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Help Fund The Fightback - Become An OCAP Sustainer
Submitted by ocap on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 15:13.*[Please note that Alertpay is temporarily unable to process credit card donations, but we can set up monthly sustainers through automatic bank withdrawals if you are willing to send us void cheque indicating how much you would like to donate monthly]*
Help Sustain OCAP!
Although OCAP operates on a very modest budget, with three organizers, the operation of a downtown Toronto office, and a multitude of related expenses, we only just manage to scrape by. We need a stable source of regular support that can keep us afloat.
You can become a sustainer who makes a donation each and every month and helps us keep doing the casework and organizing that we do. Every dollar you donate helps us put more money the pockets of poor people.
5 Reasons To Put A ‘Donation To OCAP’ On Your Holidays Wishlist
Submitted by ocap on Wed, 12/14/2011 - 21:41.
1) There’s a Grinch in Town, and His Name is Rob Ford
Rob Ford doesn’t have a red nose like Rudolph. He has the long nose of a liar! During his campaign, he promised Torontonians that there would be no service cuts during his reign as mayor, but that soon proved to be a bold faced lie. On the chopping block already are libraries, childcare, unionized jobs for city workers, parks, community start-up grants and museums.
In October, Toronto Community Housing Board approved the selling off of over 700 homes. In a city where the wait time to get into affordable housing is nearly a decade long, this is just not acceptable.
If his political allegiance was not clear enough, his city council has even cut the Christmas Fund, a program that brought holiday gifts to needy children (we couldn’t make this stuff up!).
Our plan is not to wait for his heart to grow three sizes bigger. It is to ramp up the fight back now and kick those greedy grinches out of office.
Support The Struggle And Become An OCAP Sustainer
Submitted by ocap on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 17:14.As little as $10 a month can help us maintain our work across this city and it just got easier to give.
The Fight Against Poverty Is Going To A New Level
Submitted by ocap on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 15:02.Please support OCAP's struggles in 2009
We have already started to take calls from laid off workers who don'tknow how to apply for EI or welfare. More and more people are calling us because they can't pay their rent and they face eviction. We are going into the worst economic crisis in generations and, while bailouts for the rich are readily available, the poor are going to have to fight for their survival in this crisis.
OCAP plans to go into action in 2009 to build a strong movement that can ensure that welfare offices don't turn away people in need, that a challenge to economic evictions is taken up, that workers, including those without status or on temporary work permits, are not exploited even more, that income support systems are strengthened, that 'economic stimulation' resources are allocated to meet the needs of communities, that poor people come out of this crisis united and stronger than ever.
