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Anti-Poverty Committee Newsletter Issue 24

Publication type: 
Newsletter
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Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2005-06-24
Pages: 
8
Summary: 
This is a newsletter of the Anti-Poverty Committee, an anti-capitalist and anti-oppression organization fighting for the rights of poor and working people in Vancouver, BC. This issue includes the articles: ""Another Four Years? Hell No!"" (on a march celebrating organized resistance against the BC Liberals), ""Raise the Rates!"" (on mobilizing against welfare cuts), ""Four Arrested at Class War Demo"" (on a protest against Campbell at a BC School Trustees meeting), ""People's Inquiries into Police Violence"" (on APC's forum on systemic police brutality in Vancouver and demonstrations against the Safe Street Act), ""Sun Peaks Arrests"" (on the sentencing of six Secwepemc Nationals who had set up a roadblock at the Sun Peaks Ski Resort, Skwelkwek'welt), ""Seven Questions"" (an interview with Jill Malliga Chettiar on recent work of the APC), and ""The City and Homelessness"" (on the shutting down of Single Room Occupancy (SROs) and lack of tenancy rights for poor people perpetuated by the City of Vancouver). It also states their basis of unity and ways to get involved.
Keywords: 
community mobilization; solidarity; income assistance; colonialism; Vancouver Police Department (VPD); education; eviction