EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, December 8: Green Winter Solstice Fundraiser for reThink Green
2) Tuesday, December 9: Support Anti-Poverty & Handi-Transit Issues @ First Meeting of the New City Council
3) Wednesday, December 10: Palestine Solidarity Organizing Meeting
4) Thursday, December 11: Beyond COP20: The Future of International Climate Negotiations, and What They Mean for Sudbury
5) Friday, December 12: Sudbury Worker Education & Advocacy Centre Open House
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "Police Impunity and Beyond" by Lesley Wood
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Monday, December 8: Green Winter Solstice Fundraiser for reThink Green
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Location: Fromagerie Elgin (80 Elgin Street, Sudbury)
Come to reThink Green's annual Silent Auction! This year we are hosting it at La Fromagerie Elgin on Monday, December 8th from 6-8pm.
Tickets are $25 in advance (available from reThink Green or Eat Local Sudbury) $30 at the door.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1523703614513174/
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Tuesday, December 9: Support Anti-Poverty & Handi-Transit Issues @ First Meeting of the New City Council
Time: 5:45pm
Location: City Council Chambers, Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)
Both the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty and the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury are calling for people to attend the first meeting of the new city council for the City of Greater Sudbury.
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S-CAP writes:
We will be talking to the councillors, giving them information, and raising our demands with them and asking them to raise these at the City Council meeting. These demands are:
- the need to extend the hours of the Out of the Cold shelter and to ensure it stays open until the end of March. The need to have non-Salvation Army staff at the shelter.
- the need to maintain the former provincial Community Start Up and Maintenance Benefit (CSUMB) policies and funding levels in the downloaded to the City Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative (CHPI) funding. This means that exceptional circumstances funding must be available to people who have bed bug infestations even if they do not move. This means they would be eligible for the full $800 for an individual or $1,500 for a family with children.
- the need to end the discriminatory reviews of Handi-Transit users. People with non-physical disabilities must be eligible for Handi-Transit and the "at capacity" argument should not be being used to deny people needed services.
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And CLS writes:
This email is about the recent changes to Handi-transit which will eliminate access to those who have cognitive impairment, learning disabilities, Alzheimer's, and autism spectrum. Previously, with a note from a doctor, Handi-transit was available for those with these non-walking related disabilities. But now, eligibility is decided by a physiotherapist who tests a person's ability to climb stairs and walk. Obviously, this method of selection has left a gap in service for some of our City's most vulnerable who cannot take regular transit.
Council has to correct the gap created by these changes.
I’ve collected the names and contact information of a few groups and people (see below) who are concerned about the changes made to Handi-transit access. I’m probably missing some so please forward this to anyone you know who is also concerned.
WHAT CAN WE DO?
1.) We will be at the first Council meeting Tuesday, Dec. 9 at 6pm to show support for changes needed in Handi-transit eligibility so that those with non-physical limitations can use it again.
I propose we wear green or a green ribbon to indicate our group is there because of Handi-transit. I will be emailing Council ahead of time so they know what is going on. Hope to see you Tuesday.
2.) Please send an email to Council and Mayor before Tuesday indicating your concerns, your personal stories and that a change is needed now. Just copy and paste all the emails below into the To: section of your email.
Your email can be as simple as:
Council needs to change the mandate of Handi-transit so that those with non-physical disabilities can have use of it again.
Brian Bigger <mayor@greatersudbury.ca>
Al Sizer <al.sizer@greatersudbury.ca>
Deb McIntosh <deb.McIntosh@greatersudbury.ca>
Evelyn Dutrisac <evelyn.dutrisac@greatersudbury.ca>
Fern Cormier <fern.cormier@greatersudbury.ca>
Gerry Montpellier <gerry.montpellier@greatersudbury.ca>
Joscelyne Landry-Altmann <joscelyne.landry-altmann@greatersudbury.ca>
Lynne Reynolds <lynne.reynolds@greatersudbury.ca>
Mark Signoretti <mark.signoretti@greatersudbury.ca>
MIchael Vagnini <michael.vagnini@greatersudbury.ca>
Mike Jakubo <mike.jakubo@greatersudbury.ca>
Rene Lapierre <rene.lapierre@greatersudbury.ca>
Robert Kirwan <robert.kirwan@greatersudbury.ca>
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Wednesday, December 10: Palestine Solidarity Organizing Meeting
Time: 7pm
Location: TBA
This is a regular meeting of the ad hoc group working to build solidarity in Sudbury with the people of Palestine. Email gkinsman@laurentian.ca to be notified once the location has been determined.
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Thursday, December 11: Beyond COP20: The Future of International Climate Negotiations, and What They Mean for Sudbury
Time: 7pm
Location: reThink Green (Suite 305, 176 Larch Street, Sudbury)
As COP20 in Lima, Peru, begins to wind down, anticipation is building towards a new international climate change agreement to be entered into in Paris in 2015. What might a new Kyoto Protocol look like? Will it involve carbon pricing? How will this effect Greater Sudbury and Northern Ontario? Join Dr. David Robinson for a presentation and discussion.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/998803056826783/
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Friday, December 12: Sudbury Worker Education & Advocacy Centre Open House
Time: 11am to 2pm
Location: 109 Elm Street, Sudbury
You are invited to the Sudbury Workers Education and Advocacy Centre’s Open House! Come learn about this new organization, meet the staff, Board of Directors and volunteers, and celebrate our official launch into the community.
There will be snacks and beverages provided. We will welcome our Executive Director and we will announce our funding sources.
Find out how we can help workers, and find out how you can get involved.
Please share this event far and wide!
Thanks, and we hope to see you there!
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/802649856443409/
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
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"Police Impunity and Beyond"
by Lesley Wood
(From Lesleybikes: http://lesleybikes.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/police-impunity-and-beyond/)
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