EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, September 16: Stand Up for Science Rally in Sudbury
2) Tuesday, September 17: Anti-Poverty Action at City Finance Committee Meeting
3) Thursday, September 19: Take Back the Night March
4) Tuesday, September 24: Sudbury Needs Compassionate Animal Control
Rally
5) Thursday, September 26: The Case for Political Art with Stephanie McMillan
6) Thursday, September 26: Capitalism Must Die!
7) Friday, September 27: Stop the Ring of Fire Presents: Intermediate Level organizing for Activists
8) Thursday, October 3: Friends of Sudbury Transit Meeting
9) Monday, October 7: Cinema Politica -- The Hole Story
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
None this time!
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Monday, September 16: Stand Up for Science Rally in Sudbury
Time: 12 noon to 1pm
Location: Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)
Fed up with the erosion of science in Canada? Want our government to support science in the public interest? Think that decisions should be based on evidence and facts instead of ideology? Join us on September 16th to Stand up for Science!
It’s time to stand up for science in the public interest in Canada. In recent years we have seen cuts to many important scientific institutions, science funding has shifted focus towards the commercialization of research, and government scientists have lost the ability to communicate their research to the public.
Science matters to Canadians. Good science, when coupled with good decision-making, keeps our water and air clean, keeps us healthy, keeps our food safe and prepares Canada for the future. Science in the public interest is crucial for our well-being and long-term prosperity.
To make the public aware of this, and to call on the Federal government to make a strong commitment to science in the public interest, we are organizing ‘Stand Up for Science’ rallies across the country on September 16th 2013.
It’s your future - make it your science. People are welcome to take initiative and wear lab coats and/or carry pro science signs.
What: Stand Up for Science rallies
When: September 16, 2013
Where: Across the country!
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/548886058510343
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Tuesday, September 17: Anti-Poverty Action at City Finance Committee Meeting
Time: 4pm
Location: City Council Chambers in Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)
The City finance committee is discussing their response to the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty's budget submission of last June that called for the City to fund the CHPI homelessness prevention program at the rates of the earlier provincial CSUMB program. City staff are calling for no budgetary action to be taken which means no new City funding for CHPI. Given the province is so far not responding to calls for restoring the CSUMB and the $42 million we got added to CHPI funding last year has so far not been renewed, this will mean major cuts to vital CHPI funding and more Sudburians out on the street. We will be there to show our opposition to this and to demand CSUMB rates and policies for CHPI funding. If you can attend please let us know at sudburyCAP@gmail.com or call us at (249) 878-7727.
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!
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Thursday, September 19: Take Back the Night March
Time: 6pm to 10pm
Location: St. Joseph's School (100 Bruyere Street, Sudbury)
Everyone is invited to march, rally and protest against sexual violence. The evening will feature activist speakers, refreshments, protest t-shirt and sign painting. Be there to speak up and speak out against sexual and domestic violence. We intend this to be a gender-neutral and female-friendly safe space. Discussion will be open to participants.
Please note that the evening will include mature content.
For additional information, contact the voices For Women Sudbury Sexual Assault Centre by phone at 705-671-5495 or by email at lboeswald@hsnsudbury.ca.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/189496217884370/
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Tuesday, September 24: Sudbury Needs Compassionate Animal Control
Rally
Time: 4pm
Location: Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)
This rally is to expose what is happening at the Rainbow District Animal Shelter in Azilda.
We have received several witness letters that reveal a lot of really disturbing things that are going on there.
We as tax payers want change and a new contract holder.
- Lynne Regimbal
We are asking the city to provide a better shelter that rightfully includes compassionate care, integrity, and repect for our region’s most vulnerable animals by choosing a new, fiscally responsible, ethical and moral contractor to manage the 2014 Animal Control Contract. Compassionate Animal Control believes that this contract should include requirements for the HIGHEST STANDARD OF CARE POSSIBLE, within the GCS’s budget allocations.
- Heather Regimbal
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/503803476361160/
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Thursday, September 26: The Case for Political Art with Stephanie McMillan
Time: 1pm
Location: The ParkSide Centre, 140 Durham Street, Sudbury, Kinsmen Room A
A slideshow presentation exploring the relationship between art and politics in Stephanie’s own development as an artist and activist. She will also read her essay, “Artists Raise Your Weapons” in preparation for a group discussion of the role of art in political struggles.
For those of you who know Stephanie’s work, you’ll be familiar with her comic, Minimum Security (which in its current phase is titled Proletarian Theory is a Revolutionary Social Force), as well as her cartoon, Code Green. Stephanie recently wrote The Beginning of the American Fall: A Comics Journalist Inside the Occupy Wall Street Movement, and co-wrote the graphic novel, As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial with Derrick Jensen. She has another graphic novel coming out this fall, The Minimum Security Chronicles: Resistance to Ecocide. This is a “story of a group of friends who try different strategies and tactics to stop ecocide. During this process, they hear of a particular geo-engineering project being planned, and focus their efforts on preventing that. It’s not only a thrilling story of trying to save the world, but also a thought experiment gaming out different revolutionary strategies.”
If you’d like to read more about Stephanie, browse through her cartoons, or check out the endorsements of her work (including Vandana Shiva, Howard Zinn and Derrick Jensen); you can do so here: http://stephaniemcmillan.org/sample-page/. You can also check out One Struggle, the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist organization she works with: http://onestruggle.net/.
This event is free but I would appreciate your help to spread the word.
For more information, please contact Rachael Charbonneau at rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca or 670-1982.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/420470464741205/
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Thursday, September 26: Capitalism Must Die!
Time: 6pm
Location: The ParkSide Centre, 140 Durham Street, Kinsmen Room A
Cartoonist Stephanie McMillan is coming to Sudbury to promote her upcoming book, Capitalism Must Die! Stephanie’s presentation will explain how capitalism works, why it has to be stopped and how to stop it. Her presentation will feature cartoons, diagrams and live drawings.
For those of you who know Stephanie’s work, you’ll be familiar with her comic, Minimum Security (which in its current phase is titled Proletarian Theory is a Revolutionary Social Force), as well as her cartoon, Code Green. Stephanie recently wrote The Beginning of the American Fall: A Comics Journalist Inside the Occupy Wall Street Movement, and co-wrote the graphic novel, As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial with Derrick Jensen. She has another graphic novel coming out this fall, The Minimum Security Chronicles: Resistance to Ecocide. This is a “story of a group of friends who try different strategies and tactics to stop ecocide. During this process, they hear of a particular geo-engineering project being planned, and focus their efforts on preventing that. It’s not only a thrilling story of trying to save the world, but also a thought experiment gaming out different revolutionary strategies.”
If you’d like to read more about Stephanie, browse through her cartoons, or check out the endorsements of her work (including Vandana Shiva, Howard Zinn and Derrick Jensen); you can do so here: http://stephaniemcmillan.org/sample-page/. You can also check out One Struggle, the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist organization she works with: http://onestruggle.net/.
This event is free but I would appreciate your help to spread the word. You can share and join this event at:
https://www.facebook.com/events/209430909181199/.
For more information, please contact Rachael Charbonneau at rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca or 670-1982.
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Friday, September 27: Stop the Ring of Fire Presents: Intermediate Level Organizing for Activists
Time: 11am
Location: Main branch of the Greater Sudbury Public Library, Mackenzie Street, meeting room #1, downstairs
A presentation by Stephanie McMillan of One Struggle and discussion about intermediate level organizing and the differences between mobilizations and movements.
If you’d like to read more about Stephanie, browse through her cartoons, or check out the endorsements of her work (including Vandana Shiva, Howard Zinn and Derrick Jensen); you can do so here: http://stephaniemcmillan.org/sample-page/. You can also check out One Struggle, the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist organization she works with: http://onestruggle.net/.
You can share and join this event at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1417308908481723/?context=create.
For more information, please contact Rachael Charbonneau at rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca or 670-1982.
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Thursday, October 3: Friends of Sudbury Transit Meeting
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: Meeting room #2 (the smaller one), downstairs, Greater Sudbury Public Library, 74 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury
Agenda TBA.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/511723338909607/
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Monday, October 7: Cinema Politica -- The Hole Story
Time: 87pm to 9pm
Location: Classroom Building room C203, Laurentian University, Sudbury
[Description]
To kick off the Cinema Politica Sudbury/GSA|AÉÉS 2013-2014 political film series, join us for a screening of THE HOLE STORY!
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http://www.cinemapolitica.org/sudbury
THE HOLE STORY presents a skewering analysis of the the ways in which Canadian mining companies have put profit before people and the environment (and Sudbury's in it!).
Monday, October 7th @ 7PM, on campus at Laurentian University. In the Classroom building, room C203.
Engaging and inclusive discussions to follow the film! Snacks and popcorn included!
Bus routes:
500 - University via Paris
501 - Regent University
Parking is available (lot P4).
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SYNOPSIS
"Don't know much about mines? Not many people do. Mines don't talk. Especially about their history."
Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie relate this history in their latest documentary, THE HOLE STORY, a documentary which continues in the same provocative vein as their earlier FOREST ALERT.
The history of mining in Canada is the story of astronomical profits made with disregard for the environment and human health. The story of nickel in Sudbury, silver in Cobalt, gold in Timmins, copper in Rouyn...Using striking images, rare archival footage, interviews and their trademark humorous social commentary, Desjardin and Monderie make their case against the way mining has been done in Canada with clarity and conviction.
THE HOLE STORY is a film that sounds the alarm about mining. In a country rich in mineral resources, mining companies have historically paid little tax, while local municipalities bear the financial burden of building and maintaining the roads they use to truck their wealth out to other countries. Some films are essential viewing - THE HOLE STORY is one of them.
Official website: http://theholestory.nfb.ca/#/theholestory
Join us!
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/432070603569461/
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The Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op was formed to create independent media in the North, to speak to our issues and outlooks on our communities as well as the world around us. Independent media provides an avenue for people who are wishing to gain critical perspective on the issues that matter most to us, and to give a voice to those people and stories that you won't find in the mainstream media.
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