CITIZENS INVITED TO SPEAK UP AT SUDBURY VOICES
A discussion of community values and the launch of a new community voice
SUDBURY, ONTARIO, April 8, 2013 – Join Grassroots: Sudbury’s Media Collective for Sudbury Voices, Wed. May 8, 5 - 9 p.m. in the Parkside Centre, Kinsman Room A
A panel of six citizens who are deeply engaged with questions of what our community is and what it might become will kick off the evening, leading into a larger conversation about what we want and how to get there.
The panel will feature Laurie McGauley, Linda Heron, Bruce McComber, Christy Knockleby, Isabelle Legault, and a local member of the Ontario Common Front. They bring diverse perspectives and experiences, with involvements ranging from social justice to Idle No More to subsistence living to environmental protection to labour, and much more.
Then we want to hear from you!
What values do you think should guide us a community? What’s important to you to feel at home and live a good life in Greater Sudbury? Do the priorities of decision makers reflect your own? Who and what gets left out when important decisions are made that shape our lives? If changes are needed, how can we make them?
Join the discussion, and share your thoughts and experiences.
Make your voice heard
This lively community discussion will also launch our membership drive, supporting more local grassroots voices in being heard year-round. Annual memberships can be purchased at the event (suggested amount $15 or $25). Our goal is $2000 to be able to pay local writers for grassroots journalism and help build capacity in the community for marginalized voices and grassroots efforts to be heard.
Grassroots: Sudbury's Media Collective is creating 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 perspectives 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. We are a working group of the national Media Co-op network.
All are welcome at the event. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Refreshments will be available.
You can contact us at grassrootssudburymedia@gmail.com. Our website can be found at http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca.
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The site for the Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op has been archived and will no longer be updated.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.