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Rally of 80,000 at Sunset Beach after Walk for Peace
Year: 1983
Description: Photograph shows three people dressed up in costumes, one of which is of Ronald Reagan.
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Rally of 80,000 at Sunset Beach after Walk for Peace
Year: 1983
Description: Photograph shows three people dressed up in costumes, one of which is of Ronald Reagan.
Type: Still Image
CFU [Canadian Farmworkers Union] protest over denial of WCB [Workers' Compensation Board] regulations to farm workers, Richmond WCB office
Year: 1983
Description: Demonstration by farmworkers and trade union supporters against excluding agricultural workers from the protections of labour legislation, long sought by the Canadian Farmworkers Union. In announcing changes to the Labour Code, the Social Credit government also sought to limit rights of workers in general in new Labour Code provisions. This was the result of lobbying by employer groups, including the Employers Council of BC, which had moved to the right in its normally acceptance attitude to…
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Michelle Hill, ELP at anti-free trade rally
Year: 1987
Description: Coalition Against Free Trade activists demonstrate outside parliamentary committee hearings into the proposed free trade agreement. Most of the organizations at the rally had already been barred from making presentations to the committee. Photograph shows rally MC Michelle Hill with a fortune wheel game in which the" U.S. always wins and Canadians always lose."
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May Day march, rally Grandview Park
Year: 1989
Description: May Day rally & parade, Vancouver 1989. Speakers hit free trade as promoted by the government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Several speakers from Latin America talked of liberation struggles there.
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Rally at VIA [Rail] station re: VIA cuts on last transcontinental run (see Jan 22/90 Trib)
Year: 1990
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Anti-free-trade demonstration in Seattle
Year: 1991
Description: Photograph shows several people in costumes, one of which is of Brian Mulroney.
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