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Anti-Poverty Committee News #8

Publication type: 
Newsletter
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Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2002-10
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: ""We Will Win! The Woodwards Squat and the Movement Against the Liberal Government"" (on the squat's fight for housing and rights of the poor against the BC Liberals and Vancouver police), ""Police Riot in East Vancouver"" (on police violence against protesters at a rally organized against Premier Campbell at Britannia), ""Record of Police Abuses and Violence"" (on police violence and intimidation), ""APC Legal Defence Fund"" (on the legal organizing againt police victimization of APC activists), ""Other News: APC Supports Fired Worker"" (on supporting a worker's fight for a healthy and safe working environment and the right to union organize), ""The Fight for Social Housing"" (on the attempts by Woodward's squatters to negotiate their demands with BC Housing, developer Geoff Hughes, and the provincial and municipal governments), ""Other Actions: Roast the Liberals"" (on MLA Mayencourt's attack on the queer community), ""Squat Report from Across the Nation"" (on squats in Quebec City and Toronto), and ""The Campaign to End Campbell's Training Wage: Community Meeting: APC Vows to Target Businesses and Government"" (reporting on campaign building against the training wage). It also announcements upcoming events, describes its basis of unity, and ways to get involved through meetings and donations.
Keywords: 
social movements; community mobilization; poor; Vancouver Police Department (VPD); social housing; BC Liberals; squatting; Woodwards; Woodsquat; activists