Sudbury Social Justice News - June 27, 2013

EVENTS & MEETINGS:

1) Tuesday, July 2: Sudbury Cyclist Union General Meeting
2) Tuesday, July 2: Organizing Meeting for Sudbury Pride
3) Tuesday, July 2: Resistance Rewritten Tour with Deep Green
Resistance
4) Wednesday, July 3: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
5) Sunday, July 7: Sudbury Food Bank Fundraiser by FoodRide
6) Sunday, July 7: World Public Union Sudbury Local #01 Meeting
7) Tuesday, July 16: Meeting of Justice and Freedom for John Moore

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

1) "For Indigenous Women, Radical Art as a Last Resort" by Katelyn Verstraten
2) "Public concern of water quality translates into advocacy and action in Greater Sudbury" by Naomi Grant

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Tuesday, July 2: Sudbury Cyclist Union General Meeting

Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: TBA

Agenda TBA.

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/358373350950783/

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Tuesday, July 2: Organizing Meeting for Sudbury Pride

Time: 6:30pm
Location: Zigs (54 Elgin Street)

Pride is almost upon us and we have a ton of planning still to do. We can't put together an amazing pride week without your support!

Please note that though the meeting is in a bar, it is an all ages event as the bar is closed during meetings.

Fierte Sudbury Pride on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/28067692160

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Tuesday, July 2: Resistance Rewritten Tour with Deep Green Resistance

Time: 6pm
Location: Beneath the oak tree near the William Bell Gazebo, which has a bluish-green roof and is on the hill above the main beach at Bell Park. (Just look for the William Bell Gazebo; you’ll see us.)
    
It's often repeated that "history is written by the victors." The colonist and the slave owner, the warmonger and the CEO alike use their stolen power to control which stories are remembered, taught, and celebrated - and which are distorted, suppressed, and in some cases, forgotten altogether.

Spanish philosopher George Santayana put it rather more bluntly when he wrote that "history is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there." But it is not enough to dismiss mainstream historical narratives as irrelevant. We must ask- what has been omitted, and why? When we look past the rosy fiction to the buried truth, we begin to uncover a true history of resistance that is still unfolding.

In the era of catastrophic biodiversity loss, toxification, and climate change, the world is facing challenges of unprecedented magnitude, and we are running out of time. The stakes could not be higher. Will we fall prey to the lies of the powerful and miss our chance at victory, or can we write a brighter future by learning from resistance movements of the past?

If you would like to contribute to the funding of this tour, please visit: www.gofundme.com/resistancerewritten.

For more information, please contact: Rachael Charbonneau 670-1982 or
rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca.

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/475856659162743/

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Wednesday, July 3: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty

Time: 6:30pm
Location: Offices of the Sudbury and District Labour Council (Suite 209 upstairs in 109 Elm Street, which is across the street from the Native Friendship Centre)

Matters to be discussed include where we are at in the struggle to get OW and the City to maintain CSUMB policies and rates for CHPI and associated discretionary funds. We will also be discussing attendance at the July 8 meeting of the Community Development Committee of the city and perhaps the July 9 city council meeting; our continuing direct action support work; a summer province-wide raise the rates meeting and our summer and fall plans. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Children are welcome to attend, or childcare support is available upon request.

S-CAP is a direct-action anti-poverty organization based in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. We provide direct-action support work assisting individuals in their struggles with welfare and ODSP, housing, employers, and others who deny people what they are entitled to in order to meet their needs. In addition, we mount campaigns against and support educational work about regressive government policies as they effect working people and people living in poverty. We believe in the power of people to organize themselves. We believe in the power of resistance!

La coalition contre la pauvreté de Sudbury (S-CAP) est un organisme d’action directe luttant contre la pauvreté. Elle se trouve à Sudbury en Ontario.

Le travail de la coalition se base dans l’action directe et consiste à apporter de l’aide aux individus dans leurs luttes pour l’assistance sociale, l’invalidité, le logement, l’emploi et à les aider à faire face aux gens qui leur refusent ce à quoi ils ont droit pour rencontrer leurs besoins. De plus, la coalition fait des compagnes de sensibilisation et de dénonciation par rapport aux politiques gouvernementales régressives quant à leurs effets sur les travailleurs et travailleuses et les personnes vivant dans la pauvreté.

La coalition croit au pouvoir des personnes de s’organiser elles-mêmes; elle croit au pouvoir de la résistance!

S-CAP on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/257339454351403/

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Sunday, July 7: Sudbury Food Bank Fundraiser by FoodRide

Time: 10am to 3pm
Location: Vrab's Independent (1836 Regent Street South, Sudbury)

On Sunday, July 7th, Please stop by Vrab's Independent on Regent Street to make a monetary or food donation. All donations will be going to the Sudbury Food Bank.

If you cannot attend in person, you can make a donation at: http://foodride.ca/donate/

FoodRide is a 10,000 km trans-Canada cycling trip and fundraiser for food banks. Adrian Arts and Megan Clark from Lakehead University are the FoodRide Cycling Team. The cyclists left Victoria, British Columbia, on April 25th, 2013, and aim to arrive in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on September 08th, 135 days and 610 hours in the saddle later.

For more information about FoodRide, please visit foodride.ca

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/139497099587279/

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Sunday, July 7: World Public Union Sudbury Local #01 Meeting

Time: 2pm
Location: Memorial Park in downtown Sudbury

This is a general meeting for the World Public Union in Sudbury to discuss the action plan and to further develop strategies to create positive change in the community.

Updates on our accomplishments will also be discussed and new events/activities/campaigns discussed such as the Day of Awareness for water fluoridation in Sudbury and the Junction Creek clean ups that are planned. Lots was discussed at the last meeting and some of the ideas are already taking place. This next meeting will really target the action plan so that we can all offer our help to achieve the goals of the group. Also any new ideas and developments can be discussed.

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/145582105627689/

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Tuesday, July 16: Meeting of Justice and Freedom for John Moore

Time: 6:30pm
Location: Rainbow Centre Food Court

Agenda TBA.

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

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"For Indigenous Women, Radical Art as a Last Resort"
by Katelyn Verstraten
(From The Tyee: http://thetyee.ca/ArtsAndCulture/2013/06/22/Radical-Art/)

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"Public concern of water quality translates into advocacy and action in Greater Sudbury"
by Naomi Grant
(From the Sudbury working group of The Media Co-op: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/public-concern-over-water-quality-tran...)