[Wamvan] Harsha's brilliant interview on CBC

[Joanna Chiu]

Cool, thanks!

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Harsha W. <harsha at resist.ca> wrote:

> hey someone sent me the podcast version
> http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/bcearlyedition_20110928_20986.mp3
>
> > 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.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Frieda Werden, Series Producer
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> >>
> >> --
> >> Harsha Walia
> >>
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>
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Joanna Chiu

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