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Doing It for Themselves: Striking Newsworkers Publish the Castlegar Citizen , 2000-2005

2006; Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Volume: 31; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.22230/cjc.2006v31n3a1770

1499-6642

Marc Edge,

Labor Movements and Unions

The Castlegar Citizen, a strike newspaper published in Castlegar, B.C., from 2000 until 2005, is presented as a case study of newsworkers publishing while involved in a labour dispute with their employer. Previous experiences in publishing strike newspapers in various countries are examined, with the elements essential to their success being identified as 1) a will on the part of newsworkers and their unions to oppose increasingly powerful ownership groups, and 2) the support of local community members, including advertisers. These conditions were seen to be present in the example of the Castlegar Citizen, and it was only its small size that led to its closing, when staff members began to leave for other endeavours.