35 years after Operation Solidarity, advocates say they're still fighting 'racism, sexism, greed, warmongers'

Thirty-five years ago today, as many as 50,000 people from anti-poverty advocates to punks took to Vancouver’s streets for the Operation Solidarity demonstrations in response to massive cuts by B.C.’s Social Credit government.

Joe Keithley of punk rock band D.O.A., who wrote General Strike to support the movement, was part of the opposition to austerity.

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“There was a feeling that we could change society and make something better and help people,” he told Stephen Quinn, host of CBC’s The Early