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	Ontario Coalition Against Poverty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) is a group of anti-poverty activists in Ontario, Canada, that uses direct action to fight for the rights of the poor and homeless.
		The charges against Clarke, Gaetan Heroux and Stefan Pilipa were ultimately dropped after a trial of the three resulted in a hung jury.
		A small controversy was created when a group of OCAP activists walked into Ontario Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's office and staged a mock eviction, moving his furniture out onto the curb.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ontario_Coalition_Against_Poverty (521 words)

	Reinventing Antipoverty
		OCAP newcomer Sarah Vance says that, although modeled along similar tactical procedures as welfare casework, immigration casework is a bit more difficult because OCAP is dealing with federal agencies instead of provincial or lower level, more legality and bureaucracy, and has less experience in the field of immigration than that of welfare.
		OCAP often accompanies individuals to the various shelters around the city (whose numbers are dwindling) to ensure their entry, and on occasion teams of activists have vigilantly waited at shelter entrances to ensure facilities live up to their mandate to house the homeless.
		Notably while no one at OCAP seems to be able to count the number of charges its actions have brought on, and the group is obviously quite adept at beating those charges, most members are very explicit about their reluctance to be arrested for the sake of being arrested.
	www.zmag.org /ZMag/articles/jan99dominick.htm (3669 words)

	Defend OCAP and John Clarke : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		OCAP challenges the crisis of homelessness in Ontario with a march on the Ontario Legislature.
		OCAP witnesses acknowledge that they are part of a militant poor peoples' organization that came to Queen's Park on the day to demand entry and, if necessary, to try and force negotiations by means of a stand off with the authorities.
		OCAP will certainly not be silenced by any result of the upcoming trial but the potential chilling effect on the whole movement and the ugly precedent being sought can't be overlooked.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1633462 (1318 words)

	[Infoshop News] Fighting to Win!: Anarchists and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		OCAP works on DIY principles in which those affected by harmful policies are directly involved in making it impossible for those policies to be implemented.
		OCAP demanded that a delegation of poor people be allowed to address the legislature and notified the government of our intentions months in advance.
		While OCAP initiated the fall campaign, put most of the resources into it and did much of the organizing work to get it going there was never a question that OCAP would direct the campaign or interfere with local actions in the manner of some groups.
	flag.blackened.net /pipermail/infoshop-news/2002-May/000960.html (2780 words)

	Homeless activists' trial opens in Toronto Canada's National Post demands "harsh" sentences for anti-poverty ...
		Two members of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), Gaetan Heroux and Stefan Pilipa, are on trial for “participating in a riot”—a charge that could lead to jail terms of up to two years.
		OCAP leader John Clarke is accused of “counseling to participate in a riot” and “counseling to assault police” and could be jailed for up to five years.
		Those who protest—whether it be against the impending war on Iraq or mounting social inequality, gutting of welfare programs and tearing up of democratic rights—must be vilified, put on trial and given lengthy prison terms.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/mar2003/ocap-m14.shtml (1336 words)

	ILS-SIL - EN - Documents - USA & Canada: The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		OCAP is a "do-it-ourself" organization and so we don't rely on representatives, vanguards or experts to do things for us.
		In 2001, OCAP organized in cities, workplaces, towns and reserves throughout Ontario working towards a series of acts of political and economic disruption throughout Ontario and beyond.
		A couple weeks later, at the request of the Equality Trade Union of South Korea, OCAP held a picket against Korean Air in solidarity with migrant workers in Korea who were being attacked by the South Korean government.
	www.ils-sil.org /en/documents/bul1-us-040.htm (1245 words)

	Ontario Coalition Against Poverty Harris Can Be Stopped March June15th 2000
		John Barber's recent attack against antipoverty protesters, particularly the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), as "dumb" and "a nasty bunch" and his smearing OCAP leaders John Clarke and Gaetan Heroux as "thugs", are vicious and libelous characterizations.
		OCAP organized for this demonstration for months with the aim of getting a delegation of the poor to address the legislature which has enacted the policies that have made the lives of the poor far worse.
		OCAP is leading one of the most important struggles against the heartless governments and politicians that have attacked poor people over the last 5 years.
	photosc.msspro.com /citizen/june15.htm (17786 words)

	The Dominion: Is "Fighting to Win" a Criminal Act? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On June 15th, 2000, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty organized a march for homeless people and allies on the Ontario Legislature, and we faced criminal charges as a result.
		At OCAP, a small poor people's organization based largely in the city of Toronto, we've tried to put into effect the same kind of notion: that it is today absolutely imperative, if we are going to organize an effective resistance, to proceed on the basis of fighting to win.
		You would have to go back to the charges that were laid against the leadership of the Communist Party in 1931, where they laid section 98 criminal code charges and seditious libel charges against them, and gave seven members of the Communist Party something like fourty years in jail.
	dominionpaper.ca /features/2004/03/16/is_fightin.html (4881 words)

	Dominion Weblog: John Clarke Speaks in Halifax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		To say that anyone who stands up against such acts of theft and murder and violence--and fights back against them--must defend themselves from the charge of being criminal is astounding, and insane.
		OCAP has tried in its own way--a small poor people's organization based largely in the city of Toronto--we've tried to put into effect the same kind of notion: that it is today absolutely imperative, if we are going to organize an effective resistance, to proceed on the basis of fighting to win.
		Against me, they laid two charges: "counselling to participate in a riot," and "counselling to assault the police", based on a speech I had made just before we went up to the legislature.
	dominionpaper.ca /weblog/2004/03/john_clarke_speaks_in_halifax.html (5515 words)

	Canada: State witch-hunt of advocates for Toronto's homeless
		At the behest of the Ontario Tory government, the police and courts are mounting a campaign aimed at criminalizing one of the Tories' most vocal critics—the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP).
		If OCAP cannot be put out of business, the Tories and police at least hope that by stigmatizing it as violent and lawless they can discredit it with the public and disrupt its relations with the union bureaucracy and church and community groups.
		All the charges against the OCAP defendants should be dropped and a political and legal campaign mounted to prevent the courts using bail provisions to restrict anti-government activists' and organizations' rights to conduct their political work.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/aug2000/toro-a02.shtml (1525 words)

	CUPE 3903 donates $2000 to the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
		While most media coverage exclusively focuses on OCAP’s actions that involve arrests, 99% of their work involves day to day advocacy on behalf of the poor, such as helping them navigate through the courts, fighting evictions and stopping deportations.
		For example, last year OCAP organized an occupation of an immigration office, supported by over 100 trade union activists (mostly from CUPE 3903 and the CAW Flying Squads), which stopped the deportation of a Somali woman and her 5 children, 2 of whom would be facing forced genital mutilation.
		“OCAP does indispensable frontline advocacy on behalf of the poor, which is a matter of life and death for the most vulnerable members of the working class,” says Alex Levant, Vice President, CUPE 3903.
	www.cupe.ca /www/News/2626 (298 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| A Short History of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Many of those organizations that had co-operated in the March drew the conclusion that a long term coalition against poverty was now possible and began to work to bring this together.
		It is with the election of the Harris Government in Ontario in 1995, however, that the struggles of OCAP took on the sharp character that we have come to see as defining our work.
		OCAP participated in all of them, carried out serious picket line actions and agitated strongly for the struggle to be taken to a new level.
	slash.autonomedia.org /article.pl?sid=02/02/05/2216213&mode=nested (1855 words)

	Briarpatch Magazine: Toronto police kidnapped my child - Ontario Coalition Against Poverty - Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Liberal MP, Dennis Mills, made a pledge to secure the property occupied by the Ontario Coalition Against Povery (OCAP) and have it converted to housing within a month or resign from Parliament.
		The promise was made on November 8th in order to de-escalate the stand-off with police who were preparing to attack those inside the building as well as their supporters on the street.
		Mills called the OCAP office on December 5th to report that the abandoned house will be made available for housing.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JQV/is_1_33/ai_113304639 (1022 words)

	queen's park police riot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They blocked any negotiation with the OCAP delegation, were unprepared initially when the crowd moved forward and then launched a reckless drive to clear the grounds of the area that provoked and continued to inflame a confrontation.
		Especially in the upcoming jury trial of three leading OCAP members on 'riot' charges, we are dealing with an attempt to place the struggle against social injustice outside the law and put any who might stand up and resist under the threat of serious terms of imprisonment.
		The January trial of these OCAP activists will be a crucial test of our ability as progressive movements to mount a meaningful campaign in defence of these three activists in particular and of political freedoms in general.
	www.ocap.ca /police_riot.html (1975 words)

	Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (S-CAP)
		It is because of this commitment to social justice, and because of this understanding that solidarity goes both ways in a community that the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty is calling on all organizations and activists committed to social change to support the Mine Mill 598 workers during their current strike against Falconbridge.
		On this day a delegation of people living in poverty and anti-poverty activists from the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (S-CAP) held a rally demanding that the Liberals bring to an end the 'War on the Poor' initiated by the Tory government 8 years ago in Ontario.
		Four supporters of the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (S-CAP) were asked by police and security to leave last night's inaugural City Council meeting and the Tom Davies Square building.
	www.geocities.com /ocf_sudbury (1575 words)

	Capital & Class: Fighting to win: The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
		The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) is a direct action anti-poverty organization which, since 1989, has fought governments of all stripes in Ontario, left (so-called), right and centre to defend the needs of poor people and to work for a future where people are able to live decently.
		While members of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) voted in favour of proceeding with a general strike the initiative was cancelled in an underhanded manner by conservative bureaucrats tied to the NDP.
		Adding to this chorus the Ontario Crime Commissioner, who is charged with overseeing crime policy for the entire province, declared in an interview with the CBC that squeegeers were the province's top concern.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3780/is_200210/ai_n9105992 (1544 words)

	Toronto, Ontario
		The City of Toronto has a physical area of approximately 630 km² (243 square miles) and is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Etobicoke Creek and Highway 427 to the west, Steeles Avenue to the north, and the Rouge River to the east.
		Located on the northern shore of Lake Ontario, Toronto was originally a term of indeterminate geographical location, designating the approximate area of the future city of Toronto on maps dating to the late 17th and early 18th century.
		This of course was one of the main problems that had concerned the activists - a few small groups, notably the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, advocated an extended campaign of property damage and resistance to Ontario's government.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/t/to/toronto__ontario.html (3648 words)

	[Hpn] Fwd: OCAP update, July 27
		Bonnie ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > "The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty is the > political equivalent of poison ivy.
		OCAP in contrast has been on the front lines of the >fight to end poverty and homelessness.
		At the protests against the >Organization of American States meeting and its proposed Free Trade Area >of the Americas in Windsor in June there was a massive police presence >and nonviolent civil disobedience protestors were pepper-sprayed.
	projects.is.asu.edu /pipermail/hpn/2000-July/001068.html (3501 words)

	Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) fights for diet supplements - North America / Mexico Community struggles - ...
		Recently the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) was alerted to the little known provision that allows for people receiving Ontario Works (OW) and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) assistance to apply for up to $250 as a nutritional dietary supplement if a medical professional deems it necessary.
		In the meantime, OCAP and medical workers have set up a series of clinics across Toronto to process forms and assist OW and ODSP recipients in applying for the supplement.
		As well the brutally low social assistance rates and the poverty- assuring minimum wage are linked in the broader attack on workers and must be fought together.
	www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=815 (841 words)

	Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Terrorist
		Besides we live in a multicultural country where all cultures and religions are equal and we cannot have people going around saying that the terrorist attacks were somehow connected to Islam.
		OCAP has engaged in violent activities before such as the riot at Queen’s Park and the taking over of MPP Jim Flaherty’s constituency office.
		This violence was not terrorism and according to the poverty group it wasn’t even violence.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2002/weinreb93002.htm (688 words)

	Ontario Coalition Against Poverty: Resistance On Trial : Thunderbay IMC
		Three OCAP members, Stefan Pilipa, Gaetan Heroux and John Clarke are presently going through a months long jury trial.
		The first two are charged with 'participating in a riot' and John with 'counseling to participate in a riot' and 'counseling to assault police'.
		On the eve of the trial, OCAP held a public meeting at the Ontario
	thunderbay.indymedia.org /print.php?id=3041 (768 words)

	verbena-19: Ontario Coalition Against Poverty Demonstration in Toronto (Rosedale) April 8
		Ontario Coalition Against Poverty Demonstration in Toronto (Rosedale) April 8
		OCAP is a direct-action anti-poverty organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
		We mount campaigns against regressive government policies as they affect poor and working people.
	verbena-19.blogspot.com /2006/03/ontario-coalition-against-poverty.html (515 words)

	Ontario Coalition Against Poverty \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As a vulnerable member of Ontario's surplus labour pool, he was used for a few months and then replaced.
		Gary Freeman, Fighting Extradition to U.S. An appeal written by Natercia Coelho, struggling to keep her husband Gary Freeman in Canada who is fighting an extradition to the U.S. based on false and contradictory evidence.
		Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees (Montreal)
	www.ocap.ca (1224 words)

	Advocate for Homeless, Homelessness, and Poverty, CSAR, Consolidation for Social Awareness and Responsibility
		With the policies of the Conservative Ontario Government increasing in their impact, 5,000 people a month are being evicted in Toronto at the moment and the City has even been forced to start using rooms in Metro (City) Hall as places for the homeless to sleep in.
		The coalition of university students is shocked and appalled by the recent arrests of homeless people and their supporters at the Safe Park.
		The coalition of students were also demanding concrete action by municipal, provincial and federal governments to address the problem of homelessness.
	www3.sympatico.ca /truegrowth/allngrdns.htm (12221 words)

	Papers, Articles and Books by Harry Cleaver
		Some notes on Ivan Illich's Tools for Conviviality, 1987 Paper comparing and contrasting Illich's critique of industrialization and his notion of conviviality as an alternative with the ideas of autonomist Marxism on capitalism and self-valorization.
		Development or Autonomy, December 1988 Essay against development --which is always capitalist-- and for autonomous self-determination.
		The analysis argues that the debt crisis is both a result of workers struggles and a strategy used against them.
	www.eco.utexas.edu /facstaff/Cleaver/hmchtmlpapers.html (1518 words)

	Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There were lots of Ontario Works (OW) and ODSP recipients present as well as a lot of young people.
		The picket, initiated by the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (S-CAP), was loud and effective with people chanting "Stop the War on the Poor, Raise the Rates Now!, "No Justice, No Peace," and doing radical cheers.
		We know that you are familiar with the fact that poverty exploded during eight years of Tory governments in Ontario.
	www.ocap.ca /scap (696 words)

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