October 05, 2011
Tonight! Livestream discussion with Richard Elliott, Executive Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
By
Katherine Dodds
Hot on the heels of InSite's victory - Part 1 of the documentary Raw Opium will have it's television premiere on TV Ontario October 5, followed by a livestream discussion and an ongoing Twitter converstation tagged #drugpolicy
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 right)
Richard is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Centre for Human Rights and Drug Policy. He 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.
He has authored numerous publications on a range of legal and human rights issues related to HIV/AIDS and presented extensively on HIV-related human rights issues across the country and internationally.
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.
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.
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 wil be participating and adding the hashtag #SMWhealth following our Social Media Week Vancouver mashup on social media and health promotion. Check out Michelle's wrap up blog. We're still tweeting using #SMWhealth for all our health campaigns if you care to follow our conversation.
Above - 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."
Tag(s):
Bevel Up,
Drug Policy ,
Harm Reduction,
Health/Health Advocacy,
health promotion
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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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