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Brutality alleged by DTES residents

July 12, 2011
| Pivot Legal Society has launched a Human Rights Complaint and civil suits on behalf of three men who allege they were beaten up by private security guards who patrol Vancouver's Harbour Centre mall.

7:16 minutes (6.66 MB)
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HIV, Law and Human Rights

June 22, 2011
| Vancouver lawyer Elin Sigurdson talks to Pivot's Laura Drake about attending the third annual Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Symposium on HIV, Law and Human Rights.

11:30 minutes (10.53 MB)
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Ontario Court of Appeal hears from Pivot lawyer on sex work laws

June 18, 2011
| Pivot's Litigation Director Katrina Pacey talks to Laura Drake about arguing before the Ontario Court of Appeal that Canada's criminal laws needlessly endanger Vancouver's street-level sex workers.

9:00 minutes (8.25 MB)
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#29 - RCMP secretly funded anti-Insite research

October 8, 2008
| Pivot Legal Society Police spokesperson Doug King is interviewed by Nancy Macdonald about the RCMP secretly funding anti-Insite research

6:34 minutes (6.02 MB)
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#28 - Jane Doe Legal Clinic launched in Vancouver

October 2, 2008
| #28 - Jane Doe Legal Clinic launched in Vancouver. Rebecca Cuttler talks to Darcie Bennett from Pivot about the new legal clinic for women who have experienced violence.

14:49 minutes (13.57 MB)
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#27 New homelessness complaint sent to UN by Pivot

September 11, 2008
| #27 New homelessness complaint sent to UN by Pivot. Erin Millar talks to Pivot lawyer Laura Track about the new report and also about the new community court in Vancouver.

22:04 minutes (20.21 MB)
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#26 The Blackbird - a Downtown Eastside photographer

September 2, 2008
| Jay Black is The Blackbird, a photographer who is documenting the rapid change taking place in Canada's poorest postal code

23:01 minutes (21.07 MB)
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#25 - Pivot to sue police until civilian oversight initiated

July 31, 2008
| #25 - How to Sue the Police. Nancy Macdonald talks to Doug King, Pivot policing campaigner about the boycott of the Police Complaints Authority by Pivot and B.C. Civil Liberties Association

19:41 minutes (18.02 MB)
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#24 - Safer crack-use kits: the trial ends, how did it go?

July 24, 2008
| SCORE have produced a report on their trial handing out of safer crack kits to Vancouver addicts. We talk to nurse Jodie Loadfoot.

21:42 minutes (19.88 MB)
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#23 - Pivot lawyer David Eby aims for City Hall

July 17, 2008
| Pivot lawyer David Eby aims for City Hall - we talk to him about what this will mean for Pivot. We also have extensive coverage of this in Pivot Issues in the News

10:53 minutes (9.97 MB)
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