Invitation
Press Conference and Town Hall Meeting
Fighting Back Against Cuts to Disability Benefits-from UK to Ontario
with Ellen Clifford of Disabled People Against the Cuts, UK
The Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (SCAP) will be hosting Ellen Clifford from Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC) of the UK at a Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, May 6, in Kinsmen Rm A, Parkside Older Adult Centre, Durham St.
Press conference – 6:30 pm
Town Hall Meeting – 7 pm
This is part of an Ontario-wide speaking tour organised by the Raise the Rates Campaign that will be visiting Toronto, Kitchener, Sudbury, North Bay, Kingston and Ottawa.
Featured speaker:
Ellen Clifford of DPAC has been campaigning with the disabled people’s movement for 15 years and, since 2011, has sat on the National Steering Committee of DPAC. She is also a member of Unite the Union and works to build solidarity between workers in unions and those forced to live on social benefits.
Raise the Rates is a campaign to fight poverty by raising social assistance rates in Ontario. Jointly organized by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (S-CAP), Kingston Coalition Against Poverty (K-CAP), Poverty Makes Us Sick Waterloo Region, Poverty Makes Us Sick Ottawa, OPSEU and other grassroots anti-poverty organizers and trade union allies from across Ontario. We are a growing movement united in fighting for:
· Raise Social Assistance Rates 55%: reverse the cuts, raise the rates!
· Restore Special Diet and Community Start-Up Benefits
· Stop the Attack on Disability Benefits
· Living wage for all: Raise the Minimum wage above poverty wages
Visit: RaisetheRates.ca; https://www.facebook.com/RaiseTheRates; #RaisetheRates
For more information on the Sudbury event, please visit the SCAP website at http://sudburycap.com or reach us by phone at 249.878.7227 or by e-mail at sudburycap@gmail.com.
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