[van-announce] Support APC in Court! (Thursday @ 9am)

[Anti-Poverty Committee]

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Support APC in Court!

The Anti-Poverty Committee calls on all able supporters to please come out
to court this Thursday to stand in solidarity with the APC’s Women
Committee.

Please join us at the APC office at 327 Carrall this Thursday July 26th at
9:00 am sharp.

Last February women from the APC successfully occupied the office of the
Liberal finance minister. 5 women where arrested and are being sentenced
this Thursday.

The Liberals and the Police have made it clear that they will pursue their
repressive measures against dissent into the colonial court system. The
Liberals have also successfully applied political pressure onto our
lawyers to ensure that in the future we will have no decent legal
representation.

Because the crown has made it known that they fear the disruptive capacity
that APC would have in a court room- we will use that power to resist
their ‘zero compromise’ legal offensive against our organization.


SUPPORT THE APC WOMENS COMMITTEE! DEFEAT THIS GOVERNMENT!


Report Back From the APC's Occupation of Liberal Office:

The women of the Anti-Poverty Committee (APC) successfully occupied the
office of Finance Minister Carole Taylor on Monday February 21st. At
10:00am five women locked down inside the office, with the support of 20
other APC members.

The APC Women’s Committee made the following demands to Carole Taylor and
the Liberals:

* Spend the $2 billion surplus on securing safe housing for all women in
this province;

* Complete restoration of funding to all social programs cut by the
Liberals since 2001.

'Women are dying everyday on the streets, or facing violence and
exploitation within the deplorable housing situation in our city. This
surplus money has been made on the backs of poor women in the form of
massive cuts to welfare, it has to stop' said organizer Stephanie Cameron.

Media and supporters were forced to leave the building at the request of
the landlord and under threat of arrest by the VPD, but five women had
locked down in the office refusing to leave until they had a guarantee
from the Finance Minister that the surplus would be spent on housing and
services for women and children.

It took the VPD three hours to remove the remaining women from the office
and arrest them. All five are being charged with mischief. All five will
be released with mischief charges.

'This surplus was stolen from the poor women and children of this
province,' said organizer Mary Claremount. 'We were just here today to get
it back. This money was stolen through welfare, legal aid and other social
programming cuts. Evictions, homelessness, violence and child apprehension
are the only trickle-down poor women of this province have seen so far
from this government. This wont be the last time Carole Taylor and the
Liberals hear from us.'



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The Anti-Poverty Committee is an organization of poor and working people,
who fight for poor people, their rights and an end to poverty by any means
necessary.  For more information on the Anti-Poverty Committee's on-going
campaigns, visit http://apc.resist.ca  Contact us by e-mailing
apc at resist.ca or phoning 604-682-3276.

If you are able to donate financially to our legal defense or other
campaigns, deposits can be made directly into our account at any branch of
Vancity (account is listed under 'Anti-Poverty Committee).  Cheques or
money orders made out to the APC can be mailed to P.O. Box 1, 12 East
Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6A 1N1.

                           UNITED WE WILL WIN!