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Updates
First Production Email!
February 5th, 2012Late last week, I received the first email of the production process from the publisher. This is definitely an exciting thing, even if it is still fai[...]
Interview Excerpt #1 from Rev. David Murata
January 29th, 2012The following is an excerpt from the interview I did in Winnipeg with United Church minister Rev. David Nobu-tsune Murata. In this snippet, he relates[...]
Rev. David Nobu-tsune Murata
January 29th, 2012Reverend David Murata was born in Japan in the late 1950s and moved to the downtown eastside of Vancouver with his family in 1968, where "the blunt he[...]
Active Remembering and Community History
January 22nd, 2012Title: Active Remembering and Community History Date: Saturday, February 25, 2012. Time: 10:00 to 11:45 am Location: Founders College Assembl[...]
Don Weitz on His Experience of Psychiatric Incarceration
January 15th, 2012This six minute audio clip features anti-psychiatry activist Don Weitz talking about his brutal experiences of psychiatric incarceration in an asylum [...]
Category Archives: Participant Bio
Rev. David Nobu-tsune Murata
Reverend David Murata was born in Japan in the late 1950s and moved to the downtown eastside of Vancouver with his family in 1968, where “the blunt head of racism” was his first push towards politicization. He followed in the … Continue reading
Don Weitz
Don Weitz was born into a wealthy white Jewish family in 1930. He grew up in the northeastern United States. As a young man, his family had him incarcerated in an asylum for fifteen months, where we was tagged with … Continue reading
Ariel Harper
Ariel Harper was born in Maryland in 1955 to a librarian activist mother, and has lived for much of her adult life in Quebec and Nova Scotia. As a folk singer and an artist, she has been heavily involved in … Continue reading
Elsie Dean
Elsie Dean was born in 1924 into a poor white family in northern Saskatchewan, where she lived on a subsistence farm with her parents and seven siblings. Her mother was staunchly political and fought without shame for relief payments for … Continue reading
Doreen Spence
Doreen Spence, a woman of the Cree nation, was born in 1937 in northern Alberta, near the Good Fish Lake Reserve. Raised primarily by her grandparents, she moved to Calgary at eighteen after winning a scholarship to attend a small … Continue reading
Madeleine Parent
Madeleine Parent was born into a white middle-class francophone family in Montreal in 1918. She became active in Canada’s first student movement in a struggle for bursaries at McGill University in the years before the Second World War. During the … Continue reading
William Paterson
William Paterson was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta, in 1926, but spent most of the first 20 years of his life in London, England. He moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1949. He has been a trade unionist since the age … Continue reading