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2 episodes with ontario coalition against poverty ocap
3 episodes with ontario coalition against poverty ocap
3 episodes with ontario coalition against poverty ocap
A conversation with long time anti poverty activist and community organizer about ongoing organizing work in Toronto to fight gentrification. John speaks about the ways that climate justice and housing are connected in this interview. Also John specifically highlights the 230 Fight Back campaign. John Clarke was an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) for 28 years. He is presently the Packer Visitor in Social Justice at York University and a member of 230 Fighback, resisting gentrification in Toronto's Downtown East. https://230fightback.com Our weekly music is "Passage" by Anarchist Mountains. Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff and airs on @radiockut 90.3FM at 11am on Wednesdays and @cjlo1690 AM in Tiohti:áke/Montréal on Tuesdays at 1pm. On @ckuwradio 95.9FM in Winnipeg at 10:30pm on Tuesdays. On @cfrc 101.9FM in Kingston, Ontario at 11:30am on Wednesdays. Also it broadcasts on @cfuv 101.9 FM in Victoria, BC on Wednesdays at 9am and Saturdays at 7am.
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) has been one of the leading organizations in the struggle for social justice within Canada for several decades. In the brilliant Fight to Win: Inside Poor People's Organizing (Fernwood Publishing, 2021), author AJ Withers draws on their own experience as an organizer, on interviews with the people with whom OCAP campaigned and with City bureaucrats alike, and on Freedom of Information requests to map the ‘social relations of struggle' that contour poor people's organizing in Toronto across a number of campaigns. Offering incisive interventions into theories of the state and bureaucracies, and detailing the work of poor people struggling for epistemic and material justice, Withers' book is a must-read for those who are interested in what it takes to fight to win. Phil Henderson is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carleton University's Institute of Political Economy where his research interests focus on the interrelations between Indigenous land/water defenders and organized labour in what's presently known as Canada. More information can be found at his personal website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) has been one of the leading organizations in the struggle for social justice within Canada for several decades. In the brilliant Fight to Win: Inside Poor People's Organizing (Fernwood Publishing, 2021), author AJ Withers draws on their own experience as an organizer, on interviews with the people with whom OCAP campaigned and with City bureaucrats alike, and on Freedom of Information requests to map the ‘social relations of struggle' that contour poor people's organizing in Toronto across a number of campaigns. Offering incisive interventions into theories of the state and bureaucracies, and detailing the work of poor people struggling for epistemic and material justice, Withers' book is a must-read for those who are interested in what it takes to fight to win. Phil Henderson is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carleton University's Institute of Political Economy where his research interests focus on the interrelations between Indigenous land/water defenders and organized labour in what's presently known as Canada. More information can be found at his personal website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) has been one of the leading organizations in the struggle for social justice within Canada for several decades. In the brilliant Fight to Win: Inside Poor People's Organizing (Fernwood Publishing, 2021), author AJ Withers draws on their own experience as an organizer, on interviews with the people with whom OCAP campaigned and with City bureaucrats alike, and on Freedom of Information requests to map the ‘social relations of struggle' that contour poor people's organizing in Toronto across a number of campaigns. Offering incisive interventions into theories of the state and bureaucracies, and detailing the work of poor people struggling for epistemic and material justice, Withers' book is a must-read for those who are interested in what it takes to fight to win. Phil Henderson is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carleton University's Institute of Political Economy where his research interests focus on the interrelations between Indigenous land/water defenders and organized labour in what's presently known as Canada. More information can be found at his personal website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) has been one of the leading organizations in the struggle for social justice within Canada for several decades. In the brilliant Fight to Win: Inside Poor People's Organizing (Fernwood Publishing, 2021), author AJ Withers draws on their own experience as an organizer, on interviews with the people with whom OCAP campaigned and with City bureaucrats alike, and on Freedom of Information requests to map the ‘social relations of struggle' that contour poor people's organizing in Toronto across a number of campaigns. Offering incisive interventions into theories of the state and bureaucracies, and detailing the work of poor people struggling for epistemic and material justice, Withers' book is a must-read for those who are interested in what it takes to fight to win. Phil Henderson is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carleton University's Institute of Political Economy where his research interests focus on the interrelations between Indigenous land/water defenders and organized labour in what's presently known as Canada. More information can be found at his personal website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With rising inflation and cost of living, what has this meant for the most marginalized groups in society? If groceries are expensive for the middle class, what about low-income families? John Clarke spent most all his life working for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) and is now a lecturer at York University. John discusses the gargantuan challenges the poor face in this environment of high inflation.
Listen to an interview with John Clarke, a long time anti-poverty organizer and community activist from Toronto. John has worked with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) for years and in 2019 was appointed the Packer Visitor in Social Justice in York University. This interview is part of a series of interviews that Free City Radio is working on in coordination with The Breach that are exploring the role of activists movements and campaigns struggling for social and economic justice in Canada in 2022 within the context of a minority Liberal government. Excerpts of this interview and a write-up will be live on The Breach in 2022. Info on The Breach : https://breachmedia.ca This interview series and Free City Radio is hosted and produced by Stefan @spirodon Christoff. Music on this edition is by Aidan Girt and Norman Nawrocki from the project Bakunin's Bum, which released a benefit album for OCAP called Fight to Win.
Finally! This is part 4 of a 4-part radio documentary series on anarchism from 2004, produced at CKUT community radio in Montreal. This episode is Freedom On the Air Part 4: Anarchism and Social Movements. This radio documentary series has been unavailable for a long time online...until now! Enjoy, and create trouble. We'll be back to regular Rebel Beat programming soon. Track listing: 0:00 - Intro 0:56 - Deschooling 2:30 - Matt Hern 9:23 - Anarchsim in Africa 9:51 - Ashanti Alston 15:33 - Iraq Solidarity Project 16:14 - Andrea Schmidt 23:12 - Institute for Social Ecology 24:01 - Social ecology and green anarchy 36:05 - Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) 37:08 - PJ Lilley 42:27 - 7-Year Squat 44:00 - Amy Miller and Mandy Hiscocks 50:50 - Direct democracy in Montreal 51:20 - Anarchy in Point St-Charles 59:39 - Outro Produced by the anarchist elves of the CKUT community news collective: Aaron, Brook, Neil, Eric, Greg, Sabrina, Tamara, Arun --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Kate was recently on Victor's Children, a podcast hosted by David Camfield, to discuss class struggle in the past, present and future. Kate was joined on the panel by John Clarke, a writer and retired organizer for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). Subscribe to Victor's Children here: https://pod.link/1556511995
In episode #308 of Talking Radical Radio (February 19, 2019), Scott Neigh interviews John Clarke, an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) from its founding in 1990 until his retirement in late January. They talk about Clarke's long involvement in radical grassroots politics, particularly in OCAP, and about the challenges that social movements face today. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2019/02/19/trr-john_clarke/
listen to an interview with John Clarke from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) in Toronto speaking on the ways that federal Liberal policies under Justin Trudeau work to compound & deepen poverty in Canada, from skewed priorities around spending choices, i.e. pouring billions in spending increases into military spending v.s. putting those funds into supporting public institutions like social housing, education and health care. more info on OCAP at : http://www.ocap.ca this interview was recorded for broadcast on CKUT fm in Montreal by Stefan @spirodon Christoff.
Organizer John Clarke with Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) says the program does not work; panhandlers are ticketed and convicted but aren't able to pay the fines imposed.
Coordinator of Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), John Clarke discusses 27 homeless deaths in just 3 months this year in Toronto.
On today's show we speak with John Clarke from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) about post-G20 organizing in Toronto and the parallels between the criminalization of community organizers during the G20 and OCAP's June 15, 2000 demonstration at Queen's Park. Featuring: "No Borders No Fences" Harsha Walia, Jaggi Singh and SK Hussan + Sikh Knowledge Support the legal defense efforts: http://www.g20.torontomobilize.org/ STOP THE SPECIAL DIET CUT – RAISE WELFARE/ODSP RATES NOW! Meal, Rally and Action Wednesday, July 21 @ 12 noon Ministry of Community and Social Services, 900 Bay St @ Wellesley Poster here: http://update.ocap.ca/node/896
On today's show we speak with John Clarke from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) about post-G20 organizing in Toronto and the parallels between the criminalization of community organizers during the G20 and OCAP's June 15, 2000 demonstration at Queen's Park. Featuring: "No Borders No Fences" Harsha Walia, Jaggi Singh and SK Hussan + Sikh Knowledge Support the legal defense efforts: http://www.g20.torontomobilize.org/ STOP THE SPECIAL DIET CUT – RAISE WELFARE/ODSP RATES NOW! Meal, Rally and Action Wednesday, July 21 @ 12 noon Ministry of Community and Social Services, 900 Bay St @ Wellesley Poster here: http://update.ocap.ca/node/896
On today's show we speak with John Clarke from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) about post-G20 organizing in Toronto and the parallels between the criminalization of community organizers during the G20 and OCAP's June 15, 2000 demonstration at Queen's Park. Featuring: "No Borders No Fences" Harsha Walia, Jaggi Singh and SK Hussan + Sikh Knowledge Support the legal defense efforts: http://www.g20.torontomobilize.org/ STOP THE SPECIAL DIET CUT – RAISE WELFARE/ODSP RATES NOW! Meal, Rally and Action Wednesday, July 21 @ 12 noon Ministry of Community and Social Services, 900 Bay St @ Wellesley Poster here: http://update.ocap.ca/node/896
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