EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, January 6: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
2) Thursday, January 9: Meeting of the Sudbury Working Group of the
Media Co-op
3) Monday, January 13: Meeting of the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury
4) Monday, January 13: Workshop on Engaging Audiences with Effective Communication
5) Monday, January 20: S-CAP Deputation to City Community Services Committee
6) Wednesday, January 22 and Thursday, January 23: S-CAP Fundraising Book Sale
7) Thursday, January 23: Queer Activism in the 1970s: From Liberation to Rights
8) Friday, January 31: Employment Rights Training for Front Line Agency Staff
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "A new resource for low-wage workers in Sudbury" by Scott Neigh
2) "The Top 10 Ways Canada Aided the 2004 Coup and its Reign of Terror in Haiti" by Ricahrd Sanders
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Monday, January 6: 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)
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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Thursday, January 9: Meeting of the Sudbury Working Group of the Media Co-op
Time: 10am to noon
Location: meeting room #1, downstairs, main branch of the Sudbury Public Library (74 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury)
Everyone is welcome to join us for our meeting on Thursday, January 9 from 10am to at the main branch of the Greater Sudbury Public Library.
The Sudbury working group of The Media Co-op wants to support people in 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 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.
Find our site at:
http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/
Our new callout for content, some of which we might even be able to pay for:
http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/blog/grassrootssudburymedia/19108
Contact the Sudbury Working Group to learn more about writing for us or to let us know about community issues and events at:
grassrootssudburymedia@gmail.com
Find us on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsMediaCollective
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Monday, January 13: Meeting of the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: Environmental Resource Centre (176 Larch Street, 3rd floor)
This is the next general meeting of the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury.
Please note that the location is not wheelchair accessible -- if this is a barrier for you to attend, please let us know and we will find an alternate location.
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Monday, January 13: Workshop on Engaging Audiences with Effective Communication
Time: 6pm to 9pm
Location: Room LL202, Living with Lakes Centre, Laurentian University
Whether the objective is to reach public audiences or policy makes, advocate for change or inform interested communities, impactful communication can be challenging. This workshop will focus on communicating messages on scientific topics and will familiarize participants with four pillars of effective communication: Audiences, Learning, Dialogue, and Design.
How can analogies make your message stick? What do images communicate? How do words evoke emotion? Join Chantal Barriault and Dr. David Pearson from Laurentian University, Co-Directors of the Science Communication Graduate Program, for this free interactive workshop and gain important practical communication skills. Complementary refreshments will be provided.
To RSVP, call (705)674-1685 or email info@rethinkgreen.ca.
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Monday, January 20: S-CAP Deputation to City Community Services Committee
Time: 4pm
Location: Room C-11, Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)
The Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty will be making a deputation to the City of Greater Sudbury's Community Services Committee on the need for a replacement emergency homeless shelter for the entire winter and for CSUMB rates and policies for CHPI funding.
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Wednesday, January 22 and Thursday, January 23: S-CAP Fundraising Book Sale
Time: TBA
Location: Laurentian University, specific place TBA
Gary Kinsman is retiring from Laurentian University and has donated many of his books to S-CAP for a fund-raising book sale. This includes books on Feminism, Women’s Studies, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Sociology, Social and Political Theory, Media Studies, Psychoanalysis, work by Freud, Marx, Che Guevera, Lenin, Mao, Fidel Castro, Trotsky, and many others, copies of Upping the Anti and much, much more. Come on by, find a title that you like, and help support S-CAP's important work in the community!
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Thursday, January 23: Queer Activism in the 1970s: From Liberation to Rights
Time: 7pm
Location: C-309, Classroom Building, Laurentian University
As a first installment in work on the making of the contemporary neo-liberal queer this presentation remembers queer organizing in the 1970s drawing on historical research and memory work. Starting off with the emergence of gay liberation and lesbian feminism out of the social revolts of the 1960s the often forgotten history of queer resistance to the privatization of our sexualities and intensifying sexual policing, the anti-queer national security campaigns, and the moral conservative neo-liberal right-wing is charted. At the same time the shift from liberationist politics to a more limited human rights protection approach that takes place later in the 1970s, along with the expansion of ‘pink markets,’ and the growing view of gays and lesbians as just like an ‘ethnic’ minority group help to lay the basis for the emergence of the neo-liberal queer in later years.
Gary Kinsman is the author of The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities, co-author (with Patrizia Gentile) of The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, and editor of Whose National Security?, Sociology for Changing the World and Mine Mill Fights Back. He is currently working on a new book project called The Making of the Neo-Liberal Queer and is involved in the AIDS Activist History Project. He is a long-time queer liberation, anti-poverty and anti-capitalist activist currently most involved in the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (S-CAP). He has just taken early retirement from teaching Sociology at Laurentian University, on the territories of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek nation.
Organized by Pride@LU, the LU Committee on Sexuality and Gender Diversity, and the Sudbury Pride Committee. Sponsored by the History and Sociology Departments at Laurentian University.
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Friday, January 31: Employment Rights Training for Front Line Agency Staff
Time: Coffee & registration from 9am, workshop 10am to 4pm
Location: please RSVP
Fee: $25
This workshop is geared towards front line staff who have clients that are considered "vulnerable workers". These are people who earn minimum wage, work for temp agencies or are on employment contracts. The workshop is hosted by Sudbury Workers' Education and Advocacy Centre in partnership with the United Way of Sudbury and the Toronto Workers' Centre.
FRONT LINE STAFF TRAINING
The provincial Employment Standards Act protects the employment rights of workers in Ontario. The Sudbury Workers’ Education and Advocacy Centre will be hosting a one day workshop that will give you the basics of the Act. Topics such as the following will be covered:
Eligibility, Minimum Wage, Cash Payments, Weekly Hours, Daily Hours & Breaks, Overtime, Vacation, Public Holidays, Termination Notice or Pay, Severance Pay
If your clients work in non-unionized environments they need to know their rights! Join us on Friday, January 31, 2014 in the United Way boardroom for an exciting day of information sharing with Karen Dick from the Toronto Workers’ Centre.
Refreshments and lunch will be served. Fee is $25.00. Space is limited. Please make cheques payable to the Sudbury Workers’ Education and Advocacy Centre. Payments can be mailed to: 109 Elm Street, Suite 209, Sudbury, ON, P3C1T4
Coffee & registration at 9:00. Workshop 10:00 to 4:00
Please RSVP by January 24, 2014 to sudburyworkerscentre@gmail.com or call 705-470-3323.
Seating is limited, so please register by January 24, 2014. For more information, please contact: sudburyworkerscentre@gmail.com or call 705-470-3323.
NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:
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A new resource for low-wage workers in Sudbury
by Scott Neigh
(From the Sudbury working group of The Media Co-op, with links in the original: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/new-resource-low-wage-workers-sudbury/...)
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A Very Canadian Coup in Haiti: The Top 10 Ways Canada Aided the 2004 Coup and its Reign of Terror
by Richard Sanders, coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade
(Originally published: http://coat.ncf.ca/Haiti/Canada_in_Haiti.htm)
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.