APPEALS:

OCAP AND ITS BILLS:

The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) is one of the most vibrant anarchist-inspired projects in the world. Year in and year out they have fought the good fight against the powers that be in Ontario in defense of the rights of the poor. Once more they are in need of money. Please see the following appeal. Help out if you can to keep OCAP's direct action solidarity actions afloat. The appeal...

OCAP HAS NO MONEY TO PAY ITS ORGANIZERS AND PHONE BILLS PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ONGOING FIGHT AGAINST POVERTY

Not for the first time, despite its very modest operating budget, OCAP faces a situation where it can't meet its basic operating costs. We have paid our rent for the month but can only pay Bell Canada by reducing the size of organizers' paycheques.

Yesterday, we organized a delegation to City Hall to confront the recent death of a homeless man in a downtown stairwell. A voice was raised to expose the shocking lack of emergency shelter that is putting lives at risk in the interests of upscale redevelopment. If you go to our website at www.ocap.ca you can see part of a photo display that we are making up of the appalling conditions that public housing tenants face in Toronto Community Housing. We are mobilizing tenants to win repairs and making gains. A recent report by the City of Toronto on the Special Diet Supplement shows that $30 million a year is going to poor people on welfare since we took up the fight for this benefit. Prior to this, spending per year was a mere $2 million.

As Dalton McGuinty consolidates the work of Mike Harris and David Miller presides over an out of control cop budget and an upscale housing boom that puts Mel Lastman to shame, OCAP continues to mobilize communities under attack and to fight back against poverty.

We can do our work with very little but not with nothing. Please help to give us that little bit of help we need to keep things going. Any and all donations are greatly appreciated but sustaining support is especially helpful to us. To become a sustainer, mail us a voided cheque with a note saying how much you would like to give each month and we can set up an automatic transfer from your bank account to ours.

Please mail your cheque to:

OCAP,

10 Britain Street,

Toronto, ON

M5A 1R6