EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Thursday, July 24: One Struggle Movie Night
2) Friday, July 25: Austerity Budget Breakdown Funfest
3) Monday, July 28: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
4) Wednesday, July 30: Anti-Policing Initiative
5) Saturday, August 16: S-CAP Fundraiser Food Sale & Yard Sale
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "'Tornadoes of fire' in N.W.T. linked to climate change"
2) "Enough. It's time for a boycott of Israel" by Naomi Klein
3) "Petition: Bed Bath and Beyond Canada Ltd: Stop selling SodaStream products!"
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Thursday, July 24: One Struggle Movie Night
Time: 6pm
Location: Greater Sudbury Public Library, 74 Mackenzie Street, Meeting Room 1 (downstairs)
Double Bill: El Contrato (51:14) & Teo in Toronto (4:26)
“This documentary from Min Sook Lee (Tiger Spirit) follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to pick tomatoes. For 8 months a year, the town's population absorbs 4,000 migrant workers who toil under conditions, and for wages, that no local would accept. Yet despite a fear of repercussions, the workers voice their desire for dignity and respect.”
"Teo in Toronto follows immigrant farmer Teodora as he visits a community project in Toronto, where formerly homeless youth grown their own food.”
Despite being able to grow our own food during the summer, we remain dependent on the working classes of other countries for a large part of our harvest in Ontario. Come out and learn about the working conditions of immigrant workers who continue to grow a great deal of our food.
We’ll start the first film at 6:10 pm, watch both films, and then have a discussion.
An easy way to help with this event is to share and join on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/748968715150188/?ref_newsfeed_story_type...
For more information contact Rachael Charbonneau: rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca or 705-670-1982.
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Friday, July 25: Austerity Budget Breakdown Funfest
Time: 4pm
Location: the Provincial Building at 199 Larch Street, Sudbury
We will be having a Raise the Rates action denouncing the Liberal Provincial Budget, which was reintroduced on Monday July 14th. We will be doing some sidewalk chalking, some radical jump rope, and other anti-poverty games to express our dissatisfaction with the budget and our demands that people's basic needs be met! Please come out on Friday July 25th, beginning at 4pm on Larch street outside the Provincial building to join the action!
A poster will be sent out for this event shortly that people can distribute. Please help spread the word!
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Monday, July 28: 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. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. If you arrive late and doors are locked, please call the S-CAP phone (249-878-7227).
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, July 30: Anti-Policing Initiative
Time: 6pm
Location: Columbus Park (corner of Melvin and Mabel, Sudbury)
The next meeting for the anti-police harassment campaign will be Wednesday July 30th at 6pm, at Columbus Park on the corner of Melvin and Mabel. This meeting will be addressing the ticketing of people crossing the tracks in the Donovan and Flour Mill areas by police, and what we can do about it. Please come out and share your experience of being ticketed or otherwise harassed by the police, and help plan an action against this excessive and unwarranted policing.
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Saturday, August 16: S-CAP Fundraiser Food Sale & Yard Sale
Time: 10am to 4pm
Location: O'Connor Park (140 St. George Street, Sudbury)
S-CAP will be holding a fundraiser yard sale and food sale inside the shack at O'Connor Park in the Flour Mill, at 140 St. George Street. We are asking that people donate any unwanted household items as well as baked goods or homemade cold and packaged foods for us to sell. Please contact me at annaharbulik@gmail.com to let me know if you have items that you'd like to contribute. We are asking that donations be dropped off at O'Connor Park on the morning of the sale between 9 and 10 am. Please also contact me if you'd like to help out at the event, or if you'd like to help with transporting items.
We'd also like to explore the possibility of selling some t-shirts at this event, so if you'd like to donate a t-shirt design that we can have printed, then please contact me for that as well!
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
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"'Tornadoes of fire' in N.W.T. linked to climate change"
(From CBCNews North: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/tornadoes-of-fire-in-n-w-t-linked-to...)
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"Enough. It's time for a boycott of Israel"
by Naomi Klein
(An older column of hers from The Guardian that has been recirculating in recent days, for obvious reasons: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/jan/10/naomi-klein-boycott...)
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"Petition: Bed Bath and Beyond Canada Ltd: Stop selling SodaStream products!"
by Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
Sign here: http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/bed-bath-and-beyond-canada-ltd-sto...
Bed Bath and Beyond stores in Canada stock SodaStream products which are used to make carbonated drinks at home. We are asking Bed Bath and Beyond to stop selling Soda Stream products because they have their main production facility on an illegal Israeli settlement, Ma’ale Adumim, in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Israeli settlements are located on appropriated Palestinian land, and are recognized throughout the world as being in violation of international law and human rights norms and are seen as a major barrier to justice and peace in the region.
By choosing to establish its main production facility in an illegal Israeli settlement:
· SodaStream is complicit in a significant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention – a binding principle of international law.
· SodaStream is actively benefiting from the subjugation of the Palestinian people and military occupation of Palestinian land through cheap facilities, tax incentives and a captive Palestinian labor force under severe restrictions of movement and organization. Soda Stream’s own reports to the U.S. Security Exchange Commission discuss the relative weight of international consumer boycotts and negative publicity against the economic benefits of manufacturing in a settlement industrial zone.
For the past several years Soda Stream has been the subject of de-shelving campaigns by organizations supporting Palestinian human rights around the world. In Canada alone, the SodaStream brand has come under critical scrutiny by the United Church of Canada, Independent Jewish Voices, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, and other organizations. Additionally, it has been the subject of campaigns in countries as wide ranging as Italy, UK, USA, Norway, Japan, and Australia, all of which have called on stores to respect principles of ethics and social justice by removing SodaStream from their shelves.
Please sign our petition asking Bed Bath and Beyond Canada to respect principles of ethics and social justice by removing SodaStream products from their shelves. By signing this petition you will be adding your voice to the call to stop “business as usual” with companies that are complicit in the Israeli military occupation of Palestinian land.
Sigh here: http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/bed-bath-and-beyond-canada-ltd-sto...
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