Sudbury Social Justice News - October 26, 2014

EVENTS & MEETINGS:

1) Monday, October 27: Meeting of Fierte Sudbury Pride
2) Monday, October 27 to Friday, October 31: Women's History Week (10 events)
3) Tuesday, October 28: Women's History Week Keynote Address
4) Tuesday, October 28: One Struggle Movie Night
5) Tuesday, October 28: Walk, Bike, Bus or Drive? Rethinking Sustainable Transportation in Sudbury

6) Monday, November 3: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
7) Thursday, November 6: Meeting of the Sudbury Working-group of The Media Co-op
8) Thursday, November 6: Emancipation from Capitalism: Revolution is Not a System Upgrade with Stephanie McMillan
9) Thursday, November 6: Meeting of Council of Canadians (Sudbury)
10) Wednesday, November 12: Transit Conference by Friends of Sudbury Transit
11) Monday, November 17: Raise the Rates Campaign Meeting

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

1) First S-CAP Community Organizing Course - Call for Participants
2) "Reflections on a Violent Day in Ottawa" by Matthew Behrens

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Monday, October 27: Meeting of Fierte Sudbury Pride

Time: 7pm
Location: Zig's Bar (54 Elgin Street, Sudbury)

This will be a regular meeting of Fierte Sudbury Pride. All are welcome.

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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Monday, November 3: 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).

Matters to be discussed include: evaluation of the municipal election intervention; mobilization for the emergency homeless shelter; access to Handi-Transit; the community organizing course, the raise the rates campaign, and our direct action support work.

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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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
 

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Thursday, November 6: Emancipation from Capitalism: Revolution is Not a System Upgrade with Stephanie McMillan

Time: 7 pm
Location: Room C, Parkside Centre, 140 Durham Street

We’re excited to welcome back award-winning cartoonist and anti-capitalist organizer Stephanie McMillan to Sudbury for the second year in a row in what we hope will be an annual event (unless of course revolution is a lot closer than we think). Before heading to Haiti to work with autonomous union organizers from Batay Ouvriye, and then on to San Francisco where she’ll be speaking at the Earth at Risk conference, she will spend four days here in Sudbury. We’ll be doing lots of group work while she’s here so if you’re interested in organizing against capital, please do get in touch. On Thursday, November 6, Stephanie will present a slide show about how capitalism works, why it's inherently destructive, and what it will take to end it.

This event is brought to you by One Struggle Sudbury and the Sudbury Revolutionary Network.

To join or share this event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1490376881247489/?ref_dashboard_filter=u....

For more information about One Struggle, please read our Points of Unity: http://onestruggle.net/points-of-unity/.

For more information about the Sudbury Revolutionary Network, check out their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sudburyrevnet.

To get involved or for additional information contact Rachael Charbonneau rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca or 705-670-1982.
 

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Thursday, November 6: Meeting of Council of Canadians (Sudbury)

Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: Steelworkers' Hall (66 Brady Street, Sudbury)

This will be a regular meeting of the new Sudbury chapter of the Council of Canadians. Should you have any information on coalition groups or campaign issues that you would like to address please either forward them to Ron Tough (rontough@sympatico.ca) or Andre Clement (andredrc57@gmail.com) prior to the meeting. Please RSVP if you intend to attend. The room can accommodate up to 15 individuals or three groups of five or five groups of three or infinite permutations arriving at the maximum of 15. However if we have more than that we will adjust.
 

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Wednesday, November 12: Transit Conference by Friends of Sudbury Transit

Time: noon to 2pm and 7pm to 9pm
Location: TBD

We will be having a transit conference to get feedback/input from transit users and drivers about what route, hub and schedule changes they would like to see. We will have maps and markers so bring your ideas! We will be meeting from 12-2pm and from 7-9pm.

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1494508680801094/
 

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Monday, Nov. 17: Raise the Rates 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. 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 plan for future Raise the Rates actions.

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

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

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First S-CAP Community Organizing Course - Call for Participants

The Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (S-CAP), in cooperation with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), is holding a course to offer people some of the knowledge and skills they will need to mobilize in their communities to resist poverty, class oppression, racism, sexism, and austerity.  S-CAP is currently involved in campaigns to Raise the Social Assistance and minimum wage rates; to maintain Community Start Up benefits for people on social assistance; and to maintain and extend the Out of the Cold shelter for homeless people in the winter.

DATES:
Two Saturdays in late November/early December. To be confirmed soon.
TIME: 12noon -5pm

Followed by a meal each week.

Childcare and transportation costs will be provided and the location is wheelchair accessible, with accessible washrooms.

COURSE OUTLINE:

First Week by members of OCAP: A brief introduction to OCAP and S-CAP. How do capitalism and colonialism work? How do they produce poverty? What is the austerity agenda and how is it playing out in our communities? How do the immigration and welfare systems regulate the poor? How do OCAP and S-CAP organize actions to defend people under attack by these systems?  How can poor people use disruptive action to defend themselves and win victories?

Second Week by members of S-CAP: How are effective campaigns and actions organized? Histories of anti-poverty and working class resistance in Sudbury. Group discussion on what the struggle looks like in our community and how will we move forward?

This course is for people who want to fight back. Those who participate will be presented with ideas and methods that OCAP and S-CAP have developed through years of organizing in poor communities. We can offer knowledge and skills that they don't teach in schools and you won't get from the newspapers. We intend the sessions to be lively, engaging and informative. The opinions and proposals of those who attend will be vital to the success. If you are interested in being part of this course, contact S-CAP as soon as possible. We want to stress that all who agree to participate should make a serious commitment to attending both sessions. Please don't reserve a spot, unless you can make that commitment. Space is limited to allow for maximum engagement and participation.

How to apply:
**Please email or call us with the following information by Nov. 12th at 249-878-7227 or email  us at sudburyCAP@gmail.com

Name:
Email and/or phone contact:
What do you hope to get out of the course?
Do you need childcare?
Do you have any special dietary needs?

Are there ways we can make the space and the course more accessible for you? Do you expect to become involved in S-CAP and its actions?

Send to: the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty at sudburyCAP@gmail.com or call us at 249-878-7227.

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"Reflections on a Violent Day in Ottawa"
by Matthew Behrens
(From Rabble.ca: http://rabble.ca/columnists/2014/10/reflections-on-violent-day-ottawa)