Community Resistance to the War on the Poor
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1199 .... December 21, 2015
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Community Resistance to the War on the Poor:
The Online Course
Justin Podur interviews John Clarke and A.J. Withers
In January 2016, John Clarke and A.J. Withers will be teaching the online course, "Community Resistance to the War on the Poor," at the World Institute for Social Change, an experiment in online courses for the left sponsored by Znet.
The course will present an overview of a decades long history of organizing resistance in poor communities in Ontario to the mounting agenda of austerity. It will deal with the history of the organization and look at some of its key struggles and campaigns but it will seek to do so in a way the examines the factors driving the mounting attack on the poor... in society. It will also explore, based on concrete examples, how poor people can organize to develop and assert political power in the difficult context of social abandonment. The war on the poor and resistance in the face of it will be linked to the development of the intensifying, post-2008 agenda of hyper-austerity and prospects for developing and expanding resistance in poor communities will be considered from the standpoint of how they can merge with and strengthen a broader movement of social resistance incorporating wider sections of the working-class population.
This interview discusses the course, what participants will get out of it, and the differences between an online and in-person course.
