Mainstream media mum on broad coalition’s planned protest
The Coalition for a Better B.C. rally scheduled for noon this Saturday outside the Vancouver Art Gallery may be the biggest political event you never heard of, if you rely on the province’s mainstream media.
Over thirty arts, labour, feminist, ecological and community groups have endorsed the gathering and it will be hosted by legendary Canadian blues singer Jim Byrnes, but a Google search of local and national news outlets reveals not a single story about the upcoming event.
In contrast, a search for news items about Bill Vander Zalm’s campaign against the HST produced 90 hits on the same search engine.
The Saturday rally is being organized by groups as disparate as the BC Federation of Labour, the Sierra Club, the Alliance for Arts and Culture, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs and Vancouver Rape Relief around this theme: “When government singles out groups of individuals — by cutting services they depend on, raising fees inequitably, and unfairly shifting taxes — it diminishes all of us. It doesn’t bring us together. It divides us. The aim of this coalition is to bring us together to Build a Better BC.”
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