Earlybird Specials

April 19 (Wednesday)

6-7 PM, COLLECTIVE PERSPECTIVES: Mayworks info

7-9 PM, DISCUSSION with former premier Glen Clark (7-8 PM) and Fred Caroll, Local 1-424, IWA (8-9 PM).

April 26 (Wednesday)

6-7 PM, COLLECTIVE PERSPECTIVES: Mayworks preview

7-8 PM, DISCUSSION: BCGEU, HEU as well as activists from several organizations are waging a struggle during this week to force the government to give more funding to home care.

8-9 PM, UNION MADE: interview with Mayworks crew

Mayworks 102.7FM Every Wednesday

May 3 (Wednesday)

6-7 PM, COLLECTIVE PERSPECTIVES: features "Here I Stand: Elder's Wisdom, Children's Song" [A Mayworks Children's Special]. A celebration of rural Alabama communities linking elder's memories of work with children's imagination and songwriting. Elder's stories are transformed into the children's songs we will hear on today's program. The songs are of Appalachian people who dug coal for little reward and faced the dangers of the mines; people in the fields of the Black Belt - ill paid and exploited; and they are about people doing the hard everyday work of home.

7-8 PM, DISCUSSION: 25 year Stelco Steelworkers Union activist and revolutionary worker, Rolf Gerstenberger, together with his fellow workers will talk about the struggle of the working class in the industrial heartland of Canada. Phone in 684-7561.

8-9 PM, UNION MADE: More Mayworks previewing.

May 10 (Wednesday)

6-7 PM, COLLECTIVE PERSPECTIVES: The Music Industry and Musicians/Artists as Workers.

6-6:30 PM: Hear direct from artists and festival directors about the effects of the corporate music industry on the lives of artists. Is there hope for a musician trying the ladder-climbing Music West/House of Blues music career? Talk about monopolies in the industry, uncaring agents, and breaking down some myths about earning a living through music. 6:30-7 PM: Working conditions for Vancouver artists, including poverty, health and safety, and ownership issues. Find out about "Safety & Health in Arts Production & Entertainment," and the newly-released BC government paper "The Labour of Art: Working Conditions and Environment for BC Artists."

7-8 PM, DISCUSSION: Nick Loen, political activist for reform of the electoral system in BC and Canada argues out his reasons for changing the first past the post electoral system. Are there possibilities for workers to nominate their own representatives to the legislature and parliament and be accountable to the workers for their stands there? How can such an arrangement be accomplished? Are there any advantages to the workers and people in general to proportional representation?

8-9 pm, UNION MADE: Labour's weekly power hour.

May 17 (Wednesday)

6-7 PM, COLLECTIVE PERSPECTIVES: A look at mass transit in the lower mainland on the eve of a fare increase on Translink buses and Skytrain. A lead up to the film, "Bus Riders Union," about the organization of bus passengers in Los Angeles, to be screened at Mayworks as well as the visit of Bus Rider Union organizers who will be doing a workshop on mass transit (see film + video and workshop calendar).

7-8 PM, DISCUSSION: Public Sector Workers in Education and Bill 7 (Back to Work Law). Leaders of CUPE (BC) join the show to talk about the "back to work" legislation (Bill 7) passed in an "emergency debate" in the Legislature on April 2nd. How does this draconian law affect other public sector workers? What do CUPE members and leadership think about what happened? Speakers to be confirmed. Join in DISCUSSION. Call 684-7561.

8-9 PM, Union Made: Labour's weekly power hour.

May 24 (Wednesday)

6-7 PM, COLLECTIVE PERSPECTIVES: Organizing the Hip Hop Generation: Rhyme and Resist. Learn about projects which use hip hop to inspire and empower urban youth to become political organizers. Plus we'll play some powerful tracks from hip hop artists from Canada, US, and France.

7-8 PM, DISCUSSION: is joined by Cathy Ferguson, President of the BC Nurses Union to talk about the effects of cut-backs to health care and the provincial government's response to them. Hear about the specific problems nurses face and what needs to be done to increase funding. How to stop the government from inciting competition between lower paid health care workers, mostly Filipino immigrants, and the nurses? Phone in! 684-7561.

8-9 PM, Union Made: Labour's weekly power hour.

May 31 (Wednesday)

6-7 PM, COLLECTIVE PERSPECTIVES: Cops, Clean-ups, and Class: Policing in Vancouver. In 1998, the City of Vancouver launched a "Downtown Eastside Revitalization Program." Two-years later, residents face daily abuses at the hands of a beefed up police force - 40 new cops were deployed at a cost of $7.2 million - and an army of private security guards out to socially cleanse the area to attract developers, businesses, and tourists. Guests include organizers from the Coalition Against Police Harassment and Brutality who will talk about the role of area merchants and Community Policing in the clean up. Learn about summer campaigns to fight police abuses and a new battle brewing against anti-panhandling bylaws.

7-8 PM, DISCUSSION: Since the beginnings of European colonization in BC, working people have been divided on a racist and national basis by capitalists intent on perpetuating their political and economic domination over the province. In the first of a series on the struggle to unite all working people, DISCUSSION talks with BC's Aboriginal leaders seeking to restore Aboriginal national rights, including the re-establishment of their rightful sovereignty. Guests include Bill Lightbown, Elder connected to the Haida and Kootenay nations and long time activist, together with other Aboriginal leaders from around BC.

8-9 PM, Union Made: Labour's weekly power hour.