GIVE IT OR GUARD IT!

Buildings shouldn't be lying empty while people can't find places to live.

ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26th, we will open an empty building for people who need housing. Authorities be warned: you can give it, or you can guard it!

---> MEET: Parc George-Étienne Cartier, Corner Notre-Dame and Sq. George-Étienne Cartier (Metro Place St-Henri)
---> DATE: Saturday, October 26, 2002
---> TIME: 1 PM SHARP
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Other Housing action throughout Canada

OCAP in Toronto
Vancouver: WOODWARDS
Victoria: Pandora Street Squat
Guelph and Sudbury

GIVE IT OR GUARD IT!

Buildings shouldn't be lying empty while people can't find places to live.

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ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26th, we will open an empty
building for people who need housing. Authorities be
warned: you can give it, or you can guard it!
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---> MEET: Parc George-Étienne Cartier, Corner Notre-Dame and Sq. George-Étienne Cartier (Metro Place St-Henri)

---> DATE: Saturday, October 26, 2002

---> TIME: 1 PM SHARP

A FREE meal will be served!

Bring your banners, your noisemakers and housewarming gifts.

The cold weather is setting in and Montreal's housing crisis IS NOT OVER. As luxury condos sprout up all over the South-West, increasing numbers of people do not have homes to shelter them this coming winter. At the same time, over thirty buildings lie unoccupied in the South-West alone. These buildings should be housing!

We won't stand by and watch people freeze on the streets of Montreal while empty buildings remain boarded up. We will no longer simply ask the government for more social housing built in our neighborhood (although we want that too!).

On Saturday, October 26th, we will meet at Parc George-Etienne Cartier in St-Henri. We will march to an unused building, and we will open that building for people who need it. We have told politicians and the owners of the building that they can either let us take the building, or they can use the means within their disposal to protect available housing from homeless and poorly-housed people.On October 26, 2002, they can give it or they can guard it.

For more information, or to get involved, contact
claclogement@yahoo.ca or (514)938-4538.

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This action will be carried out in coordination with other "Give it or Guard it!" actions taking place on October 26 in communities throughout Ontario, called for by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.

It is organized by the Comite Logement of the CLAC and marks the beginning of a broader campaign for universal housing. Our demands for this campaign include:

-->Build 400 new units of social housing in the South-West immediately.
-->Establish a moratorium on the construction of condos across the Island of Montreal.
-->Keep the Lachine Canal public space.
-->Establish a rent freeze until the housing crisis is over.
-->Make unused buildings legally squattable and require that all repairs and the connection of water, electricity and heating be done at the City's expense.

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La Convergence des luttes anti-capitalistes (CLAC)
The Anti-Capitalist Convergence
La Convergencia de las luchas anti-capitalistas
A Convergencia das lutas anti-capitalistas
c...@tao.ca -- 514-409-2049
http://tao.ca/~clac
MONTREAL
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