One Jailed...four free!

Raise The Rates!

Today (Jan 19/06) marks the end of strict non-association charges against various TAG members.

Last March a whole bunch of TAGers physically attacked our local MPP's office in broad daylight in retaliation to cuts to the special diet benefit. These monies brought desperately needed relief to over 920 individuals on Ontario Works and Ontario Disability suffering in silence in our community.

from The Toronto Star

*Poverty is a medical condition*
Dec. 15, 2006. 01:00 AM
CAROL GOAR

Supplement

A fly-on-the-wall documentary about a 2005 guerrilla welfare supplement clinic - organized by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty - to give poor people the means to survive, against the wishes of their government. (A film by Jonathan Culp)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7IHQYC7vPs

A little over a year ago the McGuinty Government cut the Special Diet Policy under which huge numbers were obtaining relief from poverty and hunger. The Liberals introduced a new policy, determined to shut down the OCAP initiated community clinics where thousands of poor people were obtaining the $250 a month the policy entitled them to. Last year alone $40 million extra was paid out through the special diet to people on welfare and disability. Several months after the cut, the Liberal government raised over all assistance rates by 2%.

On June 28th, a small but militant group of Kingston Coalition Against Poverty (KCAP) and Belleville Against Social Injustice Collective (BASIC) members disrupted and delayed the proceedings of the evictions machine otherwise known as the Kingston Housing Tribunal.

The group stormed the Housing Tribunal carrying a big KCAP/OCF banner and signs such as '$10 Minimum Wage', 'This is an Eviction Factory', 'Housing for All', Stop the Evictions' and 'No Justice - No Peace'