[news] Anti-Poverty Group Disrupts Opening Night

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

About 200 police officers from four Southern Ontario forces, including Toronto, Waterloo Region, Hamilton and London, held back about 40 protesters as they attempted to disrupt the opening night ceremonies of the Stratford Festival by chanting "make the rich pay" and other anti-poverty slogans at the tuxedoed and ball-gowned theatregoers...The protesters...tried to crash barriers set up by the police, but were prevented from doing so...The action was led by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and was intended to bring the "ugliness of poverty to the attention of the community," said organizer John Clark.

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