[van-announce] Mass Squeegee Picket

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Mass Squeegee Picket

Where:
Commercial and Broadway

When:
Friday, 10th of October 2003 from 4:00 PM until approximately 6:00 PM


SQUEEGEE COUNCIL SET TO FIGHT BACK



COMMERCIAL DRIVE AND BROADWAY
FRIDAY OCTOBER 10th, 4PM

SOLIDARITY
MASS SQUEEGEE PICKET
(and thanksgiving dinner)
While the BC Liberals cut people off of welfare left, right and centre, they have 
done nothing to repair the 8%+ unemployment rate.  Some people are forced to 
panhandle, beg or busk to make a living while other homeless people work with 
a squeegee as a legitimate way to survive.  But the Vancouver Police 
Department has a policy of ticketing, jailing, and stealing people's 
squeegee's.  The City of Vancouver is already working on passing a bylaw to 
prevent people from panning, busking or squeegeeing.  Squeegee kids are 
given numerous $86 tickets for 'jaywalking' at intersections, then jailed 
when unable to pay the excessive fines.  The squeegee youth can stomach no 
more and have unionized with the Vancouver Industrial Workers of the World 
branch.  As unionized workers we will struggle to have our rights respected.

We demand an end to the petty police harrasment of the poor.
We demand that the poor be given the right to make money on the street through 
panning, busking, squeegeeing and flea marketing.

Join us for a mass squeegee & feast starting at an intersection the police 
chased squeegee workers away from.  Commercial and Broadway, Friday 
October 10th, 4PM.  Bring a squeegee if you can, some will be provided.


"WE ORGANIZE"
-Squeegee Council
-Industrial Workers of the World

squeegee_council at ziplip.com
vancouver.iww.ca



For more information:
squeegee_council at ziplip.com



This event is being organised by I.W.W. Squeegee Council
  



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