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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/iraq/bal-te.money03jul03,0,5386955.story

Money is intended for rebuilding use; international board plans to do audit

By Mark Matthews

Sun National Staff

Originally published July 3, 2004

WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials in charge of the Development Fund for Iraq drained all but $900 million from the $20 billion fund by late last month in what a watchdog group has called an "11th-hour splurge."

Police arrest 11 in steal-a-thon

BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER

By Jeremy Ashley

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 10:00

Local News - A new protest tactic used by a local activist group landed 11 members in a jail cell Friday, including the groups leaders.  An investigation into the Tenant Action Group is continuing following the arrest of 11 members on charges of 'counseling to commit theft, at an east-end grocery store Friday evening.

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty,

Social Cleansing Mayor Picketed by OCAP

On June 17, the leading lights of Toronto Mayor David Miller's election campaign gathered at an exclusive Rosedale residence to be thanked for their efforts. OCAP was there to deliver a different message and picketed the place to the outrage of the assembled developers and labour bureaucrats.

The Province ; Wednesday, June 9, 2004
; By Don Harrison

Three per cent of pregnant Surrey women never see a doctor before giving
birth, contributing to an infant-mortality rate higher than the provincial
average. Poverty is to blame.

OCAP

On Thursday May 27th, people living under the Bathurst Street Bridge
watched their homes bulldozed and destroyed by a large crew of city
workers, flanked by police from numerous downtown police divisions. What
was once a small community is now surrounded by tall fencing.

Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Stan Hagen, the BC Liberals' Minister of Human Resources, was chased out of the Downtown Eastside today by the APC Welcoming Committee, made up of residents and supporters.  

Initially peaceful, the marchers soon began vandalizing luxury cars, breaking windows and mirrors and spray-painting them with "nasty words," mostly in the area near Sherbrooke and Green Sts.

Bill Tieleman ; Georgia Straight ; May 20, 2004

An independent audit has shown that Doug Walls (related to Gordon Campbell by marriage), wasted more than a million dollars that should have gone to help people with disabilities.

Bill Tieleman ; Georgia Straight ; May 20, 2004

Lorne Mayencourt, B.C. Liberal MLA for Vancouver-Burrard, has declared personal bankruptcy TWICE. The same soul is pushing a private members bill to deal with panhandlers and squeegee kids by sending them to jail.

May 11, 2004

(Vancouver) Anti-poverty organizations are condemning the proposed Safe
Streets Act and Trespass to Property Act.

"Being poor is not a crime in British Columbia - at least, not yet," said
Lesley Moore of End Legislated Poverty. "Lorne Mayercourt's 'Safe Streets
Act' would strip away the right of poor people to ask for money. It is an
attack on the right of the poor to scrape by, and an attack on their
Charter-protected right to free speech. Maybe that's why Attorney General
Geoff Plant isn't embracing this legislation with the same vigour as his
colleagues."

vancouver.cbc.ca

Vancouver Liberal MLA Lorne Mayencourt wants to ban squeegee kids and aggressive panhandlers, and he's introduced a private member's bill to do it.

"The lesson has been clear for a very long time.  The problem is that the union bureaucracy is congenitally incapable of resistance.  It is a privileged layer that can only operate in conditions of stalemate in the class struggle.  A decisive victory by working people eliminates the need for them, because the energized roots don't need them."

LONDON - Jay Dixon spent two months this winter living in her cold London apartment.
She couldn't afford to pay her gas bill. So she spent February and March with hot water bottles covering her body, sleeping under eight blankets with a ski mask on, constantly worrying that her pipes would freeze before she did.

Like thousands of Ontarians who can't work because of medical or physical disabilities, Dixon has lived on $11,160 a year (before taxes) for 11 years.

BELLEVILLE, Ont. -- Eleven people have been charged with counselling to commit theft after an unusual anti-poverty protest in which people were encouraged to steal, police say. The accused are all members of the Tenant Action Group and were arrested Friday at an east-end grocery store in this eastern Ontario city.

Vancouver Sun - April 17, 2004

VICTORIA -- Thousands of British Columbians suffering from mental illness,
alcoholism or drug addiction will soon be forced to draft "employment
plans" in order to continue receiving welfare.