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  • Collection: Rear-View Mirror: A Snapshot of Toronto Activist Art

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Poster for May Day 1981

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Canadian Artists Representation Toronto (CARO) had a postcard short at Harbourfront. The government was introducing neo-liberalism to the CBC, NFB, and Canada Council through the agency of a chopping block.

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Oka Crisis. Canadian army sent in to evict Mohawks from Oka golf course on Mohawk land. Montage of Prime Minister Mulroney.

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Show of Partisan puppets. Wearing the screw is editorial cartoonist Ted Jackman. He was fired by the Globe & Mail. He carved the puppet heads on Ontario Premier Bill Davis and Reagan (upper right).

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The KKK was organizing in Parkdale

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Men Are Funny from the Cartoon Series

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"Solidarity not Scapegoating" demonstration against federal Liberal government's regressive immigration reforms. Endorsed by a wide range of progressive organizations.

Toronto Coalition Against Racism

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A play about choice and women's sexuality by Gay Bell

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Poster for Independent Artists Union (IAU) symposium. The IAU was organized to obtain a living wage for artists. The argument, in part, was that artists were dependent contractors to government arts councils. (A model was the living grants system…
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