Updated to include event 1.5.
EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, November 25: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
1.5)Friday, November 29: A Collection of Short Films About Work, Workers, and Labour
2) Monday, December 2: Meeting of the Sudbury Workers' Education and Advocacy Centre
3) Saturday, December 7: Screening of *The Ghost in Our Machine* to Benefit Wild at Heart Wildlife Refuge Centre
4) Saturday, December 7: The Sudbury Holiday Feast -- A Fundraiser for reThink Green
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "Anishinabek have treaty rights to share mining revenues"
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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/
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Friday, November 29: A Collection of Short Films About Work, Workers, and Labour
Time: 7pm
Location: Room C-203, Classroom Building (above the Tim Horton's), Laurentian University, Sudbury
The Sudbury and District Labour Council will be hosting a Canadian Labour International Film Festival - CLIFF - movie night this Friday November 29 beginning at 7:00 p.m.. The event will be held at the Laurentian University campus Room C-203.
Please forward the information, post it on your facebook, websites etc. Everyone welcome. Refreshments provided. A donation of a non-perishable food item for the local food bank would be greatly appreciated.
For more information on the event please visit the CLIFF website labourfilms.ca
About the Film: Festival-in-a-Box 2013 (110 minutes)
Bad Jobs Are Making Us Sick
N Dar, M Hoque, S Htoo, P Paglingayen, J Chamberlain • 2013
This short story of insecure work and health brings together the experiences of many hardworking racialized newcomers in Toronto. The community-produced film draws on research from the Black Creek area to bring to light real stories of how insecure jobs and discrimination affect the health of individuals and families.
8.00 minutes
English
Journey, The
Hana Makki • 2012
A conversation between a young Ethiopian housemaid arriving in a new country for work, and her older Indian taxi driver. On their journey, we discover these expatriates’ hopes, dreams and realities.
15.00 minutes
English (English subtitles)
Just Wait for our Call: The impact of temp agency work on health
N Dar, M Hoque, S Htoo, P Paglingayen, J Chamberlain • 2013
This short film brings together the perspectives of racialized newcomer temp workers, workers’ rights advocates, settlement service providers, and researchers to bring to light the health effects of temp agency work. Sparked by research into insecure employment and health, the film illuminates employment pathways trapping newcomers in temp work and the effects on families, recommending policy and practice solutions.service providers, and researchers to bring to light the health effects of temp agency work. Sparked by research into insecure employment and health, the film illuminates employment pathways trapping newcomers in temp work and the effects on families, recommending policy and practice solutions.
7.00 minutes
English
Struggle to Remember, A : Fighting for our Families
Aaron Floresco
This film explores how Canadian feminists, unionists and political activists built a potent coalition, mobilized public opinion and achieved vast improvements in maternity leave and other family leave benefits.
2012 20.00 minutes
English (English and French subtitles)
Taking Care of Toronto (4 15-second spots)
Dermott Cleary • 2011-2012
CUPE Local 79 members provide the services Torontonians rely on and that keep our city great. From quality drinking water to immunisations to looking after loved ones, Local 79 is the working people who help take care of Toronto and love doing it. The spots show the benefits of the members’ work. (Judith, Kelly, Laura, Kevin)
1.00 minutes
English
Tough to Swallow: Meals that Sparked a Seniors Revolt
Carla Bridgewater • 2012
In 2010, Alberta Health Services began shutting down full-service kitchens in all facilities with fewer than 125 beds and replacing them with so-called “heat and serve” equipment, where precooked food was trucked in, reheated and served to patients and residents. The new food was described as ‘terrible,’ ‘inedible,’ and memorably, ‘dog food,’ but AHS just wasn’t listening to residents or their families. This film takes you under cover with John Gilchrist, noted food expert, author and critic, to expose the truth about the 21-day menu. Following production of this film and the subsequent coverage in conventional media, the Alberta Legislature ordered Alberta Health Services to reverse this policy.
14.00 minutes
English
Ukrainian Labour Temple, The: A Cultural and Political Movement from Winnipeg’s North End
Aaron Floresco • 2012
Opened in 1918, Winnipeg’s Ukrainian Labour Temple quickly established itself as an important centre for workers, farmers, activists and culture in Winnipeg. With a dynamic and at times politically stressful history, the Labour Temple to this day remains an important part of the community it services.
27.00 minutes
English
Union Style
Corinne Baumgarten • 2013
This is a light educational video about the importance of unions in general, their history and the current state of unions in Canada. It is a parody of Gangnam Style.
3.00 minutes
English
Uniting People Manoj Panday
This documentary depicts the situation and condition of workers and labour issues in Nepal. It also throws light on the trade union movement in Nepal.
2012 minutes
11.00 minutes
Nepali (English subtitles)
Screening time for FIAB =>> 106.00 minutes
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Monday, December 2: Meeting of the 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)
This meeting is for workers who may be having problems at work because of working conditions, discrimination, lack of protection, low wages, or unstable employment.
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.
If anyone has any questions, they can contact us by email at sweac@gmail.com
The Sudbury Workers' Education and Advocacy Centre on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/SudburyWorkersCentre
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Saturday, December 7: Screening of *The Ghost in Our Machine* to Benefit Wild at Heart Wildlife Refuge Centre
Time: 2pm
Location: Former Rainbow Cinemas downtown (40 Elm Street, Sudbury)
The Best of Hot Docs Film Festival will run from December 6 to 8 at the former Rainbow cinemas downtown.
A benefit screening of film, The Ghosts in Our Machine will take place on:
Saturday, December 7th, 2013 at 2pm at the former Rainbow Cinemas - 40 Elm Street, Sudbury Tickets are available online (see link below) or from the Walden Animal Hospital in Lively.
$5 from the sale of each ticket will directly support Wild at Heart Wildlife Refuge Centre!
Click here to see the trailer: http://vimeo.com/59741668#
Official website for the film: http://www.theghostsinourmachine.com/
THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of acclaimed animal photographer Jo-Anne McArthur we become intimately familiar with a cast of animal subjects. Each story and photograph is a window into global animal industries: Food, Fashion, Entertainment and Research. All part of an epic photo project called We Animals, McArthur has documented the lives of animals around the world with heart-breaking empathic vividness. THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE charts McArthur’s efforts to bring wider attention to a topic that most of humankind strives hard to avoid. Are non-human animals property to be owned and used, or are they sentient beings deserving of rights?
"I feel like I’m a war photographer. I am photographing history and photographing changes in history right now, in terms of animal rights and where it’s going." - Jo-Anne McArthur
"Really powerful… a truly eye opening experience… I only hope THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE can change the way people treat animals the way “Food, Inc.” changed the way people eat." – Jason Priestley, Actor, Director
"This is a masterful film. It should be essential viewing for everyone." – JAMES CROMWELL, Actor
This screening is sponsored by the Walden Animal Hospital.
For more information about the Best of Hot Docs Film Festival in Sudbury, click here: http://www.facebook.com/events/581744591899127/
We hope to see you there!
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/553050534776689/
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Saturday, December 7: The Sudbury Holiday Feast -- A Fundraiser for reThink Green
Time: 6pm to 10pm
Location: 140 Durham Street
Join us at The Parkside Centre for THE celebration of local food, art, and culture! Featuring live music and entertainment, silent auction, diverse selection of local cultural foods, beer sampling, cash bar, and more!
Single adult admission - $40
Set of 6 tickets - $200
Set of 10 tickets - $320
Get your tickets here at our office at 176 Larch, through anyone of our Board members or online by following this link http://www.rethinkgreen.ca/index.php/holiday-event
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/677942655570643/
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
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"Anishinabek have treaty rights to share mining revenues"
(Originally from Anishinabek News: http://anishinabeknews.ca/2013/11/19/anishinabek-have-treaty-rights-to-s...)
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