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Sudbury Social Justice News - August 11, 2014

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EVENTS & MEETINGS:

1) Wednesday, August 13: Solidarity With Palestine: Rally & March Through Downtown Sudbury
2) Wednesday, August 13: Friends of Sudbury Transit Meeting
3) Saturday, August 16: S-CAP Fundraiser Food Sale & Yard Sale
4) Monday, September 1: Labour Day Family Fun Fest
5) Monday, September 8: Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury Fall Planning Meeting

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

1) Historic gathering of movements and communities-in-struggle in Ottawa, Aug 21-24
2) "Community Radio Resurgent in Sudbury"

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Wednesday, August 13: Solidarity With Palestine: Rally & March Through Downtown Sudbury

Time: 6:30pm
Location: Starting from Memorial Park in downtown Sudbury

*This is a Fat/Trans/Queer-positive, Anti-racist, Accessible, Harassment-free event*

The time has come to show our solidarity in Sudbury for Palestinian people of the world facing extreme oppression under Israeli Apartheid.
From right here in Turtle Island (aka. North America) to Palestine, we must come together to resist our colonizers and hold them accountable.

"As they did during Israel’s attack on Gaza in 2008-09 that killed over 1400 Palestinians, the Canadian government is once again giving its full, uncritical support to Israel. Canada has supported Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza since it began over 7 years ago - never calling on Israel to end the blockage to allow food, medicine, building supplies and other necessities into Gaza. Canada continues to engage in free trade, particularly arms deals, with Israel. Canada is deeply complicit in the crimes being committed in Palestine."
(From the Toronto event page)

Join us on the streets! Bring flags, banners, noisemakers and your voices!
Show your support, show your solidarity, Free, Free Palestine!
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Date: Wednesday, August 13th
Time: 6:30pm
Location: We will rally together at the Memorial Park gazebo before marching through downtown Sudbury.
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Supported by:
Palestine Solidarity Working Group,
Laurentian's Palestine Solidarity Student Club,
S-CAP Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
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For more information about the war on Palestine please join the Palestine Solidarity (Sudbury) facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PalestineSolidaritySudbury/

Further information:
http://electronicintifada.net/
http://www.bdsmovement.net/get-involved
Gaza TV News
CJPME - Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
CANADIAN Boat to Gaza
The Palestine you need to know
http://www.caiaweb.org/
http://mondoweiss.net/

Petitions:
1. Petition to John Baird to pressure the Canadian government to offer humanitarian and medical assistance to Gaza:

http://ijvcanada.org/emergency-gaza-baird/

2. Call to the UN and governments across the world to take immediate steps to implement a comprehensive and legally binding military embargo on Israel, similar to that imposed on South Africa during apartheid.:

http://www.bdsmovement.net/stoparmingisrael

To join the email list or for more information on this event, please contact: eileenroth@gmail.com

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/606581122790194/

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Wednesday, August 13: Friends of Sudbury Transit Meeting

Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: 30 Ste. Anne Road, 1st Floor, West side door entrance.

Let's talk about transit. Problems getting to and coming back from work or school? Other issues? Let's talk.

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/744327938960541/

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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!

 
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Monday, September 1: Labour Day Family Fun Fest

Time: 10am to 4pm
Location: Bell Park, Sudbury

Join us at Bell Park for the 3rd annual Labour Day Family Fun Fest! A great day with friends and family - enjoy a BBQ, games and activities for kids, live music and great prizes to win! All proceeds go back to the Sudbury community.

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/773061496050680/
 

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Monday, September 8: Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury Fall Planning Meeting

Time: 6:30pm
Location: Meeting room 1, downstairs, Main Branch, Greater Sudbury Public Library (74 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury)

Join us for our fall planning meeting, Monday, Sept. 8, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the main library on Mackenzie (meeting room 1, downstairs).
There’s lots on the go this fall.  We need your help and your ideas!

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

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Historic gathering of movements and communities-in-struggle in Ottawa, Aug 21-24

Build together, Win together! The Future is Ours!
Ensemble pour gagner, l'avenir est à nous!

A grassroots, historical gathering of progressives from Québec, Canada and First Nations, The Peoples' Social Forum wants to stimulate debate, discussion and further our sense of community and collective action.

Un Forum des peuples historique, pour stimuler le débat et les discussions et approfondir notre sens de la communauté et de l’action collective. Une rencontre des progressistes du Québec, du Canada et des Premières nations.

Register now / Inscrivez-vous maintenant :
www.peoplessocialforum.org
www.forumsocialdespeuples.org

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/735414129823406/

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Community Radio Resurgent in Sudbury
by Scott Neigh
(From The Media Co-op: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/community-radio-resurgent-sudbury/31368)
 


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