[UPDATED: Please notice the corrected location for event (1)!]
EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Thursday, November 21: Panel Discussion on Poverty in Sudbury
2) Friday, November 22 to Sunday, November 24: Female Eye Film Festival
3) Sunday, November 24: SACY 1st Annual Addictions Walk
4) Monday, November 25: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) Call for donations for Riseup.net (which hosts Sudbury Social Justice News)
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Thursday, November 21: Panel Discussion on Poverty in Sudbury
Time: 7pm
Location: South End branch, Sudbury Public Library (1991 Regent Street, Sudbury)
The November session of the Sudbury Public Library’s series Words, Ideas, Inspirations is panel called, “Buddy, would you spare a dime?”. It invites participants to discuss how and why community members should fight poverty in Sudbury. Panellists include George Stephen (formerly homeless, now a speaker/advocate) and Professor Carol Kauppi from Laurentian who sits on the homelessness coalition.
This is a collaborative initiative between the Greater Sudbury Public Library, the Poverty, Homelessness and Migration Project, and the University of Sudbury’s Ethics Centre.
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Friday, November 22 to Sunday, November 24: Female Eye Film Festival
Time: Headline event starts 7pm on the Friday, for other times see below
Location: the former Rainbow Cinemas in downtown Sudbury (40 Elm Street)
BAM North Productions & the Female Eye Film Festival present a splendid
Showcase of Award-Winning Films & Sudbury Filmmaker Series- all directed
by WOMEN!
For Advance Tickets:
http://femaleeyesudbury-es2.eventbrite.ca/
Fri. Nov 22
7pm Doors OPEN! OPENING NIGHT Comedy Evening. Fab MCs Jessica
Wilde-Peltier & Tab Peltier.
7:30pm Act 1 Local satire film “Awaiting Atwood”
Intermission- Cash bar
8:30pm Live Comedy with Sandra Battaglini
Net proceeds to Sudbury Indie Cinema Downtown, a group of local residents who are exploring the feasibility of turning the former Rainbow Cinemas location into a locally owned non-profit, cooperative model to showcase films downtown as well as be a hub for other activities (https://www.facebook.com/SudburyIndieCinema).
Film programming resumes Saturday and runs thru to Sunday 6pm.
Saturday Nov 23
11-12noon Networking Brunch Local Women in Film (by invitation)
12:30pm A Wake, Penelope Buitenhaus
3:00pm Nothing Special, Angela Combs
5-6:30pm Drinks and Noosh at Local Eatery
7:00pm LOCAL PREMIERE: Moose River Crossing, Shirley Cheechoo
9:30pm The Disappeared, Shandi Mitchell
Sunday Nov 24
12pm Local Girls &Young Women's Shorts
2pm Union Square, Nancy Savoca
4:30pm Amazon Falls, Katrin Bowen
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/529185723826077/
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Sunday, November 24: SACY 1st Annual Addictions Walk
Time: 1pm to 3pm
Location: Starting from Sudbury Action Centre for Youth (105 Elm Street, Sudbury)
Downtown Core, Greater City of Sudbury
Good End to National Addictions Awareness Week, Any walkers, dancers, rollers, drummers to
Under the Ontario Human Rights Code, every person has a right to equal treatment with respect to services, goods and facilities, without discrimination.
All ages can participate, Addictions has no face or colour.
Honour Drum Maa'ingun Aanaakwad
Soup and Bannock, refreshments to be served
Pledges to fundraise for Sudbury Action Centre for Youth Programming
pledge forms can be requested at michelle.jones@sacy.ca
Any questions do not hesitate to contact the centre.
Minimum donation of $10 in order to receive a charitable receipt.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/713933541969264/
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Monday, November 25: 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)
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/
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
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Call for donations for Riseup.net (which hosts Sudbury Social Justice News)
Dear Riseup Users:
Here's the story of how we got to be the Riseup that we are. Please donate if you can! https://riseup.net/donate
Once upon a time, way back at the end of 1999 when the internet was still young and the millennium loomed, a couple of geeks got fired up at the WTO protests in Seattle. After a week of teargas, jail, cardboard butterfly wings, and way too much chanting, they sat in their living room and talked about what the movement needed for the next decade. They came up with Riseup.net as an independent provider of lists and email. They created Riseup on a couple of servers in their house, and soon attracted a couple more geeks to the cause.
Every year Riseup grew and grew, and it became more of a headache in that way where it was more work and had more people relying upon it. Some people came and went from the collective, and there were some hard, lean years where it was unclear if this was the right thing to pour time and money into, but stubbornly, Riseup kept going.
People's skills increased around providing stable and secure services. More people joined the collective, and they were activist gold: the kind of people who worked hard on all the irritating day-to-day minutiae, the kind who showed up for meetings and cared deeply about this quixotic project, and the kind of people who stay up all night at crisis moments to wield their mighty hacker skills that looked like magic to those of us in the collective (like me) who are writers not geeks.
So somewhere around 2007, the collective became stable member-wise, and we became a group of about ten people who are mostly the same people we have today. Over the last eight years we have become a true collective in a rare way. We've worked together on Riseup for a long time, and slowly, that has become a big deal in most of our lives. We celebrate -- those of us who live near each other -- our celebrations together and care about each other in a true and real way. One of the greatest secret successes of Riseup was when Gadfly and Arara met at one of our retreats and fell in love. We have at times been annoyed, in conflict, and angry with each other (since we are humans not robots), and this has even led to some people leaving the collective, but overall we've been surprisingly stable as all but one of us has transitioned from being fiery, dreamy, young radicals into cranky, dreamy middle-aged radicals.
And also, sometime during the last eight years, Riseup has become a force to be reckoned with. We are the largest nonprofit email provider in the world, outside of a university system. We run one of the world's most used TOR nodes. We are frequently cited and sourced as one of the few ethical, autonomous, and secure internet providers. We legally duked it out with the far right over not turning over our user's information and won. We use and develop cool-ass secure software. We scheme with other tech collectives across the globe on what we are going to do about all this spying and how we can carry this work on into the next decade. We have big hearts and minds, and we plan to win.
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Love,
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