This is a Poster, It Has a Right to be Here

THIS IS A POSTER IT HAS A RIGHT TO BE HERE/ Street posters serve Vancouverites by notifying them of: Public Meetings - Art Shows - Music Performances Photo Exhibits - Law Classes (People's) - Community Gatherings - Street Festivals -- Political Meetings - Concerts - Women's Meetings - Civil Rights Information - Education Classes - English Language Courses - Movies - Rummage Sales - Resource Centre Information - Environmental Issues - Sports Events - Dances - Daycare Information - Community Health Services - Workshops - Drop In Centres - Labour Activities - International Women's Day - Rape Relief Information - Harcourt for Mayor Posters - Puppet Shows - Summer Camping Information - Community TV - Benefit Dances - Craft Fairs - Bake Sales - School Events - Folk Festivals - Poetry Readings/ "Whatever the intent behind the poster by-law, the effect is to discriminate against the city's less affluent community and church groups, artists, and political organizations - anyone, in short, who can't afford a two minute spot on CBC television, a quarter-page ad in a daily newspaper, or a ,000 fine." Linda Hossie, Vancouver Sun City Hall reporter, June 26, 1980 (p.5)/ EDITORIAL IN THE VANCOUVER SUN, JUNE 26, 1980/ This poster is endorsed by the following groups: Ad Hoc Band - Artists for Freedom of Expression - Arts Club - B.C. Association for the Advancement of Colored People - B.C. Blackout - B.C. Monthly B.C. Survival Alliance - Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility - Carnegie Centre Advisory Committee - Carousel Theatre - Centre Culturel Columbien - City Stage - Coalition for a Non-Nuclear World - Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Chile - Dance in Canada (B.C. Region) - Deep Gossip - D.O.A. - Downtown Eastside Residents' Association - Green Thumb Players - Industrial Workers of the World Law Union of B.C. - Literary Storefront - Macleod's Books - Makara - Modern Dance Music Co-op - New Play Centre - Octopus Books Open Road Newsjournal Pacific Life Community - Pointed Sticks - Press Gang - Prisoners' Rights Group (P.R.G.) - Pulp Press - Rape Relief - Stage 33 - Street Beat Productions - Subhumans - Solitary Confinement Abolition Project - Tamahnous Theatre - The Warts - Theatre B.C. - Vancouver East Cultural Centre - Vancouver Folk Festival - Vancouver Industrial Writers Union - Vancouver Men Against Rape - Vancouver Society for Early Music - Vancouver Status of Women - Vancouver Women's Bookstore - Vancouver Women's Health Collective - Video Inn - Waterfront Theatre Westcoast Actors - Western Front Lodge -/ CITY OF VANCOUVER NOTICE [illegible]/ AD APPEARING IN THE VANCOUVER SUN, JUNE 21, 1980/ WHAT YOU CAN DO Call or write your alderman or City Hall. Get your community group or organization to endorse this poster. For copiers of this poster & more information call 681-7654./ CENSORED