Category Archives: Poverty

WEBCAST- Keep Your Rent: Tenants’ Rights in the Age of COVID-19

  Live broadcast starts Thursday, May 21, 7 p.m.  with Rob McBean, Peter D’Gama and Euridice Baumgarten, and Ellen Ramsay in Vancouver. For more information, including links to past webcasts and other videos, go regularly to:  http://www.socialistaction.ca For answers to your specific questions, and/or to join Socialist Action, write to:  socialistactioncanada@gmail.com #socialism #socialist #SocialistAction #revolution […]

WEBCAST – COVID-19: Capitalism is the Virus

Webcast COVID-19:  Capitalism is the Virus — Thursday, May 14, 7 p.m. with Robbie Mahood in Montreal, Daniel Tarade in Toronto and Tom Baker in Hamilton. For more information, including links to past webcasts and other videos, go regularly to:  http://www.socialistaction.ca For answers to your specific questions, and/or to join Socialist Action, write to:  socialistactioncanada@gmail.com […]

ACORN versus Payday Loan Sharks

by Rob McBean In times of crisis, they say the world loves an authoritarian. Those who were around for September 11, 2001 will remember that idiotic Republican U.S. President George W. Bush’s approval rating went from 50% to 90% in under 2 weeks. Today’s doomsday scenario, the COVID-19 pandemic, has given Ontario its own strongman […]

34th Annual SA Celebration of International Workers’ Day

Webcast 34th Annual SA Celebration of International Workers’ Day, Saturday, May 2, 7 p.m.  with a number of speakers and entertainers, chaired by Elizabeth Byce.   with guest speakers: John Clarke, co-founder, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. Naila Saeed, Indocanadians4humanity. Dirka Prout, co-chair of NDP Women’s Council, member of Socialist Caucus steering ctte. Yvonne Hanson, climate […]