2006 programs

#326 Magazine show

Host Kaylah Zander introduces two segments: (1) Mouseland - comments by Tommy Douglas (first NDP leader) set to animation with an intro by Keifer Sutherland (rebroad) and (2) Goodbye Bruce - rebroad of segments from the 1997 Bruce Erikson Tribute.

working TV #326 January 7, 2006 � Slim Evans 2006 top

#327 Hilda Thomas Memorial

Taped at the Unitarian Church on January 7th. Includes comments by the minister, Dr. Phillip Hewett, Margaret Birrell and Dave Barrett, interspersed with a number of video clips (Hilda Thomas-1997) and choir and congregation singing.

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#328 Recall Emerson

Taped February 11, 2006. Concerned citizens meet at Tupper High School to express their views regarding David Emerson's position as MP for the riding of Vancouver Kingsway after he crossed the Parliament floor.

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#329 Forum on David Emerson with Jack Layton

Community Public Forum at Mackenzie School, Thursday, Feb. 16th, 2006, with Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton, so that the people of Vancouver Kingsway could express their views on David Emerson's recent move.

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#330 Global Day of Action

Edited excerpts from the March 18th 2006 march and rally - War No More - in Vancouver.

working TV #330 March 25, 2006 � Slim Evans 2006 top

#331 Carole Taylor Shoe-In

Featuring edited excerpts from comments made by presenters at the protest against the recent BC budget presented by Carole Taylor in $600 Gucci shoes. Taped at the Carnegie Centre in Vancouver on March 28, 2006.

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#333 Leslie Feinberg

Taped Feb 10, 2006 at the Vancouver Public Library. Introduction by Helen Leung from SFU Women's Studies. Author and activist Leslie Feinberg is well known in the U.S. and many other parts of the world as a person who works to help forge a strong bond between the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans communities.

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#334 Day of Mourning

Taped April 28, 2006. Workers carry 188 cardboard coffins through downtown Vancouver in the morning rush hour - one coffin for each worker killed in BC in 2005. The coffins went to the Day of Mourning ceremony, which this year was outside government offices at Canada Place and drew over 1000 mourners.

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#335 Cindy Sheehan - Military Mom Speaks Out

As a mother looking for answers to her son's death, Cindy Sheehan has become a beacon to many in the struggle to end the illegal occupation of Iraq. More than 600 came to hear her at the May 6, 2006 War Resisters/stopwar.ca meeting in Vancouver at Shaughnessey Heights United Church.

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#336 Libby Davies 25th Anniversary Party

Kaylah Zander introduces the show with comments by Margaret Mitchell and Joy McPhail introducing Jack Layton. Includes a video retrospective.

working TV #336 May 20, 2006 � Slim Evans 2006 top

#337 Robert Fisk

Taped June 4th at the Maritime Labour Centre in Vancouver. Internationally recognized journalist Robert Fisk is on tour (sponsored by the Human Rights Media Institute) to promote his new book "The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East".

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#339 World Peace Forum - Middle East Event

Taped June 26 2006 at St. Andrew's Wesley Church in Vancouver. The first of three speakers is Miryam Rashid, Interim Director of the Middle East Program of the American Friends Service Committee - Chicago. She lived in the occupied West Bank for 5 years, some of that time during the first Intifada. Miryam sees peace as inseparable from recognition of Palestinian human rights.

working TV #339 July 1, 2006 � Slim Evans 2006 top

#340 World Peace Forum - Middle East Event

The second of three speakers is Nurit Peled-Elhanan, an Israeli education professor at Hebrew University who lost her daughter in a suicide bombing. She has turned her grief into a tireless quest for Justice: the end of the Israeli occupation, which she considers the root cause of her daughter's death, including the elimination of racism in Israeli education.

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#341 World Peace Forum - Middle East Event

The final speaker of the three is Cindy Corrie. Cindy's daughter Rachel was killed by an Israeli soldier driving a bulldozer as she non-violently protested the demolition of a Palestinian home. Cindy Corrie continues Rachel's pursuit of sustainable peace, one rooted in justice for all.

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