EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, Septmber 9: Meeting of the Sudbury Working Group of The Media Co-op
2) Monday, September 9: Meeting of Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury
3) Monday, September 9: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
4) Monday, September 9: Meeting of Sudbury Raise the Rates Campaign
5) Wednesday, September 11: Weaving her story: Collectively telling the story of Frozen Woman
6) Tuesday, September 24: Sudbury Needs Compassionate Animal Control Rally
7) Thursday, September 26: Capitalism Must Die!
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) Petition: Ensure Laurentian University's modernization plans include space for the Women's Centre and Pride at LU!
2) A critical assessment of anti-tar sands organizing by Macdonald Stainsby
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Monday, Septmber 9: Meeting of the Sudbury Working Group of The Media Co-op
Time: 10:30am
Location: Downstairs meeting room #1, Sudbury Public Library, 74 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury
September is here and that means another year of organizing and building, as well as reading and writing, for Grassroots: Sudbury’s Media Collective, the Sudbury Working Group of the Media Co-op. Our first meeting is taking place next Monday, September 9, 2013 at 10:30 am at the main library on Mackenzie Street, in meeting room #1 downstairs.
We’d like to welcome the newest grassroots media enthusiasts to our group, those of you signed on at our Sudbury Voices event last May. If any of you would like to attend our meetings this year and if you have a preferred meeting time, please do let us know at Grassroots Sudbury Media <grassrootssudburymedia@gmail.com>, and we’ll try our best to accommodate you.
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Monday, September 9: Meeting of Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury
Time: Pre-meeting potluck - 6pm, meeting - 7pm to 9pm
Location: Downtown location of Myths & Mirrors (159 Durham Street, upstairs, right above Village International, across from the Y)
Join Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury for our fall planning meeting. Pre-meeting potluck starts at 6pm. This will be an exciting year building on past successes, moving ahead on new projects, and looking ahead to a municipal election in the fall of 2014. Join us in making Sudbury more sustainable!
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Monday, September 9: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
Time: 6:30pm to 7:30pm
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)
Matters to be discussed include the province-wide week of action called by the Raise the Rates campaign in October; our continuing direct action support work; and our drop-in space at APANO. The venue is wheelchair accessible. Children are welcome to attend, or childcare support is available upon request.
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
S-CAP on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/257339454351403/
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Monday, September 9: Meeting of Sudbury Raise the Rates Campaign
Time: 7:30pm
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)
Matters to be discussed at the Raise the Rates meeting include the October week of anti-poverty action and the events on Friday Oct. 18th focussing on restoring the CSUMB and the Oct. 19th province-wide action here in Sudbury focussing on defence of people on ODSP.
The venue is wheelchair accessible. Children are welcome to attend, or childcare support is available upon request.
For more information contact S-CAP at:
Please call us 249-878-7227.
Email us at sudburyCAP@gmail.com
Our website is sudburycap.com
S-CAP on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/257339454351403/
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Wednesday, September 11: Weaving her story: Collectively telling the story of Frozen Woman
Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: Meet in Bell Park near the playground
"The water that lies beside the hill" A collaboration between The Home Project, Myths and Mirrors Community Arts and Idle No More Sudbury.
Session 4: Creating a characterization of Frozen water woman
Meet in Bell Park near the playground.
5:30 pm gathering and feasting, 6 pm art activities begin.
Childcare provided.
Picnic in the park & Arts-rooted activities:
This session we will focus on creating a timeline to collectively interpret the story of frozen woman, a character we recently discovered through previous collective work. This gathering will be a continuation of work which traces frozen woman’s home space, historical memory, and body vocabulary through guided exercises.
Please bring a dish & wear loose clothing, ALL are welcome
For further information please contact:
Karyn Recollet: krecollet@usudbury.ca
Sarah King: sarahkg@mac.com
RAIN DATE: Thursday September 11th, same time, same place.
MORE INFORMATION:
This event is part of a multi-phased community dialogue through an place-making project
Goals of the project:
-To create a dialogue and raise awareness about our relationships to place
-To root this dialogue within the community and the collective
-To use multidisciplinary arts-rooted practice defined by the community to enhance and nurture our relationships towards each other and towards place.
-To actively create our own participation in the Idle No More Sovereignty Summer – this participation will be defined by our community
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/630900033616190/
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Tuesday, September 24: Sudbury Needs Compassionate Animal Control Rally
Time: 4pm
Location: Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)
This rally is to expose what is happening at the Rainbow District Animal Shelter in Azilda.
We have received several witness letters that reveal a lot of really disturbing things that are going on there.
We as tax payers want change and a new contract holder.
- Lynne Regimbal
We are asking the city to provide a better shelter that rightfully includes compassionate care, integrity, and repect for our region’s most vulnerable animals by choosing a new, fiscally responsible, ethical and moral contractor to manage the 2014 Animal Control Contract. Compassionate Animal Control believes that this contract should include requirements for the HIGHEST STANDARD OF CARE POSSIBLE, within the GCS’s budget allocations.
- Heather Regimbal
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/503803476361160/
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Thursday, September 26: Capitalism Must Die!
Time: 6pm
Location: The ParkSide Centre, 140 Durham Street, Kinsmen Room A
Cartoonist Stephanie McMillan is coming to Sudbury to promote her upcoming book, Capitalism Must Die! Stephanie’s presentation will explain how capitalism works, why it has to be stopped and how to stop it. Her presentation will feature cartoons, diagrams and live drawings.
For those of you who know Stephanie’s work, you’ll be familiar with her comic, Minimum Security (which in its current phase is titled Proletarian Theory is a Revolutionary Social Force), as well as her cartoon, Code Green. Stephanie recently wrote The Beginning of the American Fall: A Comics Journalist Inside the Occupy Wall Street Movement, and co-wrote the graphic novel, As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial with Derrick Jensen. She has another graphic novel coming out this fall, The Minimum Security Chronicles: Resistance to Ecocide. This is a “story of a group of friends who try different strategies and tactics to stop ecocide. During this process, they hear of a particular geo-engineering project being planned, and focus their efforts on preventing that. It’s not only a thrilling story of trying to save the world, but also a thought experiment gaming out different revolutionary strategies.”
If you’d like to read more about Stephanie, browse through her cartoons, or check out the endorsements of her work (including Vandana Shiva, Howard Zinn and Derrick Jensen); you can do so here: http://stephaniemcmillan.org/sample-page/. You can also check out One Struggle, the anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist organization she works with: http://onestruggle.net/.
This event is free but I would appreciate your help to spread the word. You can share and join this event at: https://www.facebook.com/events/209430909181199/.
For more information, please contact Rachael Charbonneau at rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca or 670-1982.
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
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Petition: Ensure Laurentian University's modernization plans include space for the Women's Centre and Pride at LU!
To sign the petition, go here: https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/laurentian-university-part-time-o...
The text reads:
To:
Dominic Giroux, President and Vice-Chancellor
Silvie Allard, Assistant to the President
Chris Mercer, Chief of Staff
For the new campus modernization plan at Laurentian University, both the Women's Centre and Pride continue to be side lined. This is not new, these services have been ignored and neglected for sometime. Laurentian has new building plans that will be undertaken in the next couple of years. Let us make sure that these services can no longer be neglected. Students pay the university for an education, and we demand for an educational institution that supports change for the future.
Laurentian University states organizational culture and work environment are key priorities as they thrive to become one of Canada's top employers (Laurentian President). In order to achieve this status services such as the Women's Centre and Pride should not be side-lined.
It is time to agitate for part-time, permanent staff for both of these important groups given that each is considered a 'service'.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
To sign the petition, go here: https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/laurentian-university-part-time-o...
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A critical assessment of anti-tar sands organizing
by Macdonald Stainsby
(Originally published at CounterPunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/03/the-problem-with-bill-mckibben-an...)
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