Describes the efforts of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) on behalf of the poor & homeless as well as its work to deflect the further marginalization of the disadvantaged by the more powerful. Specifically, OCAP, both on its own & in conjunction with others, has been a vital & increasingly prominent force in resisting neoliberalism &, more broadly, capitalism. Focusing on OCAP in the 1990s, the article examines how the struggles of the poor can function as ongoing media for improving the lives of the disadvantaged on the local level &, potentially, as a model for larger mobilization against forms of oppression & inequality.
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