Raise a Ruckus for Radio Two on April 11

In the last few weeks, the classical music community in Canada has suddenly became an extremely organized social-media-driven vehicle for political action. Who ever would have thought this was possible a few months ago?

The movement to save classical music at the CBC keeps on gathering momentum. Friday, April 11 has been set as an official day of protests outside CBC facilities across Canada. Here is a press release from Oscillations.Ca, with start times and locations for the planned demonstrations in Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Sudbury, Toronto, Windsor, Ottawa, Montreal, Fredericton, St. John, Moncton, Halifax, Charlottetown, and St. John's:

"Raise a Ruckus for Radio Two!"

Tagline: A National Day of Action to save Radio 2 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)?

Here are the addresses and times:

9am PST: Victoria: 1025 Pandora Avenue

9am PST: Vancouver: 775 Cambie Street

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

Contact Peter McGillivray radio2 [at] petermcgillivray.com (though I will

probably be in Edmonton - could somebody else take over Toronto?)

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

Contact:

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 past 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

More information is available via the Facebook event listing for these demonstrations. I have been added as an admin for the group, so if there are any updates regarding these gatherings email me and I can add the info.