Workers union.
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working TV #123 October 16 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#124 The MAI in the toilet? Celebrating the decision, announced October 15, by the French Government to withdraw from MAI negotiations currently taking place at the OECD meeting in Paris - which has been blacked out by the mainstream media. We celebrate with anti-MAI activists at the BC Teachers' Federation building, online with Maude Barlow in Paris. Also in this program: CLC President Bob White at the BC Legislature's Expert Hearings on the MAI.
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working TV #124 October 23 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#125 Medicare Forum

Taped at the B.C. Health Coalition's Medicare Forum, at the Vancouver Public Library on October 15 1998, featuring speakers Jim Sinclair, Vancouver/Richmond Health Board and Dr. Isaac Sobol, pro-medicare physician.
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working TV #125 October 30 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#126 Medicare Forum

Taped at the B.C. Health Coalition's Medicare Forum, at the Vancouver Public Library on October 15 1998, featuring actor and health care activist Shirley Douglas, daughter of Medicare founder T.C. Douglas.
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working TV #126 November 6 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#127 "high school MAI"

The MAI may be D.O.A. but that hasn't stopped four local high school students - Jocelyn Hallett, Beth Grayer, Simon Rotheisler and Mathew Vis-Dunbar - from completing this irreverent, refreshing and often hilarious new video on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). They became concerned about the MAI last spring, but couldn't find educational material on the trade agreement suitable for their fellow students so they decided to make their own! They hope their 25 minute production will be used in high school social studies classes everywhere.
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working TV #127 November 13 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#128 Choice Vigil & "Mac Pap" Remembrance

Vigil for Dr. Barnett Slepian - organized by the Pro Choice Action Network on October 27, at the Women's Monument in Vancouver, to commemorate the New York State doctor assassinated by anti-choice terrorists.
Mac Pap Remembrance - history was made this year on November 11 at the South Burnaby cenotaph when a wreath was laid, for the first time ever, to commemorate the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion veterans, volunteers in the fight against fascism during the Spanish Civil War, from 1936 and '39.
Labour of Love - a preview of an upcoming program featuring Buzz Hargrove, of the Canadian Auto Workers, on his new book, "Labour of Love".
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working TV #128 November 20 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#129 Buzz Hargrove, Labour of Love

A full length program taped at the November 18 1998 Vancouver launch for the new book by Buzz Hargrove, called "Labour of Love: The Fight to Create a More Humane Canada" (Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, Toronto). Hargrove is President of the Canadian Auto Workers' union, the largest private sector union in the country. He was born into rural poverty in New Brunswick where he came by his socialism honestly. A former auto worker, he rose through the ranks to become the CAW's National President. He had never written a book, but friends and colleagues convinced him that he should, argueing that as a progressive labour leader, he had a unique and valuable perspective on the struggle against the corporate domination. It's a perspective that includes a critical look at the NDP, (Canada's labour-backed New Democratic Party) and raises the possibility of a new political grouping that more effectively represents working people.
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working TV #129 November 27 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#130 Maude Barlow, The Fight of My Life

Continuing with the theme established last week by CAW President Buzz Hargrove, this week we hear from Maude Barlow, volunteer Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, on her new book, "The Fight of My Life: Confessions of an Unrepentant Canadian". Taped in Vancouver, just after her return from monitoring OECD negotiations on the MAI in Paris, Barlow brings an international perspective to what she calls the "Millenial Struggle" between corporate power and civil society.
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working TV #130 December 04 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#131 British Columbia Honours "Mac Pap" Anti-fascist Heroes

It might be 60 years late, but Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion veterans of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) were finally recognized by the province of British Columbia last week. In December 4 1998 ceremony in the BC Legislature Rotunda, BC Premier Glen Clark praised the veterans for their contribution to the fight against fascism. The Rotunda was packed with friends and well-wishers, including several veterans who had traveled from as far as Israel, California and Ontario for the event.

Two bronze plaques were unveiled. One plaque was inside the Rotunda itself. A second was outside on the Legislature grounds, at the future site of a large bronze statue of the "Spirit of Democracy". The statue will be completed and unveiled next spring marking the culmination of the grass-roots "Monumental" campaign across the province to honour the "Mac Paps".
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working TV #131 December 11 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#132 Holidays With A Conscience Pt. 1

Shopping for holiday gifts? Tips on where to shop . . . and where not. Includes highlights from the Sweatshop Fashion Extravaganza sponsored by Christian Task Force on Central America, the Canadian Auto Workers and the BC Union Label Committee. And from the National Labor Committee in New York, we excerpt Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti: Disney and the Science of Exploitation, a video about Haitian workers who make a lot of that swell Disney stuff that your kids want you to buy them for Christmas.
As American bombs fall on Iraq we repeat the Citizen's Weapons Inspection Team segment from last spring. We followed peace activists, including Vancouver East NDP MP Libby Davies, to the Bangor nuclear submarine base in Washington State, looking for "weapons of mass destruction stockpiled by" another "rogue state".
And locally, a look at the current lock-out of BC Projectionists by Famous Players theatres.

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working TV #132 December 18 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#133 Holidays With A Conscience Pt. 2

Shopping for holiday gifts? Tips on where to shop . . . and where not. Featuring Zoned for Slavery: The Child Behind the Label, a video about teenage girls in latin-american maquiladora factories who make garments for the North American market.
And locally, continuing coverage of the lock-out of BC Projectionists by Famous Players and Cineplex Odeon theatres.

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working TV #133 December 25 1998 � Slim Evans 1998

#134 Canada Labour News / 1998 Wrap

Canada Labour News - a look at the work of Eugene Pawliuk and Donalda Cassel, an Edmonton couple whose web activism, including the website Canada Labour News, have made an important contribution to labour communications.
Feedback - your calls on our Holiday's With A Conscience series, and
1998 Wrap - our favourite segments from the year that's passed.
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working TV #134 January 01 1999 � Slim Evans 1998

working TV 1998 One Hour "Special" programs

Running Time 57:30 for all programs listed below

Public Forum on "The MAI and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty", ( Parts 1 and 2 ) featuring Maude Barlow, of the Council of Canadians and Ian Waddell, BC NDP Government spokesperson, taped January 29 1998 at the Vancouver Public Library. In two parts, one hour each.
First broadcast 06/02/98.
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Leaky Condo Meeting

from the April 14 1998 Public Meeting on Leaky Condominiums, held at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, sponsored by the BC Federation of Labour, the Vancouver and District Labour Council, the New Westminster and District Labour Council and the BC Provincial Council of Carpenters.
First broadcast 26/04/98
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David Orchard on the MAI and NAFTA: A Case of Forced Globalization
taped April 30 1998 at the Maritime Labour Centre in Vancouver.
First broadcast 09/07/98
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Labour Day 1998 Solidarity Special #1:
produced in solidarity with striking Han Young truck chassis workers in Tijuana Mexico, some of the first Maquila workers to form an independent union and challenge the power of giant multi-national employers and NAFTA. Features the premier broadcast of Bordertown, on the North American trade situation.
First broadcast 02/09/98
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Council of Canadians MAI Inquiry Special:
taped at the September 25 1998 Council of Canadians inquiry looking for "citizen's alternatives to the MAI". Features the keynote address from CBC TV host and author Judy Rebick.
First broadcast 11/10/98.
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