EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, March 31 to Saturday, April 5: Ontario Health Coalition Tabling in Greater Sudbury
2) Tuesday, April 1: Meeting of Sudbury Cyclists Union
3) Saturday, April 5: Innovative Community Engagement Tools & Techniques
4) Monday, April 7: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
5) Wednesday, April 9: Climate Chaos with Guy McPherson
6) Thursday, April 10: Responding to Climate Chaos with Guy McPherson
7) Thursday, April 10: Meeting of Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op
8) Monday, April 28: International Day of Mourning for Workers Killed & Injured on the Job - Sudbury
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "Evaluating success in radical movements" by Chris Dixon
2) "How not to talk about rape culture" by Lauren Strapagiel
3) "Participate in Earth Day 2014 as an Exhibitor or Vendor"
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Friday, April 4 & Saturday, April 5: Ontario Health Coalition Tabling in Greater Sudbury
Time & Location: Various -- see below
The Ontario Health Coalition will be the Greater Sudbury area promoting their campaign against the further creeping privatization of health care. Check out their presence at the following times and places, and sign a postcard as part of the campaign:
Laurentian University
March 31st-April 3rd
Rainbow Centre Mall, downtown Sudbury
Friday, April 4th from 10am-2pm,
Saturday, April 5th from 10am-4pm.
The Sportsman Show (Garson)
Friday, April 4th from 5pm-9pm,
Saturday, April 5th from 10am-4pm
Food Basics (Notre Dame)
April 5th from 10am-4pm
Food Basics (Lasalle)
April 5th from 10am-4pm
Metro (Val Caron)
April 5th 10am-4pm
Metro (Chelmsford)
April 5th 10am-4pm
For more information on the Ontario Health Coalition and their campaigns, go here: http://web.net/~ohc/
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Tuesday, April 1: Meeting of Sudbury Cyclists Union
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: reThink Green (176 Larson Street, Suite 305, Sudbury)
Agenda
1. Advocacy: Second Avenue and next campaigns
2. Election survey
3. Recruitment, communication and PR - next steps
4. Next meeting: May 6, 2014
5. Other business
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1432740206961542/
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Saturday, April 5: Innovative Community Engagement Tools & Techniques
Time: 2pm to 4pm
Location: reThink Green (Suite 305, 176 Larch Street, Sudbury)
Admission $20 (free under some conditions -- see below)
Join us in The Green Room for an interactive discussion on innovative ways to engage the public for advocacy, fundraising, and finding new volunteers. This includes a demonstration of powerful software tools and successful case studies.
Graham Saul is one of the founding members of Ecology Ottawa and the executive director of the organization. He is also the executive director of Climate Action Network Canada – Resau action climate Canada. He has worked at the South African Institute for International Affairs, Oxfam International in Maputo, Mozambique, and at the Washington, D.C. – based Bank Information Center. Graham has also served as the international program director for Friends of the Earth Canada and Oil Change International.
Admission: $20 / Free*
*reThink Green Group Members: Two representatives from each reThink Green membership group can attend this event for free. Please use the registration form to indicate that you are taking one of the free seats.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/455363394596324/
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Monday, April 7: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
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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Wednesday, April 9: Climate Chaos with Guy McPherson
Time: 6pm
Location: Steelworker’s Hall (66 Brady Street, Sudbury)
Dr. Guy McPherson, professor emeritus of Natural Resources and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (University Of Arizona), will give a tour of the climate science that you probably haven’t seen before. McPherson breaks the gag order that is climate change denial and disinformation to integrate the climate science with an emphasis on the non-linear nature of impacts.
At the same time, McPherson’s tour provides a history of the threshold revisions that continue to occur and which coincide with our inability to achieve even modest restraints on capitalism. McPherson also explores the positive feedbacks that have been activated so far, asserting that runaway global warming is already underway, and that we have a right to know so that we can direct our lives accordingly.
Dr. McPherson is visiting Paul Beckwith in Ottawa, which is why he was so easily able to visit Sudbury. One easy way you can help with this event is to share it as widely as possible so we can let as many people who would be interested know about this event. Also, let us know if you’re coming at: https://www.facebook.com/events/733922436640166/.
This event in being organized by One Struggle Sudbury. For more information contact Rachael Charbonneau at 705-670-1982 or rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca.
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Thursday, April 10: Responding to Climate Chaos with Guy McPherson
Time: Noon
Location: Meeting Room 1, Main Branch of the Sudbury Public Library (74 Mackenzie Street)
Guy McPherson will talk about his homesteading experiment, one he now considers to be a failure. Guy will share his experiences and insights to how we can prepare for climate chaos by working together to increase our resilience as a community.
Please help us share this event and let us know you’re coming at: https://www.facebook.com/events/278344602326295/.
For more information contact Rachael Charbonneau at 705-670-1982 or rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca.
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Thursday, April 10: Meeting of 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 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, April 28: International Day of Mourning for Workers Killed & Injured on the Job - Sudbury
Time: 10am to 11:30am
Location: Fraser Auditorium, Laurentian University
The International Day of Mourning is observed yearly on April 28th. It commemorates workers who have been killed, injured or suffered illness due to workplace related hazards and incidents.
The International Day of Mourning began in Sudbury in 1984. The Canadian Labour Congress officially declared it an annual day of remembrance the following year (1985). With the passing of the Workers Mourning Day Act, in 1990, the day became a national Canadian observance: April 28, 1991, was the first official “National Day of Mourning for persons killed or injured in the workplace”.
Since its inception in Sudbury, the observance has spread to over 80 countries around the world. April 28th was chosen because, on that day in 1914, the Workers Compensation Act received its third reading.
The purpose of Day of Mourning is twofold- to remember and honour those lives lost or injured and to renew the commitment to improving health and safety in the workplace – to prevent further deaths, injuries and diseases from work. Typically flags are flown at half-mast, and workers and employees observe this day in various ways including: observing moments of silence; lighting candles; and donning ribbons and/or black armbands.
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
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"Evaluating success in radical movements"
by Chris Dixon
(Originally published at *Writing with movements*: http://writingwithmovements.com/evaluating-success/)
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"How not to talk about rape culture"
by Lauren Strapagiel
(Originally from the Ottawa Citizen: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/touch/story.html?id=9655195)
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"Participate in Earth Day 2014 as an Exhibitor or Vendor"
(Originally at EarthDaySudbury.ca: http://earthdaysudbury.ca/index.php/exhibitors-and-vendors)
Does your organization or business have great services, products or information available related to sustainability or green living? Reserve a booth at the Greater Sudbury Earth Day Festival and connect with the public!
Early Bird pricing is available until April 4, 2014! reThink Green members are also eligible for discounts on booth and vendor fees.
Download the Exhibitor Registration Package (English): http://earthdaysudbury.ca/download/2014%20Exhibitor%20Registration%20For...
Download the Exhibitor Registration Form (French) - Coming Soon!
Download the Food Vendor Registration Package: http://earthdaysudbury.ca/download/2014%20Food%20Vendor%20Registration%2...
If you have any questions about registering a booth or being a food vendor, please get in touch with Grant Turcotte (grant.turcotte@rethinkgreen.ca), Earth Day Coordinator.
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.