Cabinet office occupation
![Two windows with hand lettered signs read “Human Rights are Not for Sale!!”, “This Budget Hurts Women!” and “Stop Attacking the Poor!”](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/solidarity-bc-protest_solidarite-protestation-cb/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/2018/12/Office-of-cabinet-occupiers-Robson-Square.jpg)
Image MSC160-877_12, Pacific Tribune Photo Collection, Simon Fraser University Library.
On September 16, 1983 eighty-seven trade unionists, activists and faith leaders occupied the provincial cabinet offices in Robson Square in Vancouver for twenty-seven hours to demand withdrawal of the legislation introduced in July by the Social Credit government.