OCAP ‘Mass Panhandle’ Scheduled To Clog Up Underground PATH System
Posted December 11, 2007 12:00 pm.
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A protest scheduled for Wednesday morning could cause complications for those trying to navigate one of Toronto’s main underground arteries.
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) is preparing to mobilize many of the city’s homeless people and their supporters in the underground PATH system for a mass panhandle.
The group action is reportedly a protest against what OCAP claims “are huge cuts to social programs and a desperate lack of affordable housing (that) have fueled a crises of homelessness in Toronto,” a release on the OCAP website stated.
OCAP has also stated the mass panhandle isn’t something people who walk on the underground system, which connects many of the downtown’s major business buildings and centres, should feel threatened by.
We want to make clear that our anger at the injustices homeless people face is not directed against ordinary people eating or shopping in the Path,” the release continues.
“We will ask you for some change if you wish to give it and we will ask for your support and understanding of the situation facing the homeless.”
OCAP demonstrators are planning to gather at 11am at a park just west of King and Bay before heading underground.
