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Public outcry and concern about the present and future of the CBC is increasing. 

Please review the following links for more information, and to join in the public action.

and the CBC Orchestra -

Friday, April 11, 2008

9:00am - 1:30pm  (see specific times for each city below)

St. John's, Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, and more!

After the wonderful success of the recent protest at CBC Vancouver to protest the demise of the CBC Radio Orchestra, a protest in Montreal is being organized by musicians and Radio Two fans in solidarity this Friday. In order to give folks in other cities enough time to organize, OUR NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION DEMONSTRATION WILL TAKE PLACE NEXT FRIDAY, APRIL 11th (note the change, folks)

Can we expand this protest to every CBC installation across the country? Do you dare to take a portion of your lunch hour to travel to the CBC centre in YOUR community to call for an end to the cutting of classical music programming and infrastructure? Can we make it a rolling protest, that hits every time zone, one after the other (half an hour later in Newfoundland)?

If you are interested in participating in a short but noisy and cross-Canada demonstration, sign up to this event. If you would like to be a point-person for your community and a contact for others, message me and I will add your contact info to this page. It is necessary to capitalize on our momentum and notoriety as quickly as possible and a weeks warning should give us enough time to prepare and recruit.

Here are the addresses and times:

9am PST: Victoria: 1025 Pandora Avenue

9am PST: Vancouver: 775 Cambie Street
John Oliver, are you interested?

10am MST: Calgary: 1724 Westmount Blvd. NW
Contact - Andrew Nowry Andrewnowry at gmail.com

10am MST: Edmonton: 23 Edmonton City Centre,
10062-102nd Avenue
Contact - Scott Bursey

11am CST: Regina: 2440 Broad Street

11am CST: Winnipeg: 541 Portage Avenue

11am CST: Thunder Bay: 213 East Miles Street

12pm EST: Toronto: 250 Front Street West

12pm EST: Sudbury: 15 MacKenzie Street

12pm EST: Windsor:825 Riverside Drive West

12pm EST: Ottawa: 181 Queen Street, Ottawa
Meet at Sparks Street entrance

12pm EST: Montreal: 1400 Rene Levesque East
Contact-Alexandra Fol alexandra.fol at mail.mcgill.ca

1pm AST: Fredericton: 1160 Regent Street

1pm AST: Saint John: 560 Main Street

1pm AST: Moncton: 250 University Avenue

1pm AST: Halifax: 1601 South Park

1pm AST: Charlottetown: 430 University Avenue
Contact Kate Huston drummingdiva at hotmail.com

1:30pm NST: St John's: 25 Henry Street

Make sure to also Copy and paste the text of this event into an email and forward it to as many people as you can. Let's make sure we get this movement off Facebook and into the general public as well. over 100 people showed up in Vancouver. If we can get even 20 to show up at each CBC station we will have made a huge statement.


For inspiration check out the following group sites:

Save Classical Music at the CBC
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9009203294

Save the CBC Radio Orchestra
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10103441879

If you agree to show up to one of the protests, please sign the wall and tell us which city you live in so we can get an idea of numbers.

Thanks,
Canada!

The Canadian League of Composers/La Ligue canadienne des compositeurs
Chalmers House -- 20 St. Joseph St./20, rue St. Joseph , Toronto , ON M4Y 1J9
www.clc-lcc.ca   ~  [416] 964-1364  ~  Fax: [416] 961-7198  ~  info@clc-lcc.ca

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