POSTER ARCHIVE (in progress!)

Welcome to the OPIRG York Poster Archive!

This is a collection of posters from the OPIRG York office. Many of them are from events and campaigns that OPIRG York staff and volunteers participated in —from as early as 1992! Some of the posters are from events that our neighbour and ally organizations organized, and that OPIRG endorsed or supported.

The poster on the right was likely OPIRG York’s first from 1992! The “Vote Yes!” campaign was successful in the spring of 1993, and OPIRG York was born with the support of the organizations listed.

 

Why this archive?

We present these posters here as an expression of the meaningful work that OPIRG York has organized and supported since our founding in 1993.

It is humbling and inspiring to look back at past struggles and desires—to see our work as multi-generational. It can be hard sometimes to not just jump from one project to the next; there is incredible urgency to so many social and environmental justice struggles.

Let us pause here. Let us reflect on the successes and losses, and feel the presence of our movement predeccesors.

 

Credits for the archive

Thank you to Ryan Hayes for creating the OPIRG Poster Archive in 2012. These posters were sitting in neglected binders in the OPIRG Toronto and OPIRG York offices until Ryan had the inspiration to make them digitally available! Big gratitudes to the past OPIRG York staff for carefully preserving these posters in folios. Thank you also to Daniel Vandervoort for scanning many of these beauties.

 

More on Ryan’s process and purpose for this project is available here.

 

WAR

On the anniversary of the War on Iraq: Resist Occupation! Confront Canadian Complicty!

2005

Students Against War and Racism (SAWR)

march and rally

 

Troops Out of Iraque: Let the War Resisters Stay

Troops Out of Iraque: Let the War Resisters Stay

2005

Toronto Coalition to Stop the War

march and rally

Take Down SNC

TAKE DOWN SNC, 2005

BECOME THE RESISTANCE INSIDE FORTRESS NORTH AMERICA

campaign

GRAIN

GRAIN

2005, Sept 21

Grassroots Anti-Imperialist Network

General Assembly

War Free School

War Free School

2008, Nov 7

Educators  for Peace and Justice and coalition

public forum

Stop the War

STOP THE WAR: Bring the Troops home from Afghanistan

2009, April 4

Toronto Coalition to Stop the War

rally and march

OPIRG Promotions

OPIRG York Newsletter Outreach

1998, March

OPIRG York

newsletter outreach

OPIRG York Open House

OPIRG York

new office celebration

NEW THEME

Spirit of Truth,

1995

Free Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

benefit concert

Women and the Earth Fair, 1995

Sponsored by OPIRG and the Ecofeminism Working Group

speakers, workshops, goddess making, cabaret