[van-announce] WELFARE DEMO UPDATE!

[Mike Krebs]

The Anti-Poverty Committee is calling a demonstration to:

END THE THREE WEEK WAIT!

Wednesday, August 7th
1pm
Burrard St. Skytrain Station

March to the Vancouver Regional Executive Welfare Office to Demand:

1. END THE THREE WEEK WAIT! (House the homeless, feed the hungry, care for 
the sick, end discrimination against refugees, end the quota system.)
2. END THE FORCED FAMILY MAINTENANCE PROGRAM! (Respect and support women 
fleeing abuse.)
3. PROVIDE CHILDCARE FOR SINGLE PARENTS RECIEVING AND APPLYING FOR WELFARE!

The APC thanks all those who endorsed these demands. Only if we fight 
together, alongside all poor and working people in the province can we 
defeat this government.

Endorsed by: BC Government Employees Union; Hospital Employees Union BC; 
Canadian Union of Public Employees BC; Working Group on Poverty; End 
Legislated Poverty; Seniors Network of BC; Prepare the General Strike 
Committee; North Shore Action Coalition; Pivot Legal Society; Vancouver Area 
Network of Drug Users; Kamloops Society for Health and Income Options; Simon 
Fraser Students Society; Nanaimo Womens Resources Society; North Shore 
Womens Centre; Franciscan Sisters of Atonement; Benita Bunjun, Naomi North, 
Meera Shah, Vancouver Status of Women; Federated Anti-Poverty Groups of BC; 
Moms on the Drive; Long Haul Newspaper; Women Against Violence Against 
Women.  M. Stainsby, C. Jacob, External and College Relations Coordinators 
for Douglas College Students Union.



To add your group to this list of endorsers contact the APC. See the 
endorsement letter attached to this email.



To help with postering or fliering for this or any other event, come to the 
APC office (42 Blood Alley, between Cordova and Powell and Carral and 
Abbott) Saturday August 3rd, 6pm or contact APC with times you are 
available.



Solidarity;



Anti-Poverty Committee

42 Blood Alley

Phone: 604-682-2726

Fax: 604-687-4347

apc at resist.ca



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