In Moscow, Gillespie reported on Russia's struggle to shed its Soviet past and become a European-style democracy. Central to these stories was Vladimir Putin and the Putin-inspired transformation of Russian - U.S. relations. Other stories chronicled Putin's less successful attempts to change the Russian bureaucracy's Soviet mind-set. Labour Activist and Film Maker Since leaving the CBC Gillespie has begun a new career as a labour activist. He is currently coordinating a campaign by a coalition of labour and public interest groups known as the Trade Justice Network, aimed at generating more media coverage of the possible negative consequences of Trans Pacific Partnership free trade pact now under negotiation. In 2013, Gillespie wrote, produced and narrated the influential short documentary "Made in the USA", which investigated the potential impact of Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak's policy proposal to introduce American style, anti-union right-to-work laws to Canada. Labour leaders in Ontario have credited the film for playing a significant role in convincing Mr. Hudak to suddenly reverse himself and drop the policy. As a result of the film Mr. Gillespie was awarded the 2013 Min Sook Lee Award for Labour Activists by the Mayworks Festival. In May 2014, "Made in the USA" was screened at the Workers Unite! film festival in New York. Gillespie followed "Made in the USA" with a sequel released in May 2014, called "Hudak's Plan B", an exploration of how Wisconsin governor Scott Walker neutered the state's public sector unions without a right-to-work law. In June, 2014 Gillespie followed with Epic Fail: A Short History of Privatization in Ontario documenting 20 years of failed government privatizations from the deadly Walkerton Water catastrophe to the contracting out of snow clearing and hospital construction to private companies. Gillespie was also a consulting producer and writer on the documentary Change Your Name Ousama!, which explored how 9/11 impacted Canadian Muslims. Author Gillespie is the author of a book entitled, A Class Act: An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador. Gillespie is currently working on new edition of "A Class Act". The new release will coincide with the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour's 80th anniversary in 2016. Awards Gillespie has won several awards over the course of his career. Among them, the New York Festivals Award, an Amnesty International Award and a National Science Award. In 2011, Gillespie and colleagues were nominated for the Canadian Association of