TDRC Media Releases
February 25, 2003 For Immediate Release
STOP THE WAR ON THE POOR. TWO MORE MEN DEAD. ONE FROZEN, ONE BURNED. LET’S END WAR.
The
Toronto Disaster Relief Committee (TDRC) will be delivering the burnt-out
mattress on which a homeless man was burned beyond recognition last week.
The event will not only call on the City to open a new 200-bed safe
shelter but will announce an anti-war rally to open the Armouries for
peaceful purposes -- ie. to shelter and house people.
"It's ironic that while homeless people die in the streets and are crowded
into unsafe shelter that the Armouries remain virtually unused and the
City refuses to call on the federal government to use them for shelter and
housing. At the same time the Federal government is moving stealthily
towards war. At incredible expense the Canadian destroyer, the HMCS
Iroquois, is making its way to the Persian Gulf. The cost of this
operation and the ship would house many, many homeless people in Canada,"
says Beric German of the TDRC.
The TDRC feels that an appropriate response to the recent deaths should be
a call for all levels of government to end the war on the poor and on
other peoples of the world.
For
more information, contact: TDRC at
tdrc@tdrc.net
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