Toronto Anti-Poverty Day of Action and Public Meeting

JOIN OCAP FOR THE TORONTO ANTI-POVERTY DAY OF ACTION

** PUBLIC MEETING: Wednesday September 19 2007

Central Neighbourhood House- 349 Ontario Street, between Gerrard and Dundas Street East.

6:30pm

Join Toronto Anti-Poverty for a Public Meeting to learn why we are organizing a Day of Action, who’s involved and how you can participate.

Featuring:

Cathy Crowe- Toronto Disaster Relief Committee and Street Nurse

Herman Rosenfeld- Former CAW staffperson and political activist

Liisa Schofield- Member of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

Member of No One is Illegal- Toronto

** DAY OF ACTION: Wednesday September 26 2007

11:00am

Meet at Metro Park- corner of Queen and Church St.

With the Provincial election stepping into high gear across Ontario a new wave of organizing has begun to challenge years of painful cuts to housing, assistance, services and wages. The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty stands with nearly one hundred other community groups, social agencies, student groups and labour unions as well as thousands of low income people in demanding immediate increases to the minimum wage and social assistance, the construction of new affordable housing and the province wide implementation of a Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy around immigration status.

This Day of Action will represent a significant challenge to those on the campaign trail and we want OCAP members and supporters to be at the forefront of this initiative. Many different groups will be holding their own marches and actions before converging together at Queen’s Park- we are calling everyone who supports the work that OCAP has done in fighting for a 40% increase to welfare and disability to join the Raise the Rates feeder march on September 26th.

If you would like more information please visit www.ocap.ca or join us and the rest of the Toronto Anti-Poverty group for a Public Meeting one week before the Day of Action.

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Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

10 Britain St. Toronto, ON M5A 1R6

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

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