Sudbury Social Justice News - August 25, 2013

EVENTS & MEETINGS:

1) Monday, August 26: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
2) Monday, August 26: Stop the MNR from Sparying Herbicides on our Forests!
3) PLEASE NOTE: The open house for the new Environmental Resource Centre space previously scheduled for Tuesday, August 27 has been postponed for approximately 2 weeks. See next week's update for the new day/time!
4) Wednesday, August 28: Response to Sudbury's Rainbow Cinemas Closing:
General Follow-up Meeting
5) Wednesday, August 28: Picnic in the Park & Arts Rooted Activities, Session #4
6) Monday, September 2: Labour Day Family Fun Fest at Bell Park
7) Monday, September 9: Meeting of Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury

NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:

1) "Raise the Rates to Respond to Liberal Round of Talk on Poverty with Week of Community Action" by Raise the Rates Campaign
2) "I've got your back! A how-to for bystander intervention in street harassment" by Hollaback! Ottawa

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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 province-wide week of action called by the Raise the Rates campaign 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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Monday, August 26: Stop the MNR from Sparying Herbicides on our Forests!

Time: timing does not appear to have been finalized as of this update -- please consult the Facebook event linked below
Location: Memorial Park first, then to 3767 Hwy. 69 South, Suite 5

The Ministry of Natural Resources plans to spray Glyphosate into the forests surrounding Sudbury. let us meet up and enter the MNR office to explain and put a stop to the ecocide from happening
"The Ministry of Natural Resources is spraying herbicide over forested areas across the Sudbury region.

In the next few weeks, about 2,200 hectares around Windy Lake, Wanapitei, north of Panache, southeast of Killarney Provincial Park and east of Tyson Lake will be sprayed.

The MNR said it will be spraying a herbicide called glyphosate, which is more commonly referred to as Round-Up.

The purpose is to kill the living plants to promote tree growth."

let`s say we all meet up at memorial park at between 10 am and noon, and from there we can organize ourselves

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/610059999014205/

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PLEASE NOTE: The open house for the new Environmental Resource Centre space previously scheduled for Tuesday, August 27 has been postponed for approximately 2 weeks. See next week's update for the new day/time!

We have a confession to make: we got a little excited about our new space, and it seems as though we jumped the gun! Due to some unforeseen delays in our renovations schedule, we have been forced to postpone the open house for approximately two weeks.

The Environmental Resource Centre is looking fantastic, there is no doubt, but some final pieces of the puzzle are taking a little longer to come together than we anticipated. Inviting you into our new space feels a lot like inviting you into one of our homes: everything needs to be perfect. You don't deserve anything less.

We apologize for the delay, but we're sure you'll be more than satisfied with what we've done when it is finally showtime ready.

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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Wednesday, August 28: Picnic in the Park & Arts Rooted Activities, Session #4

Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: Bell Park near the playground

"The water that lies beside the hill" A collaboration between The Home Project, Myths and Mirrors Community Arts and Idle No More Sudbury.

Session 4: Creating a characterization of Frozen water woman

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 creating a body map and timeline to collectively interpret the presence of frozen woman, a character we recently discovered through previous collective work. This gathering will be a continuation of work which traces frozen woman’s home space, historical memory, and body vocabulary through guided exercises.

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 29th, 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/388209981302302/

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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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"Raise the Rates' to Respond to Liberal Round of Talk on Poverty with Week of Community Action" by the Raise the Rates Campaign

Anti poverty organizations, community groups and trade unions working together in the Raise the Rates Campaign refuse to participate in yet another round of Liberal consultations on ‘poverty reduction’. Instead, we will work for the mobilization of poor communities and their allies that can win real action on the disgrace of poverty that exists in Ontario.

The Liberals have had more than a decade to show they are serious about dealing with the sub poverty social assistance system. We heard no end of talk and have been asked time and again to participate in their consultation process. Despite this, people are poorer under the present ‘Social Justice Premier’ than they were under Mike Harris.

Even worse than this, we fully understand that this Government has embraced an austerity agenda. We fully expect that, in keeping with this, the Liberals intend to merge Ontario Works and ODSP and attack the rights of disabled people in the Province.

In a situation like this, participating in their present consultations would be more than buying into a stalling tactic. It would enable the Liberals to prepare the greatest attack on the poor since the 21.6% cut to social assistance that was initiated by the Harris Tories, with community opposition silenced.

Raise the Rates will respond to the Liberal diversionary tour of empty talk and fake assurances with a week of action. During October, communities across Ontario will hold marches, rallies, pickets, occupations and other actions to demand the Government keeps its hands off ODSP and raises social assistance rates to the levels that existed prior to the Harris cutback of 1995. We will also demand the full restoration of the Community Start Up and Maintenance Benefit and support calls by First Nations Peoples for the right to extended control of social assistance delivery in their own communities.

Full details of all upcoming actions will be released in due course and we ask unions, community based organizations and people directly affected by poverty and austerity to join with us in fighting for an Ontario where the right to living wages and decent income is respected.

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"I've got your back! A how-to for bystander intervention in street harassment" by Hollaback! Ottawa
(Please see the original post for links to further background material: http://ottawa.ihollaback.org/ive-got-your-back-2/)