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Palentines Day Project
Stand!, a musical that tells the story of the Winnipeg General Strike, opens in theatres on Nov. 29.
After years of effort, the movie Stand!, a musical that tells the story of the Winnipeg General Strike, opens in theatres on Nov. 29.
Please share the attached message with your members and do all you can to help promote the movie on social media.
I would also encourage Locals to buy tickets and provide them to members free of charge, either to your whole membership or hold a free lottery for a limited number of tickets. Once tickets go on sale, around Nov. 1, I will provide you with a link to the Cineplex site.
Solidarity!
Martin
Martin O’Hanlon
President, CWA Canada
The Media Union
Dear Sisters & Brothers:
It is with much gratitude to the labour movement that I announce the Stand! movie musical Canada-wide release at the Cineplex theatres listed below – on Friday, Nov. 29th.
The movie, already called the “next Norma Rae”, is the result of a partnership between the labour movement in Canada and the United States, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, and the movie’s producers.
Tickets go on sale around Nov. 1. In order to maximize the impact of the movie, attendance at the first three days of the release – Friday, Nov. 29 to Sunday, Dec. 1 – is critical to being held over in theatres for a second or third week.
In the meantime, please consider sharing the movie now. The website www.stand-movie.com has a link to the trailer. You may also download the trailer or embed it online with this link: https://vimeo.com/363210881
Thank you in advance for helping to advance labour’s cause through the movie. It is an honour to bring this story to the world.
Sincerely,
Danny Schur
Composer/Producer/Co-writer
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A list of theatres where Stand! will be playing (more being added daily):
Silvercity Victoria
Galaxy Nanaimo International Village
Vancouver Silvercity Riverport / Vancouver Silvercity Mission
Scotiabank Theatre Edmonton
Scotiabank Theatre Chinook
Scotiabank Theatre Saskatoon
Galaxy Regina
Scotiabank Theatre Winnipeg / Cineplex McGillivray Winnipeg
Scotiabank Theatre Ottawa
CPX Hamilton Westmount London
CPX Vaughan Silvercity Windsor
CPX Oshawa
Galaxy Barrie
Galaxy Guelph
Yonge & Dundas, Toronto
Forum Montreal
CPX Laval
CPX St. Foy
Scotiabank Theatre Halifax
Mount Pearl – St. John’s NFLD
OTTAWA NEWSPAPER GUILD 70TH Anniversary 1949-2019
CJFE Gala Lottery November 2019
NRC NOTEBOOK
Delegates hear about fight for quality journalism, strong unions
Delegates from locals across the country gathered in Windsor last weekend for the annual meeting of the National Representative Council, the governing body of CWA Canada.
President Martin O’Hanlon said the overriding theme this year was that the media union would continue to fight for quality jobs, quality journalism and press freedom.
Chris Shelton, president of the international Communications Workers of America (CWA), told delegates they needed to heed what was happening in the United States, where the Trump administration is attacking labour unions and workers’ rights. He said CWA Canada members need to fight back before it’s too late.
“We can’t let politicians and corporations keep turning up the heat on our trade union movement,” said Shelton. “We must fight now, while in Canada we still represent 15 per cent of the private-sector workforce. We must expand our presence and not let our gains be rolled back.”
Bernie Lunzer, president of The NewsGuild-CWA, said they were focused on developing strategies for building on recent organizing success in newsrooms across North America and making the media union stronger.
By-election brings two changes to executive
There were changes made to the CWA Canada executive ranks as a result of a by-election that became necessary with the resignation earlier this year of the Secretary, John Rufh.
Mary-Ann Barr was acclaimed to the position and will serve out the remaining 12 months of the three-year term. Barr is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Media & Communications Workers of Alberta (Local 30400). The recently retired journalist worked for the Red Deer Advocate.
There were two candidates to replace Barr as a Member at Large on the executive. Willy Palov, president of the Halifax Typographical Union (Local 30130), emerged the winner of that election. A journalist as well, he works at the daily Chronicle Herald in Halifax, N.S.
Scholarship winners wrote about social justice, labour movement
Leeanne Lyons and Genya Kleiner penned essays that put them into the winners’ circle for this year’s $1,000 John Belcarz & Dan Zeidler Memorial Scholarships.
Both are related to members of the Canadian Media Guild (CWA Canada Local 30213).
Lyons, the spouse of Liam Britten, who works at CBC/Radio-Canada in Vancouver, will be attending Dalhousie University’s School of Social Work. She wrote about the need to achieve a more socially just nation.
Kleiner’s essay looks at similarities between current and historical working conditions to explain why the labour movement is still important to Canadians. She is the daughter of Alison Motluk, a member of the Canadian Media Guild’s Freelance branch.
Due to a large number of entries, the judges awarded Honourable Mentions for essays submitted by Ella McIlroy and Faith Powell. McIlroy is the daughter of Andrew Duffy, a journalist at The Ottawa Citizen and member of the Ottawa Newspaper Guild (Local 30205). Powell is the daughter of David Powell, who works in advertising at The Gazette and is a member of the Montreal Newspaper Guild (Local 30111).
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need to achieve a more socially just nation
https://cwacanada.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/1904_essay_lyons.pdf
labour movement is still important to Canadians
https://cwacanada.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/1904_essay_kleiner.pdf
CWA Canada Statement on Radio-Canada Court Ruling
Statement by CWA Canada President Martin O’Hanlon on a judge ordering Radio-Canada journalist Marie-Maude Denis to reveal her sources
“It’s frustrating that this sort of thing continues to happen, especially with the passage of federal legislation last year recognizing the right of journalists to protect their sources.
The media is not, nor should it ever be, an arm of the state. As journalists, we must fight any attempt by anyone, especially authorities, to interfere with freedom of the press.
It is vital for free speech and democracy that journalists guard the anonymity of their sources. If not, sources, including whistleblowers, will be far less likely to talk to journalists knowing that they could be identified and punished. The result? Canadians will be blocked from important information and stories about matters of vital public interest.
As a media union, we will speak out loudly to protect freedom of expression and the role of a free press as a pillar of democracy.
And we will support taking this case to the Supreme Court if necessary.”
2018 John Belcarz / Dan Zeidler post-secondary education/training memorial scholarships
Dear Local President,
I am pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the John Belcarz / Dan Zeidler post-secondary education/training memorial scholarships. Two scholarships of $1,000 each are available.
The accompanying attachments contain a poster and application form in English and French (also available on our website: http://www.cwa-scacanada.ca). Please circulate this information to your members.
In solidarity,
Martin O’Hanlon
President, CWA Canada
Downloads for print
Poster English Poster Français Application English Application Français