W5 Campus Giveaway: A Rebuttal (Part 1/2) COMM 2230U

W5 Campus Giveaway: A Rebuttal (Part 1/2) COMM 2230U

The 1979 CTV W5 Chinese Canadian protest

This video is part of a rebuttal broadcast produced by the Chinese Canadian Council of Ontario during the W5 “Campus Giveaway” protests in 1979. It works to dismantle and rebuke claims targeting Chinese Canadian students as being inherently foreign, and that domestic students are having their seats in universities stolen by immigrant Chinese students. The clip here is an especially vital moment in Chinese and African Diasporic connection as it is showing how national Black and Chinese organizations were mutually supportive of each other during hardships. It specifically captures how the actions of the National Black Coalition of Canada, through its leader Wilson Head delivering a speech to protestors in Toronto, had a direct role to play in supporting the mobilization of Chinese Canadians in demanding a take-down of the CTV W5 program. In speaking with a group of protestors, encouraging their own fight against societal discrimination, the NBCC had a direct role then in the subsequent formation after the protests of the Chinese Canadian National Council and national Chinese diaspora activism.

Barry Cranstoun

The following clip (1:02-1:18) is from the following video:

Cranstoun, Barry, director. “W5 Campus Giveaway: A Rebuttal (Part 1/2) COMM 2230U.” Produced by the Council of Chinese Canadians In Ontario. Archived by Mike Fronte April 21, 2010. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS-PBKXJbhs.

The Council of Chinese Canadians in Ontario (original publisher)

1979

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