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Item is a documentary film documenting a street demonstration in Vancouver in July 1981 protesting the screening of the sexually explicit feature film Caligula in a conventional movie house (not a pornographic establishment). The film includes footage of a crowd of several dozen adults and children carrying placards and picketing the Towne Cinema (919 Granville Street) where Caligula was being shown, a spokesperson for the organization United Citizens for Integrity explaining their reasons for protest, and a number of heated debates on the street between protestors and bystanders/theatre-goers. Film also includes some general views of Granville Street showing the Towne Cinema and nearby buildings.

Squat : solidarity : buy it or guard it : NPA your time is up! : homes not games

Flyer for demonstration held Sunday, October 22, 2006, at Pigeon Park, Hastings & Carrall. "Every night 1000's of poor people are forced to SQUAT in parks, alleys and abandoned buildings - anywhere hidden from the POLICE. One year ago the NPA were elected in Vancouver with the promise to purchase one building a year and convert it to social housing. We demand they do this IMMEDIATELY!. . . . "

Halloween bash at city hall

"On October 22nd the Anti-Poverty Committee occupied the former North Star Hotel in the Downtown Eastside to demand that the NPA fulfill their election promise of purchasing empty buildings and converting them into low-income housing. Join us this Hallowe'en as we take the struggle from the streets, alleys, and violent shelters up to City Hall and demand an immediate moratorium on SRA demolition."

Stand in solidarity with Six Nations!

Handbill for rally held Tuesday, April 25th, 2006, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

"This action being organized in solidarity with the Six Nations is intended to serve as a deterrence to prevent any further police escalation against the Six Nations. We stand in support of the demands of the clan mothers for an immediate cessation of all construction by Henco Industries on Six Nations territory and for resolution to the current standoff to be conducted on a nation-to-nation basis. . . . "

Iraq Today

"Hear political analysis and first hand reports of how ordinary Iraqis are coping with the devastation of deteriorating infrastructure and impact of violence on their lives--analysis and reports not being covered by mainstream media." Speakers Nermin al-Mufti, Paul William Robert, and Rana M. Mustafa.

Anti-Poverty Committee: what we do, what we're about and how to get involved

Informational pamphlet states "We are a democratic group with no leaders. We operate collectively and vote on all decisions. Because we have no political connections to any government or political parties we are able to act independantly...Our office is located at 327 Carrall Street beside the People's Pigeon Park...The Anti-Poverty Committee is an organization of poor and working people who fight for poor people, their rights, and an end to poverty by any means necessary..."

Homes Now!

Homes Now! event at Victory Square advertising handout states "Less talk, more squats! Becuse the government refuses to give housing we will take it! help open an empty building and defend it! Direct action and political confrontation has made the homelessness catastrophe into a political crisis. With a year to go until the next municipal elections, now is the time to force the city into making social housing!...2010 homes now, anti-vacancy by-law, no olympics on stolen land"

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