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blake 3:17
19th February 2014, 22:22
STOP THE LIBERAL WAR ON THE POOR

Raise the Rates March to the Ontario Liberal Party Convention
Saturday, March 22nd, 2014
Assemble at Metro Hall, King and John, 1.00 PM
Meal, rally and March

“Our pots and pans are empty, bring yours to bang!!!!!”

Kathleen Wynne is every inch a Liberal. She talks about poverty reduction
while imposing deeper poverty on communities. She has been a leading
member of the Government all along while social assistance (OW and ODSP)
rates have lost even more of their spending power. She was a cabinet
minister while the minimum wage was frozen, while the Special Diet was
slashed and while the Community Start Up and Maintenance Benefit was being
eliminated. There is no question that the Liberals added their own misery
to the brutal cuts that the Harris Tories imposed in 1995. Today a single
person on Ontario Works is expected to survive on just $626 a month, while
rent and cost of living continues to rise beyond reach. As we head into
another round of provincial elections in the spring, we will not be swayed
by fake gestures and empty rhetoric from any politicians.

We’re going to march on the Convention to demand from all parties:

• Raise OW and ODSP 55% to restore the spending power lost since 1995!

• Provide a $14 an hour minimum wage fully indexed to inflation!

• Fully restore the Special Diet and Community Start Up Benefits!

• No merger of OW and ODSP, stop the attack on Disability benefits!

For information on how you can help build or participate in this March and
Rally call the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) at (416) 925-6939
or email [email protected]

*Buses coming in from Sudbury, Kingston, Kitchener-Waterloo and more –
stay tuned for more info!
What are we fighting for: http://update.ocap.ca/node/1135 On Facebook,
join the Raise the Rates page: https://www.facebook.com/RaiseTheRates
Twitter: @OCAPtoronto #RaisetheRates

blake 3:17
21st March 2014, 21:39
bring a ruckus -- folks in the UK are supporting this by tweet -- awesome

Twitterstorm to support #RaisetheRates Protest on Liberal AGM in Ontario Saturday 22nd March Kathleen Wynne's Liberals are a Government of austerity and poverty that hides behind a facade of 'poverty reduction'. People are poorer to day on Ontario Works and ODSP than they were when the Liberals took over from the Tories. Vital programmes like the Community Start Up and the Special Diet have been slashed and a UK style attack on disability benefits is being prepared. As the Liberals gather in Ontario for their AGM and prepare for further austerity measures, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and its community and union allies in the Raise the Rates Campaign are marching on them. Please send in these tweets or others you may wish to compose at 2.30 PM, Toronto time this Saturday, March 22 and help us fight back against Wynne's war on the poor from 2.30pm EST in solidarity with the demonstration from 10.30am GMT for those who want to tweet in support from the UK - See more at: http://dftr.org.uk/RaiseTheRates/songbird.php#sthash.3TFmsV7e.dpuf