Check Your Head;
1919 Winnipeg General Strike vid;
Projectionists update
working TV #142, RT: 27:30
May 14 1999
A focus on activism past, present and future . . including . . .
Check Your Head
A report on the March 5 - 7 "Youth Forum on Globalization" at the University of British Columbia, videotaped and edited by Dennis Porter. This event was described as "3 days of action and fun organized by and designed for youth".
Six Days of Solidarity
From the Manitoba Labour Education Centre a fine video on the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike. This was a formative event in Canadian Labour History, which inspired a sympathy strike here in Vancouver.
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Telephone operators or "Hello Girls" who were first to down tools, after their night shift on May 15, 1919. |
Building trades and metal shop workers whose struggle for union recognition was the catalyst which inspired the General strike. |
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J.S. Woodsworth, one of the strike leaders jailed. Later he was elected to Parliament and became the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), forerunner of today's New Democratic Party (NDP). |
Projectionists update
As the lockout of 60 B.C. Projectionists enters its 6th month, community support is rallying behind the workers. The employers, Famous Players and Cineplex Odeon theatres, are demanding 60% wage rollbacks. Cineplex and Famous Playes are owned by Sony and Viacom, two of the biggest multi-national corporations in the world. They spend tens of thousands of dollars daily advertising in the mainstream media so mainstream coverage of the dispute has been scarce. But alternative media are getting the world out for the union, nurturing community awareness and support.
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Solidarity pickets from Local 40 HERE (Hotel Restaurant ) and other unions discourage patrons from attending films screened by scab projectionists. |
Michel Daigneault, operating during "Union Made" interview with Projectionists. "Union Made" airs Wednesdays @ 8:00 pm, and repeats Thursdays @ 1:00 pm on CFRO 102.7 FM. |
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Projectionists President Damon Faulkner on air, interviewed by "Union Made's" Marco Procaccini. |
University of British Columbia student radio "CITR 109.1" interview with Damon Faulkner. |
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Thomas Hicks during CITR "Rachel's Song" interview with Damon Faulkner. "Rachel's Song" airs Wednesdays @ 5:20 pm. |
working TV #142, RT: 27:30
first broadcast May 14 1999 @ 7:30 pm
on Rogers Community Television,
Channel 4 in B.C.'s lower mainland
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