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This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Kothari, Miloon
Date created: 2012-07-09
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Kothari, Miloon
Date created: 2012-07-11
Eugene Kung (he/him/his) is a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law (WCEL), working on Tar Sands, Pipelines and Tankers, as well as with RELAW. He is committed to human rights, social justice and environmental justice and has been working to stop the Kinder Morgan TransMountain expansion project.Eugene was born and raised in Burnaby BC, holds a BA from UBC (2001) and JD from Dalhousie (2006) and was called to the BC Bar in 2008. Prior to joining WCEL, Eugene was a staff lawyer with the BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BCPIAC) where he had a social justice law practice in the areas of Constitutional, Human Rights, Administrative, Anti-Poverty and Regulatory law. He has represented low and fixed-income ratepayers before the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC); low-income tenants of slumlords; Treeplanters and Temporary Foreign Workers before the BC Human Rights Tribunal; and families of deceased farmworkers at a coroner's inquest.Resources: — "The Time of the Lone Wolf is Over" by Eugene Kung: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2016/07/OS124_Kung.pdf— Eugene's writings for Policy Options: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/authors/eugene-kung/— West Coast Environmental Law: https://wcel.org/— BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre: http://bcpiac.com/— Climate Justice Webinar Series: "Just Is"≠ Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr5-J6H0rl0— 2018 Tsleil-Waututh v. Canada case brief: https://www.dgwlaw.ca/case-brief-tsleil-waututh-v-canada-attorney-general-2018-fca-153/— "Tim Hortons Workers File Double-Double BC Rights Complaint": https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/tim-hortons-complaint-bc-human-rights-dawson-creek_n_2104706— "BC Refuses Calls to Compensate African Tree-planters": https://thetyee.ca/News/2014/06/05/BC-Treeplanter-Compensation/— Read the Trans Mountain Assessment Report by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation: https://twnsacredtrust.ca/assessment-report-download/
Author: Eugene Kung, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-09-21
Andrea Luka Zimmerman is a Jarman Award winning artist, filmmaker and cultural activist whose multi-layered practice calls for a profound re-imagining of the relationship between people, place and ecology. Focusing on marginalised individuals, communities and experience, the engaged practice employs imaginative hybridity and narrative re-framing, alongside reverie and a creative waywardness. Informed by suppressed histories, and alert to sources of radical hope, the work prioritises an enduring and equitable co-existence. Andrea grew up on a large council estate and left school at 16.Films include the Artangel-produced 'Here for Life' (2019), which received its world premiere in the Cineasti Del Presente international competition of the Locarno Film Festival (winning a Special Mention), 'Erase and Forget' (2017), premiering at the Berlin Film Festival (nominated for the Original Documentary Award), 'Estate, a Reverie' (2015) (nominated for Best Newcomer at the Grierson awards) and 'Taskafa, Stories of the Street' (2013), written and voiced by the late John Berger.Selected exhibitions include 'Civil Rites', the London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, 'Common Ground' at Spike Island, Bristol and 'Real Estates' at Peer Gallery. Andrea co-founded the cultural collectives Fugitive Images and Vision Machine (collaborators on Academy Award® nominated feature documentary 'The Look of Silence').Andrea co-edited the books 'Estate: Art, Politics and Social Housing in Britain' (Myrdle Court Press) and 'Doorways: Women, Homelessness Trauma and Resistance' (House Sparrow Press) and has published extended essays in 'Open Democracy', 'La Furia Umana', 'Another Gaze' and 'Homecultures', among others.Resources: — Fugitive Imageshttps://fugitiveimages.org.uk/about/— Taskafa, Stories of the Streethttps://lux.org.uk/work/taskafa-stories-of-the-street— Estate, a Reveriehttps://lux.org.uk/work/013429-estate-a-reverie— Here For Lifehttps://www.artangel.org.uk/project/here-for-life/— Shelter in Place https://www.estuaryfestival.com/event/detail/shelter-in-place.html
Author: Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Author: Johal, Am, Author: Melissa Roach, Author: Paige Smith, Author: Kathy Feng, Author: Alyha Bardi
Date created: 2021-10-05
This video is part of the Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Office of Community Engagement (SFU Vancity Office of Community Engagement) series of public talks and accessible education opportunities.
Author: Pongracic-Speier, Monique, Author: Kerr, Thomas, Author: Davis, Maxine, Author: Wilson, Dean, Author: Osborn, Bud, Author: Murray, Dave
Date created: 2011-05-17
Rosemary Brown Award for Women recognizes and honors a BC based woman or organization that promotes the values and ideals which Rosemary Brown championed during her lifetime.
Author: BC Human Rights Coalition
Date created: 2008
Pushed through Parliament with unprecedented haste, with opportunities for consultation and debate cut off at every turn, Bill C-51 has now become law, the Anti-Terrorism Act 2015. The most comprehensive overhaul of Canadian national security laws since 2001, C-51 is replete with numerous and very serious human rights concerns. Legal experts, human rights organizations, former Prime Ministers and Supreme Court judges, media opinion across the political spectrum and Canadians across the country all spoke out loud and clear, insisting that the Bill needed to be withdrawn or dramatically amended to ensure that human rights were not being sold short in the name of security. The very few minor changes that were made were nothing more than tinkering. This new law remains one of the most deeply flawed pieces of legislation from a human rights perspective passed in Canada in many years. Amnesty International has a long history, in Canada and around the world, of highlighting that human rights violations in the name of national security undermine both human rights and national security. Alex Neve laid out the many ways that is the case with C-51. Concerns he addressed include expressly allowing CSIS agents to contravene the Charter and ignore laws in other countries; expecting Federal Court judges to issue warrants authorizing Charter violations; undermining freedom of expression; staggering levels of information sharing; expanded powers allowing lengthier and easier detention without charge; increased secrecy in security procedures under the Immigration Act; and an unfair no-fly list appeal process. He raised concern about what is missing as well, including continuing failure to establish effective review and oversight of Canadian agencies involved in national security and a refusal to redress past cases of wrongdoing in which Canadians have suffered serious abuses such as torture due to the actions of Canadian security officials. Above all he stressed that it is time to ground Canada’s national security laws and policies in full respect for human rights.BIO:Alex Neve believes in a world in which the human rights of all people are protected. He has been a member of Amnesty International since 1985 and has served as Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada since 2000. Alex is a lawyer, with an LLB from Dalhousie University and a Masters Degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. He is on the Board of Directors of Partnership Africa Canada, the Canadian Centre for International Justice and the Centre for Law and Democracy. Alex has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Trudeau Foundation Mentor and has received an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree from the University of New Brunswick.
Author: SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Author: Neve, Alex
Date created: 2015-09-17
Author: Goldenberg, Shira M., Author: Morgan Thomas, Ruth, Author: Forbes, Anna, Author: Baral, Stefan
Date created: 2021-04-29