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Lower Mainland Budget Coalition rally against budget, B.C. Place

Year: 1983

Description: Lower Mainland Budget Coalition march and rally drew 35,000 people into downtown Vancouver streets in opposition to the Social Credit government's twenty-six pieces of legislation stripping away labour rights and cut social programs. Photograph shows Catholic priest and social justice advocate Father Jim Roberts speaking.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Operation Solidarity rally, Empire Stadium

Year: 1983

Description: Huge rally in Vancouver's Empire Stadium, the largest organized by Operation Solidarity, draws 50,000 people to protest the Social Credit government's budget and twenty-six pieces of legislation stripping away labour rights and cutting social programs. Photograph shows Clarke MacDonald, moderator of the United Church of Canada, speaking.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Sunshine Coast [Peace] Committee re-erecting NFZ [nuclear free zone] sign - Barry Morris, United Church minister

Year: 1984

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Vancouver Island labour council, B.C. Coalition of Unemployment jobs rally at legislature

Year: 1983

Description: ThePacific Tribunereports that some 2,000 participants marched through Victoria to the provincial legislature, joining about 60 trekkers, some of whom had walked all the way from Campbell River, in one of the largest jobless demonstrations in post-war BC. Demonstrations protested Social Credit government labour policies leading up to a provincial election on May 5. Father Jim Roberts at mike.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image