EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, March 10: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
2) Monday, March 10: Organizing Meeting for Solidarity Against Austerity March
3) Thursday, March 13: Meeting of Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op
4) Tuesday, March 18: Labour-sponsored Meeting to Stop Tim Hudak
5) Tuesday, March 25: 3rd Annual Solidarity Against Austerity March, Rally, and Pizza
6) Tuesday, April 1: Meeting of Sudbury Cyclists Union
7) Wednesday, April 9: "Climate Chaos" with Guy McPherson
8) Thursday, April 10: Responding to Climate Chaos with Guy McPherson
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "International Women's Day (IWD) and Human Rights 2014" by Veronica Strong-Boag
2) "Security at the door and possible bag searches among new measures at public council meetings in Greater Sudbury" by Naomi Grant
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Monday, March 10: 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)
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, March 10: Organizing Meeting for Solidarity Against Austerity March
Time: 7:30pm
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 provincial budget is coming out in the spring, and we're already planning our Solidarity Against Austerity 3 pre-budget march and rally! Our next organizing meeting is on March 10, and anybody who is interested is welcome to attend.
This event would be held under the banner of the Raise the Rates campaign, calling for major increases in social assistance rates and for minimum wage. But there are many others affected by our government's austerity agenda as well! The event could include the struggles of the labour movement, First Nations, students, and other community groups against the austerity agenda.
We must work together to be effective against austerity, and we are hoping that anybody and everybody who is invested in any of these issues will come out to the meeting.
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Thursday, March 13: Meeting of 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 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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Tuesday, March 18: Labour-sponsored Meeting to Stop Tim Hudak
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: Steelworkers' Hall (66 Brady Street, Sudbury)
Your Members Can’t Afford...
- Lower Wages
- A Weaker Voice
- Unsafe Workplaces Help Stop Tim Hudak.
URGENT: All Unions, All Locals Sudbury Regional Meeting
Everyone Needed: All local union leaders, executive board members, staff, stewards, committee members, activists, retirees, etc.
Visit www.RightsatWork.ca for regional meetings and materials
Hosted by the Sudbury and District Labour Council, Ontario Federation of Labour and Canadian Labour Congress - Congrès du travail du Canada.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1403652456559772/
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Tuesday, March 25: 3rd Annual Solidarity Against Austerity March, Rally, and Pizza
Time: 11:30am to 1:30pm
Location: Starting from Memorial Park, Sudbury
Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty and our supporters in the Raise the Rates Campaign are hosting a rally, march and pizza lunch on March 25th.
The Raise the Rates Campaign is calling for the Ontario provincial government to raise the rates of social assistance (Ontario Works and Ontario Disaiblity Support Program) and the minimum wage. We are calling for ODSP to be kept as a strong, seperate program than Ontario Works. We are calling for the government to abandon talk of austerity. Austerity does not work!
The event will start at Memorial Park at 11:30. Please share this event widely.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/598414203584939/
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Tuesday, April 1: Meeting of Sudbury Cyclists Union
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: reThink Green (176 Larson Street, Suite 305, Sudbury)
Agenda TBA
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1432740206961542/
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Wednesday, April 9: "Climate Chaos" with Guy McPherson
Time: 6pm
Location: TBA
Dr. Guy McPherson, professor emeritus of Natural Resources and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (University Of Arizona), will give a tour of the climate science that you probably haven’t seen before. McPherson breaks the gag order that is climate change denial and disinformation to integrate the climate science with an emphasis on the non-linear nature of impacts.
At the same time, McPherson’s tour provides a history of the threshold revisions that continue to occur and which coincide with our inability to achieve even modest restraints on capitalism. McPherson also explores the positive feedbacks that have been activated so far, asserting that runaway global warming is already underway, and that we have a right to know so that we can direct our lives accordingly.
Dr. McPherson is visiting Paul Beckwith in Ottawa, which is why he was so easily able to visit Sudbury. One easy way you can help with this event is to share it as widely as possible so we can let as many people who would be interested know about this event. Also, let us know if you’re coming at: https://www.facebook.com/events/733922436640166/.
This event in being organized by One Struggle Sudbury. For more information contact Rachael Charbonneau at 705-670-1982 or rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca.
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Thursday, April 10: Responding to Climate Chaos with Guy McPherson
Time: 12pm
Location: TBA
Guy McPherson will talk about his homesteading experiment, one he now considers to be a failure. Guy will share his experiences and insights to how we can prepare for climate chaos by working together to increase our resilience as a community.
Please help us share this event and let us know you’re coming at: https://www.facebook.com/events/278344602326295/.
For more information contact Rachael Charbonneau at 705-670-1982 or rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca.
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
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"International Women's Day (IWD) and Human Rights 2014"
by Veronica Strong-Boag
(From ActiveHistory.ca: http://activehistory.ca/2014/03/international-womens-day-iwd-and-human-r...)
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"Security at the door and possible bag searches among new measures at public council meetings in Greater Sudbury"
by Naomi Grant
(From the Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/security-door-and-possible-bag-searche...)
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.