EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Tuesday, October 22: Sudbury's 24 Hours of Reality: The Cost of Carbon
2) Saturday, October 26: Punk Rock for War Child
3) Monday, October 28: Trial of the S-CAP 11 begins
4) Monday, October 28: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
5) Monday, October 28 to Friday, November 1: Women's History Week -- 14
events over 5 days
6) Thursday, October 31: Trial of the S-CAP 11 continues
7) Monday, November 4: Meeting of Sudbury Workers' Education and
Advocacy Centre
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "Epsiogtog: 'Clashes' 400 Years in the Making" by Dru Oja Jay
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Tuesday, October 22: Sudbury's 24 Hours of Reality: The Cost of Carbon
Time: 7pm to 9:15pm
Location: Fromagerie Elgin (5 Cedar Street, entry from Elgin)
Carbon pollution is not only disrupting our lives, it’s hitting our wallets.
Sudbury members of the Climate Reality Project, Citizens Climate Lobby and Fossil Free Canada will help lay out the billion-dollar connection between fossil-fuel energy and dirty weather events like the Calgary and Toronto floods caused by carbon pollution.
We’ve all been paying the bill for years, but now it’s got to stop and you can help. Share this event with your friends, join us and we will empower you to ask our leaders it’s time to put a price on carbon and make the polluters pay.
We will be watching a live webcast of the Climate Reality Project’s third annual 24 Hours of Reality at the Fromagerie Elgin from 7:00 pm to 9:15 pm.
There will be door prizes and a 50/50 draw to help pay the travel costs for interns to attend CCCL’s conference and lobbying days in Ottawa November 16-18, 2013.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/236651003159173/
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Saturday, October 26: Punk Rock for War Child
Time/Location:
6pm to 7:30pm at the Fromagerie Elgin (5 Cedar Street, Sudbury,
entry from Elgin) for the roundtable discussion -- The other side
of punk: discussing the counter culture
10pm at the Townehouse Tavern (206 Elgin, Sudbury) for a video
demonstration on the "Daring Dynamos"
11pm to 2am at the Townehouse Tavern for a punk rock tribute night
Punk Rock for War Child will be a Fundraiser in support of the 'Daring Dynamos': Two friends cycling the world for the ultimate musical experience and to raise money for charity War Child.
The night will include music from past members of bands including Statues, The Havocs, Vicious Cycle, This Ship Will Burn, Living Daylights and many more, doing covers of some of their favorite and most influencial bands. Songs by Rise Against, Anti-Flag, Dag Nasty, Kid Dynamite, 7 Seconds and more.
Things will kick off at 6:00pm at the Fromagerie Elgin for a round-table discussion entitled 'The other side of punk: discussing the counter-culture'. It will be an opportunity for anyone to come out and participate in discussing the music that has influenced so many of us and relating it to current political and social topics.
Throughout the evening, videos from the past legs of the round the world trip will be shown, along side information regarding the international NGO War Child, who has garnered support from many international artists.
See you in the pit!
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/559351370780675/
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Monday, October 28: Trial of the S-CAP 11 begins
Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm (approx.)
Location: Room C-11, Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)
A year ago, eleven members and supporters of the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty were arrested while trying to deliver a message at the constituency office of Liberal MPP Rick Bartolucci in opposition to then-proposed (and now implemented) cuts and changes to a social assistance benefit meant to keep people out of homelessness and to allow women to leave abusive relationships. This will be the first part of their trial. S-CAP is inviting people in the community to attend and show their support.
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Monday, October 28: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
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 a debrief of the province-wide week of anti-poverty action that happened earlier in October; our continuing direct action support work; and the trial of the S-CAP 11. 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, October 28 to Friday, November 1: Women's History Week -- 14 events over 5 days
This is the twentieth year that Women's History Week has been held at Laurentian University in Sudbury. Come and help us celebrate!
All events are free and everyone is welcome.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Tuesday, October 29, 7pm
Bertolo's, 93 Durham Street, downtown Sudbury
"The Personal is Very Political: Stories of my Transformation Through Feminism in the 1970s and 1980s," a lecture by Gary Kinsman of the Laurentian Department of Sociology
FULL WEEK SCHEDULE:
(All events are on the Laurentian University campus unless otherwise noted)
Monday, October 28, 2:30pm
"Modernism and the Other Woman"
with Dr. Mrinalini Greedharry, Department of English, room W130 (West Residence)
Monday, October 28, 7pm
"Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives"
with Professor Shana Calixte, Department of Women's Studies, room T120 (Thornloe University)
Tuesday, October 29, 8:30am
"A Fearless Environmental Woman of History"
A film presentation and discussion of *Rachel Carson's Silent Spring* hosted by Dr. William Crumplin of the Department of Environmental Studies, PM-P02 (Portable classroom)
Tuesday, October 29, 8:30am
"Queens, Commoners, Abbesses and Saints: Women in Early Medieval Britain"
A lecture by Dr. Janice Liedl of the Department of History, room C-304 (Classroom Building)
Tuesday, October 29, 10am
"Nationalism and Gender Identities"
A lecture by Professor OmiSoore Dryden of the Department of Women's Studies, room T-260 (Thornloe University)
Tuesday, October 29, 1pm
"Noticing Gender in Communication, Negotiation and Conflict"
A lecture by Dr. Rosanna Langer of the Department of Law and Justice, room C-207 (Classroom Building)
Tuesday, October 29, 1pm
"Woman's Sphere: Mid-19th Century to the Great War"
A lecture by Dr. Linda Ambrose of the Department of History, room C-301 (Classroom Building)
Wednesday, October 30, 9am
"Moll Flanders and Women Criminals in the Early Eighteenth Century"
A student presentation by Elizabeth Urso for English 3245, room C-306 (Classroom Building)
Wednesday, October 30, 10am
"Gender and Teaching: Kindergarten and Household Science in Public Schooling"
A lecture by Dr. Sara Burke of the Department of History, room C-301 (Classroom Building)
Wednesday, October 30, 3pm to 5:30pm
"Europa 51"
A film presentation in collaboration with the Sudbury Philosophical Society, with Dr. Lucien Pelletier of the Department of Philosophy, room C-309 (Classroom Building)
Thursday, October 31, 8h30
"Femmes, mariage et vie conjugal durant le haut moyen age"
Une conférence avec le Dr Pierre Cameron du Département d'histoire, salle C-202 (Edifice des classes)
Thursday, October 31, 1pm
"Feeding Our Children 'White-Style': An Exploration of Anishinabek Women's Responses to Industrial Change Along the Winnipeg River, 1950-1972"
A lecture by Professor Brittany Luby of the Department of History, room C-301 (Classroom Building)
Friday, November 1, 13h
"Hélène Brion (1882-1962): La voie feministe"
Une conférence avec le Dre Carolle Gagnon du Département de philosophie, salle W-134 (Résidence Ouest)
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Thursday, October 31: Trial of the S-CAP 11 continues
Time: 9:30am
Location: Room C-11, Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)
A year ago, eleven members and supporters of the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty were arrested while trying to deliver a message at the constituency office of Liberal MPP Rick Bartolucci in opposition to then-proposed (and now implemented) cuts and changes to a social assistance benefit meant to keep people out of homelessness and to allow women to leave abusive relationships. This will be the second and likely final day of the trial, and is scheduled for the full day. S-CAP is inviting people in the community to attend and show their support.
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Monday, November 4: Meeting of Sudbury Workers' Education and
Advocacy Centre
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)
Workers -- particularly those in part-time, low-wage, and insecure jobs -- and their supporters are invited to this meeting to continue the community discussions to found a workers' centre in Sudbury.
Workers' centres are organizations that are committed to improving the lives and working conditions of people in low-wage and unstable employment. For more than a year, people in Sudbury have been meeting to figure out how to make this happen here, and it can only succeed with lots of active participation and input from all corners of the community.
The Sudbury Workers' Education and Advocacy Centre on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/SudburyWorkersCentre
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
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"Epsiogtog: 'Clashes' 400 Years in the Making"
by Dru Oja Jay
(Originally published by The Media Co-op: http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/elsipogtog-clashes-300-years-making/19357)
The site for the Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op has been archived and will no longer be updated. Please visit the main Media Co-op website to learn more about the organization.
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.
The Sudbury working-group site is no longer being updated and has been archived.