nearby Rochdale. Nicholas Jennings, Before the Gold Rush: Flashbacks to the Dawn of the Canadian Sound (Toronto: Penguin Books Canada Ltd., 1997), p. 195: “Yorkville was controlled by big-league [real-estate] players now, and the few hippies who hadn’t moved, mostly over to nearby Rochdale College, were powerless to stop them.”
“capitalist exploiters.” Jennings, op. cit., p. 223: “[Promoter Ken] Walker and the Eaton brothers had to contend with protests from the May 4th Movement (M4M), a radical coalition of students and street people based at Toronto’s Rochdale College. Targeting the promoters as capitalist exploiters, M4M tried to discredit the festival with the slogan ‘Stop the Rip-Off Express’ and a propaganda campaign that demanded free admission along with ‘free dope and no cops.’ After a meeting with the coalition, Thor Eaton concluded, ‘These people have a loose grip on reality.’”