The Ubyssey
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issued: 2016-06-07
issued: 1970-03-03
description: Misprinted volume, should be LII.
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note: Festival seeks to create awareness of oppression By GINNY GALT The Festival of the Oppressed starts Friday ut UBC. The. festival which coincides with Open House Week is being sponsored by the Arts Undergrad Society, The Mother Earth ^ribe and Industrial Workers of the World. IWW local 620 member Scott Lawrence said the intent of the festival is to create an awareness of the manifold oppression that faces all of us and particularly minority groups. "The average white student in iinaw.ne of the overt material oppression thai faces most of the world's popuku ion. .md this in itself is a manifestation •■>[ ili.u oppression," said Lawrence. The festival's sponsors are pii'senim}: it during Open House to take advjm.it'c of the large 'crowds coming to see ihv university. "We want to educate as large j [uit ot the population as possible to the fact that not only is the university doing iciy mile to alleviate local, national .md intemjiinnal nppiussion. but is an agent tor imperialist and iacist foiCi?s." LawrcMci' said. LawiL'iu'e said the people participating in the leNiual hope lo piovidc an ■ilu-rn.iuvc view (if ihe woild ami jn alternative lift- style which is shown m their poeiis , music and art. Tin* program stjrts F-nday at 10 a.m. (hi Sl'li pla/a with music, poetry, ,ind speakers fmni the Scilile chaptei of rhe Black Panthers. NjIiw Alliance tor Red Power. Women's Caucus, anil California (Iianc Workers. On Saturday the speakers will include i lie Unemployed CiiiamiN Council, Aineiican descneis. and Newspapei Guild representatives. A nchcs ot movies and slide shows will be shown in Sl'D 1251' beginning al 10 a.m. "We pot inn name from Karl Marx who said revolutions are the festivals of the oppressed," Lavucnce said. NEWSPAPER UNIONS DIG IN, COMPANY RIGID This weird drawing has probably got you wondering about the inadequacy of your own hallucinations - only kinks imagine themselves being gobbled by pianos. Now if you are intrigued by this work of art and would like t…
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spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
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language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : Alma Mater Society of the University of B.C.
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