EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, September 8: Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury Fall Planning Meeting
2) Monday, September 8: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
3) Wednesday, September 17: Meeting of Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op
4) Sunday, September 21: People's Climate March
5) Wednesday, October 1: Good Green Town Hall
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) Callout to build grassroots media in Sudbury!
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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!
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Monday, September 8: 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, September 17: Meeting of Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op
Time: 10am to noon
Location: meeting room #1, Main Branch, Greater Sudbury Public Library (74 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury)
As all of us adjust to the sad reality of summer being over, we're keen to make sure that the Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op gets a good jump on organizing. We encourage anyone and everyone who might be interested in making media themselves, or who recognize that a robust grassroots media infrastructure is essential for social change work being done across a broad range of issues, to come out to the meeting that we're having on September 17th at 10 am in meeting room #1 at the Mackenzie Street branch of the library. We have thoughts about doing an event, a couple of workshops, and of course lots of media-making in the next little while, but we have not made any definite decisions -- it depends on where people's energy and enthusiasm lie. So please come out and share your ideas!
If you can't make it to the meeting but still think you might want to be involved somehow -- through organizing things, through participating in some of the editorial stuff, through writing or producing other content -- then be in touch with me at the email address above or send a note to grassrootssudburymedia@gmail.com.
Find our site at:
http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/
Our callout for content, some of which we might even be able to pay for:
http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/blog/grassrootssudburymedia/19108
The full callout for this first meeting of the season:
http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/blog/grassrootssudburymedia/31583
Find us on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsMediaCollective
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Sunday, September 21: People's Climate March
Time: 1:30pm
Location: Bridge of Nations in downtown Sudbury
For updates and volunteer opportunities go to:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/event/climate/Peoples_Climate_March_826/
On Sunday, September 21st, just days before a landmark climate summit at the UN, Avaaz members around the world are taking part in a People's Climate March.
In Sudbury, we will gather at the Bridge of Nations (Paris Street Bridge) to deliver our petition and show our leaders that climate change matters to all of us. Join us from 12 PM at the Market downtown (VIA Rail Station) to design your green heart t-shirt, pick up banners, and hear from the world's largest climate march in New York. At 1:30 PM, we will march to the Bridge of Nations to show our solidarity with the global movement, and take photos to be shared by Avaaz at the UN climate summit.
See you out there!
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/691595030931612/
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Wednesday, October 1: Good Green Town Hall
Time: 6pm to 9pm
Location: St. Andrew's Place (111 Larch Street, Sudbury)
Meet-and-greet starting at 6pm with city council candidates for this fall's municipal election. A mayoral town hall will go from 7pm to 9pm.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1455737588030732/
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
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Callout to build grassroots media in Sudbury!
(From The Media Co-op: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/blog/grassrootssudburymedia/31583)
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.