[Wamvan] Harsha's brilliant interview on CBC

[Joanna Chiu]

Does anyone have a clip we can see?

Congrats Harsha!

Joanna

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Harsha W. <harsha at resist.ca> wrote:

> 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.
> >
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