EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Tuesday, August 20: Picnic in the Park & Arts Rooted Activities: Creating a Vocabulary of Reflection
2) Monday, August 26: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
3) Tuesday, August 27: Environmental Resource Centre Open House
4) Wednesday, August 28: Response to Sudbury's Rainbow Cinemas Closing: General Follow-up Meeting
5) Monday, September 2: Labour Day Family Fun Fest at Bell Park
6) Monday, September 9: Meeting of Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) Free Tarek Loubani & John Greyson!
2) "Afghanistan and the politics of memory" by Ian McKay and Jamie Swift
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Tuesday, August 20: Picnic in the Park & Arts Rooted Activities: Creating a Vocabulary of Reflection
Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: Bell Park, Sudbury
"The water that lies beside the hill" is a collaboration between The Home Project, Myths and Mirrors Community Arts and Idle No More Sudbury.
Session 3: Creating a collective vocabulary of reflection
Meet in Bell Park near the playground.
5:30 pm gathering and feasting, 6 pm art activities begin.
Childcare provided.
Picnic in the park & Arts-rooted activities:
This session we will focus on creative writing, movement and visual art as we collectively interpret the language of water and give voice to ourselves as water beings.
Please bring a dish & wear loose clothing, ALL are welcome
For further information please contact:
Karyn Recollet: krecollet@usudbury.ca
Sarah King: sarahkg@mac.com
RAIN DATE: Thursday August 22nd, same time, same place.
MORE INFORMATION:
This event is part of a multi-phased community dialogue through an place-making project
Goals of the project:
-To create a dialogue and raise awareness about our relationships to place
-To root this dialogue within the community and the collective
-To use multidisciplinary arts-rooted practice defined by the community to enhance and nurture our relationships towards each other and towards place.
-To actively create our own participation in the Idle No More Sovereignty Summer – this participation will be defined by our community
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/161375980714724/
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Monday, August 26: 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 the provincial 'consultation' meeting on social assistance rates and poverty issues in Sudbury; the province-wide week of action in October; our continuing direct action support work; and our drop-in space at APANO. 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!
Please call us (249-878-7227)
Email us at sudburyCAP@gmail.com
S-CAP on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/257339454351403/
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Tuesday, August 27: Environmental Resource Centre Open House
Time: 5pm to 8pm
Location: Suite 301, Third Floor, 176 Larch Street, Sudbury
Renovations to the new Environmental Resource Centre are almost complete, and we're going to have a little party! From 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM on 27 August, 2013, we'll be showing off our new space. Drop by and chat with reThink Green staff and board members, check out what we've been up to, and see where the organization will be headed in the coming months. There will be refreshments!
Green Room Contest: Now that we have a new Environmental Resource Centre, it needs a new name. Brainstorm some ideas for a new name for the room and bring the best one to the event. If your submission is chosen as the new official room name, you will have made your mark on reThink Green's new space - we'll commemorate your name with a plaque in the room, and you'll get a reThink Green t-shirt.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/194454404062039/
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Wednesday, August 28: Response to Sudbury's Rainbow Cinemas Closing: General Follow-up Meeting
Time: 2pm to 3:30pm
Location: Rainbow Cinemas Sudbury, 40 Elm Street
Since a public meeting July 24th, a steering committee was set up to pursue ways to try to keep a downtown cinema open after Rainbow closes its doors. We have been busy meeting with potential partners to try to swing this. There was a strong passionate voice amongst stakeholders to create an alternative downtown to Hollywood Blockbuster style movies. Also discussed were other uses for the cinemas at Rainbow to make the space more vibrant and viable. As promised we have set up this general meeting open to folks who care, to report back on our progress and elicit broader feedback. Please come if you can!
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/515958641809179/
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Monday, September 2: Labour Day Family Fun Fest at Bell Park
Time: 10am to 4pm
Location: Bell Park, Sudbury
Celebrate Labour Day with Sudbury's working families, free for you, sponsored and organized by Sudbury labour unions and our generous partners
FREE BBQ! Hamburgers - Hot Dogs - Drinks
FUN FOR THE KIDS - Bouncy Castles, Face Painting, Games and more!
MUSIC IN THE AMPHITHEATRE - From alternative to classic rock, a great variety of FREE live music on the main stage
GREAT PRIZES – participate in a FREE raffle to win one of dozens of great prizes donated by local businesses
MUCH MORE – Demos from our local Irish Regiment reserve corps, Police and Fire Services, games for grown-ups, and much more!
MAIN STAGE LINEUP: To be announced
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/366050843515753/
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Monday, September 9: Meeting of Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury
Time: Pre-meeting potluck - 6pm, meeting - 7pm to 9pm
Location: TBA
Join Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury for our fall planning meeting. Pre-meeting potluck starts at 6pm. This will be an exciting year building on past successes, moving ahead on new projects, and looking ahead to a municipal election in the fall of 2014. Join us in making Sudbury more sustainable!
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
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Free Tarek Loubani & John Greyson!
[This information is taken from tarekandjohn.com, a website set up today as a clearinghouse for information about the case. Please note that John Greyson has been a guest at public events in Sudbury in recent years, where you may have heard him speak and viewed some of his work. See lower in the post for how you can take action in support of Tarek and John.]
Two Canadians, Dr. Tarek Loubani and filmmaker John Greyson, were arrested by Egyptian police on Friday, August 16 in Cairo.
They were en route to the Gaza Strip, where they are working on an academic and medical collaboration between the University of Western Ontario (UWO) and the main hospital in the Gaza Strip, the al-Shifa hospital.
Tarek Loubani is an emergency room medical doctor at the UWO and one of the architects of the Canada-Gaza academic collaboration, a project that has brought doctors from UWO to Gaza to train physicians in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS).
John Greyson is a professor at the Department of Film at York University and an award-winning film-maker. He is in the initial stages of working on a film to be produced in the region.
John and Tarek arrived in Cairo on August 15 with the intention of traveling to Gaza immediately. Given the volatile situation in Egypt, travel to the border with Gaza was problematic and they delayed their travel plan by one day.
We have heard through sources in Cairo that John and Tarek entered a police station on Friday evening, as they were lost and needed help with directions back to their hotel. At this point they were promptly arrested. At 4pm Toronto time (10pm Cairo time), Tarek called his primary contact in Canada with the very short message: “we are being arrested by Egyptian police”.
Since their arrest, we have had no contact with either Tarek or John. Canadian consular officials have visited them where they are being held, and we have been told that they are “okay”.
Beyond this, we have currently not been able to confirm their status or condition, or speak to them directly. We are asking Egyptian authorities to release John and Tarek immediately.
We know there are many people eagerly awaiting news and their release, and we will distribute information as we know more.
HOW TO HELP:
We are so grateful for the support we have received. If you want to help, here are some options:
CONTACT THE EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES, ASKING FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF JOHN & TAREK:
Canadian Embassy in Egypt: cairo@international.gc.ca
Egyptian Embassy, Ottawa, Canada
Phone:
+1-613-234-4931
+1-613-234-4935
Email:
egyptemb@sympatico.ca
Egyptian Consulate General, Montreal, Canada
SIGN THE PETITION:
https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/canadian-government-help-free-tar...
KEEP INFORMED:
Check this site (http://tarekandjohn.com/) and Justin Podur’s blog (http://podur.org/) for press releases and new information as it becomes available.
Also, follow Cecilia Greyson (John’s sister) on Twitter (http://twitter.com/cgreyson) for updates as they occur.
There is also a Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1409779849241538/).
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"Afghanistan and the politics of memory"
by Ian McKay and Jamie Swift
(Originally in the Ottawa Citizen: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/Afghanistan+politics+memory/8...)
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