[van-announce] RAISE THE RATES! Demo:Feb 22

[Anti-Poverty Committee]

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                      **RAISE THE RATES**
            Increase the welfare rates by at least 40%!

               **MARCH FOR ECONOMIC HUMAN RIGHTS**
                     Wednesday, Feb 22, 2006
                          12pm, Noon
                        Victory Square
                      (Cambie & Hastings)

Join Community groups and labour in demonstrating to demand that the BC
Liberals increase welfare payments for families on income assistance. We
will march from Victory Square to the Hyatt Regency Hotel where premier
Gordon Campbell will be announcing the BC Liberal's new budget to the
Vancouver Board of Trade.


Organized by the Save Low Income Housing Coalition:

Anti-Poverty Commitee, Asian Society for the Prevention of HIV/AIDS, BCGEU
Component 6, BC Health Coalition, Downtown Eastside Residents Association,
Neighbourhood Helpers, No One Is Illegal, Sex Workers Activist Group,
Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society, Vancouver Area Network of Drug
Users, Vancouver Status of Women


FOR MORE INFORMATION:
email: slihc at shaw.ca
website: http://slihc.resist.ca

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