Make it Public
Democracy Street
working TV #119, RT 27:30; first broadcast September 18 1997
Make it Public! a video we have produced for the Health Sciences Association on the campaign to make public previously privatized laboratory testing facilities . . .
Health Sciences Association President Cindy Stewart wants the public to use public labs, rather than for-profit private facilities. Thus revenues can be recycled back into the Health Care system, rather than lining the pockets of private investors on the Toronto stock exchange. A poll commissioned by the Hospital Employees' Union found that the vast majority of people preferred to use public labs when they found the revenues were recycled back into the Health Care system. Democracy Street: the Police Policing the Police. A student's activist's view of the upcoming inquiry into the actions of the R.C.M.P., the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, at last November's APEC Summit in Vancouver. ( The B.C. Federation of Labour has just donated $10,000.00 so that students can have legal representation at this inquiry. ) APEC protestors were pepper-sprayed, arrested and strip-searched apparently for no other reason than to keep them out of sight of war criminals like General Suharto of Indonesia, all at the behest, leaked documents suggest, of Canada's Prime Minister . . .
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien greets war criminal and dictator General Suharto at APEC Summit in Vancouver last November. According to leaked documents, the Prime Minister ordered the RCMP to violate rights of students protesting Suharto's genocide of the East Timorese, ( among his many crimes), so that the dictator would feel "comfortable during his stay in Canada". Student leader and East Timor activist Jaggi Singh arrested by police at APEC for protesting Suharto's visit and conversations with 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.
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