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Anti-Poverty Committee

Publication type: 
Media Release
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2003-07-22
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is an announcement by the Anti-Poverty Committee of their active support of the Tent-City (despite claims to the contrary) and their solidarity with the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society in their expansion of a squat to Crab Park in response to further provincial government cuts.
Keywords: 
tent city; poor; squatting; homelessness; social housing; welfare cuts; Crab Park

Support and solidarity needed for the Olympic Tent City!

Publication type: 
Media Release
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2003-06-17
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a call for support and solidarity with a tent city being erected by the Anti-Poverty Committee and Housing Action Committee in response to the Vancouver bid for the 2010 Winter Olympics and the concurrent crisis in social housing and the proposed two year welfare limit. It describes the policy of the BC Liberals and its effects on the working poor. It also describes the need to fightback.
Keywords: 
tent city; Olympics; Expo; BC Liberals; Woodwards; poor; social housing; welfare cuts; protest; community mobilization

Dear brothers and sisters:

Publication type: 
Letter / Correspondence
Author(s): 
Cunningham, David
Date: 
2003-06-19
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a call for endorsements and donations to support a tent city being erected by the Anti-Poverty Committee and Housing Action Committee against the Vancouver bid for the 2010 Winter Olympics and in order to demand social housing and an end to the two year time limit for Income Assistance. It discusses these in the context of the effects of the BC Liberal's 'New Era' on the working poor.
Keywords: 
BC Liberals; homelessness; tent city; Olympics; income assistance; social housing; welfare cuts; community mobilization

***Please Forward Widely for Support & Endorsation***

Publication type: 
Letter / Correspondence
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2003-07-02
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is an announcement of a tent city to be constructed by the Anti-Poverty Committee and Housing Action Committee in conjunction with the announcement of the results for the 2010 Winter Olympics bid. The demands of the tent city are social housing and an end to the two year limit on welfare. It asks for material donations, endorsements, participation in a march, and support for the squatters.
Keywords: 
tent city; homelessness; Olympics; BC Liberals; social housing; welfare cuts; community mobilization

Victory Squat

Publication type: 
Media Release
Author(s): 
Pilipa, Anton
Date: 
2003-08-16
Pages: 
2
Summary: 
These are two media releases concerning the Victory Squat and the Vancouver Parks Board's injunction to end the squat. They discuss the relationship between the policies of the BC Liberals, the 2010 Winter Olympics, and homelessness. They state the demands of the tent city to be social housing and an end to the two year income assistance limit, as well as express their criticism of the Parks Board.
Keywords: 
tent city; homelessness; media; squatters; protest; City bylaws; BC Liberals; social housing; Parks Board; welfare cuts

Enough is Enough! No Safe Streets Act! No Social Cleansing!

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2004-10-2
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a leaflet for a demonstration against the Safe Street Acts organized by the Anti-Poverty Committee. It describes the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association as waging a war against the poor and charges them with social cleansing.
Keywords: 
poor; Anti-Poverty Committee; demonstration; Business Improvement Association; Safe Streets Act

Crush the 2-Year Time Limit

Publication type: 
Poster
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Pages: 
1
Summary: 
This is a poster for a demonstration against the two year time limit on income assistance organized by the Anti-Poverty Committee.
Keywords: 
income assistance; BC Liberals; welfare cuts; demonstration

VPD's racist profiling and war on the poor

Publication type: 
Letter / Correspondence
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2005-02-11
Pages: 
2
Summary: 
This describes the racist actions of the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) in relation to poor people of colour in the Downtown Eastside (DTES), particularly Latinos who are targeted in VPD's drug actions, like 'Operation Torpedo'. It also announces that the Anti-Poverty Committee, along with other organizations, are organizing around police brutality and holding a series of fora called the "People's Inquiry into Police Violence and Compliance".
Keywords: 
Vancouver Police Department (VPD); Downtown Eastside (DTES); racism; Latinos; war on drugs; poor; Anti-Poverty Committee

Refuse to Retreat Conference, Workshop Notes for Final Common Front strategy session.

Publication type: 
Conference / Meeting Proceedings
Author(s): 
Anti-Poverty Committee
Date: 
2004-02-21
Pages: 
6
Summary: 
These are notes from each workshop at the Refuse to Retreat Conference that serve as discussion points in the final 'Common Front' strategy session. The workshops include: labour fight back, women's liberation, indigenous sovereignty, welfare fight back, against imperialism, immigrants and refugee fight back.
Keywords: 
strategy; solidarity; labour; women; coalition building; aboriginal; welfare cuts; imperialism; immigrants; refugees

Class Struggle "Perspective"

Publication type: 
Miscellaneous
Author(s): 
Waldo
Date: 
2002-12
Pages: 
5
Summary: 
This proposal defines the potential directional strategy of anti-poverty organizing in Vancouver. It describes the need for such a strategy within class struggles and outlines four components to fight the BC Liberals and neo-liberalism: mass mobilization, unity, type of struggle, and political power. It states that unity, strategy, and political programs need to be defined from which tactical actions can be pursued.
Keywords: 
strategy; Anti-Poverty Committee; class; activism; BC Liberals; poor; organizing

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