Anti-Poverty Committee

Anti-Poverty Committee

The Anti-Poverty Committee (APC) is an organisation based in Vancouver, British Columbia that campaigns against poverty and homelessness.

The APC participates in direct action events such as sit-ins and squats [cite web
title=Anti-poverty squat a 'last resort'
work=CBC News
url=http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2006/10/23/bc-squat.html
accessdate=2007-03-15] to protests closure of low-income housing projects and has garnered considerable attention with disruptive protests [cite web
title=Dignitaries, Spectators and Protestors
work=News1130
url=http://www.news1130.com/news/topstory/article.jsp?content=20070312_215127_1024
accessdate=2007-03-15] centred around the 2010 Winter Olympics, to be held in Vancouver.

According to its website, the Anti-Poverty Committee "is an organization of poor and working people, who fight for poor people, their rights and an end to poverty by any means necessary." [cite web| title=Statement| work=Anti-Poverty Committee website|url=http://apc.resist.ca/|accessdate=2007-03-15]

Opposition to the 2010 Winter Olympics

On a May weekend in 2007, Vancouver Police used a ruse to arrest APC organizer David Cunningham as part of their investigation into threats made to "evict" 2010 Winter Olympic Games board members from their homes and offices. The police had pretended to be a reporter with Vancouver's commuter newspaper "24 Hours". This ruse was criticised in newspaper editorials as endangering the media's appearance of independence.

On May 22 2007, following Cunningham's arrest, three APC activists pretended to be delivering flowers as a ruse to gain entry to the Vancouver offices of BC Premier Gordon Campbell. The group began destroying glassware, as well as overturning furniture and scattering documents. The group stated that this action was an eviction of 2010 Winter Olympic Games special advisor Ken Dobell from his office. [cite web| title=Housing activists trash B.C. Premier's offices| work=Globe and Mail| url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070523.wbcolympics23/BNStory/National/home| accessdate=2007-05-23]

ee also

*Downtown Eastside Residents Association
*Poverty in Canada

References

External links

* [http://apc.resist.ca/ Official website] .


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