Wendell Fields was a Canadian veteran anti-poverty activist in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
21 Facts About Wendell Fields
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Wendell Fields was director of Hamilton Against Poverty, and twice campaigned for the House of Commons of Canada as a candidate of the Communist Party of Canada - Marxist-Leninist.
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Wendell Fields died on March 1,2017, following a short battle with cancer.
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Wendell Fields counter-charged the two officers that had assaulted him.
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The counter-charges went to trial, and Wendell Fields was asked in court to explain why he was on the picket line.
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Wendell Fields refused to answer whether or not he was a Marxist-Leninist, and he was sentenced to thirty days in jail for contempt of court.
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Wendell Fields worked as a dishwasher, busboy and labourer, and was laid off from his job as a plastics molder in about 1990.
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Wendell Fields worked with anti poverty activist and HAP member, Julie Gordon.
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Gordon and Wendell Fields spoke against the Social Assistance Reform Act and the Prevention of Unionization Act at Queen's Park when Mike Harris was Premier of Ontario.
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Wendell Fields testified before a federal House of Commons committee in 1992 as a HAP representative, speaking in opposition to a proposed child benefits bill introduced by the government of Brian Mulroney.
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Wendell Fields's position was that the bill did nothing to benefit single mothers and low-income women, and should be rewritten.
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Wendell Fields was arrested in 1995 following a demonstration by McMaster University students against tuition fee hikes.
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Wendell Fields was charged with trespassing in 1999, after a peaceful demonstration protesting a display of fighter aircraft and what he and other protesters described as the militarism of an airshow at Hamilton International John C Munro Airport.
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Wendell Fields ran for public office until the 1997 federal election when he campaigned in Hamilton West for the CPC-ML.
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Wendell Fields campaigned for municipal and provincial office in the late 1990s, making a bid for Mayor of Hamilton in 1997.
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Wendell Fields campaigned more local involvement in government, including people's councils, and a constituent assembly to develop appropriate government structure for the city.
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Wendell Fields argued that the economic decisions must be made to benefit citizens rather than corporate interests.
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Wendell Fields suggested the creation of neighbourhood groups to make surprise inspections of polluting industries.
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Wendell Fields campaigned for the Canadian House of Commons a second time in the 2000 federal election for the Marxist-Leninist party.
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Wendell Fields ran in the federal election in 2015 as a Marxist-Leninist candidate.
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Wendell Fields remained active in the Hamilton activist community as of 2005.