Take the Bread!

An evening of films and discussion on anti-poverty struggles in Montreal
and Toronto

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Monday, December 3, 2007
7:30pm
Café Cagibi, 5490 boul. St-Laurent (corner of St-Viateur)

$5-10 or pay what you can **
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--Featuring:
A screening of “Raise the Rates”, with an introduction from the
film-maker, Liisa Schofield

**Film synopsis
Following the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty's (OCAP) campaign to raise
social assistance rates in Ontario in 2005-2006, this documentary features
first-hand accounts of 5 women involved in the campaign as well as footage
from special diet clinics, demonstrations, and occupations. From powerful
voices of people directly affected by the welfare system comes a demand to
raise the rates, and a determination to fight back. (25 mins, en with fr
subtitles, 2006)

--Presentations afterwards from members of the Ontario Coalition Against
Poverty (www.ocap.ca) and the Comité des sans-emploi Montréal Centre on
building direct action campaigns against hunger and poverty from the
ground up.
(Presentations will be in French, with whisper translation towards English)

**All proceeds go to the Comite des sans-emploi, Montreal Centre

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Speaking at a rally of unemployed workers in Union Square in New York
City in 1893, the notorious anarchist-feminist organizer Emma Goldman once
famously stated, “ask for work. If they don’t give you work, ask for
bread. If they don’t give you work or bread, then TAKE the bread.”
Now, 114 years later in Montreal, these words still resonate.

Join us for an evening of discussion on anti-poverty struggles in Montreal
and Toronto. While many politicians, community organizations, social
workers, and charity organizations tell us to take the fight against
poverty through “legal channels”, “respectable” organizations, and
“civilized protest”, we’re still fighting to put food on the table, and
often not succeeding. We will be talking about grassroots, radical
campaigns against hunger and poverty, which have challenged the notion of
charity, and have built real relationships of solidarity, where struggle
is rooted in the communities which are the most affected.

For more information, contact qpirg@ssmu.mcgill.ca

*****AND DON’T FORGET THE COMMAND0-BOUFFE (FOOD-GRAB), DECEMBER 4,
11:30AM, 1710 BEAUDRY. LET’S GO GET FOOD WHERE IT’S PLENTIFUL!