1998 Founded as an offshoot of the People’s Community Union in 1998, Yellow Bike Action (YBA) is dedicated to breaking down social barriers and fighting for environmental justice [1]. This
Category: People’s History Project
1994 The Marriott-Queen’s Food Strike was a six-month long strike at Queen’s University, organized by Marriott food service workers in 1994. Marriott, after they purchased Saga Foods in 1986, was
1993 The People’s Parking Ticket Service In the summer of 1999, parking attendants in downtown Kingston were rendered incapable of doing their jobs by a few youths following them on
1985 August 9th, 1985, marked the 40th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings that claimed nearly two hundred thousand lives [1]. Kingstonians joined people all around the
2021 For over 10 days in June 2021, a sacred fire burned in City Park [1]. Ignited by the unearthing of the bodies of children at the sites of former
1989-1990 One of the most contentious Canadian environmental protests in the 1990s revolved around the expansion of the Red Squirrel Logging Road into the Temagami region, which was home
1991 In 1991, Kingston AIDS Project received funding to do HIV/AIDS prevention work among injection drug users [1]. Initially, their work focused on providing education and working with local prisoners
1993 prison violence and a mother’s fight for justice On October 24th, 1993, prisoners within the Kingston Penitentiary began to protest after having gone twenty-one hours without being fed [1].
1977 Kingston’s first public gay rights protest The King’s Lounge, which later became the Toucan, opened its doors on March 1st, 1977 [1]. Its former incarnation as the Grand was
1989 “R.O.F.F.’s Watching” In October 1989, a group of male students put several derogatory signs up on the windows of their dorms in Gordon Hall to mock the “No Means