EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, July 28: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
2) Wednesday, July 30: Anti-Policing Initiative
4) Saturday, August 16: S-CAP Fundraiser Food Sale & Yard Sale
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "Provincial budget austerity draws opposition from Sudbury anti-poverty activists" by Scott Neigh
2) "Lack of attention to lake water quality contributing to systemic public concerns in Greater Sudbury" by Steve May
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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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"Provincial budget austerity draws opposition from Sudbury anti-poverty activists"
by Scott Neigh
(From The Media Co-op: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/provinical-budget-austerity-draws-oppo...)
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"Lack of attention to lake water quality contributing to systemic public concerns in Greater Sudbury"
by Steve May
(From The Media Co-op: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/blog/grassrootssudburymedia/31280)
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.