EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, October 28: Trial of the S-CAP 11 begins
2) Monday, October 28: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
3) Monday, October 28 to Friday, November 1: Women's History Week -- 14
events over 5 days
4) Thursday, October 31: Trial of the S-CAP 11 continues
5) Monday, November 4: Meeting of Sudbury Workers' Education and
Advocacy Centre
6) Tuesday, November 5: Sudbury Cyclists Union Annual General Meeting
7) Friday, November 22 to Sunday, November 24: Female Eye Film Festival
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) Media release from Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty on the trial of the S-CAP 11
EVENTS & MEETINGS:
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Monday, October 28: Trial of the S-CAP 11 begins
Time: 9:30am to 12:30pm (approx.)
Location: Room C-11, Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)
A year ago, eleven members and supporters of the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty were arrested while trying to deliver a message at the constituency office of Liberal MPP Rick Bartolucci in opposition to then-proposed (and now implemented) cuts and changes to a social assistance benefit meant to keep people out of homelessness and to allow women to leave abusive relationships. This will be the first part of their trial. S-CAP is inviting people in the community to attend and show their support.
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Monday, October 28: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
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 a debrief of the province-wide week of anti-poverty action that happened earlier in October; our continuing direct action support work; and the trial of the S-CAP 11. 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, October 28 to Friday, November 1: Women's History Week -- 14
events over 5 days
This is the twentieth year that Women's History Week has been held at Laurentian University in Sudbury. Come and help us celebrate!
All events are free and everyone is welcome.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Tuesday, October 29, 7pm
Bertolo's, 93 Durham Street, downtown Sudbury
"The Personal is Very Political: Stories of my Transformation Through Feminism in the 1970s and 1980s," a lecture by Gary Kinsman of the Laurentian Department of Sociology
FULL WEEK SCHEDULE:
(All events are on the Laurentian University campus unless otherwise noted)
Monday, October 28, 2:30pm
"Modernism and the Other Woman"
with Dr. Mrinalini Greedharry, Department of English, room W130 (West Residence)
Monday, October 28, 7pm
"Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives"
with Professor Shana Calixte, Department of Women's Studies, room T120 (Thornloe University)
Tuesday, October 29, 8:30am
"A Fearless Environmental Woman of History"
A film presentation and discussion of *Rachel Carson's Silent Spring* hosted by Dr. William Crumplin of the Department of Environmental Studies, PM-P02 (Portable classroom)
Tuesday, October 29, 8:30am
"Queens, Commoners, Abbesses and Saints: Women in Early Medieval Britain"
A lecture by Dr. Janice Liedl of the Department of History, room C-304 (Classroom Building)
Tuesday, October 29, 10am
"Nationalism and Gender Identities"
A lecture by Professor OmiSoore Dryden of the Department of Women's Studies, room T-260 (Thornloe University)
Tuesday, October 29, 1pm
"Noticing Gender in Communication, Negotiation and Conflict"
A lecture by Dr. Rosanna Langer of the Department of Law and Justice, room C-207 (Classroom Building)
Tuesday, October 29, 1pm
"Woman's Sphere: Mid-19th Century to the Great War"
A lecture by Dr. Linda Ambrose of the Department of History, room C-301 (Classroom Building)
Wednesday, October 30, 9am
"Moll Flanders and Women Criminals in the Early Eighteenth Century"
A student presentation by Elizabeth Urso for English 3245, room C-306 (Classroom Building)
Wednesday, October 30, 10am
"Gender and Teaching: Kindergarten and Household Science in Public Schooling"
A lecture by Dr. Sara Burke of the Department of History, room C-301 (Classroom Building)
Wednesday, October 30, 3pm to 5:30pm
"Europa 51"
A film presentation in collaboration with the Sudbury Philosophical Society, with Dr. Lucien Pelletier of the Department of Philosophy, room C-309 (Classroom Building)
Thursday, October 31, 8h30
"Femmes, mariage et vie conjugal durant le haut moyen age"
Une conférence avec le Dr Pierre Cameron du Département d'histoire, salle C-202 (Edifice des classes)
Thursday, October 31, 1pm
"Feeding Our Children 'White-Style': An Exploration of Anishinabek Women's Responses to Industrial Change Along the Winnipeg River, 1950-1972"
A lecture by Professor Brittany Luby of the Department of History, room C-301 (Classroom Building)
Friday, November 1, 13h
"Hélène Brion (1882-1962): La voie feministe"
Une conférence avec le Dre Carolle Gagnon du Département de philosophie, salle W-134 (Résidence Ouest)
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Thursday, October 31: Trial of the S-CAP 11 continues
Time: 9:30am
Location: Room C-11, Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)
A year ago, eleven members and supporters of the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty were arrested while trying to deliver a message at the constituency office of Liberal MPP Rick Bartolucci in opposition to then-proposed (and now implemented) cuts and changes to a social assistance benefit meant to keep people out of homelessness and to allow women to leave abusive relationships. This will be the second and likely final day of the trial, and is scheduled for the full day. S-CAP is inviting people in the community to attend and show their support.
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Monday, November 4: Meeting of Sudbury Workers' Education and Advocacy Centre
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)
Workers -- particularly those in part-time, low-wage, and insecure jobs -- and their supporters are invited to this meeting to continue the community discussions to found a workers' centre in Sudbury.
Workers' centres are organizations that are committed to improving the lives and working conditions of people in low-wage and unstable employment. For more than a year, people in Sudbury have been meeting to figure out how to make this happen here, and it can only succeed with lots of active participation and input from all corners of the community.
The Sudbury Workers' Education and Advocacy Centre on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/SudburyWorkersCentre
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Tuesday, November 5: Sudbury Cyclists Union Annual General Meeting
Time: 7pm to 8:45pm
Location: main branch, Greater Sudbury Public Library (74 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury)
Agenda:
1. SCU organization and structure
2. Planning for coming year:
- Advocacy
- Events
- Education
- Projects
- Partnerships
- Fundraising
- Public Relations
- Elections 2014
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/595553383815837/
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Friday, November 22 to Sunday, November 24: Female Eye Film Festival
Time: Headline event starts 7pm on the Friday, for other times see below
Location: the former Rainbow Cinemas in downtown Sudbury (40 Elm Street)
BAM North Productions and the Female Eye Film Festival present a splendid Showcase of Award-Winning Films and Sudbury Filmmaker Series- all directed by WOMEN!
The action starts with a OPENING NIGHT Comedy Evening with headliner Sandra Battaglini, MC's Jessica Wilde-Peltier, and the local satire film Awaiting Atwood. Cash bar! And proceeds will go to the Sudbury Indie Cinema Downtown, a group of local residents who are exploring the feasibility of turning the former Rainbow Cinemas location into a locally owned non-profit, cooperative model to showcase films downtown as well as be a hub for other activities (https://www.facebook.com/SudburyIndieCinema).
Film programming resumes Saturday and runs thru to Sunday 6pm.
Saturday Nov 23
11-12noon Networking Brunch Local Women in Film (by invitation)
12:30pm A Wake, Penelope Buitenhaus
3:00pm Nothing Special, Angela Combs
5-6:30pm Drinks and Noosh at Local Eatery
7:00pm LOCAL PREMIERE: Moose River Crossing, Shirley Cheechoo
9:30pm The Disappeared, Shandi Mitchell
Sunday Nov 24
12pm Local Girls &Young Women's Shorts
2pm Union Square, Nancy Savoca
4:30pm Amazon Falls, Katrin Bowen
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/529185723826077/
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
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Media release from Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty on the trial of the S-CAP 11
(Posted at the site of the Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/blog/grassrootssudburymedia/19455)
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