The Fallout – Featured On Alternative Toronto

Alternative Toronto is a very cool multi-media website . It’s “a digital community archive of Toronto’s alternative cultures, scenes and spaces of the 1980s and 1990s.”  Take a run through it if you get a chance. It’s always being updated…

There is all kinds of  amazing political documentation up on the site and one of the members of the Rebel Time Records Collective has contributed some of the material that made up the 206 Carlton: Resisting Zundel exhibt. ( check out the Arm The Spirit Collection to see all of his contributions so far )

The site aims “to document the history of Toronto’s alternative communities from 1980 to 1998 by creating a digital repository to which anyone with materials can contribute.”

The site covers radical, counter-cultural, anti-racist and trans*/feminist/queer activism, art, music, theatre, dance, publishing, book-selling, cinema, education, health care, computing, housing, and more.

As part of the Toronto’s Days Of Action exhibit, the curators of the site have posted The Fallout’s song “Pie In The Sky.” The song is about then Premier of Ontario Mike Harris and is on the “What Is Past Is (Still) Prologue” album. The album is available as a free / pay-what-you-want download from the band’s Bandcamp page.

As the site says:

“Between 1995 and 1998, a broad coalition of grassroots activists and labour unions from across Ontario organized a series of protests to fight back against Conservative Premier Mike Harris and his “Common Sense Revolution.” Collectively known as the Days of Action, this historic movement included early demonstrations by feminist, LGBTQ2+ and disability rights activists who led the Embarrass Harris coalition, and a continuing alliance betwen the groups the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and Anti-Racist Action.”

you always look so confused
standing under the light
you stutter and you stammer and use fucked up grammar
but you always get a good sound bite
you used to be coated in Teflon
but now that Teflon’s wearing thin
you slide to the edge but you always manage
to get out of the shit you’re in

when you lie lie lie
makes me wonder why
we always buy buy buy
that same old pie in the sky

I can see through your eyes into the back of your head
there’s nothing there but all the stale air and bullshit we’re being fed
and so the truth lays dormant
buried under years of deceit
as you privatize and demonize
you tell us it’s what we need

it’s a bad time to be sick it’s a bad time to be poor
tax cuts for the rich, pepper spray for the kids
and bullets for Dudley George
and so the truth lays dormant
buried under years of deceit
as you privatize and demonize
you tell us it’s what we need

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