Mick Sweetman

What will it take to win the lockout at Electro-Motive Diesel?

Mick Sweetman — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:03:14 +0000

Occupying housing from the Pope Squat to Occupy Toronto

Mick Sweetman — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:55:28 +0000

Looking at the experiences of past political squats as Occupy Toronto moves to take new ones.

It was a sweltering afternoon in late July 2002 when the armoured vehicles of the Toronto Police Emergency Task Force pulled up in front of our building. Quickly we started barricading the door with an old desk, if they were coming to kick us out we weren't going to make it easy for them. We waited tensely as the cops approached the door with submachine guns drawn. Our crime?

Defiant poor pack rowdy public meeting

Mick Sweetman — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:41:48 +0000

Toronto — Over 75 poor and working people held a rowdy public meeting Friday evening at St. Luke's church at Sherbourne and Carlton. The meeting followed the Ontario budget announcement that cut the Special Diet supplement for people on social assistance.

Poverty activists use fake transfers to ride streetcars

Mick Sweetman — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:51:43 +0000

Linchpin.ca

TORONTO — At a streetcar stop at Queen and Bay streets Saturday about 50 anti-poverty activists boarded a westbound streetcar after showing the driver protest “transfers” made by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) in what they called a “pilot program” for fighting the fare hike.