FINAL OCAP APPEAL BEFORE WE ARE FORCED TO LAY OFF ORGANIZERS

Several weeks ago, we issued an emergency appeal for funding. Summer is a hard time to get people to focus on such matters but, still, the results were far less than we needed to turn things around.

It has not been possible to pay our organizers on time. In the last month, our fulltimer has received only 5.00 and our parttimers 5.00 each. All three are due for paycheques again this week, which will amount to 0 each. Another phone bill has just come in and Bell will not be as ready to wait as our organizers are. If we are to pay our phone bill and provide the wages we owe, we must generate ,704.82 right away. If the

situation has not turned around by next week, we will have no choice but to lay off organizers.

If you believe that the Liberal Government in Ontario means that the war on the poor is over, you are not someone likely to support OCAP and we won’t try to convince you that you’re wrong. But we are committed to keeping up our daily casework on numerous fronts and we are serious about taking a stand against the anti-poor agenda of the City and Provincial governments. Our view of things is that the same agenda that was

implemented by Harris and Lastman is now in the hands of slightly more subtle but fundamentally likeminded types. It is part of an international attack that must be met by grassroots social movements based on methods of serious resistance.

OCAP is dedicated to help build the Ontario component of this struggle. As we step up the fight against McGuinty and our challenge to the social cleansing coming out of City Hall intensifies, it will be a great shame to have to cut back on the scale and pace of our work. Please send us the resources we need to step up our fightback.

Cheques can be made out to OCAP or contact us at the following:

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

10 Britain St. Toronto, ON M5A 1R6

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

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