{"product_id":"fight-to-win-withers-9781773634814","title":"Fight to Win: Inside Poor People's Organizing","description":"\u003cp\u003eAJ Withers draws on their own experiences as an organizer, extensive interviews with OCAP activists and Toronto bureaucrats, and freedom of information requests to provide a detailed account of the work of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). This book shows that poor people's organizing can be effective even in periods of neoliberal retrenchment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFight to Win tells the stories of three key OCAP homelessness campaigns: stopping the criminalization of homeless people in a public park; the fight for poor people's access to the Housing Shelter Fund; and a campaign to improve the emergency shelter system and the City's overarching, but inadequate, Housing First policy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book shows how power works at the municipal level, including the use of a multitude of demobilization tactics, devaluing poor people as sources of knowledge about their own lives, and gaslighting poor people and anti-poverty activists. AJ Withers also details OCAP's dual activist strategy -- direct-action casework coupled with mass mobilization -- for both immediate need and long-term change. These campaigns demonstrate the validity of OCAP's longstanding critiques of dominant homelessness policies and practices. Each campaign was fully or partially successful: these victories were secured by anti-poverty activists through the use of, and the threat of, direct disruptive action tactics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Withers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 177363481X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781773634814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fernwood Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Withers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372528324863,"sku":"9781773634814","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_216b7ce0-f422-4711-9bae-d798146e8e07.jpg?v=1732726199","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fight-to-win-withers-9781773634814","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}