White Rock Social Justice Film Society

LINKS

  Thank you to our sponsors!
CiTR 101.9 FM: is a non-profit campus and community radio station located at the University of British Columbia with a mandate to provide alternative, progressive, informative and community-oriented programming. Podcasts and live streaming are available online at citr.ca. CiTR is proud to support the White Rock Social Justice Film Festival.


Council of Canadians: works to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public heath care and other issues of social and economic concern. One of the goals is to create a compelling civil society movement in search of social justice both here in Canada and internationally whose core mandate is the creation of participatory, living democracy for all the peoples of the world.
Surrey, Langley, White Rock Chapter


Public Service Alliance of Canada: is one of Canada’s largest unions and strives to enhance its members’ quality of life and has been at the front of a variety of significant and successful campaigns for the workplace and human rights.


Film Festivals

White Rock Arts Council Film Series
The White Rock Arts Council "presents an eclectic grouping that only can be described as featuring individual, circumstances and events which are beyond the mainstream of western cultural norms. They feature people in the forgotten past events of huge magnitude, they empathize and celebrate the triumph of the human spirit against the odds and spotlight the little known achievements of people in the margins of their societies. They are comedic and tragic, feature heroism and failure as well as tenacity and endurance."


CoDevelopment World Community Film Festival
The mandate of CoDevelopment Canada "is to gather Vancouver's diverse social justice community to a festival that allows for reflection, provides a forum for discussion and prompts participants to action. While the issues are often difficult, we feel it is important to provide tools and ideas for solutions. Our films show the courageous and hopeful actions of individuals and communities around the planet who are working to build a better world. They plant trees, create art, demonstrate, fundraise, and organize to change the injustices they see. We at CoDevelopment Canada hope that these stories give you hope and courage to help you make a difference in your life and community.”


Solidarity Links  (to other organizations and resources)

Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an organization of more than 2 million people in Canada and around the world who are united in the campaign for the human rights for all. Outraged by human rights abuses but inspired by hope for a better world - we work to improve human rights through campaigning and international solidarity.

BC Citizens for Public Power
BC Citizens for Public Power works to ensure that BC’s electricity system is publicly owned, regulated, and operated by and for the citizens of British Columbia through mobilization, education, and advocacy.

BC Health Coalition
The BC Health Coalition champions the protection and expansion of a universal public health care system. We are a democratic, inclusive and consensus-based network of individuals and organizations that span the province of British Columbia. We strive to encourage activism on health care, raise public awareness, develop constituencies around our campaigns, build unity through campaigns, and solicit participation in BC Health Coalition activities

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and environmental justice. By combining solid research with extensive public engagement, we work to enrich democratic dialogue and ensure Canadians know there are workable solutions to the issues we face. The CCPA offers analysis and policy ideas to the media, general public, social justice and labour organizations, academia and government.

Canadian Union of Public Employees
CUPE BC believes in building strong communities through investment in public services, through transparent and accountable government and by protecting those who are most vulnerable. CUPE BC represents 70,000 workers in municipalities, school boards, airlines, hospitals, nursing homes, libraries, colleges, universities, social service agencies, health care organizations, the ambulance service, public utilities, and other public institutions.

Council of Canadians
Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada’s largest citizens’ organization, with members and chapters across the country. We work to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.  One of our goals is to create a compelling civil society movement in search of social justice both here in Canada and internationally whose core mandate is the creation of participatory, living democracy for all the peoples of the world.

Polaris Institute
Our Water Progam aims to develop citizen capacities for education and action on water justice issues in communities. This includes issues like the privatization of water services, bulk water exports, water takings, water security and bottled water. We also seek to build connections through solidarity work with communities and workers all over the world to strengthen the global water justice movement and fortify our local struggles, while also working towards building social alternatives for water management.

rabble.ca
rabble.ca publishes journalism on a daily basis, primarily relating to social justice and progressive politics.

Sierra Club BC
Sierra Club BC envisions a world in which people live and prosper in a way that protects, restores and heals the natural systems of our planet. One of our greatest strengths, rooted in our 40-year history in B.C., is our ability to mobilize people in constructive action to protect ecosystems and wild spaces. Our grassroots base, science-based policies and pragmatism have helped to protect millions of hectares of B.C. wilderness.

The Tyee
Online weekly news and views from British Columbia featuring independent political and cultural analysis

War Resisters Support Campaign
Despite two majority votes of the Canadian parliament and clear support from the majority of the Canadian populace, the Harper Conservative government continues to deny safe haven to US war resisters who are refusing to serve in Iraq. The War Resisters Support Campaign needs your help.

White Rock Library
The White Rock Library is an exemplary member of the Fraser Valley Regional Library system. We at the White Rock Social Justice Film Society think of it as "the little library that could". Both the staff and facility of this small library have provided great support and great service to the community in ways too numerous to list. In short, we think they keep White Rock literate.