CONTACT!unload performs at the INVICTUS GAMES Toronto 2017 and CIMVHR FORUM 2017

Moss Park Armouries

The Honourable Erin O’toole introduces CONTACT!unload at Moss Park Armouries

Don Cherry and Minister Erin O’toole with Team CONTACT!unload

Athlete from Afghanistan competing at Invictus Games

Team USA Kelly Elmlinger (5 gold medals) with Team Canada Natasha Dupuis (3 gold 1 silver)

Senator Anne Cools with Team CONTACT!unload

Team CONTACT!unload

LGen Lamarr with Foster Eastman and the lestweforgetCANADA mural at CIMVHR

Don Cherry with Foster Eastman at the Invictus Games Toronto 2017

CEO of Invictus Games Michael Burns with Foster Eastman

1972 Porcelain busts of Chairman Mao busts were filled with red acrylic paint and detonated onto the canvases to reflect the violence that occurred in Tiananmen Square in 1989

Mao promised land, and he delivered. However, this was very unfortunate for the Landlords.

By 1958, Mao took back the land and collectives were created… leading to one of the worst self-induced famines ever recorded in history. Approximately 30 million citizens starved during The Great Leap Forward 1958-1961.

The goal of the Red Guards was to destroy the 4 olds… habits, ideas, customs, and culture. This piece represents the crucifying of Old China (Jesus) in order to create or resurrect a new China. This image is mounted onto pages of the New Testament with images of Chairman Mao representing the new god.

Also note the family registry. Geneology records were an important tradition in China. Many of these were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

The Canadian Doctor Norman Bethune worked for many years giving medical treatment to wounded red army soldiers.

An original banner from the Cultural Revolution is cut and mounted onto panels of images of young soldiers in training.

An image of a 12 year old child pulling a plow is transferred onto images of China under massive industrialization. All technology was paid for by food products sent to Russia.

‘Chairman Mao’s Vision Radiates Brightly Forever’

This verse is a lyric taken from a revolutionary opera made out of white rabbit candies from the 1960s. During collectivization, many children raised in day cares would sometimes learn Chairman Mao’s name before they knew their own name. By the age of 4, children participated in revolutionary skits, enrolled in the Children’s Brigade at 6, the Youth Corps at 12, and by 15, the Red Guards. Compared to North America, children were far from being educated about political science.

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religion in China

On 23, Nov 2015 | In c) MAO book of | By foster eastman

Missionary activity increased considerably in China after the first opium war in 1842. Christian missionaries built hospitals as well as schools from primary to university level… all under the protection of Western powers. The Boxer uprising in 1900 was an anti foreign reaction to Christianity killing many missionaries, however the Manchu army backed by foreign powers overcame the Boxers. On Monday, June 7, 1926, Mrs. W.E. Sibley, who had been a Canadian missionary in West China since 1907, had her head cut off while walking down a crowded street by a lone swordsman. This incident sparked the exodus of 7000 missionaries fleeing the interior of China. The People’s Republic of China established October 1, 1949 was officially an atheist government. All religious practices were banned from 1966 to 1976 during the Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards destroyed thousands of churches, schools and monasteries. Bibles were destroyed, homes looted and many Christians were subjected to humiliation. Many Priests, Nuns, Monks and religious followers were arrested, persecuted, tortured and executed. In order to protect paintings, many were covered over with propaganda.