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8th Annual Canada Day Rally by Head Tax Families Society of Canada
Join the Head Tax Families Society of Canada for the 8th Annual Canada Day Rally at Keefer & Columbia, Monument to Chinese-Canadian Veterans in Chinatown, Vancouver
On June 22, 2006, on behalf of the Government of Canada, the Prime Minister apologized in the House of Commons for the implementation of the Chinese Head Tax. As part of the apology and redress the Conservatist government decided to compensate the surviving Head Tax payers and surviving spouse of Head Tax payers only.
The objectives of the Head Tax Families Society of Canada are:
1. to seek a just and honourable redress for all families affected by the Chinese Head Tax and the exclusionary Chinese Immigration Acts,
2. to educate Canadians on the contributions of Chinese pioneers, and
3. to promote racial harmony amongst all Canadians
The Head Tax Families Society of Canada believes an inclusive redress begins with the Three Manifests:
1. The Government of Canada will recognize and acknowledge redress is incomplete;
2. The Government of Canada will commit to good faith negotiations with Head Tax families currently excluded from the June 22, 2006 announcement and who are seeking direct redress; and
3. The Government of Canada will act in the spirit of one certificate, one claim
Rainbow the Rose Tarantula’s Welcome Home Dinner in Vancouver
AHA MEDIA welcomed our new pet Rainbow the Rose Tarantula home with a Turkey Dinner.
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Get On The Doc Bus
Join the adventure this summer as documentary filmmaker and OPEN CINEMA founder & director Mandy Leith makes a pilgrimage across Canada to explore our country’s documentary legacy – past, present and future.
DOCUMENTARY IS IN TROUBLE
Canada has played a leading role in the birth and development of the documentary art form. Today, it’s at a treacherous crossroads. It’s time to meet with documentary lovers and supporters to explore the new territory together, to take the pulse of the industry and put the players on the map.
A CROSS CANADA COMMUNITY SCREENING NETWORK
Traveling from Mile 0 BC to Mile 0 Newfoundland, Mandy will engage community, explore our vast country’s documentary legacy and share OPEN CINEMA’s innovative hybrid event model. The goal? To seed a Cross Canada Community Cinema Network that will connect existing documentary screening programs and community partners from coast to coast to coast.
While many great documentary screening initiatives already exist, there is no shared learning network, no best practices, no online hub to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. We want to help fix that.
The Website Hub: a map-based database
We’re developing a website that will serve as a database of community screening partners. We’re using a WordPress theme that uses Google Maps API to create a map-based directory. You’ll be able to register your organization, choosing from a dozen categories that specify your affiliation with community screenings. Whether you’re an arts org, screening venue, film producer, distributor, non-profit org, food provider, we want to hear from you! Your organization will then appear as a pin on the map, with links, photos and posts associated to it. This will serve to form the beginnings of a grassroots network.
We Want Your Ideas!
We want your input on everything from the name, to how it can serve the documentary community! For now we’re calling it a Cross Canada Community Screening Network. Tell us your thoughts!
If we all work together, we can make this happen and support our struggling documentary industry.
WHAT WE NEED
We want to build community, so that’s why we need you! You can contribute in a variety of ways.
- We want to CONNECT with film lovers, filmmakers and community screening organizers like YOU as we travel across the country. We’ll discuss what’s working, what issues you’re facing and talk about possible solutions using live and virtual technologies. Please contact us to arrange a meeting when the Doc Bus is in your area June – September 2013. We’ll do our best to meet you, based on scheduling and geography.
- We want to create a map-based DATABASE of community screening organizers and stakeholders across the country. This will be a first step towards developing a broad grassroots network as we move forward. To that end we’re developing a website using Google Maps API which will become an online database. The website will launch in early May, when you’ll be able to submit your information to www.getonthedocbus.com. Meanwhile, visit our temporary websitehttp://www.getonthedocbus.wordpress.com
- We need FUNDING to help us make this mapping project happen! We’ll make a pilgrimage across the birthplace of the documentary, so we need money for gas, food, basic living expenses, campsites, a roadie/cinematographer honorarium, website development, social media support, insurance. You can contribute $10, $100 or $1000 or more. Details of our budget breakdown below.
THE DOC BUS BUDGET
Here’s a detailed breakdown of our budget for the project.
The biggest expense is food and living expenses for Mandy and the digital roadies/cinematographers who will join her at different points along the way.
$12,000 covers $100/day for food and basic expenses for two of us for 4 months on the road. And I figure we’ll spend about $3000 on gas. A project like this needs to be filmed as much as possible, so we want to pay someone (or a few someone’s) an honorarium to get on the bus as a digital roadie.
WHAT’S THE WORST CASE SCENARIO?
If we don’t make the full amount during this campaign, Mandy is going anyway, but it might mean she’ll travel alone, or shorten the journey as needed. Your contribution, however small, will help make sure Mandy can go all the way to St John’s Newfoundland, where there are some dedicated documentary fans and committed groups we’d like to meet.
WE HAVE PERKS FOR YOU IN RETURN!
In return for your contribution, we have a bus load of great perks to offer you, including online and offline promotion, custom photos of your favourite spot in Canada and beautiful Get on the Doc Bus 2014 calendars. For bigger donors, we’ll give your logo nationwide exposure by adding it to the bus!
So now that we’ve covered the basics, here’s a bit of background about the rationale for the project…
DOCUMENTARIES MATTER!
Documentary is one of the few genres of investigative journalism we have left. They keep us informed, tell our stories and serve as calls to action. Let’s find ways to keep the documentary industry alive and well. Developing a grassroots network of community documentary screening programs is one step in the right direction.
WHAT’S UP WITH THE DOCUMENTARY INDUSTRY?
Documentaries are hot, people are hungry for in-depth stories about real people dealing with real issues, locally and globally. Judging by the growing popularity of documentaries at festivals, in cinemas and at award ceremonies, the average filmgoer believes the genre is on the rise.
But behind the screen, the changing economic and digital landscape is throwing the documentary industry into crisis. Broadcast documentary strands are dwindling, production companies are closing their doors or retooling and the traditional models of production and distribution are breaking down. This leaves the industry with a lot of unanswered questions about how best to fund, produce and distribute documentaries, utilizing their potential to inform, entertain, and engage in an always-on digital universe.
GET ON THE DOC BUS!
We hope you will join our cinematic pilgrimage as we explore and document the grassroots organizations that are doing their best to weather the storm. Mandy’s goal is to share her passion and experience running ‘one of Victoria’s most successful cultural enterprises.’ (Micheal D. Reid, Times Colonist).
GET YOUR TICKET TO RIDE!
We can’t do this without you, so if you love documentary, please contribute to this exciting movement building opportunity.
If you can contribute financially, every $10 helps. Thank you!
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
A like or a share is also a great way to support documentary. Please, tell your friends, family, co-workers and film lovers. Documentary needs you!
GET ON THE DOC BUS!
West Coast Oil Pipelines Summit – Livestream today
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This is a special invitation for you to watch the LIVESTREAM of today’s soldout Summit events (1-10pmPST) online http://www.livestream.com/w2mediaToday, with support from the Cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, Tsleil-Waututh Nation are hosting a conference designed to stimulate discussion, explore clean energy alternatives, and raise public awareness about the expansion of the Canadian tar sands and oil industry transportation infrastructure.
PLEASE SHARE, TWEET, and REPOST! We encourage you to watch online today’s events and let your community know your opposition to the Kinder Morgan tarsands pipeline expansion. The program includes a Treaty Signing (1-2pm PST), and Summit (3:45pm-10pm PST) from the Sheraton Wall Centre in Vancouver. Watch from your computer or mobile device: http://www.livestream.com/w2media
As a community at the terminus of the Kinder Morgan pipeline and with all of the controversy surrounding the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, Tsleil-Waututh felt it was time to organize a large scale “meeting of the minds” to allow for intelligent, respectful and informed debate on the economic and renewable energy alternatives to oil sands expansion in BC.
The Summit includes compelling speakers and discussion, and a special evening of Indigenous blues music and cultural sharing.
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Please consider watching online today and learning about these important issues. Today’s events willalso be broadcast in a couple of weeks on W2TV (courtesy of ACCESS and Shaw Cable 4) throughout the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley.
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Let’s build on the momentum and bring people together from various walks of life and sectors to voice our united voice!
Say Yes to Beautiful BC – Say No to Kinder Morgan & Oil Sands Expansion
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More Summit background: http://www.klahowya.ca/resources/919-oil-pipeline-summit-next-week.html
LIKE the Tsleil Waututh Sacred Trust Initiative on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tsleil-Waututh-Sacred-Trust-Initiative-Official-site/421409861240346?fref=ts
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Vaisakhi in Vancouver 2013
AHA MEDIA and ACCESS TV enjoyed a wonderful Vaisakhi parade in Vancouver. Happy Vaisakhi everyone!! 🙂
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