Sudbury Social Justice News - January 12, 2014

EVENTS & MEETINGS:

1) Monday, January 13: Meeting of the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury
2) Monday, January 13: Workshop on Engaging Audiences with Effective
Communication
3) Monday, January 13: One School System for Ontario
4) Tuesday, January 14: Raise the Minimum Wage Phone-in Action
5) Saturday, January 18: Open House at Eat Local Sudbury Co-operative
6) Monday, January 20: S-CAP Deputation to City Community Services
Committee
7) Monday, January 20: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
8) Wednesday, January 22: Town Hall Meeting in Support of Postal Workers
9) Wednesday, January 22 and Thursday, January 23: S-CAP Fundraising Book Sale
10) Thursday, January 23: Queer Activism in the 1970s: From Liberation to Rights
11) Saturday, January 25: The Buzz on Bees
12) Wednesday, January 29: Open Stage for Radicals and Progressives
13) Friday, January 31: Employment Rights Training for Front Line Agency
Staff

NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:

None this week!

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Monday, January 13: Meeting of the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury

Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: Environmental Resource Centre (176 Larch Street, 3rd floor)

This is the next general meeting of the Coalition for a Liveable
Sudbury.

Please note that the location is not wheelchair accessible -- if this is
a barrier for you to attend, please let us know and we will find an
alternate location.

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Monday, January 13: Workshop on Engaging Audiences with Effective
Communication

Time: 6pm to 9pm
Location: Room LL202, Living with Lakes Centre, Laurentian University

Whether the objective is to reach public audiences or policy makes,
advocate for change or inform interested communities, impactful
communication can be challenging. This workshop will focus on
communicating messages on scientific topics and will familiarize
participants with four pillars of effective communication: Audiences,
Learning, Dialogue, and Design.

How can analogies make your message stick? What do images communicate?
How do words evoke emotion? Join Chantal Barriault and Dr. David Pearson
from Laurentian University, Co-Directors of the Science Communication
Graduate Program, for this free interactive workshop and gain important
practical communication skills. Complementary refreshments will be
provided.

To RSVP, call (705)674-1685 or email info@rethinkgreen.ca.

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Monday, January 13: One School System for Ontario

Time: 6:30pm (to be confirmed)
Location: Living With Lakes Centre (935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury)

Justin Trottier from the Centre For Inquiry Canada is coming to Sudbury to present on the reasons why we should be facilitating the amalgamation of the two publicly funded school boards into one that inclusive, diverse, ethical and fiscally sound.

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Tuesday, January 14: Raise the Minimum Wage Phone-in Action

Time: All day
Location: Do it from home!

As part of the continuing province-wide campaign to raise the minimum wage to $14/hr (and keep raising it apace with inflation so that it remains 10% above the poverty line), the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty is asking everyone to phone Kathleen Wynne, and either Rick Bartolucci and France Gélinas (depending on whether you live in Sudbury or Nickel Belt) on Jan 14 to demand a $14/hr minimum wage.

Their phone numbers are:
Kathleen Wynne: (705) 969-3621
      * Rick Bartolucci: (705) 675-1914
      * France Gélinas: (416) 425-6777
      * Talking points are available here: http://raisetheminimumwage.ca/updates/doctors-orders-14-for-a-healthy-on...

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Saturday, January 18: Open House at Eat Local Sudbury Co-operative

Time: 10am to 4pm
Location: Eat Local Sudbury (176 Larch Street, Sudbury)

Join Eat Local Sudbury at our FREE Open House!

Changes are taking place at Eat Local Sudbury and we want you to be a part of it. We will be on hand to provide you with samples of lots of tasty new products, launching the new product policy and taking your feedback about how Eat Local Sudbury can grow to meet your needs.

See you there!

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/176670429208809/

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Monday, January 20: S-CAP Deputation to City Community Services Committee

Time: 4pm
Location: Room C-11, Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)

The Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty will be making a deputation to the Community Services Committee at Tom Davies Square about the current problems people are facing obtaining CHPI funding (Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative) and the need for emergency shelter space out of the cold for the entire winter. Please come out and show your support for these every important issues.

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Monday, January 20: 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 a report back from the provincial Raise the Rates campaign meeting, evaluating what happened at the City Community Services Committee, organizing against any ODSP/OW merger, our next support work drop-in and our continuing direct action support work.

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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Wednesday, January 22: Town Hall Meeting in Support of Postal Workers

Time: 2pm
Location: United Steel Workers Hall (66 Brady Street, Sudbury)

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is looking for solidarity in their fight against the government's plan to slash jobs, raise prices, and reduce services to Canadian homes. At the crux of their fight is that Canada Post wants to please it's 200 largest business clients on the expense of Canadian citizens.

Don't be fooled, Canada Post is profitable. In fact, it has only had one non-profitable year of the past 17 (they lost money in 2011 and then returned to profitability in 2012). The problem is where those profits have gone. In 2006 for example, $119 million went to Canada Post's commercial profits; and, $80 million became lucrative dividends for the federal government. What about commitments to improve public postal service?

Please make a commitment to attend the CUPW Town Hall Meeting on Jan 22. It starts at 7 pm at our Steelworkers Hall. This is everyone's fight. Remember: stand together or fall apart!

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Wednesday, January 22 and Thursday, January 23: S-CAP Fundraising Book Sale

Time: 11am to 4pm each day
Location: Bowling Alley of the Arts Building, Laurentian University

Professor Gary Kinsman is retiring from Laurentian University and has donated many of his books to S-CAP for a fund-raising book sale. This includes books on Feminism, Women’s Studies, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Sociology, Social and Political Theory, Media Studies, Psychoanalysis, work by Freud, Marx, Chomsky, Weber, Che Guevera, Lenin, Mao, Fidel Castro, Trotsky, and many others, copies of Upping the Anti, Radical America and much, much more. Come on by, find a title that you like, and help support S-CAP's important work in the community!

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Thursday, January 23: Queer Activism in the 1970s: From Liberation to
Rights

Time: 7pm
Location: C-309, Classroom Building, Laurentian University

As a first installment in work on the making of the contemporary neo-liberal queer this presentation remembers queer organizing in the 1970s drawing on historical research and memory work. Starting off with the emergence of gay liberation and lesbian feminism out of the social revolts of the 1960s the often forgotten history of queer resistance to the privatization of our sexualities and intensifying sexual policing, the anti-queer national security campaigns, and the moral conservative neo-liberal right-wing is charted. At the same time the shift from liberationist politics to a more limited human rights protection approach that takes place later in the 1970s, along with the expansion of ‘pink markets,’ and the growing view of gays and lesbians as just like an ‘ethnic’ minority group help to lay the basis for the emergence of the neo-liberal queer in later years.

Gary Kinsman is the author of The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities, co-author (with Patrizia Gentile) of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, and editor of Whose National Security?,  Sociology for Changing the World and Mine Mill Fights Back. He is currently working on a new book project called The Making of the Neo-Liberal Queer and is involved in the AIDS Activist History Project. He is a long-time queer liberation, anti-poverty and anti-capitalist activist currently most involved in the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty  (S-CAP).  He has just taken early retirement from teaching Sociology at Laurentian University, on the territories of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek nation.

Organized by Pride@LU, the LU Committee on Sexuality and Gender Diversity, and the Sudbury Pride Committee. Sponsored by the History and Sociology Departments at Laurentian University.

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Saturday, January 25: The Buzz on Bees

Time: 2pm to 3pm
Location: Sudbury Public Library in New Sudbury (1346 LaSalle)

Come to the New Sudbury Public Library for a free presentation by local beekeepers, Dan and Tracy Seguin of Creekbend farms..

Toxic Pesticides? Freezing Temperatures? Nasty parasites? How do all of these things effect the glorious golden syrup that sweetens your life? Join Dan and Tracey Seguin for their free presentation on local beekeeping, followed by an open discussion on Bee Colony Collapse Disorder.

Pre registration with the library online or by phone recommended. Sampling of honey and maple products at Eat Local Sudbury 176 Larch St. Sudbury, ON from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 25, 2014.

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/244967672331047/

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Wednesday, January 29: Open Stage for Radicals and Progressives

Time: 8pm to 10pm
Location: Townhouse Tavern (206 Elgin Street, Sudbury)

One Struggle Sudbury presents our first monthly Open Stage for Radicals and Progressives! We want to advance radical and progressive culture in Sudbury! Political radicals and progressives are invited to come out and share songs, poems, raps, skits, and excerpts. Time slots will be allotted on a first come, first serve basis. This is a monthly event, so mark your calendars for the last Wednesday of every month!

For more information, please contact Rachael Charbonneau at rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca or 705-670-1982

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Friday, January 31: Employment Rights Training for Front Line Agency Staff

Time: Coffee & registration from 9am, workshop 10am to 4pm
Location: please RSVP
Fee: $25

This workshop is geared towards front line staff who have clients that are considered "vulnerable workers". These are people who earn minimum wage, work for temp agencies or are on employment contracts. The workshop is hosted by Sudbury Workers' Education and Advocacy Centre in partnership with the United Way of Sudbury and the Toronto Workers' Centre.

FRONT LINE STAFF TRAINING

The provincial Employment Standards Act protects the employment rights of workers in Ontario. The Sudbury Workers’ Education and Advocacy Centre will be hosting a one day workshop that will give you the basics of the Act.  Topics such as the following will be covered:

Eligibility, Minimum Wage, Cash Payments, Weekly Hours, Daily Hours & Breaks, Overtime, Vacation, Public Holidays, Termination Notice or Pay, Severance Pay

If your clients work in non-unionized environments they need to know their rights!  Join us on Friday, January 31, 2014 in the United Way boardroom for an exciting day of information sharing with Karen Dick from the Toronto Workers’ Centre.

Refreshments and lunch will be served. Fee is $25.00. Space is limited. Please make cheques payable to the Sudbury Workers’ Education and Advocacy Centre. Payments can be mailed to: 109 Elm Street, Suite 209, Sudbury, ON, P3C1T4

Coffee & registration at 9:00.  Workshop 10:00 to 4:00

Please RSVP by January 24, 2014 to sudburyworkerscentre@gmail.com or call 705-470-3323.

Seating is limited, so please register by January 24, 2014. For more information, please contact: sudburyworkerscentre@gmail.com or call 705-470-3323.