REQUEST MORE INFO
about this speaker
VIEW VIDEO EXCERPT
No Video Available
Email:
info@speakers.ca
Toronto Office
(Head Office):
416.345.1559 or
800.333.4453
Vancouver Office:
604.601.3444 or
866.351.3444
Calgary Office:
403.257.6611 or
888.575.3131
TOPICS
Canada and the US
Canada's Role in the World
Climate Change and the End of Oil
Cross-Generational Transfer: One Family’s Strategies for Seeking Social Change
A discussion between father and son, Stephen and Avi Lewis, on how tactics for achieving social change get passed down from generation to generation, and how Avi and his father have influenced each others’ view of this process. The members of the Lewis family have worked for a better, fairer world for four generations. Having fled Russia for Canada in 1921, Maishe Lewis, Avi's great-grandfather, had a passionate commitment to the pursuit of social justice - that passion fuelled the creation of a political dynasty. His son, David, was one of the key architects of the NDP. Stephen Lewis, who was leader of the Ontario NDP in the mid-1970s, is now the United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. Stephen’s son Avi, as the consummately modern left-leaning individual is the latest public face of a remarkable political family.Development
Education (Books/Reading)
Globalization
New Forms of Workplace Organization
War and Peacekeeping
AVI LEWIS
Gemini Award-Winning Broadcaster
As an award-winning documentary filmmaker and television journalist, Avi Lewis has become one of Canada’s most controversial and eloquent media personalities.
Lewis is the host of Al Jazeera English Television’s Fault Lines - a biweekly show that digs deeper into what is driving the big news stories of the day. In 2008, he was the host of Al Jazeera’s Inside USA, a weekly series examining the real issues at stake in the US presidential election.
Lewis is also a filmmaker—he directed the feature documentary, The Take, which follows Argentina’s new movement of worker-run businesses. An emotional story of hope and resistance in the global economy, The New York Times called it “a stirring, idealistic documentary”. In 2004, it was released theatrically in Canada, the U.S., and across Europe, premiering at the Venice Film Festival, and winning the International Jury prize at the American Film Institute festival in Los Angeles.
His previous television shows – On The Map with Avi Lewis, a daily half-hour of opinionated international news analysis and The Big Picture with Avi Lewis, combining hard-hitting documentaries and town hall debates – aired on CBC Newsworld, in 2006 and 2007.
In the late 90s, as the host and producer of counterSpin on CBC Newsworld, Lewis presided over more than 500 nationally televised debates in three years. In the early 1990s, he hosted City TV’s landmark music journalism show, The New Music. At the same time, he was MuchMusic’s Political Specialist, pioneering political “uncoverage” for a youth audience.
