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Fighting to Win
Power and Poor People’s Organizing
From: Fight to Win
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This chapter introduces Ontario Coalition Against Poverty’s mass mobilization strategies and individual casework as organizing principles. The role of casework as a dual activist strategy – direct-action casework coupled with mass mobilization – for both immediate needs and long-term change is discussed. Also discussed: Homelessness, Homeless People, Poverty and the Moral Economy, Neoliberalism, and Disrupting Ruling Relations.
Contributors
A. J. Withers
A. J. Withers organized with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty for over 20 years, including as a paid organizer. They are the author of A Violent History of Benevolence: Interlocking Oppression in the Moral Economies of Social Working (with Chris Chapman) and Disability Politics and Theory and numerous other articles and book chapters. A. J. recently completed a PhD in social work at York University.
