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Stay Tight
Direct-Action Casework
From: Fight to Win
$3.20
This chapter details the two distinct arms of Ontario Coalition Against Poverty: mass mobilization and case work, advocating within the larger trend of neoliberal cuts and downsizing. Successful casework which led to the waiving of discriminatory policies, along with failures, are described. Also described are vulnerabilities in campaigns, specifically how careful data and policy analysis led to Toronto Robs the Poor report and the subsequent Toronto city staff and councillor responses.
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.
