[Wamvan] Harsha's brilliant interview on CBC

[Harsha W.]

thanks frieda. much more eloquent summary than i think i actually pulled off

> Heard Harsha interviewed by Rick Cluff on CBC about 8:15 this morning.
> She
> was great!  In a very few minutes, she cut through all the BS about the
> missing women inquiry. Basically, what I got from it: 1) the inquiry has
> turned into police lawyering up and protecting their own butts - this has
> made it into an adversarial process, 2) there are women living on the DTES
> still today who knew what happened on the Pickton farm and the police
> didn't
> want to hear it then and apparently don't want it to come out now, 3) the
> inquiry was structured to be adversarial - if the police didn't have
> lawyers, the women who could testify wouldn't be requiring lawyers either
> -
> as it is, the police lawyers would eat these vulnerable witnesses alive,
> 4)
> these women who have real information about what happened on the ground
> need
> to be treated as part of the category of "victims and their families" who
> are being provided legal counsel by the province, 5) what kind of
> protection
> will the women have afterwards if they testify?, 6) the women and their
> organizations are the ones who've been working for decades to get this
> inquiry - they are the most committed of all to having it, and the fact
> that
> they are being marginalized and can't safely testify is destroying the
> potential of the inquiry.  Cluff dragged out everything the government and
> the other press have been saying and she demolished it.
>
> --
> Frieda Werden, Series Producer
> WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service www.wings.org
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