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Privately Policing Public Space
St. James Park
From: Fight to Win
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This chapter describes the brief successful campaign by OCAP against the private securitization and displacement of homeless people. The campaign challenged the moral and legal claims of the local Business Improvement Association and made its illegal actions public. These actions are interlocked with the relations of gentrification, colonialism, white supremacy, and global capitalism.
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.