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Green Jobs, Not Pink Slips

Title: Green Jobs, Not Pink Slips The Green Work Alliance was formed around the closing of the Caterpillar Plant in Toronto to demand it be converted to green production. The Alliance involved environmentalists, unionists (namely from the CAW that represented plant workers) and artists. Creator: Carole Condé + Karl Beveridge Publisher: Green Work Alliance Date: 1992-93 Format: Poster

Conrad Black: Self-Expression

Title: Conrad Black: Self-Expression Cartoon for Now Magazine satirizing Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. and the concentration of media ownership in Canada. Creator: Mike Zaharuk Date: 1992 Format: Cartoon

Our Poverty is their Power

Title: Our Poverty is their Power A poster depicting the trap of welfare that keeps people in poverty and how it's used as a threat to the working poor. Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and Metro Labour Council . Creator: Carole Condé + Karl Beveridge Date: 1992 Format: Poster  

Shut Down Free Trade

Title: Shut Down Free Trade A billboard against the Free Trade Agreement of 1989 and the current NAFTA agreement being negotiated between the US, Mexico and Canada. Artcite (artist-run centre), Windsor. Creator: Carole Condé + Karl Beveridge Date: 1991 Format: Billboard  

Chief Warrior

Title: Chief Warrior Oka Crisis. Canadian army sent in to evict Mohawks from Oka golf course on Mohawk land. Montage of Prime Minister Mulroney. Creator: Mike Constable Date: 1990 Format: Poster

Dump the Deal 2

Title: Dump the Deal (2) 1990 Labour Day Partisan skit "Dump the deal" (Orenstein brothers beneath the masks). Creator: Jim Kempkes, Mike Constable Date: 1990 Format: Photo  

Dump the Deal 1

Title: Dump the Deal (1) Partisan Gallery skit for Labour Day Parade. The deal was the Canada-US Free Trade Deal. Creator: Artists: Jim Kempkes (heads) & Mike Constable (truck) Date: 1990 Format: Agit-Prop Puppets