Weekend Video: Burnley “Rocky” Jones on breaking down barriers
Rocky Jones reflects on his many encounters with racism and how it affected him.
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Weekend Video: Building links among women. Grappling with Muskrat Falls in Labrador and Nova Scotia
This weekend’s documentary follows a group of women from Nova Scotia as they travel to the site of the new hydroelectric installation at Muskrat Falls in Labrador. With Labradorian women as their guides, the Nova Scotians come to understand the heavy toll this dam is taking on the local environment, economy, and social fabric.
Weekend video – Them that’s not: single mothers and the welfare system
Them That’s Not profiles single mothers on welfare all across Canada. The documentary was made twenty five years ago, but nothing has changed. Welfare is still punitive and degrading. Benefits are still insufficient. It still sucks to be on it. Solidarity and mutual support still go strong.
Weekend Video: Adsum House – I am here
“If I look back, I say wow, I am not the same person. I take pride in my job, I take pride in myself. I work hard, I work harder than I ever have for anything. It’s very overwhelming for sure. It’s a great feeling.”
A weekend video about the excellent work of Adsum for Women and Children.
Weekend video: Listening to our neighbours
Fast paced documentary on the impact of climate change on the people who live in Antigonish.
Weekend Video: Two great poems by Rebecca Thomas
Rebecca Thomas trying to get Halifax councillors to recognize their sense of entitlement and white supremacy. It’s an uphill battle.
Weekend Video: Delmore “Buddy”Daye
Just a very nice tribute by Melinda Daye to her father, the legendary Elmore “Buddy” Daye.
Weekend video: Nova Scotians united against austerity – a flashback to the 2015 budget
This weekend’s video is a flashback to the large 2015 anti-austerity protests in Nova Scotia. One thing about the McNeil government going after the film workers is that anti-austerity videos became really slick and professional.
Weekend Video: Day of Mourning – Kyle’s story.
“Everyone that goes to work should come home at the end of the day.” On March 13, 2008, an explosion and fire in an autobody shop burned Kyle Hickey all over his body. He died the next day. His family and friends remember him.
Weekend Video: 14 REAL stories, when you’re poor in Nova Scotia, you’re on your own
This excellent 2013 documentary by Kimberly Smith portrays 14 people in Kings County, in the Annappolis Valey, who struggle to make ends meet. Government as a support is mostly absent.