VLF!
“Come to the Party in Stanley Park this coming Saturday and Sunday. “The Party is not just a free festival run by youth. It has been planned by the Vancouver Liberation Front and is an attempt to begin building a revolutionary youth society.
“The Party is an alternative to high cost rock festivals that exploit youth. Phil Ochs is coming. And groups such as Django, Tomorrow’s Eyes, Seeds of Time, Motherhood, Uncle Smug, Black Blues Band, United Empire Loyalists, High Flying Bird, Subterranean Fire, Floon, Strange Movies, and Stoney Plain have all agreed to play.
“The Party is also an attempt by youth to control themselves and their own culture. For this reason workshops on ecology, basic rights, organizing, woman’s liberation and survival skills are an important part of the Party.”
And so the Vancouver Liberation Front press release goes on.
The word got around Vancouver and surrounding districts about two weeks before the date the Party was scheduled. The power that was to fuel the whole thing was, basically, political energy. That energy has been building in Vancouver slowly for the past three years; dozens of different protest movements, each originally conceived as fixed projects, now starting to work together, to overlap, intermingle, now producing a single vanguard: the Vancouver Liberation Front.