Women March against poverty The Quebec Women's Front (FFQ) has "four or five times as many individual members as a couple of years ago," according to Jacqueline Loiselle of the public sector alliance (AFP) and the far left Parti de la Démocratie Socialiste. the FFQ This growth is due to successful campaigns like the 1996 Women's March against Poverty. Unfortunately, no such campaign is planned for this year, apparently for lack of financial resources.
Nevertheless, a working group within the FFQ is preparing a women's march against poverty for the year 2000. According to Loiselle, "it's a strong group, not afraid of saying things as they are. They spoke of the capitalist economy as the root cause of neo-liberalism, though they didn't use such terms in the written materials. They are confident that the project will get off the ground™