EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, March 24: Meeting of Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury
2) Monday, March 24: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
3) Tuesday, March 25: 3rd Annual Solidarity Against Austerity March, Rally, and Pizza
4) Tuesday, March 25: The Global Rush For Farmland and Peoples' Struggles Against It
5) Wednesday, March 26: Open Stage for Radicals and Progressives
6) Tuesday, April 1: Meeting of Sudbury Cyclists Union
7) Saturday, April 5: Innovative Community Engagement Tools & Techniques
8) Wednesday, April 9: Climate Chaos with Guy McPherson
9) Thursday, April 10: Responding to Climate Chaos with Guy McPherson
10) Monday, April 28: International Day of Mourning for Workers Killed & Injured on the Job - Sudbury
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
None this week!
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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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Monday, March 24: 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)
We will be finishing up any last minute details for our march on the 25th, and will be starting a conversation about what we can do in support of panhandlers in Sudbury. Panhandlers are being given $65 tickets for panhandling. Come join us for a discussion for what we can do to help. We will try to keep the meeting short so we can walk over to Memorial Park to shovel snow in preparation for Tuesday's event.
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, 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, March 25: The Global Rush For Farmland and Peoples' Struggles Against It
Time: 7pm
Location: Fraser Auditorium, Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road
This is the 6th installment of the Dr. Jennifer Keck Lecture Series. It will be delivered by Devlin Kuyek, a senior researcher for the international organization GRAIN. In 2011, GRAIN received the Right Livelihood Award (Sweden's Alternative Nobel Prize) for its support of people's control over their local biodiversity and food systems. Over the past decade, Kuyek and his colleagues have worked directly with some of the most important social movemetns around the world to resist the expansion of industrial agriculture and the corporate takeover of lands and seeds. He is Special Advisor to the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network and the author of Good Crop/Bad Crop: Seed Politics, and The Future of Food in Canada. He lives and works in Montreal.
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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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Saturday, April 5: Innovative Community Engagement Tools & Techniques
Time: 2pm to 4pm
Location: reThink Green (Suite 305, 176 Larch Street, Sudbury)
Admission $20 (free under some conditions -- see below)
Join us in The Green Room for an interactive discussion on innovative ways to engage the public for advocacy, fundraising, and finding new volunteers. This includes a demonstration of powerful software tools and successful case studies.
Graham Saul is one of the founding members of Ecology Ottawa and the executive director of the organization. He is also the executive director of Climate Action Network Canada – Resau action climate Canada. He has worked at the South African Institute for International Affairs, Oxfam International in Maputo, Mozambique, and at the Washington, D.C. – based Bank Information Center. Graham has also served as the international program director for Friends of the Earth Canada and Oil Change International.
Admission: $20 / Free*
*reThink Green Group Members: Two representatives from each reThink Green membership group can attend this event for free. Please use the registration form to indicate that you are taking one of the free seats.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/455363394596324/
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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.
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Monday, April 28: International Day of Mourning for Workers Killed & Injured on the Job - Sudbury
Time: 10am to 11:30am
Location: Fraser Auditorium, Laurentian University
The International Day of Mourning is observed yearly on April 28th. It commemorates workers who have been killed, injured or suffered illness due to workplace related hazards and incidents.
The International Day of Mourning began in Sudbury in 1984. The Canadian Labour Congress officially declared it an annual day of remembrance the following year (1985). With the passing of the Workers Mourning Day Act, in 1990, the day became a national Canadian observance: April 28, 1991, was the first official “National Day of Mourning for persons killed or injured in the workplace”.
Since its inception in Sudbury, the observance has spread to over 80 countries around the world. April 28th was chosen because, on that day in 1914, the Workers Compensation Act received its third reading.
The purpose of Day of Mourning is twofold- to remember and honour those lives lost or injured and to renew the commitment to improving health and safety in the workplace – to prevent further deaths, injuries and diseases from work. Typically flags are flown at half-mast, and workers and employees observe this day in various ways including: observing moments of silence; lighting candles; and donning ribbons and/or black armbands.
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.