Solidarity: The Largest Political Protest in British Columbia's History Solidarity: The Largest Political Protest in British Columbia’s History BC Labour Heritage Centre
Narrator [00:00:00] Solidarity brought a different message to the convention. [00:00:05] Outside in the streets, British Columbians continued to affirm their opposition to the Government’s intention to […]
Cliff Andstein (Chief Negotiator, BC Government Employees Union) [00:00:01] It was clear by August. The government was not responding to mass demonstrations of size and intensity that hadn’t […]
Ken Novakowski (Bargaining Staff, BC Teachers’ Federation) [00:00:01] At this particular summer conference, because of what was happening, the focus was on all the cutbacks to education and […]
Lorri Rudland (Women Against the Budget) [00:00:01] Well, Women Against the Budget announced this event. The stone soup event was going to be held at the home of […]
Narrator [00:00:00] Solidarity called for a mass rally. The turnout was staggering. 50000 people came and in common cause, paraded, sang and spoke for the rights of all. […]
Pam Moodie (community activist) [00:00:00] Well I had been, had been going to all of the meetings along the way and I knew that it was a fairly […]
Jackie Larkin (Women Against the Budget) [00:00:01] There’s no other example in B.C. history, and you’d be having to go back a few decades, quite a few decades […]
Stuart Alcock (Representative for Gay Men, Solidarity Coalition) [00:00:00] Well of course, the Coalition was chaired by Art Kube, and Renate, and Father Jim Roberts, who I saw […]
Mervyn Van Steinburg (Unemployment Action Centre coordinator) [00:00:00] With the whole kind of Operation Solidarity and Solidarity Coalition stuff outside of the Lower Mainland, as I’d said, there […]
Rod Mickleburgh (Labour Reporter) [00:00:00] I also covered the big rally in Victoria. Ken Novakowski [00:00:04] On July 26. Rod Mickleburgh [00:00:05] Yes. And you know, […]
Gary Steeves (BC Government Employees Union staff) [00:00:00] It was middle, mid-July… Was like a week, 10 days later. On July the 8th, in this massive assault Grace […]
Larry Kuehn (President, BC Teachers’ Federation) [00:00:00] Operation Solidarity was a strictly a coalition of the B.C. Fed and every other union, including the, the CCU, the Canadian […]
