The Anti-Poverty Committee Newsletter Issue #5

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: ""Mass Mobilization forces Campbell to cancel speech"" (on a demonstration at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the violent police response); Actions - ""400 Protest BC Liberal Fundraiser at Canada Place"" and ""A Victory for Aboriginal Women's Shelters""; Casework - ""APC Marches to the Executive Welfare Office for the Needs of the Poor"" and ""Changes to Welfare Effective July 1st for Families Three or More""; APC Action Alert! - ""Injecting Gentrification: Taking the fight for harm reduction to the streets"" (on a community organized needle exchange program); Analysis - ""Survivors and Consumers do Work!"" (on people with mental health disabilities); and ""The World We Live in"" (on institutionalized poverty). It also describes the work of Pivot, lists upcoming events, states APC's basis of unity, and discusses ways to get involved.