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  • Trevor 3:19 on 8 December 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    2010 Olympics on cbcr3 

    Earlier today on Lana Gay’s CBC Radio 3 show, Lanarama, she asked listeners to send in their picks of indie rock songs to play at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia.

    I was disappointed to hear Radio 3 using the Olympics in such an uncritical way. So I wrote Lana a little post along with a song suggestion apropos to my post. Of the fifty or so posts on the blog, not one discussed the Olympics as such, so I didn’t expect much discussion to follow.

    I was delighted, however, to hear Lana read my letter on air! Yes, I did threaten to stop listening, and in the future I think I will change the channel if Radio 3 covers the Olympics in a similar manner. But today, I was a bit curious to see if she would respond. So, thanks Lana! I appreciate you giving me a voice on the air, and I respect your mixed feelings over the Olympics.

    I only realised when Shad’s ‘Compromise’ started to play that I had actually meant to request ‘Exile’. On the album, the two tracks run together so perfectly that it’s hard to separate the two. The former song’s chorus goes a little something like: “In this life, we just can’t compromise; In this fight, we can’t just compromise … there’s too many ways to compromise, so stand strong, we just can’t compromise.”

    But I actually like Exile better: “Though I empathize with ’em, and sympathize with ’em, I don’t enterprise with ’em, or synchronize with ’em, … we don’t want no ties with ’em … we won’t let ’em ostracize, we won’t compromise with ’em, we won’t victimize with ’em, commit genocide with ’em, spit their lies with ’em or objectify women…” and so on.

    Hey Lana,

    I love your show and cbcr3, so this is nothing against you guys. But it really upsets me to hear you guys basically just promoting the 2010 Olympics. I know that people are excited about sports and you know, I play hockey, I think winter is great for outdoors fun. But the Olympics is something completely different.

    It’s really just an excuse to develop new highways, new mega-projects, new condos. It’s an excuse to sweep disadvantaged people out of prime locations, and an excuse to crack down on civil iiberties. I lived in Beijing in 2007, and it happened exactly as I’m describing. From what I hear it’s happening in Vancouver too.

    With so many problems in Canada’s relationship with First Nations unresolved, I think it is fundamentally wrong to go ahead with the expropriation and mega-development of Whistler. It’s First Nations land and they need to be involved in the decision of how that land is used and respected.

    So it makes me sad, but I think I’ll have to stop listening to the show for today. And I won’t be able to listen to any future Olympics shindigs on Radio 3.

    But I will suggest a song, one of my favourites from an inspirational and thoughtful rabble rouser: Shad’s “Compromise”

    A la prochaine,

    Trevor

     

  • Trevor 16:36 on 23 October 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Power Shift   

    Power Shift Facebook Campaign 

    For Power Shift Canada ’09 I helped out on the Communications Team, headed up by Sofia Fortin. She was great, especially since she was very supportive of team members taking their own initiatives.

    Leading up to the conference, one of our hightest priorities was ensuring that we reached our goal of registering 1000 participants. To this end, I decided to focus on our Facebook fan page. We already had a website, but the fan page was being used simply to get news out about the conference. It seems to me that this isn’t where the strength of the platform lies, though.

    Over the past year, I’ve discovered that you can post news articles or website previews to my Wall. It’s actually really fun! When I read a great article, I want to share it with friends. With the functionality, I can show my friends what I’m reading, and they can start a discussion below the post.

    I figured that’s the sort of thing we want to be doing with PSC’s fan page. We want to post content that fans will then want to post to their own Wall. Or even to their friends’ Walls.

    So I first designed a print-ad style badge promoting PSC’s Via Rail discount. I figured that people excited about getting to Ottawa for Power Shift would be interested in posting this badge to their own and their friends’ Walls, to get word out about the affordability of travel to PSC.

    Unfortunately, we can’t track how many people share something off of your own Wall. But the promo got a postive response from participants I met. Anyway, in the final ten days before Power Shift, I designed a series of new badges promoting a different aspect of the Conference—from keynote speakers, to workshops, to events, to priniples. I had hoped to build a level of buzz across hundreds of Walls, potentially reaching thousands of people.

     

     

    • Jacalyn 14:07 on 19 May 2016 Permalink | Reply

      Grade A stuff. I’m unnqustioeably in your debt.

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  • Trevor 12:10 on 28 April 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Anti-Gentrification,   

    Chinatown Audio Tour 

    For the last several years, I have been leading semi-regular walking tours through the Montreal Chinatown. Depending on the group and my interests, it deals with themes of gentrification, immigration and labour discrimination, racism, and community-building.

    The original tour was designed and researched by a group of Chinese Canadian youth around 2003. They called it The Chinatown Project. Their work included interviews with community members, as well as building contacts with many Chinese organisations.

    I first ran the tour with my friend Zabrina Law, who is friends with one of the original members, James Yap. She has since left town, but I’ve continued adding new research to the tour document, and refining the presentation.

    I was most fortunate to have Josie Caro of CKUT Radio record my latest outing with a group of McGill students. David Koch and I later edited the audio into an ‘Audio Tour’ which was posted to the McGill Daily’s media blog. You can download the podcast, load it onto your portable audio player, and go for a guided stroll through this historic Montreal neighbourhood.

    Audio recorded by Josie Caro. Produced by David Koch and Trevor Chow Fraser.
    Download (27 MB :: roughly half an hour).

    Here’s a map to help guide your tour:

    View The Chinatown Project in a larger map

    Update: January 2013

    To help mark the release of « Être chinois au Québec », the documentary film starring my friends Parker Mah and Bethany Or, I’m digging into my archives and finally putting my notes for the Chinatown Project online. I can’t believe I didn’t do this earlier, but I’m excited to see if the spotlight Bethany and Parker shine on Chinatown can help bring the tour back to life.

    Chinatown Project 2.0 (2006–2010)

     

    • Hugh Grigg 11:26 on 23 December 2012 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks a lot for making this freely available online, really interesting stuff. I like these kinds of smaller-scale, local projects, and I think they’re perfectly suited to sharing on the Internet. I’m going to see if the Chinatowns near me have anything like this.

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