Long-time community and labour activist Lynn Jones talks in this seven and a half minute audio clip about an amazing 122-day community-based occupation of a Canada Employment Centre that was slated for closure in a poor neighbourhood in Halifax during the first wave of neoliberalism in Canada in 1996.
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