October 04, 2011
Raw Opium Canadian television premiere on TV Ontario Wednesday Oct 5
By
Katherine Dodds
Hot on the heels of InSite's victory - Raw Opium will have it's television premiere on TV Ontario October 5.
One of Raw Opium's characters Derek on the streets of Vancouver.
From the Raw Opium Blog: "A major story-thread in the film focuses on Derek, an IV drug user on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the InSite clinic which has been so central to his life. So we expect a major topic of the chat will relate to last week's Supreme Court decision ordering the Conservative Government to allow Insite to stay open."
Please Join Us!
Where: http://TVO.org/Rawopium
When: Oct. 5, 9 -10 PM EST
(Part 2: Oct. 12, 9 -10 PM EST)
Details on KensingtonTV's blog.
TVO and Kensington TV are hosting an online live chat during the broadcast with Special Guest Richard Elliott, Executive Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (pictured on the right).
Richard is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Centre for Human Rights and Drug Policy. He has authored numerous reports, papers and articles on a range of legal and human rights issues related to HIV/AIDS, appeared before legislative committees, taught or lectured at several law schools, and presented extensively on HIV-related human rights issues across the country and internationally.
Richard Elliott and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network defended Insite at the Supreme Court of Canada in May 2011, in the case in which the Conservative Government tried to shut Insite clinic down.
Raw Opium hopes the online discussion will come from a broad spectrum of opinion about harm reduction and drug policy reform - it's especially timely with the Conservative Crime Bill currently before the House.
Hello Cool World partnered with Kensington TV to promote the DOXA premiere of Raw Opium just before Insite went to court. Insite is a strong throughline in the documentary which takes an international look at the drug trade and harm reduction but begins on the streets of Vancouver and creates a compassionate portrait of Insite and the people who access its services. This is one of the reasons we felt the film would be such a strong tool in the international fight for harm reduction and drug policy reform. See our blog about our POV ad.
Please Join Us!
Where: http://TVO.org/Rawopium
When: Oct. 5, 9 -10 PM EST (Part 2: Oct. 12, 9 -10 PM EST)
Join Raw Opium's Twitter campaign!
Raw Opium is launching a Twitter conversation around #DrugPolicy. @RawOpium and @TVO are starting the conversation now. Just tweet us at @RawOpium and use the hashtag #drugpolicy to share relevant links.
@HelloCoolWorld will be participating and adding the hashtag #SMWhealth. Check out Michelle's wrap-up blog from our Social Media and Health Promotion mashup. We're still tweeting using #SMWhealth for all our health campaigns if you care to follow our conversation.
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Film Launch,
Harm Reduction,
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On October 06, 2011 at 11:04 AM Denise Cullen wrote:
How can we see this film and be a part of this discussion in the US. As you know we are fighting very hard for harm reduction and other drug policy changes here.
My son, Jeff died in August 2008 of an overdose after 12 years of fighting his addiction (and co-existing ADD). Our organizations Broken No More (advocacy) www.broken-no-more.org and GRASP Grief Recovery after a Substance Passing, are deep into the fight here and want to know as much as we can about what others are doing.
Thank you,
Denise Cullen
760-262-8612
On October 06, 2011 at 06:57 PM RECOVERED ADDICT wrote:
THE HARSH REALITY OF ADDICTION
NOT SO COOL IN THIS WORLD
http://www.archive.org/details/VancouverAddictionHomelessChaosPoverty
Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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