[Please note the late addition of items (3a) and (3b) -- SN ]
EVENTS & ACTIONS:
1) Monday, April 20: May Day Planning Meeting
2) Tuesday, April 21: Sudbury Cyclists Union AGM
3) Wednesday, April 22: A Taste for Life!
3a) Thursday, April 23: Council of Canadians Meeting
3b) Friday, April 24: Drumming for the Earth
4) Saturday, April 25: Earth Day Sudbury 2015
5) Monday, April 27: Urgent Status Housing Application Blitz & March
6) Tuesday, April 28: Day of Mourning for Workers Killed on the Job
7) Friday, May 1: May Day Movie -- Memory and Muscle
8) Friday, May 1: May Day Songs and Sing-Along
9) Monday, May 4: Ramsey Lake Stewardship Committee Meeting
10) May 4 to May 26: Eight Workplace Rights Workshops in Sudbury's Libraries
11) Thursday, May 28: Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury AGM
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "Sudbury Joins National Day of Action Against Bill C-51" by Scott Neigh
2) Call for Pitches: "4 More Years of Austerity?: Beyond Stop Harper"
3) "The Emergency Shelter Must Be OPen All Year Round" by S-CAP
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Monday, April 20: May Day Planning Meeting
Time: 6:30pm
Location: 84 Station Cafe (84 Elgin Street, Sudbury)
International Workers' Day is May 1st!
A day to recognize, celebrate, and strengthen resistance, class struggle, and people’s power! The well-being of the working class is being attacked by employers and governments in an intensified way, and we must combat this!
Let us unite and energize the entire working class, including those employed part-time, casual labour, the unemployed, precariously employed, non-unionized workers, and First Nations people who are the most exploited and feel the brunt of these attacks most intensely!
Come out on Monday April 20th at 6:30 pm to 84 Station Cafe downtown to help plan our May Day events! This meeting is open to anyone who is down with the description above.
This planning meeting has been initiated by the Sudbury Revolutionary Network. Please contact us at SudburyRevNet@gmail.com or through facebook for more information or to get involved.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/101407040190953/
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Tuesday, April 21: Sudbury Cyclists Union AGM
Time: 7pm
Location: The Green Room (3rd floor, 176 Larch Street, Sudbury. Please note that this venue is not wheelchair accessible.)
Come to the annual general meeting of the Sudbury Cyclists Union, where we will be talking about roles within the group, the municipal transportation study, upcoming cycling events, and much more!
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Wednesday, April 22: A Taste for Life!
Time: Variable
Location: Participating restaurants
Cost: See link below
On Wednesday April 22nd, participating restaurants will donate 25% of the cost of your meal to support HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C education, prevention and outreach programs in Sudbury. Book your reservation now! See www.atasteforlife.org for more details.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/388700467968567/
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Thursday, April 23: Council of Canadians Meeting
Time: 6:30pm
Location: South End Library (1991 Regent Street, Sudbury)
This will be a general meeting of the Sudbury Chapter of the Council of Canadians. All are welcome!
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Friday, April 24: Drumming for the Earth
Time: 11:30am
Location: The corner of Elm Street and Durham Street, under the clock
Please join us for some drumming in honour of the earth and Earth Day. Along with the drumming itself, we will be handing out promotional leaflets for the Earth Day festival the following day.
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Saturday, April 25: Earth Day Sudbury 2015
Time: 10am to 3pm
Location: Sudbury Secondary School (85 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury)
Discover the innovative, green initiatives developed in Greater Sudbury over the last 10 years , explore many ways to enhance your green lifestyle now, and add your hopes and dreams for the next 10 years. Enjoy local bands and local and cultural foods. There will be a vibrant children’s area, and many ways to participate as a family. Stay tuned for more details!
Suggested donation: $5 for individuals, $10 for families
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1538731369737293/
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Monday, April 27: Urgent Status Housing Application Blitz & March
Time: Drop-in: 1pm to 3:30pm March: 3:30pm
Location: Drop-in at and march starting from APANO (66 Elm Street, Sudbury)
Even though the weather is improving, the conditions on the street remain harsh. The Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty, homeless folks, and allies will be organizing an Urgent Status Housing Application Blitz, including our drop-in scheduled at APANO on Monday April 27th from 1 to 3:30pm to assist with filling out applications. We will be delivering these applications to Sudbury Housing following the drop-in. All supporters are invited to meet up outside APANO at 3:30 to march the applications over and help demonstrate that shelter and housing are immediate needs that cannot be ignored.
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Tuesday, April 28: Day of Mourning for Workers Killed on the Job
Time: 10am to noon
Location: Fraser Auditorium, Laurentian University, Sudbury
The International Day of Mourning began in Sudbury in 1984. Since its inception in Sudbury, the observance has spread to over 80 countries around the world. The purpose of the Day of Mourning is to remember and honour the lives lost and to prevent further deaths, injuries or workplace diseases.
This event is sponsored by the Sudbury and District Labour Council.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/215776655158327/photos/a.233097280092931.50477....
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Friday, May 1: May Day Movie -- Memory and Muscle
Time: 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Location: Meeting Room #1 downstairs at the Main Library, 74 Mackenzie Street
On May Day, a day set aside to celebrate working class power, join us for a viewing of Memory and Muscle, a documentary about the 1965 wildcat postal strike. These postal workers were not organized in a business union and had no collective bargaining “rights”. What they did have was autonomy, militancy and solidarity. This strike is also a good example of women workers struggling within an overall context of class struggle, before middle class feminism began to dominate women’s struggles. Another interesting aspect of this strike is that it united English and French workers. So, this strike is an important one in the history of workers, and it’s also timely: as postal workers are coming under renewed attack, we need to start thinking about how we can best practice solidarity with these workers at this moment in history. To that end, we’ll also have a report from a postal worker in Sudbury.
What defines the importance of this strike is that it was led by workers themselves. To emphasize this point, we’ll be making a short presentation on the importance of autonomy in workers’ struggles – even in unionized workplaces – and a critique of how the film is resolved. The film is 49 minutes long and we’ll have a discussion afterwards.
We apologize for the terrible timing of this event, but the library is not open late on Fridays. Tell your boss you’re S.I.C.K. (Sudden Interest in Collective Knowledge) and come down to the library for an afternoon of inspired militancy!
Join and share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1383211032006469/
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Friday, May 1: May Day Songs and Sing-Along
Time: 7 – 9 pm
Location: The Townehouse, 206 Elgin Street
Friday May 1st is May Day – an international day for celebrating workers, working class power and working class culture!
Workers produce everything that society needs! Everything we value in society is made by workers! On May Day, workers of the world stand up and take credit for everything we value as a society!
May Day is not sanctioned by the state or by business unions! This is our day and we struggle for it every year! Let’s get together and sing songs about our struggles and workers’ past struggles!
We’ve got some great folk songs and pop songs planned, and we’ll have lyric sheets too, so we’re hoping people will want to sing along! Here are some of the songs we’re planning to cover:
Bread And Roses
Sixteen Tons
Allentown
We Work The Black Seam
She Works Hard For The Money
Take This Job And Shove It
Blue Sky Mine
Daysleeper
Which Side Are You On?
If you have a favourite song about workers you’d like to hear, let us know on FB! https://www.facebook.com/events/1648338418723429/
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Monday, May 4: Ramsey Lake Stewardship Committee Meeting
Time: 7pm
Location: Living with Lakes Centre (840 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury)
This meeting will be a brainstorming session to decide the committee's direction for the next year. Bring your ideas!
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May 4 to May 26: Eight Workplace Rights Workshops in Sudbury's Libraries
In the month of May, the Sudbury Workers Education & Advocacy Centre will be hosting a series of workshops across multiple libraries in town.
Do you work part-time? In a contract? For a temp agency? Non-unionized workplace? Starting a new job? Questions about a workplace issue? This is for YOU!
Please join us at any of the following workshops to learn about your workplace rights:
May 4 @ 6:30pm Chelmsford Library (French)
May 6 @ 6:30pm Valley East Library (French)
May 12 @ 1pm New Sudbury Library
May 13 @ 6:30pm Downtown, Main Library
May 20 @ 6:30pm Lively Library
May 21 @ 6:30pm Garson Library
May 25 @ 6:30pm Dowling Library
May 26 @ 1pm Coniston Library
Questions? Call us at 705-470-3323 or like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SudburyWorkersCentre
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Thursday, May 28: Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury AGM
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: LAL classroom, St. Andrews Place (111 Larch Street, Sudbury)
Doors open at 6pm. Agenda to be announced.
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
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"Sudbury Joins National Day of Action Against Bill C-51"
by Scott Neigh
(From The Media Co-op...see the link for photos of the action: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/sudbury-joins-national-day-action-agai...)
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Call for Pitches: "4 More Years of Austerity?: Beyond Stop Harper"
(The national print publication of The Media Co-op is looking for people from across the country to submit pitches for a special print edition. Check it out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/486294334852193/)
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"The Emergency Shelter Must Be Open All Year Round"
by the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
(Published online here: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/blog/grassrootssudburymedia/33420)
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.
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