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Before the days of WiFi, YouTube, Podcasting & Live-Streaming, before social media, smart phones and AI – he hauled his DIY TV gear around the world.</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'>We are only now uncovering, archiving and logging his 600 hours of historical footage. And with every tape logged, we’re getting more excited, and more convinced that there’s a documentary inside these tapes.</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.25rem;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='color:#252525;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>With your help we’ll make the movie. Please </span></strong><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><a href="https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/succession/" target="_blank"><b><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>click here</span></b></a></span><strong><span style='color:#252525;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> to make a <i>tax-deductible, charitable</i> donation </span></strong><strong><span style='color:#252525;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;font-weight:normal'>(please specify in the message box: “Tooker Tapes”</span></strong><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'>).</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/succession/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue'><img border=0 width=263 height=252 style='width:2.7395in;height:2.625in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01DC7336.29F7B4C0"></span></span></a><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin:1.25rem;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px'><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'>Tooker’s Tapes connect the dots from civic politics to global social justice, climate change and war</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'>. His recordings span a large geography – Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Washington, New York, San Francisco, Kyoto, The Netherlands, Vietnam, China, and many points in between.</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> And include footage from his election campaigns, peace camps, anti-globalization protests, and bike/climate/enviro demos. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'>Dozens of well-known politicians, scientists, authors, academics, entertainers, advocates and activists feature throughout, as well as hundreds of everyday folk from around the world. We’re only one-third through logging the tapes, and already we’ve found interviews with <b>Bill McKibbon, Jack Layton, Amory Lovins, </b></span><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Weibo Ludwig, </span></b><b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'>and David Suzuki.</span></b><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'> Clips are being posted during the discovery process so you can follow along</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> the archiving process</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'> with us on the </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3IwhNn-WrINTQz2fBNayDoBWLW0y59le" target="_blank"><span style='color:#2A5DB0;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Tooker Tapes playlist</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'> on YouTube. This process allows you to help shape the documentary as a test/preview audience, so please subscribe and leave comments.</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.25rem;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'>I’m producing the project, but it’s being logged and archived by filmmaker and friend</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>,</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'> Kelly Green.</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.25rem;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'>All donors will get a screen credit on the documentary, and we’ll keep you in the loop on the development of the project.</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.25rem;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='color:#252525;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Please <a href="https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/succession/"><span style='font-weight:normal'>click here to make a charitable donation</span></a> to help us bring this Tooker Tapes Documentary to life!</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'> (You’ll immediately receive a receipt for tax purposes.)</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.25rem;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'>Thanks in advance for all contributions, large and small. </span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'>As Tooker used to say, “For the Earth…”</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'>-angela</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#888888'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;margin:1.25rem;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;text-align:start;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;word-spacing:0px'><strong><span style='color:#252525;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>P.S. When donating, </span><span style='color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>don’t forget to</span><span style='color:#252525;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'> specify in the message box: “Tooker Tapes”</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#252525'>.</span><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>