Name: Fight to Win: Inside Poor People's Organizing (en Inglés)
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Author: Withers
ISBN: 9781773634814

portada Fight to Win: Inside Poor People's Organizing (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Coletta Witherspoon

Editorial

Fernwood Publishing

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

220

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6 x 15.0 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9781773634814

Categorías

Servicios sociales

Fight to Win: Inside Poor People's Organizing (en Inglés)

Coletta Witherspoon (Autor) · Fernwood Publishing · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Fight to Win: Inside Poor People's Organizing (en Inglés)"

AJ Withers draws on their own experiences as an organizer, extensive interviews with OCAP activists and Toronto bureaucrats, and freedom of information requests to provide a detailed account of the work of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). This book shows that poor people's organizing can be effective even in periods of neoliberal retrenchment. Fight to Win tells the stories of three key OCAP homelessness campaigns: stopping the criminalization of homeless people in a public park; the fight for poor people's access to the Housing Shelter Fund; and a campaign to improve the emergency shelter system and the City's overarching, but inadequate, Housing First policy. This book shows how power works at the municipal level, including the use of a multitude of demobilization tactics, devaluing poor people as sources of knowledge about their own lives, and gaslighting poor people and anti-poverty activists. AJ Withers also details OCAP's dual activist strategy -- direct-action casework coupled with mass mobilization -- for both immediate need and long-term change. These campaigns demonstrate the validity of OCAP's longstanding critiques of dominant homelessness policies and practices. Each campaign was fully or partially successful: these victories were secured by anti-poverty activists through the use of, and the threat of, direct disruptive action tactics.