Sudbury Social Justice News - December 14, 2014

EVENTS & ACTIONS:

1) Monday, December 15: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
2) Wednesday, December 17: Meeting of the Sudbury Working-group of The Media Co-op
3) Wednesday, December 17: Palestine Solidarity Organizing Meeting (TENTATIVE -- EMAIL TO CONFIRM!)
4) Thursday, January 15: Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury General Meeting

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

1) "Enraged members of Toronto's Black community protest to demand justice for Eric Garner, Mike Brown and Toronto victims of anti-Black racism" by Black Lives Matter Toronto

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Monday, December 15: 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.

Matters to be discussed include: evaluation of the Dec. 9th City Council meeting; the Out of the Cold shelter; access to Handi-Transit; the community organizing course, CHPI funding, forum on community policing, Black Lives Matter, the raise the rates campaign, Another Politics book tour, 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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Wednesday, December 17: Meeting of the Sudbury Working-group of The Media Co-op

Time: 10am
Location: Main branch of the Greater Sudbury Public Library (74 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury)

At this meeting, we'll be debriefing from our big event happening on December 3; discussing plans for the new year, including a proposed training in collaboration with the Sudbury and District Labour Council and possible follow-ups to December 3; and continuing our ongoing work to find a wide-range of interesting and original local content to publish on our site.

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 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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Wednesday, December 17: Palestine Solidarity Organizing Meeting (TENTATIVE -- EMAIL TO CONFIRM!)

Time: 7pm
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)

This meeting of Palestine solidarity organizers in Sudbury would focus on increasing undergraduate presence on the Laurentian University campus and strategizing around next steps for local organizations that have supported the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.

PLEASE NOTE that this meeting is not yet confirmed. If you are thinking of coming and are not on the organizing list for these meetings, please email eileenroth@gmail.com to ensure that this meeting *is* in fact going ahead.

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Thursday, January 15: Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury General Meeting

Time: TBA
Location: TBA

Save the date -- this will be the next CLS general meeting. More details to follow in the new year!

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

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"Enraged members of Toronto's Black community protest to demand justice for Eric Garner, Mike Brown and Toronto victims of anti-Black racism"
by Black Lives Matter Toronto
(from Newswire.ca: http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1463065/enraged-members-of-toronto-s-bla...)