In the wee hours of the morning on March 17th, the Black Fly Brigade carried out its first ever direct action, targeting the British Columbia Ministry Of Housing And Social Development, the government agency responsible for overseeing Income Assistance & Persons With Disabilities (PWD) programs.

 

The humble and terrible Black Fly

 

The Ministry office at the corner of Pandora & Quadra was tagged with messages in 15 spots - on doors, windows, walls and sidewalks - with messages such as "Stop The Cuts" and "Fuck Rich Coleman" (the fat pig Minister).

 

This act of resistance is in protest of the Liberal government's criminal contempt for the poor, its outrageously punitive cuts to health benefits for PWD clients, and its elimination of the basic shelter minimum for Income Assistance clients between the ages of 59 and 64.

 

The cuts were described as "cruel, wasteful and petty" by Victoria Times-Colonist columnist Paul Willcocks in his excellent March 10th opinion piece: http://tinyurl.com/y8nywkm
 
The spray-painted messages will be seen by both Ministry workers and Income Assistance clients when the offices open at 8:00am this morning, and it will hopefully spark more acts of resistance, from outside and inside, against the Liberal governments' class war on BC's poorest and most vulnerable citizens.
 


***The Black Fly is an irritant on the ass of the elephantine State!***
***Capitalism will die with the Black Fly picking its bones!***