Posts Tagged ‘
poverty ’
Oct 2nd, 2012 |
By Collective |
Category: Campaigns (incl.) Grassroots, Regular Features, Reports
TORONTO-CANADA This study builds upon the findings of several recent participatory projects in which women facing homelessness have taken the lead and voiced their knowledge about the causes and consequences of, and the solutions to homelessness. by Emily ParadisOctober 01, 2012 The impacts of homelessness are not only physical and emotional – they are also [...]
Tags: autonomy in poverty, Canada, Cheryl Smith, Emily paradis, Forward, grassroots, london ontario, national grassroots women, ontario, Patricia Diaz Cummings, peacockpoverty, poverty, Sheeri Bardy, toronto ontario, women and homelessness Posted in Campaigns (incl.) Grassroots, Regular Features, Reports |
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Mar 28th, 2012 |
By Collective |
Category: Campaigns (incl.) Grassroots, Community Board, Community Exchange
Ontario’s ‘sunshine list’ grows by 10% List names public-sector workers who earn more than $100,000 CBC News Posted: Mar 23, 2012 11:32 AM ET Last Updated: Mar 23, 2012 6:01 PM ET Read 281 comments281 Video Content Sunshine list2:21 External Links Ontario’s 2012 sunshine list (Note:CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the [...]
Tags: homelessness, Ontario's Sunshine List, poverty Posted in Campaigns (incl.) Grassroots, Community Board, Community Exchange |
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Mar 28th, 2012 |
By Collective |
Category: Campaigns (incl.) Grassroots, Community Board, Community Resource
Canada Without Poverty, formerly named the National Anti-Poverty Organization, was founded in 1971 and is a federally incorporated, non-partisan, not-for-profit and charitable organization dedicated to the elimination of poverty in Canada. All directors on our 16-seat Board of Directors have the lived experience of poverty. Please see our website for more information and for our Terms [...]
Tags: Canada without poverty, peacockpoverty, poverty Posted in Campaigns (incl.) Grassroots, Community Board, Community Resource |
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Feb 21st, 2011 |
By scout |
Category: Community Board, Community Exchange, Community Resource, Life
Miracle Hot Springs (formerly, Hobo Hot Springs, Clear Creek Hot Springs, Air Compressor Springs, and Compressor Hot Springs)[2] is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California.[1] It is located on the Kern River 14 miles (23 km) southeast of Glennville,[2] at an elevation of 2382 feet (726 m).[1] The Hobo Hot Springs post office opened in [...]
Tags: hobo california, miralcles, origins, peacock poverty, poverty, poverty canada, poverty toronto, stigma Posted in Community Board, Community Exchange, Community Resource, Life |
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Jan 25th, 2011 |
By Collective |
Category: Audio, Campaigns (incl.) Grassroots, Community Board, Community Resource, Life
This video is a speech from Barrick Gold’s founder and chairman, Peter Munk, at the company’s shareholder’s meeting last year. The only thing that we added were the photos from Barrick’s operations around the world, to expose the delusional and misleading nature of Munk’s words. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/01/23/18670051.php Big Shout Out to Chai (in the middle) of [...]
Tags: a speech at the Barrick Gold, Barrick's operations, Fallacies of Capitalism: Peter Munk, mining, ONE WORLD, peacockpoverty, poverty, sakura saunders Posted in Audio, Campaigns (incl.) Grassroots, Community Board, Community Resource, Life |
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Jan 2nd, 2011 |
By Cheryl Smith |
Category: Community Board, Life, Written Word
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin http://www.miafarrow.org With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted [...]
Tags: canada poverty, Cheryl Smith, Mia Farrow, peacockpoverty, poverty, The ones who walk away from Omelas, thrid world poverty, Ursela LeGuin Posted in Community Board, Life, Written Word |
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Dec 28th, 2010 |
By Cheryl Smith |
Category: Community Board
African Charter Article #9 1. Every individual shall have the right to receive information. 2. Every individual shall have the right to express and disseminate his opinions within the law. Summary & Comment: Kenyan political parties’ beautiful manifestos on women’s issues have not been matched by actions. The hollow words echo through a recent Amnesty [...]
Tags: Cheryl Smith, freedom, kenyan politicaqin, Kenyan vilence, peacockpoverty, politics, poverty, violence against woemn, women's rights Posted in Community Board |
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Dec 22nd, 2010 |
By Collective |
Category: Audio, Poetry and Inspiration
“THE BUD CONTAINS ALL THINGS EVEN THOSE THINGS WHICH DO NOT FLOWER” Wayseer Manifesto v1 by The Wayseers Share this:
Tags: hope, hope music, inspiration, inspiration music, peacockpoverty, poverty, revolution music, Wayseers, wayseers manifesto Posted in Audio, Poetry and Inspiration |
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Dec 20th, 2010 |
By vawnshere |
Category: Community Resource
All photos by John Bonnar, Raise the Rates Rally, Toronto, Ca Toronto’s Middle Class Disappearing, Report Finds By Jason Loftus Epoch Times Staff Created: Dec 16, 2010 Submitted by Vawn Smith Titled “Three Cities Within Toronto,” (a) report was authored by David Hulchanski, associate director of research at the University of Toronto’s Cities Centre. It [...]
Tags: Canadian poverty, CAS, Cheryl Smith, kelly mackin, poverty, toronto poverty, vawn m smith Posted in Community Resource |
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Aug 23rd, 2010 |
By Collective |
Category: Campaigns (incl.) Grassroots, Community Board, Community Resource
Don’t slash food assistance Aug 23, 2010 04:00 am A Toronto Star editorial says the Special Diet replacement program is unlikely to meet the needs of recipients with medical conditions unless the government consults with them before implementing it. read more Groups want input on Ontario’s new nutrition supplement Aug 23, 2010 04:00 am Health [...]
Tags: cleonet, disability support program, odsp, poverty, poverty ontario Canada, special diet, Special diet Ontario Posted in Campaigns (incl.) Grassroots, Community Board, Community Resource |
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