This is where I'll be tomorrow moring at 11:00am
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) is preparing to mobilize homeless people and their supporters to come down into the showpiece underground PATH system for a mass panhandle. We want to make clear why we are carrying out this action and what users of the PATH can expect from us.
Huge cuts to social programs and a desperate lack of affordable housing have fueled a crisis of homelessness in Toronto. Instead of meeting the needs of the homeless, those in power are looking to drive them out. Hostels have been closed and people forced onto the streets to beg. Then, police are used to harass and criminalize people trying to survive.
It is the developers, the major merchants and suchlike who press for a policy of sweeping homeless people under the rug. They don't want their money making to be interrupted by destitute people seeking the basic necessities of life. OCAP is organizing to stand up to this process of harassment. We are bringing homeless people and those who support them to panhandle in the very heart of the commercial showpiece they seek to drive people from.
No doubt, attempts will be made to portray our mass panhandle as something people should feel threatened by. We want to make clear that our anger at the injustices homeless people face is not directed against ordinary people eating or shopping in the Path. We will ask you for some change if you wish to give it and we will ask for your support and understanding of the situation facing the homeless.
Our mass panhandle is about people under attack demanding their rights. We hope you will agree with the stand we are taking and that we will have your support and solidarity when we visit the PATH.
Wednesday December 12 2007
11:00am
Meet in the Park just west of the King and Bay intersection
Breakfast will be served
** If you or your group want to participate in this action please contact OCAP at 416 925 6939
Full Info Here
ocap.ca/demonstrations/thepath
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) is preparing to mobilize homeless people and their supporters to come down into the showpiece underground PATH system for a mass panhandle. We want to make clear why we are carrying out this action and what users of the PATH can expect from us.
Huge cuts to social programs and a desperate lack of affordable housing have fueled a crisis of homelessness in Toronto. Instead of meeting the needs of the homeless, those in power are looking to drive them out. Hostels have been closed and people forced onto the streets to beg. Then, police are used to harass and criminalize people trying to survive.
It is the developers, the major merchants and suchlike who press for a policy of sweeping homeless people under the rug. They don't want their money making to be interrupted by destitute people seeking the basic necessities of life. OCAP is organizing to stand up to this process of harassment. We are bringing homeless people and those who support them to panhandle in the very heart of the commercial showpiece they seek to drive people from.
No doubt, attempts will be made to portray our mass panhandle as something people should feel threatened by. We want to make clear that our anger at the injustices homeless people face is not directed against ordinary people eating or shopping in the Path. We will ask you for some change if you wish to give it and we will ask for your support and understanding of the situation facing the homeless.
Our mass panhandle is about people under attack demanding their rights. We hope you will agree with the stand we are taking and that we will have your support and solidarity when we visit the PATH.
Wednesday December 12 2007
11:00am
Meet in the Park just west of the King and Bay intersection
Breakfast will be served
** If you or your group want to participate in this action please contact OCAP at 416 925 6939
Full Info Here
ocap.ca/demonstrations/thepath
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