CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT-TORONTO:

YET ANOTHER FOUR EVENTS FROM OCAP:

The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) has sent out yet another reminder of four upcoming events in the Toronto area in the next few days. here's the notice.

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Upcoming Events:

**1.Saturday October 4

Street Takeover

Noon

Pigeon Park (Gerrard and Parliament)

Free Meal

**2.REMINDER - TOMORROW - Thursday, September 18th

CNH - 349 Ontario St.

(Between Dundas and Gerrard)

BBQ at 11:30

Meeting at noon

**3. Sept. 18 - No One Is Illegal New Members Meeting

**4. Sept. 24 - Speakers and Film Screening:

Crossing Arizona

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STREET TAKEOVER

Saturday, October 4

Noon

Pigeon Park (Gerrard and Parliament)

Free Meal

Streets to Homes has shipped people out of the downtown into the far corners of the city and left people to fend for themselves with almost no money, support or resources. At the same time, the City has been gutting shelter beds, meals, drop-ins and attacking people on the street. This is part of a bigger campaign to try to kick poor people out of the neighbourhoods that we have lived in for years to make room for rich condo dwellers and other yuppies.

The City has used the cops to harass people, laying over 10,000 tickets last year alone. They encourage residents and business associations to target poor people and the places that we congregate. Streets to Homes has helped to legitimize the displacement of poor people by telling the public that people are being housed. But people aren’t being housed - they are being abandoned. Many of the units people are stuck in do not meet basic legal standards for repair and are far away from meals and services.

On October 4th, Nuit Blanche events will create space for artists to takeover parts of the City. Over a million dollars is being dropped on this one night by the City and the Province while people go hungry on our streets.

On October 4th, poor people in the downtown east end and our supporters will take over the street to celebrate the fact that we have not been and will not be pushed out of the neighbourhood.

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Thursday, September 18th

CNH - 349 Ontario St.

(Between Dundas and Gerrard)

BBQ at 11:30

Meeting at noon

The City of Toronto claims that it is dealing with homelessness through the "success" of it's "Streets to Homes" program. In reality, this is not true. People are in serious trouble as they struggle to survive. Things are not okay.

Streets to Homes has helped to legitimize the displacement of poor people by telling the public that people are being housed. But people aren't being housed - they are being abandoned. Many of the units people are stuck in do not meet basic legal standards for repair and are far away from meals and services. At the same time, the City has been gutting shelter beds, meals, drop-ins and attacking people on the street with police.

We are calling for a public debate on "Streets to Homes" and the City's dismal response to homelessness and poverty in Toronto. The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty has invited Mayor Miller, and other City officials to attend this public meeting and to a debate on Streets to Homes.

Come out and have your say.

For more information contact OCAP at 416-925-6939 or ocap@tao.ca

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FWD- NO ONE IS ILLEGAL NEW MEMBERS MEETING

Thurs. September 18, 2008

6:30pm

Sidney Smith Hall - 100 St. George St. - Room 1073

(south of St. George subway station)

No One is Illegal (Toronto) is a group of immigrants, refugees and allies who fight for the rights of all migrants to live with dignity and respect.We believe that granting citizenship to a privileged few is part of a racist immigration and border policy designed to exploit and marginalize migrants. We work to oppose these policies, as well as the international economic policies that create the conditions of poverty and war that force migration. At the same time, we also work to support and build alliances with our Indigenous brothers and sisters in their fight against colonialism, displacement and the ongoing occupation of their land.

For more information, email us at noneisillegal@riseup.net , or check out http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org

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SPEAKERS AND FILM SCREENING: CROSSING ARIZONA

Wed. September 24, 2008

6:30pm

Bahen Centre - Room 1180

40 St. George Street

Free

The No One Is Illegal Student Network presents the award winning film by Joseph Mathew and Dan Devivo, Crossing Arizona.

Heightened security in California and Texas has pushed border-crossers into the treacherous Arizona desert in unprecedented numbers – an estimated 4,500 a day. Most are men in search of work, but increasingly the border-crossers are women and children seeking to reunite with their families. This influx of migrants crossing through Arizona and the attendant rising death toll have elicited complicated feelings about human rights, culture, class, labor and national security.

"Crossing Arizona" examines the crisis through the eyes of those directly affected by it.

**Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

10 Britain St. Toronto, ON M5A 1R6

416-925-6939 ocap@tao.ca www.ocap.ca