ACORN Canada: Organizing 101
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) Canada is membership based national organization of low- and moderate-income families. We have over 70,000 members organized into twenty neighbourhood chapters in nine cities across Canada. We believe that social and economic justice can best be achieved with a national active membership who are invested in their organization and focused on building power for change! We spend the majority of our resources going door to door in low and moderate income bringing people together to fight for social and economic justice! We have members in every province across he country and have won several important victories including: Provincial Payday Lending legislation working in coalitions to raise the Minimum Wage in Ontario to $11/hour plus indexing to inflation and many tenant right victories. Other national and provincial campaigns: Remittance Justice, Digital Access to Opportunities, Healthy Homes and Disability and Social Assistance Rights. We are looking to reach low and moderate income families across the country. This video focuses on our door to door work.
ACORN Canada: Digital Divide
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) Canada is membership based national organization of low- and moderate-income families. We have over 70,000 members organized into twenty neighbourhood chapters in nine cities across Canada. We believe that social and economic justice can best be achieved with a national active membership who are invested in their organization and focused on building power for change! We spend the majority of our resources going door to door in low and moderate income bringing people together to fight for social and economic justice! We have members in every province across he country and have won several important victories including: Provincial Payday Lending legislation working in coalitions to raise the Minimum Wage in Ontario to $11/hour plus indexing to inflation and many tenant right victories. Other national and provincial campaigns: Remittance Justice, Digital Access to Opportunities, Healthy Homes and Disability and Social Assistance Rights. We are looking to reach low and moderate income families across the country. This video focuses on our national Digital Access to Opportunities Campaigns and why low and moderate income families across the country need to get involved.
OpenBroadcaster Inc.
Open Source Community Media Servers and broadcast consulting services.
Let's Talk TV Summary of Submissions Relevant to Community TV
This document summarizes submissions to phase III of the CRTC's "Let's Talk TV" consultation (CRTC 2014-190) from industry groups and stakeholders. It does not reflect comments by individual Canadians.
CACTUS Phase III Submission to "Let's Talk TV" (CRTC 2014-190)
This is CACTUS' written submission to Phase III of the CRTC's "Let's Talk TV" consultation (CRTC 2014-190).
National Zero Waste Council at Globe 2014
Waste generation – ranging from food to packaging and beyond – is one of Canada's leading economic and environmental challenges facing cities across the country. A Special Session at Globe 2014 offers a thought-provoking discussion on how businesses and governments in Canada, the UK and other countries are addressing concerns over waste, the difficulties in moving a waste prevention and circular economy agenda forward, and the many creative and bold opportunities on the horizon. Canada's National Zero Waste Council is a leadership initiative bringing together individuals and organizations in government, businesses, industry and the community sector who innovate, inspire, demonstrate best practices, or advance a waste prevention agenda in Canada by encouraging design and behavior change. March 28, 2014.
Meet Geoff Scott and TriCities TV
Submitted by Cathy Edwards on Mon, 2014-04-14 19:11.
Geoff Scott is the founder TriCities TV in Port Coquitlam, Port Moodie and Coquitlam, BC. TriCities produces content that airs on Shaw's Vancouver-area cable system. TriCities hopes to be carried by Telus in the near future as well.
A big project for TriCities this year was helping high school students tape 40 interviews with senior citizens recollecting how Coquitlam was in th 1930s through 1960s, as part of the city's "Oral History" project.
Some of TriCities supporters and partners include: The Coquitlam Foundation, Coqitlam Heritage Society, la Société francophone de Maillardville, The Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce, PoCo Heritage, Leigh Square Arts Village (PoCo art centre), the Port Moody Art Centre Society, the Port Moody Historical Society, the Minnekhada Park Association.
(Note from Cathy Edwards, CACTUS' Executive Director: My favorite community TV clip of all time was shot by Geoff Scott as part of a project working with Aboriginal children. In it, the kids are encouraged to write and tape video fantasies. In one scene, a diminutive grade 4 child says, "Let's get the grade 2s to be mice" and then there's a cut to even more diminutive grade 2s saying, "No way. We don't want to be mice. We want to be SuperHeroes" and you see these pint-sized would be SuperHeroes jumping off pic-nic tables with their superheroe capes fluttering in the breeze above them. It has somehow always captured for me the essence of community media in enabling self-representation.)
