Demonstrate Against Poverty- Oct 17 Day for the Eradication of Poverty

Demonstrate Against Poverty

Date: Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012
Time: 3:30PM
Location: Corner of Jane/Finch

We demand:

-Raise the rates
-Increase Minimum wage
-Keep the Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefit
-Restore the special diet program
-Stop police targeting youth
-Affordable: decent housing, healthy food, prescriptions, childcare
-An apology from York University and Excalibur newspaper for their constant misrepresentation of the Jane-Finch community

Music
Food
Good people
Fun

Come celebrate the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty!

Four years ago JFAAP was formed on the corner of Jane and Finch. Since then, we have done much but poverty prevails and may have gotten worse. We have to continue to resist!

JFAAP.wordpress.com
janefinchactionagainstpoverty@gmail.com
Organized by Jane Finch Action Against Poverty and Allies

Endorsed by: OPIRG York, York University Faculty Association (YUFA), York University Graduate Students Association (YUGSA), Black Creek Community Health Centre (BCCHC), CUPE 3903, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
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Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Wednesday October 17
Join Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and Jane-Finch Action Against Poverty (JFAAP) at events throughout the day...

DOWNTOWN:

Save the Community Start-Up, Raise the Rates Now!

10:00 AM: Walk-in Clinic: Find out about or apply for Community Start Up, join us at the Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square (west of the Eaton Centre, south of Dundas)

12.00 Noon: Meal and Rally @ Toronto City Hall Square (Bay/Queen): March on the Provincial Government to Deliver all Applications Collected that Day

A Province wide campaign is being built to save the CSUMB and, in Toronto, OCAP is looking to contribute to this on October 17 with a mass application for the benefit that will also demand the cutback be reversed. We will hold a mass clinic to make people aware of how they can apply for CSUMB and we will fill in application forms for all those who wish to obtain it. Then, we will rally together and march on the Government to put in these applications and many more from across Ontario.

If you want to help build this event or learn how you and others in your community can receive the CSUMB, give us a call today. More than anything, come out on October 17 and help us stop McGuinty from getting away with his plans to put people on the streets. Save the Community Start Up Benefit, Raise the Rates NOW!

More info at: http://www.ocap.ca/node/1013
http://www.facebook.com/events/283317985117858/
Contact: ocap@tao.ca // 416-925-6939