EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Wednesday, November 12: Downtown Transit Conference by Friends of Sudbury Transit
2) Monday, November 17: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
3) Monday, November 17: Raise the Rates Campaign Meeting
4) Wednesday, November 19: Valley Transit Conference by Friends of Sudbury Transit
5) Wednesday, December 3: Challenge the City!
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) First S-CAP Community Organizing Course -- Call for Participants
2) "Sudbury: Whose downtown is it?"
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Wednesday, November 12: Downtown Transit Conference by Friends of Sudbury Transit
Time: noon to 2pm and 7pm to 9pm
Location: Peddler's Pub (63 Cedar Street, Sudbury)
Friends of Sudbury Transit will be having an interactive 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!
Please join us from 12-2pm or 7-9pm, whichever is most convenient for you.
Due to a great interest in new Handi-Transit restrictions, we will also be discussing this issue.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1494508680801094/
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Monday, November 17: 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.
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, November 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
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Wednesday, November 19: Valley Transit Conference by Friends of Sudbury Transit
Time: noon to 2pm and 7pm to 9pm
Location: Howard Armstrong Complex
Friends of Sudbury Transit will be having an interactive 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!
Please join us from 12-2pm or 7-9pm, whichever is most convenient for you.
Due to a great interest in new Handi-Transit restrictions, we will also be discussing this issue.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1534150686827127/
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Wednesday, December 3: Challenge the City!
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: small back room, Laughing Buddha (194 Elgin Street, Sudbury)
In this event, we look towards the new term of city council with a recognition that it is only through ongoing organizing in the community that Sudbury might become a more just and sustainable place.
This town hall discussion will bring together representatives of the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury, the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty, and organized labour -- groups that focus on different issues and take different approaches, but that share a commitment to pushing the City of Greater Sudbury to change. The event will be an opportunity to have a public conversation about our different ways of working for change. Each panellist will share their group's experiences around strategies, tactics, failures, and successes, leading into a broader discussion among all who attend.
We hope the event will provide an opportunity to share ideas and inspiration, to start and renew conversations, to build relationships, and to strengthen all of our struggles. All are welcome!
This event is organized by the Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op (http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/).
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/768888859845586/
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
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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"Sudbury: Whose downtown is it?"
by Scott Neigh
(From The Media Co-op: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/sudbury-whose-downtown-it/32079)
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.