F4P ACTION UPDATE: A small victory in the big picture: Shaw TV to air "Our Way to Fight"

[Mary-Jo Nadeau]

Dear F4P,

 

Apologies for the e-mail traffic this week ... but I wanted to let everyone know

that Shaw TV has responded positively to all those who have written letter of complaint about

the initial decision not to air this show. 

 

Your letters were effective.  Shaw has reversed their decision, and will be screening the video this weekend. 

 

See memo below from Between the Lines, the book's publisher.

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paula Brill <pbr...@btlbooks.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Subject: A small victory in the big picture: Shaw TV to air "Our Way to Fight"
To: Paula Brill <pbr...@btlbooks.com>

Update on the Shaw TV ban:

The general manager of Shaw TV Vancouver called Pasific.ca yesterday to say that Shaw TV will be playing "Our Way To Fight" this coming weekend. Thanks to the many people who took action, including Independent Jewish Voices who issued a press release, and administrators at  listserves who circulated it, including Faculty for Palestine (F4P) and the New Profile list, which is based in Israel and goes out to more than 2000 international activists.

In Michael Riordon's words: "Shaw TV's foolishness generated more publicity for the book than the small publishers who put it out could ever have bought!  But that too was entirely due to the quick response of many good people in several countries.  Shukran, toda, thank you." The full blog posting is below and online, here.

Paula

New post on MyWayToFight Blog 81. A small victory in the big picture by mywaytofight This just arrived from Pasifik.ca, which produced the Our Way to Fight video that Shaw TV banned as "too unbalanced and controversial": "Hello friends and supporters of Pasifik.ca, The general manager of Shaw TV Vancouver just called us to say that Shaw TV will be playing "Our Way To Fight" this coming weekend. Many thanks for all the letters of support for justice and peace in this latest struggle between this Pasifik.ca program and the community channel management. Thanking you for your expression of solidarity, Linda for Pasifik.ca volunteers" I add my thanks to theirs.   I have no illusions about how small this victory was on the scale of things, nor how many more battles like this we'll have to fight. On the other hand, I have an doubts as to how crucial each of these small victories is in the big picture. Also, I have to say:  Shaw TV's foolishness generated more publicity for the book than the small publishers who put it out could ever have bought!  But that too was entirely due to the quick response of many good people in several countries.  Shukran, toda, thank you. This is what I call Our Way to Fight. mywaytofight | February 7, 2012 at 8:17 pm | Categories: Uncategorized | URL: http://wp.me/pS8kF-bY Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://mywaytofight.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/81-a-small-victory-in-the-big-picture/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com