Special: B.C. Human Rights Rally
Duration: 31:16
Airing date: 25 July 1983
Accession: GV-091
A July 23, 1983 rally organized by The BC Human Rights Coalition, a non-profit community-based organization promoting human rights throughout BC and Canada, in response to the recently elected Social Credit government of BC dismantling of Human Rights and other legislation. 200,000 people joined the march to the rally under Georgia Viaducts in downtown Vancouver. Rally speakers:
00:18-01:57 Footage of march. “B.C. Life” song, written and performed by Bruce Wozney
01:58–06:47 Mayor Michael Harcourt
06:48-09:33 Hanna Jensen, ex-Executive director of the Human Rights Branch
09:34-13:01 Charan Gill, B.C. Organization To Fight Racism
13:02-20:20 Frances Wasserlien, Women Against the Budget
20:21-22:26 Kim Zander, Co-Ordinator, Unemployed Action Centre
22:27-24:12 Jill Weiss, B.C. Coalition of the Disabled
24:13-26:44 Jack Munro, President, International Woodworkers of America
26:45-30:12 Father Jim Roberts, Professor, Langara College
30:00-31:16 Credits
More info on Operation Solidarity and the political coalition opposing the Social Credit government.