EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, February 10: Organizing Meeting for Anti-Harper March
2) Thursday, February 13: Meeting of the Sudbury Working Group of the Media Co-op
3) Friday, February 14: Sisters in Spirit March
4) Friday, February 14: Love Over the Rainbow Dance
5) Monday, February 17: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
6) Tuesday, February 25: Appeal Hearing for the S-CAP 11
7) Saturday, March 1: Omnibus March Against Stephen Harper - Sudbury
8) Saturday, March 1: Black History Month Celebration - Sudbury
9) Tuesday, March 4: Meeting of Sudbury Cyclist Union
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "Painting offers glimpse into Canada's slave-owning past" by Marion Scott
2) "Over the top: The battle over the anniversary of WWI" by John Bell
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Monday, February 10: Organizing Meeting for Anti-Harper March
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 is an organizing meeting for the Sudbury event for the pan-Canadian day of action against the Harper government happening on March 1. Please come out and share your ideas if you are interested in shaping this event!
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Thursday, February 13: Meeting of the Sudbury Working Group of the Media
Co-op
Time: 10am to noon
Location: meeting room #1, downstairs, main branch of the Sudbury Public
Library (74 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury)
Everyone is welcome to join us for our meeting on Thursday, January 9
from 10am to at the main branch of the Greater Sudbury Public Library.
The Sudbury working group of The Media Co-op wants to support people in
creating 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.
Find our site at:
http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/
Our new callout for content, some of which we might even be able to pay
for:
http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/blog/grassrootssudburymedia/19108
Contact the Sudbury Working Group to learn more about writing for us or
to let us know about community issues and events at:
grassrootssudburymedia@gmail.com
Find us on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsMediaCollective
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Friday, February 14: Sisters in Spirit March
Time: 3pm to 6pm
Location: N'Swakamok Native Friendship Centre (110 Elm Street, from 3pm until march leaves at 5pm)
CALL TO SURVIVORS TO BREAK THE SILENCE!!!
ONE BILLION rising for justice is a global call to women survivors of violence and those who love them to come together in community and solidarity outside places where they are entitled to Justice!!
This is a collaborative initiative. As of today we have N'Swakamok Healing and Wellness, N'Swakamok Addiction services, YWCA, SISTER IN SPIRIT<< in remembrance of MISSING AND MURDERED ABORIGINAL WOMEN across Canada .. and it is only growing!!
AGENDA:
3:00 - 4:15 **WOMEN ONLY** Opening prayer by Elder Winnie Pitawanakwat * Womens Honor song *
This will be a time to share stories of empowerment!.
4:15 - 4:50 ** Women and **KIND MEN, allies, those in solidarity - we will share in light meal provided by N'Swakmok Healing and Wellness
5:00 - 5:45 MARCH WILL COMMENCE outside N'Swakamok Friendship Center where we will be led by Greater Sudbury Police along our route.
The path to Justice begins with acknowledging and recognizing the violence.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1435681266668996/
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Friday, February 14: Love Over the Rainbow Dance
Time: 7pm to 1am
Location: Parkside Older Adult Centre (140 Durham Street, Sudbury)
A Valentines day dance celebrating love, community and 40 years
LGBT2-SQQA history in Greater Sudbury and the North. Everyone is welcome
to attend! Tickets will go on sale January 6 2013 for $12 advance or $18
at the door.
Fierte Sudbury Pride is presenting this fundraising dance in honor of
all the work SAGA did to develop our thriving community.
Bring your pictures and memorabilia to add to our memory boards and
historical rolls.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/222728477910156/
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Monday, February 17: 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 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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Tuesday, February 25: Appeal Hearing for the S-CAP 11
Time: 2pm
Location: Court Room B, Court House, 155 Elm Street
In 2012, eleven members and supporters of the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty were arrested for setting up a homeless shelter in the office of Liberal MPP Rick Bartolucci. In late 2013, the activists were acquitted, but the Crown has decided to appeal that ruling. The hearing will be on Feb. 25th at 2pm in Court Room B, Court House, 155 Elm Street. S-CAP regards this as a waste of resources and an attempt to intimidate activists. Please come out and show your support. For more information on the case, check out this link: http://sudburycap.com/2013/11/25/s-cap-criticizes-campaign-harassment-an....
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Saturday, March 1: Omnibus March Against Stephen Harper - Sudbury
Time: 12noon
Location: TBA
A Day of Protest
"Please Please, it is very important to get ready early and invite and
share lots to make sure this event has a huge impact, LONG BEFORE
Stephen Harper announces that Northern Gateway Pipeline 'Project' WILL
GO AHEAD! (Then it will be civil disobedience)
Don't think it is not already decided. He is taking 200 Journalists and
PR Agents with him to Israel near Mid January AND He LOVES making big
flashy announcements when he is ABROAD. PLEASE be ready to OBJECT and
STOP this Masquerade. Don't Wait!
This is the fight of our lifetime for the next generations.
Too many reasons to protest is no excuse not to protest!
Indigenous, Canadian and Earth Friends-Led Protests and Support for
Native Sovereignty, true Democracy and Environmental Justice in Canada
and all over the planet.
FINAL DETAILS WILL BE POSTED SOON
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1436654833233445/
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Saturday, March 1: Black History Month Celebration - Sudbury
Time: Cocktails @ 5:30pm, Speech @ 6:30pm, Dinner @ 7pm
Location: Upper Hall, Caruso Club (385 Haig Street, Sudbury)
Tickets: $30 each, cash bar
The Afro-Heritage Association of Sudbury invites you to our Black
History Month Celebration. The guest speaker will be Joseph W. Ricahrds
II (LL.L., J.D., LL.M. (Cantab.), M.T.S.), Barrister and Soliciter at
Law.
Event poster on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=617160898354984&set=a.4956154271...
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Tuesday, March 4: Meeting of Sudbury Cyclist Union
Time: 7pm
Location: reThink Green (Suite 305, 176 Larch Street, Sudbury)
Agenda TBA.
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
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"Painting offers glimpse into Canada's slave-owning past"
by Marion Scott
(From Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Painting+offers+glimpse+into+Canada+...)
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"Over the top: The battle over the anniversary of WWI"
by John Bell
(From Socialist.ca: http://www.socialist.ca/node/2063)
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.