EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Tuesday, March 18: Labour-sponsored Meeting to Stop Tim Hudak
2) Wednesday, March 19: Marshalling Training & Banner/Poster-making for Solidarity Against Austerity March
3) Friday, March 21: Organizing Meeting for Solidarity Against Austerity March
4) Monday, March 24: Meeting of Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury
5) Tuesday, March 25: 3rd Annual Solidarity Against Austerity March, Rally, and Pizza
6) Wednesday, March 26: Open Stage for Radicals and Progressives
7) Tuesday, April 1: Meeting of Sudbury Cyclists Union
8) Wednesday, April 9: Climate Chaos with Guy McPherson
9) Thursday, April 10: Responding to Climate Chaos with Guy McPherson
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "The AODA Howl", a poem about the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act by Victor Schwartzman
2) A call from Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury for people to speak up about new security measures at city hall
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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)
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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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Wednesday, March 19: Marshalling Training & Banner/Poster-making for Solidarity Against Austerity 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)
The provincial budget is coming out in the spring, and we're already planning our Solidarity Against Austerity 3 pre-budget march and rally! Everyone who is interested is welcome to participate.
This meeting will involve marshalling training, banner/poster-making and route events.
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Friday, March 21: 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!
This will be an organizing meeting for the march. Everyone who is interested is welcome to participate.
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Monday, March 24: Meeting of Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: The Green Room (formerly the Environmental Resource Centre, 176 Larch Street, 3rd floor, above Eat Local)
This is the next general meeting of CLS. Everyone is welcome!
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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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Wednesday, March 26: Open Stage for Radicals and Progressives
Time: 8pm – 10pm
Location: Townehouse Tavern (205 Elgin Street, Sudbury)
One Struggle Sudbury presents our third monthly Open Stage for Radicals and Progressives! We want to share politically progressive/radical/revolutionary culture in a friendly and informal setting! Bring your songs, poems, raps, skits and excerpts! You are welcome to share your own original art, another artist’s work or you can just come out and enjoy the show! Pieces that are open to radical interpretation are also welcome.
Time slots will be given on a first come, first serve basis. Depending on the turnout, performers may be able to go on twice. This is a monthly event, so remember the last Wednesday of every month!
For more information, please contact Rachael Charbonneau at rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca or 705-670-1982.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1431140393795630/
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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: Noon
Location: Meeting Room 1, Main Branch of the Sudbury Public Library (74 Mackenzie Street)
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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"The AODA Howl"
a poem about the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
by Victor Schwartzman, March 12, 2014
(Published at http://www.aoda.ca/the-aoda-howl/)
I have seen the best advocates of my generation
staggering through Queens Park for a fix
of false access hope from politicians,
still in denial they are treated like hicks.
I have seen decades of community support
squandered–and hope and trust and more–
thrown away by those with the power
who laugh at voters behind closed doors.
I have seen the law thrown out the window
by politicians our silence has enabled.
The law means nothing, lets be honest,
if you are a person who is disabled.
For more information on the AODA, see: http://www.aoda.ca/the-aoda-howl/
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A call from Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury for people to speak up about new security measures at city hall
Security guards will now greet people coming in to council or committee of council meetings, and may also search bags as people enter. Do these new security measures concern you? Let your councillor know.
Find your councillor’s phone number at: http://www.greatersudbury.ca/inside-city-hall/city-council/
E-mail all members of council at: mayor@greatersudbury.ca; joe.cimino@greatersudbury.ca; jacques.barbeau@greatersudbury.ca; claude.berthiaume@greatersudbury.ca; evelyn.dutrisac@greatersudbury.ca; ron.dupuis@greatersudbury.ca; andre.rivest@greatersudbury.ca; dave.kilgour@greatersudbury.ca; fabio.belli@greatersudbury.ca; doug.craig@greatersudbury.ca; frances.caldarelli@greatersudbury.ca; terry.kett@greatersudbury.ca; joscelyne.landry-altmann@greatersudbury.ca
CC to local media: editor@northernlife.ca; sud.letters@sunmedia.ca
To find out more about these new security measures, read: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/security-door-and-possible-bag-searche...
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