[Unemployment demonstration outside new Post office 349 West Georgia Street]
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- Mar. 14, 1958
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[Unemployment demonstration outside new Post office 349 West Georgia Street]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Unemployment demonstration outside new Post office - 349 West Georgia Street]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Statement of opposition to the G8 University Summit
Printed statement distributed during demonstration held Friday, May 21st, 2010, to protest the G8 University Summit held in Vancouver. "From May 20th to the 22nd Vancouver will be hosting the G8 University Summit ahead of the G8 and G20 meetings in Ontario this June. Like the G8 and G20 meetings the summit is an opportunity for closed door, unaccountable meetings to further economic and social agendas that promote exploitation, profit, environmental degradation and colonization of the world's resources . . . ."
[Chant sheet and legal advice for protesters]
Chant sheet and legal advice for protesters distributed during demonstration held Friday, May 21st, 2010, against the G8 University Summit held in Vancouver May 20th to 22nd, 2010.
Slam the gate on the G-8 chant sheet
Flyer listing chants and distributed in conjunction with demonstration opposing the G-8/G-20 Summits, June 26th, 2010.
You are cordially invited to lunch with Gordon Campbell
Promotional and informational flyer for demonstration held Tuesday, April 7, 2009, at Vancouver Convention Centre. "Inside: Bankers and Bosses, Tickets $125 . . . .Outside: Working People (employed and unemployed), youth and seniors, community activists and ordinary B.C. citizens, $1.25 hotdogs (pay if you can, free if your can't . . . ."
The people vs the City of Vancouver : DTES community trial date : Sunday April 19th 1 p.m.
Flyer for demonstration held Sunday, April 19th, 2009 at Pigeon Park, organized "with support" of: The Olympic Resistance Network, the Anti-Poverty Committee, SFPIRG, The Workless Party, and 2010 Watch. "Accused: The City of Vancouver; Charge: Social Cleansing; Dates of Offence: July 2003-Present. Synopsis: Since the Olympic Bid of 2003 the City of Vancouver has waged a violent war on the community of the DTES. . . ."
Flyer for demonstration held Sunday, April 26, 2009, at East 33rd and Quebec Street. "Why? . . . because housing is a human right . . . . If he can sell property that belongs to us, we figure we can sell property that belongs to him. . . . "
Promotional leaflet for events held Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at Unitarian Church, 949 West 49th Avenue, and at Clark Park and Grandview Park, Saturday, May 19, 2012.
Protect Musqueam's heritage site
"The site is recognized as a Canadian Heritage Site and contains priceless cultural materials and undisturbed intact burials of the Musqueam people. The land in now under development by Centrury Group and the property owners . . . ."
Tribute rally for Dr. George Tiller in Vancouver
Poster for event held Thursday, June 18, 2009, Grandview Park, Vancouver. "Please come out to honour the courageous and dedicated doctor who was assassinated on May 31 in Wichita Kansas."
Cross-Canada day of non-violent action for global peace and justice : walk and rally
Handbill for event held Saturday, November 17, 2001, at [Seaforth] Peace Flame Park.
Informational leaflet outling opposition to the 2010 winter Olympic games.
Stop Harper's war now! : real aid, not bombs!
Handbill for rally and roving protest held Saturday, May 29, 2010, at Vancouver Art Gallery, in opposition to war in Afghanistan.
Disrupt the torch relay kickoff! : resist 2010
"Ignite a flame of resistance against the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay. . . ."
"For the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games, some 12,500 cops and soldiers are to be deployed, in both Vancouver and Whistler, in what is described as the largest security operation in Canadian history. . . ."
"The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place on unceded indigenous land from February 12-28, 2010. Far from being simply about 'sport', the history of the Olympics is one rooted in displacement, corporate greed, fascism, repression, and violence. Those with the most to gain from the Olympics are the political and corporate elite - from real estate developers to private security corporations. . . ."
2010? It's about making a killing
"The 2010 Olympic Games in not about sports, it's about making a killing. Several official Olympic sponsors are the worst criminals colonization and capitalism has produced. All have directly supported and financed the theft of indigenous territory, social cleansing and ecological destruction. . . ." Brochure discusses Olympic sponsors McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemicals, General Electric, Birks, and EPCOR.
"The VPD are the physical arm of an ongoing war on the poor; a war of abuse and neglect typified by the police occupation of our communities. . . ."
"In February 2010, the Winter Olympics are set to take place in Vancouver, and Whistler, on traditional Coast Salish Territory. Though the Games themselves will merely be a two week party for the rich, and corporate spectacle for the majority, phenomenal damage has already been done. The effects on our communities, and the land have been devasting, and deserve a serious response. . . ."
StopWar statement on the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games
"The Olympic Charter states that the Olympic movement aims, 'to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of man, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity.' The StopWar.ca coalition in Vancouver, Canada considers that this noble ideal is contradicted by the reality of the Games which reveals a consistent, predictable and historical pattern of militarization and anti-democratic acts everywhere that they are hosted. . . ."
All-out assault on political freedoms : Olympic interests take over the city of Vancouver
"With little notice or public consultation, Vancouver City Council on July 23, 2009 passed a massive 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games By-law package that imposes changes on eleven existing bylaws in order to further restrict public activities. . . .Get Informed! Get Active Now! . . . ."
City Magazine : July 1978 : vol. 3 : no. 6
Includes article "Vancouver Waterfront tug-o-war" regarding the proposed Four Seasons Hotel development and the All Seasons Park people's protest of 1971.
Handbill for events held April 18th to 26th, 2014.
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Woodsquat : social housing now!
[Anti-war demonstration organized by the Coordinating Committee to end the war in Vietnam]
[Anti-war demonstration organized by the Coordinating Committee to end the war in Vietnam]
Photograph shows the demonstrators walking south across the Cambie Bridge
[Anti-war demonstration organized by the Coordinating Committee to end the war in Vietnam]
Photograph shows the demonstrators on the north side of the 1100 Block of West Broadway