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Anti-Poverty Organizations
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) - OCAP is a direct-action anti-poverty organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. We mount campaigns against regressive government policies as they affect poor and working people. In addition, we provide direct-action advocacy for individuals against eviction, termination of welfare benefits, and deportation. We believe in the power of people to organize themselves. We believe in the power of resistance.
Povnet - PovNet is an internet site for advocates, people on welfare, and community groups and individuals involved in anti-poverty work. It provides up-to-date information about welfare and housing laws and resources in British Columbia, Canada. PovNet links to current anti-poverty issues and also provides links to other anti-poverty organizations and resources in Canada and internationally.
Kensington Welfare Rights Union, Philadelphia USA - The Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) is a multiracial organization of, by and for poor and homeless people. We believe that we have a right to thrive - not just barely survive. KWRU is dedicated to organizing of welfare recipients, the homeless, the working poor and all people concerned with economic justice.
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Halifax Coalition Against Poverty
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Legal Defense
PIVOT Legal Society - PIVOT is a non-profit society based in Vancouver, BC, dedicated to advancing the interests of illegal drug users, sex trade workers, and other marginalized persons through legal education, strategic legal action, and law reform.
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Housing Issues
Friends of the Woodwards Squat
Tenant Action Group - Belleville, Ontario - We are a collective of working class people fighting the system in Belleville for over two years. We have no funding. We do not charge for our services. TAG's demands are simple and reasonable: that governments build affordable housing, bring back real rent controls and amend residential tenancy laws to combat unfair evictions. We take a solidly anti-capitalist stance that hopes to put the power back into its working class members. TAG believes that you cannot just talk homelessness away. We believe in the tried and true tactic of "direct action". This means that unless governments provide for the dignity of it citizens, then we are ready, willing and able to confront the authorities in an effort to obtain justice.
Dignity Village - Tent City, Portand, Oregon - On December 16th of the year 2000, a group of eight homeless men and women pitched five tents on public land and Camp Dignity, later to become Dignity Village, was born. We came out of the doorways of Portland's streets, out from under the bridges, from under the bushes of public parks, we came openly with nothing and no longer a need to hide as Portland's inhumane and Draconian camping ban had just been overturned on two constitutional grounds. We came armed with a vision of a better future for ourselves and for all of Portland, a vision of a green, sustainable urban village where we can live in peace and improve not only the condition of our own lives but the quality of life in Portland in general. We came in from the cold of a December day and we refuse to go back to the way things were.
Association of Poor People in Nagai Park - Japan
Advocacy Resources
The Redbook Online - an online guide to community, social, and government agencies and services across the Lower Mainland
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 APC Campaigns
What is APC?
APC is...The Anti-Poverty Committee is an organization of poor and working people, who fight for poor people, their rights and an end to poverty by any means necessary.
The poor face constant attack under the capitalist system and these attacks have only intensified under the BC Liberal government. APC is committed to fighting the brutal policies of the BC Liberals through direct action, mass mobilization, and casework.
We oppose racism, sexism, homophobia, and all other forms of oppression. APC is an independent and democratic organization open to anyone who agrees with our basis of unity. We are committed to working in solidarity with the struggles of other progressive movements — locally, nationally, and internationally — to end poverty and injustice.
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Contact us :
tel: 604-682-2726
fax: 604-682-2752
apc(at)resist(dot)ca
#1 12 E. Hastings
Vancouver, BC
Coast Salish Territory
Canada v6a 1n1
by appointment only
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