Sudbury Social Justice NEws - February 8, 2015

EVENTS & ACTIONS:

1) Monday, February 9: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
2) Monday, February 9: Symposium on Food, Citizenship and Environment
3) Wednesday, February 11: Cultural Cultural Town Hall
4) Thursday, February 12: Meeting of Laurentian #RedSpring2015 Mobilization Committee
5) Wednesday, February 18: "Agogkwe" with Waawaate Fobister
6) Thursday, February 19: Meeting of Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op
7) Thursday, February 19: Classroom Closet Conference 2015
8) Saturday, February 28: Lads 'N Lashes
9) Sunday, March 1: Strategy and Campaign Planning Workshop with Chris Dixon
10) Monday, March 2: Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements
11) Monday, March 2: General Meeting of Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury
12) Thursday, March 5: Greater Sudbury Watershed Alliance Comedy Night Fundraiser

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

1) Callout for Input on Greater Sudbury Earth Day 2015
2) "Troubling policing and 'community policing'" by Gary Kinsman

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Monday, February 9: 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: Defence of the S-CAP 3, the Out of the Cold shelter; CHPI exceptional circumstances funding; the SAMS computer crisis; the Raise the Rates campaign, affordable housing,  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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Monday, February 9: Symposium on Food, Citizenship and Environment

Time: 1pm to 6pm
Location: West Residence Room 132, Laurentian University

1:00 - 2:30: Roundtable - Food: Sovereignty, Governance, Sustainability
    Krtisn Buentt, Indigenous Learning, Lakehead
    Charles Ramcharan, School of the Environment, Laurentian
    Carly Robillard, Science Communitcation, Laurentian
    Joseph LeBlanc, Social Planning Council of Sudbury
    William Crumplin, School of the Environment, Laurentian
    Philippa Spoek, English, Laurentian
    Taima Moeke-Pickering, Indigenous Relations, Laurentian

2:45 - 4:30: Research Presentations
    Janis Goldie, Communication Studies, Huntington -- Food Fights: Framing Food Allergies within the Canadian News
    Jeffrey Gagnon, Biology, Laurentian -- Hunger, Hormones, and Food: Why We Can't Stop Eating
    Cindy Derrenbacker, School of Architecture, Laurentian -- Rediscovering the Significance of Family Meals
    Carol Kauppi, Social Work, Laurentian; Henri Pallard, Droit et Justice, Laurentian; Emily Faries, Indigenous Studies, Laurentian; Arshi Shaikh, Social Development Studies, Renison -- Food Security and Hunger in Moosonee, Ontario
    Ernst Gerhardt, English, Laurentian -- Hunger Management: Textual Responses to Food Scarcity in Renaissance England

4:30 - 6:00: Reception & Keynote: David Goldstein, "Eats Well with Others: Shakespeare and Contemporary Food Citizenship."

For more information, email Ernst Gerhardt at egerhardt@laurentian.ca or Philippa Spoel at pspoel@laurentian.ca.

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1596775430544426/

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Wednesday, February 11: Cultural Cultural Town Hall

Time: 6:30pm
Location: Art Gallery of Sudbury (251 John Street, Sudbury)

The Art Gallery of Sudbury, Open Studio / Cambrian College and the Sudbury Arts Council invite you to participate in a social gathering and exchange of ideas. This “town hall” style meeting will allow everyone to speak openly about the cultural climate of the Sudbury area and gather concerns and successes from the region out in the open. This all gives outside artist and curator Clayton Windatt a better understanding of our region as he works towards his independent research project gather information about all of Northern Ontario.

Clayton Windatt is an Artist, Curator and Arts Advocate who is working on a project funding through a Chalmers Fellowship from the Ontario Arts Council, he has set out to address the issues of each region in the North and find ways that networks can happen both locally in each community and between the different Northern regions. The input gained from each community will directly affect his research and its outcome, which will be presented at the “Dream Big Conference” taking place in North Bay, Ma 27th – 30th, 2015. (www.dreambignorth.com)

He is scheduling meetings in Sudbury, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Hearst, Thunder Bay and has just finished his visit to Timmins. All artistic disciplines and lovers of arts, culture and heritage are invited.

Light refreshments and coffee will be served.

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1594016234176524/

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Thursday, February 12: Meeting of Laurentian #RedSpring2015 Mobilization Committee

Time: 6pm to 8pm
Location: Clubs Room, SCE-210, Laurentian University

This will be the second meeting of a committee focused on mobilizing students at Laurentian University for a campus-wide day of action on March 24. The goal is to act in solidarity with the student mobilizations that are planned for Quebec in the spring, and to demonstrate that students in Ontario too can show fighting spirit in the struggle for a truly universal education that serves the needs of the people, not profit!

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Wednesday, February 18: "Agogkwe" with Waawaate Fobister

Time: 7pm
Location: Collège Boréal (21 Lasalle Blvd, Sudbury)
Cost: $5 for students, $15 general admission

Agokwe (pronounced “agoo-kway; meaning “wise woman” or “Two-Spirited”)  explores unrequited love between teenage boys from neighbouring reserves. Mike is a hockey player and Jake is a traditional dancer. The boys notice each other at the Kenora Shoppers Mall and ultimately connect through a mutual love of movement while Mike is skating and Jake is dancing “like grass blowing in the wind.” They meet briefly at a post hockey-tournament party where they bashfully confess their desire for each other. However youth, distance and isolation strive to pull the threads apart when tragedy intervenes. AGOKWE speaks to bullying, homophobia, unrequited love, social isolation and the lost traditions of the Anishnaabe.

For more information please call 705-688-0500 extension 211 or 216.

You may purchase tickets online, or if you would like to purchase advance tickets in person, visit: Réseau ACCESS Network, 111 Elm Street, Suite 203 Sudbury, Ontario.

This event online:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/agokwe-sudbury-with-waawaate-fobister-ticket...

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Réseau ACCESS Network présente :

Agokwe avec Waawaate Fobister

Agokwe (prononcé « agoo-kway », signifiant « femme sage » ou « bispirituel ») explore l’amour non partagé entre adolescents de réserves voisines. Mike est un joueur de hockey et Jake est un danseur traditionnel. Les garçons se remarquent au centre commercial de Kenora et établissent ultimement un lien grâce à un amour mutuel pour les mouvements, pendant que Mike patine et que Jake danse « comme l’herbe soufflant dans le vent ». Ils se rencontrent brièvement après une fête suivant un tournoi de hockey où ils admettent timidement leur attirance l’un envers l’autre. Cependant, la jeunesse, la distance et l’isolement menacent de tout détruire lorsque la tragédie frappe. AGOKWE porte sur l’intimidation, l’homophobie, l’amour non partagé, l’isolement social et les traditions perdues d’Anishnaabe.

Pour obtenir plus de renseignements, composer le 705 688-0500, poste 211 ou 216.

Vous pouvez acheter des billets en ligne ou, si vous souhaitez acheter des billets à l’avance en personne, visiter: Réseau ACCESS Network, 111, rue Elm, bureau 203 Sudbury (Ontario).

Cet événement en ligne:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/agokwe-sudbury-with-waawaate-fobister-ticket...

 
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Thursday, February 19: Meeting of Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op

Time: 10am to noon
Location: Main branch of the Greater Sudbury Public Library (74 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury)
 
At this meeting, we'll continue working on our collaboration with the Sudbury Coalition Against POverty for events in March with visiting author and organizer Chris Dixon; our collaboration with the Sudbury and District Labour Council for a media-related training for local labour activists; and 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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Thursday, February 19: Classroom Closet Conference 2015

Time: 8:30am to 3pm
Location: Holiday Inn (1696 Regent Street, Sudbury)

Promoting safer spaces for two-spirit, queer, transgender, lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and questioning individuals.

This FREE, annual, one day workshop gathers students, teachers,
educational institution staff, community members, and allies to
discuss their roles in creating a safer, positive, and inclusive
environment for students and co-workers.

Keynote addresses will be in English, but breakout sessions will be
organised into four streams:

-English Educators/Educational Staff/Community Members
-French Educators/Educational Staff/Community Members
-English High School Students
-French High School Students

At lunch time we will be showing a documentary.

A film by Rémy Huberdeau, Transgender Parents is about love, life and
kids after a gender transition. It shares the struggles and strengths
of several trans women and trans men navigating different stages of
parenting: from pregnancy, through raising infants, toddlers and
teenagers.  Some, who transitioned prior to founding their families,
experience fertility clinics and hospital births; others, who
transitioned in the presence of their kids work to renegotiate their
identity and relationships within their families. All are openly out
in the world as trans and as parents in ways that weren’t possible
20 years ago.

This will be played in English and closed captioned in English. We
ask that when you register, please specify whether or not you will
be attending the screening at lunch.

Space is limited, so please register early.

A complimentary lunch will be provided.

A Classroom Closet Conference programme will be issued at the
registration desk.

For more information please call: 705-688-0500 ext. 211
or email: christopherg@reseauaccessnetwork.com
or carlaj@reseauaccessnetwork.com

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Promouvoir des milieux plus sécuritaires pour les bispirituels, les
allosexuels, les transgenres, les lesbiennes, les gais, les bisexuels
et les personnes en questionnement.

Cet atelier annuel GRATUIT d'une journée rassemble des élèves, des
enseignants, des employés d'établissements scolaires, des partenaires
communautaires et des alliés dans le but de discuter de leurs rôles
dans la création de milieux plus sécuritaires, positifs et inclusifs
pour les élèves et les collègues de travail.

Les allocutions seront données en anglais, mais des séances en
petits groupes seront organisées:

-Éducateurs/enseignants/membres de la communauté anglophones
-Éducateurs/enseignants/membres de la communauté francophones
-Élèves d’écoles secondaires anglophones
-Élèves d’écoles secondaires francophones

À l’heure du dîner, nous présenterons un documentaire en anglais,
accompagné de sous-titres anglais.

Le film de Rémy Huberdeau, Transgender Parents, est un documentaire
sur l’amour, la vie et les enfants après une transition de genre.
Il présente les luttes et les forces de plusieurs femmes et hommes
transgenres explorant différentes étapes parentales, de la grossesse
à l’éducation des nourrissons, des enfants et des adolescents.  
Certaines personnes, qui ont subi la transition avant de fonder
leur famille, vivent l’expérience des cliniques de fertilité et des
naissances à l’hôpital; d’autres, qui ont subi la transition en
présence de leurs enfants, s’efforcent de redéfinir leur identité et
leurs relations au sein de leurs familles.  Toutes les personnes
s’affirment ouvertement en tant que transgenres et parents de
manières qui, il y a 20 ans, n’auraient pas été possibles.

Au moment de vous inscrire, nous vous demandons de bien vouloir
préciser si vous assisterez ou non à la présentation à l’heure
du dîner.

Les places sont limitées, veuillez vous inscrire tôt.

Un goûter sera servi.

Un programme pour la conférence Placard de la classe sera disponible
au bureau d’inscription.

Pour obtenir plus de renseignements, veuillez appeler le 705 688-0500,
poste 211, ou envoyer un courriel à christopherg@reseauaccessnetwork.com
ou à carlaj@reseauaccessnetwork.com.

 
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Saturday, February 28: Lads 'N Lashes

Time: 8pm
Location: United Steelworkers Hall (66 Brady Street, Sudbury)
Cost: $35

Réseau ACCESS Network presents: Lads “N Lashes, Toronto’s Drag Troupe & After Party with DJ Chris Gray.

Lads ‘N  Lashes returns to Sudbury on February 28, 2015 for a 4th fabulous year and an all-new show! Music! Comedy! Drag Show! Dancing!

Lads ‘N Lashes is a professional, renowned drag troupe from Toronto and the performers offer spot-on impersonations of your favourite stars like Cher, P!nk, Adele, Katy Perry, Rihanna and Whitney Houston.

A fundraiser for Réseau ACCESS Network’s Food Bank, helping to support those in our community who are affected by HIV and Hepatitis C - tickets are only $35.00 each.

For tickets, please call 705-688-0500 extension 215 or email gwenb@reseauaccessnetwork.com

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Réseau ACCESS Network présente : Lads “N Lashes, La troupe drag de Toronto & Danse après le spectacle avec DJ Chris Gray.

Le spectacle Lads ‘N Lashes revient à Sudbury le 28 février 2015 pour une 4e année fantastique et un tout nouveau spectacle!  Musique! Comédie! Spectacle drag! Danse!

Lads ‘N  Lashes est une troupe de drags professionnelle et renommée de Toronto et les interprètes offrent des personnifications impeccables de vos vedettes préférées, comme Cher, P!nk, Adele, Katy Perry, Rihanna et Whitney Houston.

Une collecte de fonds pour la banque alimentaire du Réseau ACCESS Network, pour appuyer les personnes de notre communauté qui sont touchées par le VIH et l’hépatite C - billets seulement 35 $ chacun.

Vous pouvez acheter des billets, composer le 705-688-0500, poste 215  ou envoyer un courriel à  gwenb@reseauaccessnetwork.com

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1408599712770034/

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Sunday, March 1: Strategy and Campaign Planning Workshop with Chris Dixon

Time: noon to 3pm
Location: meeting room 1, main branch, Greater Sudbury Public Library
(74 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury)
 
Developing strategy – building effective plans of action to win what we want – is one of the biggest challenges we face in organizing for social change. This workshop will offer tools to address this challenge, laying out a strategic organizing framework based in a campaign-planning model. This model focuses on bringing more and more people together on our side while undermining adversaries. It involves collective investigation of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in our context of struggle; a deliberate process of setting goals; an orientation toward tactical escalation; and regular practices of appreciation and evaluation. In this workshop, we will go through this model together, applying it to our current organizing work.
 
Chris Dixon, originally from Alaska and a former resident of Sudbury, is a longtime anarchist organizer, writer, and educator with a PhD from the University of California at Santa Cruz. His writing has appeared in numerous book collections as well as periodicals such as Anarchist Studies, Clamor, Left Turn, and Social Movement Studies. He serves on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies and the advisory board for the activist journal Upping the Anti. Dixon lives in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded Algonquin Territory, where he is involved in anti-poverty organizing. His new book is Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements, published by University of California Press. Find him at writingwithmovements.com.
 
This workshop is organized by the Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op and the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty.

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1553204658268585/

 
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Monday, March 2: Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements

Time: 10am to noon
Location: room 132, West Res, Laurentian University

A talk by former Sudburian Chris Dixon about his new book.

Recent decades have seen the exciting convergence of anti-authoritarian radicalism and broader-based movements in the U.S. and Canada. From this convergence, a growing set of activists – from anti-poverty organizers in Toronto to prison abolitionists in Oakland, from occupy activists in New York to migrant justice organizers in Vancouver – are developing shared politics and practices. They are building “another politics,” to use a Zapatista expression. These efforts combine anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, anti-oppression politics with grassroots organizing among ordinary, non-activist people. Drawing on interviews with organizers across North America, this presentation will explore another politics and distill lessons for building effective, visionary movements.

Dixon, originally from Alaska, is a longtime anarchist organizer, writer, and educator with a PhD from the University of California at Santa Cruz. His writing has appeared in numerous book collections as well as periodicals such as Anarchist Studies, Clamor, Left Turn, and Social Movement Studies. He serves on the board of the Institute for Anarchist Studies and the advisory board for the activist journal Upping the Anti. Dixon lives in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded Algonquin Territory, where he is involved in anti-poverty organizing. His new book is Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements, published by University of California Press. Find him at writingwithmovements.com.

This event is sponsored by the Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op, the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty, and the Centre for Research in Social Justice and Policy at Laurentian University.

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/906286682728859/

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Monday, March 2: General Meeting of Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury

Time: 7pm
Location: South End branch of the Greater Sudbury Public Library (1991 Regent Street, Sudbury)

Please join us for the next general meeting of the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury. All are welcome!

 
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Thursday, March 5: Greater Sudbury Watershed Alliance Comedy Night Fundraiser

Time: 7pm
Location: Caruso Club (385 Haig Street, Sudbury)
Cost: $25

The funds raised from this event will support the ongoing work of the Greater Sudbury Watershed Alliance.

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

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Callout for Input on Greater Sudbury Earth Day 2015

t’s the 10th anniversary of Greater Sudbury Earth Day in 2015! When: Saturday, April 25.
Where: Sudbury Secondary School.
 
We want your input!
 
For this year’s Earth Day Festival, we will have a community timeline of ecological milestones. Please send us your memories and visions to highlight for Earth Day 2015:
What have been the key ecological events, accomplishments, or challenges faced, in the last 10 years in Sudbury? What is your vision for a resilient, environmentally sustainable Greater Sudbury for the decade to come?
 
Please send us your top 5 green milestones of the past 10 years, and your top 5 ideas from now until 2025.   Photos would be greatly appreciated.   Send to:  info@rethinkgreen.ca

We will integrate these ideas and images into a community ecological timeline on display at the festival on April 25th.

Visitors to the Earth Day festival will also have the opportunity to contribute their memories and vision.

 
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"Troubling policing and 'community policing'"
by Gary Kinsman
(From RadicalNoise.ca: http://radicalnoise.ca/2015/02/04/troubling-policing-and-community-polic...)