October 17, 2011
From PeacockPoverty:
PeacockPoverty is a collection of individuals with an experience of poverty who join together to share knowledge, strength, talent and wisdom with each other and our friends....
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Human Rights, Media, Organizing, Poverty Research, Unemployment, Welfare, General resources, Multimedia, All of Canada, International
June 13, 2011
The Income Security Advocacy Centre is hosting video recordings of a symposium held by ISAC and the Social Assistance Action Committee in March 2011 on how the Social Assistance Review commission...
Keywords: Disability, isac, ontario works, social assistance review, Unemployment, Welfare, Ontario, Multimedia, Reports and documents
June 1, 2011
I WAS HERE is a media workshop that puts digital cameras and photoblogging websites into the hands of young parents. Five women, all pregnant or parenting, have been documenting their lives in...
Keywords: Art and Culture, Blogs, Media, Technology, Women, Ontario, Multimedia
June 1, 2011
Poor No More is a new documentary that will take poor Canadians on a journey to see first-hand what is being done here and in other countries to reduce and eliminate poverty. The film and the website...
Keywords: Art and Culture, Media, General resources, Multimedia, All of Canada, International
May 30, 2011
The Other Side is a radio show out of Hamiliton, Ontario which highlights poverty and social justice issues. You can listen to the show online on 93.3 CFMU-FM.
Keywords: Media, General resources, Ontario, Multimedia
May 9, 2011
MOSAIC's Debt and Consumer Law project has a media campaign for immigrant and newcomer communities on several topics related to debts and consumer protection. The project has prepared a video in...
Keywords: Arabic, Cantonese, consumer protection, debt, Debt and Consumer Law, Immigrants and Refugees, Korean, Mandarin, newcomers, Persian, Punjabi, Spanish, Vietnamese, Multimedia
March 30, 2011
UNHEARD VOICES was filmed, edited and produced by Mike Yam, and co-produced by Cathy Crowe and Beric German from the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. It is a film that follows the footsteps and...
Keywords: film, homeless people, Homelessness, stories, street, Ontario, Multimedia
March 11, 2011
CLEONet is partnering with community organizations to deliver workshops about legal issues online. These webinars are aimed at community workers and advocates who work with low-income and...
Keywords: community workers, community workers, Legal Info (PLEI), public legal education, public legal education, webinar, webinar, Manuals and guides, Ontario, Multimedia, Programs and courses, All of Canada
February 14, 2011
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released their first documentary film. The Remaining Light journeys through an often invisible part of Canada's health care system -- the community-...
Keywords: Health, senior care, Seniors and Elders, British Columbia, Multimedia
February 14, 2011
"Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside" is a short film that documents the 20 year history of the annual women's memorial march for missing and murdered women in...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Downtown Eastside, missing women, Women, women's march, British Columbia, Multimedia
January 7, 2011
MEDIA INDIGENA is an interactive, multimedia magazine dedicated to Indigenous news, views and creative expression.
From the battlefield of politics and policy to the beauty of arts and culture, we...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, indigenous, Technology, Multimedia, All of Canada
December 17, 2010
A slideshow about welfare and poverty in British Columbia by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). Features interviews with welfare recipients and advocates. Narrated by Seth Klein,...
Keywords: Poverty Research, slideshow, video, Welfare, British Columbia, Multimedia
October 1, 2010
BCCPD has a YouTube channel with a number of helpful videos, including a series on Registered Disability Savings Plans (RDSP), a long term savings plan for people with disabilities.
Keywords: Disability, people with disabilities, RDSP, British Columbia, Manuals and guides, Multimedia
August 13, 2010
W2 is a community media arts centre that is trying to provide a framework for artists, residents and community groups to work together, while exploring new cross-cultural and hybrid art forms.
Keywords: Art and Culture, British Columbia, Multimedia, Organizations
June 29, 2010
A broadcast of stories from survivors which was shared at the National Truth and Reconciliation event in Winnipeg.
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Multimedia, All of Canada
April 29, 2010
Rebecca Cuttler interviews Pivot lawyer Doug King about the new provincial legislation banning social assistance for people who have outstanding warrants for their arrest.
Keywords: podcast, social assistance, warrants, Welfare, British Columbia, Multimedia
April 29, 2010
Redeye is a 3-hour radio program broadcast live every Saturday morning on Vancouver Cooperative Radio, CFRO 102.7FM. It is produced by an independent media collective at the studios of Coop Radio in...
Keywords: Media, podcast, British Columbia, Multimedia
April 20, 2010
The Media Co-op is a network of member-supported, local, democratic news organizations across Canada. The Media Co-op publishes the Dominion.
Keywords: independant media, Media, news, Nova Scotia, Multimedia
February 11, 2010
The Media Co-op is a coast-to-coast network of local Media Cooperatives dedicated to providing grassroots, democratic coverage. Keep up to date on what is happening on the streets of Vancouver.
Keywords: independent media, Media, British Columbia, Multimedia
December 16, 2009
Toronto Youth Street Stories (TYSS) grew out of the Youth Pathways Project (YPP) conducted by researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the University of Toronto. A team of...
Keywords: art, Art and Culture, Children and Youth, Homelessness, stories, street-involved youth, Ontario, Multimedia, Reports and documents
December 16, 2009
The Bay Area-based welfareQueens, a project of the POOR News Network, are fighting back against a system that dehumanizes poor mothers—with poetry, theater, and any other media tool they can access.
Keywords: Art and Culture, Welfare, Women, Multimedia, United States
December 16, 2009
The Poor News Network out of the US has a YouTube channel with videos about poor workers, indigenous people and more.
Keywords: Art and Culture, Multimedia, United States
December 15, 2009
This is a report on 23 community mapping sessions that the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) held with about 200 low-income residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) neighbourhood (See...
Keywords: Carnegie Community Centre, community mapping, Downtown Eastside, British Columbia, Multimedia, Reports and documents
November 20, 2009
A song and music video entitled From Stilettos to Moccasins was developed from the findings of a research project that examined the role of identity and stigma in Aboriginal women's healing from...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, aboriginal women, addictions, Art and Culture, drug use, Health, song, video, Women, Multimedia, All of Canada
November 18, 2009
Murray Siple's excellent feature-length documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts down the steep hills of North...
Keywords: binners, Disability, film, Homelessness, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Multimedia
October 27, 2009
This map uses US census data to map out poverty, child poverty, and violence by state.
Keywords: poverty map, Poverty Research, Multimedia, United States
October 19, 2009
A video blog that allows homeless people to tell their stories and what it is like to try and survive without a home.
Keywords: Homelessness, Multimedia, United States
October 16, 2009
ColorLines is an online magazine focusing on racism and how issues such as poverty, government policy, homelessness, the economy affect people of colour.
Keywords: Blogs, Ethnicity and Race, Media, Poverty Research, Multimedia, United States
