John Clarke from OCAP (Ontario Coalition Against Poverty) and Heidi Rimke from OCAT (Ottawa Coalition Against the Tories) talk about the upcoming province-wide economic disruption campaign and why Ottawa needs to move beyond Tory resistance to taking dire
John Clarke from OCAP and Heidi Rimke from OCAT talk about the upcoming province-wide economic disruption campaign and why Ottawa needs to move beyond Tory resistance to taking action against the Harris Tories.
Their talks were followed by an impassioned question and answer period demonstrating Ottawa's growing commitment to defeat the Tories.
OCAP = Ontario Coalition Against Poverty OCAT = Ottawa Coalition Against Tories
The Panel (in order of surname):
John Clarke: Tireless OCAP organizer and activist
Denise Lachance: Billingual chair of the evening, activist and OCAT member
Heidi Rimke: Ottawa activist, Carleton Phd. student, CUPE member (4600) and OCAT member
Venue: auditorium: main branch of the Ottawa Public Library July-24-01 7pm-9pm Attendance: ~95-100!
Description of audience: A good cross-section of varying age, education, vocation, income and political philosophy. Gender representation was also balanced.
Members of the independent and corporate press were also in attendance
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