Talk:Ontario Coalition Against Poverty

Comment
"Whereas more "liberal" anti-poverty groups use charity and advocate reform while speaking patronizingly of the poor, the OCAP works with and for the poor for basic and immediate needs."

Hardly neutral language. User:64.228.93.79


 * Be bold! and fix it then. And plz sign your posts. Beta m (talk)

2010 comment
This page is basicly a self published piece....it's nearly a word for word copy of the OCAP's history pare on their site: http://ocap.ca/files/history%20of%20ocap.pdf

I would say if its not changed soon, much of the page should be blanked. reliable 3rd party resources need to be found and after some initial searching most of the info is not verifiable by online sources 209.121.225.250 (talk) 01:10, 7 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Seing as its been a week and there has been no response I'm going to be bold and remove much of the self published material. I've done some initial googling to find reliable 3rd party sources and will leave what I can verify through those. 206.108.31.34 (talk) 16:08, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

I volunteer to work on this article tomorrow. I will reference where needed, remove content which can not be verified and tidy per wikipedia guidlines. --Ciaran M (talk) 23:10, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

5 days later no changes or additional sources. I ask that the info be left our until reliable sources can be found. Wiki is not about adding content and then trying to find a reliable source after the fact. The source needs to come first. Sorry guys. 206.108.31.36 (talk) 17:10, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Funding
OCAP is funded through private donations and support from labour unions. At one time up to a third of their operating funds came from the Canadian Auto Workers, but the CAW cut most of its funding after the Flaherty action (Shantz, 2009) and OCAP has since had to engage in raising funds from individuals in order to pay its organizers. Shortly after the CAW discontinued funding OCAP, Canadian Union of Public Employees local 3903, representing York University Teaching Assistants and contract faculty passed a motion to pay the monthly rent for the organization's office space. Strong connections between CUPE 3903 and OCAP were developed when 3903 members took part in a 78-day strike in the winter of 2000/2001. The strike was in defense of tuition indexation to wages and job security that had been challenged by the provincial Tory government. During this period 3903 members became increasingly active in solidarity initiatives with other workers in labour disputes, and with anti-poverty, global justice and anti-war activists re-invigorating politics of direct action. The attempt has been to draw connections between these movements in an anti-racist form of social movement unionism (Black, Simon J. 2005).

Strategy and tactics
A main tactic of the group is Direct Action Casework, which is rooted in labour organizing tactics and the anti-poverty strategy described by Richard Cloward and Fran Piven in the 1972 book, Poor People's Movements. It builds the strength of the community by bringing groups of people together who have similar concerns that aren't being addressed by welfare offices, immigration offices, or housing officials or landlords. As a group, these people and their supporters go en masse to the appropriate office and demand a resolution to their claims, often refusing to leave until their demands are resolved. The principles of Direct Action Casework are as follows: 1. To combine legal work with disruptive action 2. Not to duplicate the work of legal clinics or other agencies 3. To forward political goals but never compromise the interests of those you are working with in the process (Direct Action Casework Manual, OCAP)

The group is especially confrontational towards neighbourhood associations that tend to work to close homeless shelters and evict the poor from neighbourhoods.

-moved out of article Mujinga (talk) 21:20, 21 March 2020 (UTC)