ocap
OCAP marks its first 20 years
Twenty years ago this month, the founding conference of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) took place. In the two decades that have followed, OCAP has organized and mobilized communities under attack in the context of an advancing agenda of neoliberalism. The present situation is dominated by a world-wide crisis of capitalism and, as a result, an intensified drive to impose austerity on working class populations and the poor in particular. We are in the early stages of this assault but it seems likely that it will dominate the period that lies ahead. On this basis, it makes sense to assess the work of OCAP from the standpoint of building effective resistance to the neoliberal agenda.
Egypt: The Revolution Continues
May 24 2012 - 3:03pm
Jun 3 2012 - 3:03pm
Location
Beit Zatoun
612 Markham Street
Toronto, ON M6G 2L8Canada
43° 39' 53.2584" N, 79° 24' 44.6868" W
See map: Google Maps
When May 24, 2012 - June 03, 2012
Where Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham Street, Toronto, ON M6G 2L8 (TTC: Bathurst subway stop on Bloor line)
Exhibition: Thursday, May 24 to Sunday, June 3
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 26 at 7 pm
Contact name:
Ali Mustafa
Contact email:
Activist Communiqué: Stop the cuts and fight poverty - Solidarity Against Austerity rally and march Friday
| March 14, 2012Occupying housing from the Pope Squat to Occupy Toronto
It was a sweltering afternoon in late July 2002 when the armoured vehicles of the Toronto Police Emergency Task Force pulled up in front of our building. Quickly we started barricading the door with an old desk, if they were coming to kick us out we weren't going to make it easy for them. We waited tensely as the cops approached the door with submachine guns drawn. Our crime? We dared to take over an abandoned building in the middle of a housing crisis. We all survived that early raid and were eventually allowed back into the building where we lived for the next three months -- dubbing it the "Pope Squat" as we occupied it during the pontiff's visit to Toronto.
OCAP and the origins of Occupy Toronto
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those they oppress.
- Frederick Douglas, U.S., escaped slave and abolitionist, 1844
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
HOUSING!
WHEN DO YOU WANT IT?
NOW!
WE'RE HUNGRY, WE'RE ANGRY
WE WON'T GO AWAY
STOP THE WAR ON THE POOR!
MAKE THE RICH PAY!
- Frequent chants at housing and antipoverty marches and protests
