Sudbury Social Justice News - October 19, 2014

EVENTS & MEETINGS:

1) Monday, October 20 to Friday, October 24: Indigenous Education Week (17 events)
2) Monday, October 20: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
3) Monday, October 20: Meeting of the Raise the Rates Campaign
4) Wednesday, October 22: Palestine Solidarity Campaign Meeting
5) Saturday, October 25: Chez Nous on the Rocks Shindig
6) Monday, October 27: Meeting of Fierte Sudbury Pride
7) Monday, October 27 to Friday, October 31: Women's History Week (10 events)
8) Tuesday, October 28: Women's History Week Keynote Address
9) Tuesday, October 28: One Struggle Movie Night
10) Tuesday, October 28: Walk, Bike, Bus or Drive? Rethinking Sustainable Transportation in Sudbury
11) Thursday, November 6: Meeting of the Sudbury Working-group of The Media Co-op

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

1) "Fighting Poverty is a Sudbury Election Issue" by the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
2) "Busted: Ten Myths about the Canada Post Cuts" by David Bush and Doug Nesbitt
3) "Creating a Culture of Participation in Sudbury" by Scott Neigh

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Monday, October 20 to Friday, October 24: Indigenous Education Week (17 events)

The events are on the Laurentian University campus unless otherwise noted. All of them are free and open to the public.

*Monday*
Opening Ceremony
10:30am to 11:30am, W-132 (West Residence)
Master of Ceremonies -- Waubgeshig Rice
Opening Prayer -- Odawa Elder Hilda Nadgiwan

Lunch Reception
11:30am to 12:30pm, W-132 (West Residence)

Researching Ourselves Back to Life: First Nations, Inuit and Metis Research in Canada
12:30pm to 1:30pm, W-132 (West Residence)
Dr. Lynn Lavallee

Towards a Northern Reformation: Re-contextualizing Student Outreach
2:30pm to 3:30pm, School of Architecture Studio (downtown Sudbury)
Jake Chakasim

Diverse Futures: A Discussion on Design and Aboriginal Science-Fiction, 3:30pm to 4:30pm, School of Architecture Studio (downtown Sudbury)
Dr. David Fortin

*Tuesday*

Goodminds Aboriginal Booksellers
10am to 4:30pm, Arts Building Hallway

Student Poster Presentations on Indigenous Research Issues
10am to 4:30pm, Floor Student Centre

Indigenous Masculinities and Decolonization
1pm to 2:30pm, 11th floor, Parker Building
Dr. Sam McKegney

More Than A Rainbow: Indigenous Activism and Organizing in Sexuality, Gender Fabulousness, and Beyond
2:30pm to 3:30pm, 11th floor, Parker Building
Jessica Danforth

Dreaming The Story
6:30pm to 10pm, LL102 (Living with Lakes Centre)
Armand Ruffo, Leslie Belleau, and Gregory Scofield

*Wednesday*

Reflections on Indigenous Identity
10:30am to 12pm, 11th floor, Parker Building
Michael Loft

Contemporary Indigenous Literature in Canada: Refocusing the Gaze
1pm to 2:30pm, 11th floor, Parker Building
Armand Garnet Ruffo

Gkenkassawin Trail Speaker Series Presents:
Indigenizing or Decolonizing the Academy
3pm to 4:30pm, 11th floor, Parker Building
Dr. Marie Battiste

*Thursday*

Indigenous Presence in Post-Secondary Sites, Envisioning and Experiencing Indigenous Knowledges
10:30am to 12pm, 11th floor, Parker Building
Dr. Margaret Kovach

Culturally Safe Health Delivery: Collaborative Delivery of Western Indigenous medicine and Land Based Healing Programs
12:30pm to 1:30pm, 11th floor, Parker Building
Simon Brascoupe

From Ice-Cream Vendor to Doctor -- Chasing Your Dreams
2pm to 3:30pm, 11th floor, Parker Building
Dr. Jessica Dunkley

*Friday*

Indigenous Worldviews: Exploring Opportunities in Healing
10am to 2:45pm, SE-305 (School of Education)
Dr. Renee Linklater

Closing Celebration
Closing Prayer by Odawa Elder Hilda Nadgiwan
Traditional Aboriginal Feast to Follow
3pm to 5pm, SE-305 (School of Education)

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 Monday, October 20: 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

Website http://sudburycap.com/

S-CAP on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/257339454351403/

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Monday, October 20 : Meeting of the Raise the Rates Campaign

Time: 7:30pm
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. If you arrive late and doors are locked, please call the S-CAP phone (249-878-7227).

The Raise the Rates campaign is sponsored by the Canadian Union of Public Employees - Ontario and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. This meeting is to evaluate the Sudbury October 16th action and to plan for future Raise the Rates actions.  

For updates visit raisetherates.ca or like Raise the Rates on facebook   Email raisetheratescampaign@gmail.com, or call OCAP at 416 925 6939
 

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Wednesday, October 22: Palestine Solidarity Campaign Meeting

Time: 7:30pm
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. If you arrive late and doors are locked, please call the S-CAP phone (249-878-7227).

Matters to be discussed include: The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign; getting a Palestinian flag on the ‘Bridge of Nations”; educational events and meeting with our local MP among other matters.

 
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Saturday, October 25: Chez Nous on the Rocks Shindig

Time: 6:30pm to 9pm
Location: Fromagerie Elgin (80 Elgin Street, Sudbury)

It’s the Chez Nous on the Rocks Shindig – come celebrate with us! Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury invites you to an evening of local music, art and film.

Join us for music by Kevin Closs, Dayv Poulin, and Lisa Marie Naponse. Enjoy stage painting by Sarah King Gold. View short films by Greenboots, featuring local people talking about their vision for this community we all share.

Tickets by donation, suggested amount $20. Donations will support local artists contributing to the project, and grassroots community projects enhancing our community.

For more information or to get tickets, go to liveablesudbury.org.
Tickets are also available at Eat Local Sudbury (176 Larch St.).

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/773333332712403/

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Monday, October 27: Meeting of Fierte Sudbury Pride

Time: 7pm
Location: TBA

This will be a regular meeting of Fierte Sudbury Pride.

To learn more about the group (and to watch for a decision on the location) check FSP out on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/sudburypride

 
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Monday, October 27 to Friday, October 31: Women's History Week (10 events)

Come and celebrate Women's History Week 2014 -- Women and Popular Culture/Les femmes et la culture populaire. All events are free and everyone is welcome! Unless otherwise noted, events are on the Laurentian University campus.

*Monday, October 27*

Marriage Alliances in the Fur Trade
11:30am, L-507 (Parker Building)
Prof. Brittany Luby, Dept. of History

La 'Deuxieme vague' de feminisme: A la fois partie integrale et rupture de la 'nouvelle gauche'
11h30, L-712 (Edifice Parker)
Dr. Joel Belliveau, Dept. d'histoire

*Tuesday, October 28*

Women's and Gender History: Developments and Differences
8:30am, C-305 (Classroom Building)
Prof. Kristin Hall, Dept. of History

Spiritualism and Psychic Research: The Fox Sisters
1pm, C-203 (Classroom Building)
Dr. David Leeson, Dept. of History

KEYNOTE: "We Are Not Men": Historical Women and *Game of Thrones*
7pm, Fromagerie Elgin, downtown Sudbury
Dr. Janice Liedl, Dept. of History
See SSJN listing #9 for further details.

*Wednesday, October 29*

Roundtable Discussion: Literary and Media Representations of Indigenous Womanhood
1pm to 2:30pm, C-114 (Classroom Building)
Reception to follow

*Thursday, October 30*

Theosophy: East Meets West with Helena Blavatsky
2:30pm, C-203 (Classroom Building)
Dr. David Leeson, Dept. of History

L'impact particulier du colonialisme sur les femmes
16h, L-324 (Edifice Parker)
Prof. Nawel Hamidi, Dept. de science politique

*Friday, October 31*

Sappho The Female Voice of Greek Poetry
10am, T-220 (Thornloe University)
Dr. Louis L'Allier, Dept. of Classical Studies  

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Tuesday, October 28: Women's History Week Keynote Address

Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: Fromagerie Elgin (80 Elgin Street, Sudbury)

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Janice Liedl from the Department of History will be the keynote speaker for Laurentian University's 2014 Women's History Week. The focus this year is Women and Popular Culture and her talk is titled " 'We are Not Men': Historical Women and Game of Thrones."

We also have a number of other great presentations and lectures throughout the week on the Sudbury campus. You can check out the time and date for those in the listing just above.

Please feel free to share this event and invite others that might be interested, thanks!

Any questions about the keynote should be directed to: mx_commito@laurentian.ca

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1521224884789519/

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Tuesday, October 28: One Struggle Movie Night

Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Downstairs meeting room #1, Main library, 74 Mackenzie Street

Flag Wars (86 minutes)

“Shot over four years, Flag Wars is a poignant 90-minute account of economic competition between two historically oppressed groups, seen through the politics and pain of gentrification. The setting could be any city with a once stable working and middle class black community, now aging and economically depressed, in danger of losing control of their neighborhoods as wealthier home buyers gentrify block by block. In this case, the neighborhood is in Columbus, Ohio and the home buyers are largely white and gay.

The resulting conflicts are a case study of differences in perception. Where realtors and buyers see run-down homes, black residents see evidence of institutional racism that steered resources away from this community. What newer residents see as a beneficial effort to renovate and restore value, veteran residents see as an assault on their heritage and a threat to their ability to hold on to their homes.

The events in Flag Wars unfold against a backdrop of racism, homophobia, and tensions between privilege and poverty. Mix in government zoning boards, the court system, lending institutions, and civic leaders, and you've got a film that literally hits people "where they live." Flag Wars explores the complexity of gentrification, and the contradictions between intention and result, belief and action. It goes beyond merely assigning blame or labeling people as "good guys" or "bad guys" to examine the relationship between housing, heritage, and public policy.”

To join and share this event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1561763257389020/?ref_newsfeed_story_typ....
 
To learn more about One Struggle: http://onestruggle.net/points-of-unity/.

For more information contact Rachael Charbonneau rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca or 705-670-1982.
 

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Tuesday, October 28: Walk, Bike, Bus or Drive? Rethinking Sustainable Transportation in Sudbury

Time: 7:30pm
Location: The Laughing Buddha (194 Elgin Street, Sudbury)

We've heard it all before: our reliance on motor vehicles contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, injuries and fatalities, rising obesity rates and declining health. However, the transportation challenges we face as a northern community can make addressing these issues seem impossible. Sudbury’s unique geography and harsh climate make motorized transport a near neccessity. Are we able to change the daily commute in Sudbury? What kinds of changes and innovations would work in our northern context? What is the value of walking, busing and cycling instead of driving? Is it worth the investment of time and money from our municipal government and institutions? What can we do as citizens to improve our commutes?

Supported by CFMS.

Free admission and snacks!

 
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Thursday, November 6: Meeting of the 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)

Along with our ongoing quest to find a wide-range of interesting and original local content to publish on our site, we will be working our plans for a big public event in early December. 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 October 16th at 10 am in meeting room #1 at the Mackenzie Street branch of the library. 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

Find us on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsMediaCollective

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

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"Fighting Poverty is a Sudbury Election Issue"
by the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
(From The Media Co-op: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/blog/grassrootssudburymedia/31933)

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"Busted: Ten Myths about the Canada Post Cuts"
by David Bush and Doug Nesbitt
(From The Tyee: http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2014/02/05/Ten-Myths-about-Canada-Post-Cuts/)

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"Creating a Culture of Participation in Sudbury"
by Scott Neigh
(From The Media Co-op: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/creating-culture-participation-sudbury...)