EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, April 14: Sustainable Transportation Presentation to City Committee
2) Monday, April 14: S-CAP Organizing Meeting for Town Hall Event
3) Tuesday, April 15: Science Cafe on the topic "Our health and our environment: How does 'responsibility' matter?"
4) Monday, April 21: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
5) Tuesday, April 22: Screening of *The Change Agents*
6) Thursday, April 24: Rwanda20 Film Screening & Discussion
7) Thursday, April 24: Water Water Everywhere...or Not?
8) Saturday, April 26: Greater Sudbury Earth Day Festival 2014
9) Monday, April 28: International Day of Mourning for Workers Killed & Injured on the Job - Sudbury
10) Monday, May 5: Town Hall With UK Disability/Anti-Poverty Activist Ellen Clifford
11) Tuesday, May 6: Meeting of Sudbury Cyclists Union
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "PLAY Materials needed for Earth Day festival" from reThink Green
2) "Call climate change what it is: violence" by Rebecca Solnit
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Monday, April 14: Sustainable Transportation Presentation to City Committee
Time: 4pm
Location: Room C-11, Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)
Mark your calendars! The Sustainable Mobility Advisory Panel (SMAP) is making its final recommendations to the Community Services Committee on Monday, April 14 at 4 pm in room C-11 at Tom Davis Square. Chair Steve Reitzel will be presenting.
SMAP has been instrumental in raising the awareness of cycling-related issues. Its Sustainable Mobility Plan contained recommendations regarding cycling infrastructure, policy and education. Its proposed Active Transportation Network map was one of the major inputs for what is currently being proposed by the City’s Transportation Study recommendations, which has yet to be released.
If you are free, please attend. It would be great to show the City and Councillors that sustainable mobility is an important issue! We need large numbers to show them that active transportation, including cycling, is supported by many taxpayers. If you are unable to attend, please let interested friends and colleagues know about the date and the presentation.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/387681364703256/
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Monday, April 14: S-CAP Organizing Meeting for Town Hall Event
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)
This is an organizing meeting for the town hall event happening on Tuesday, May 6 with Ellen Clifford of the Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC) of the UK.
The doors for this organizing meeting open at 6:30 p.m. If you arrive late and doors are locked, please call the S-CAP phone (249-878-7227)
Wheelchair accessible. Childcare available upon request, please contact us.
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Tuesday, April 15: Science Cafe on the topic "Our health and our environment: How does 'responsibility' matter?"
Time: 7:30pm
Location: The Laughing Buddha (194 Elgin Street, Sudbury)
More information coming soon!
Supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), in partnership with the Canada Research Chairs Program, Laurentian University, Laurentian's Humanities M.A. Program, the Centre for Humanities Research and Creativity (CHRC), the Centre for Evolutionary Ecology and Ethical Conservation (CEEEC), and the Ethics Centre of the University of Sudbury.
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Monday, April 21: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
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)
The venue is wheelchair accessible. Children are welcome to attend, or childcare support is available upon request. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. If you arrive late and doors are locked, please call the S-CAP phone (249-878-7227).
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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Tuesday, April 22: Screening of *The Change Agents*
Time: 6pm to 9pm
Location: Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)
PLEASE WATCH THE TRAILER
http://www.thechangeagents.net/
Sudbury is one of the first cities in Canada to screen the movie because we have a direct contact with the director.
There be at least one public screening possibly two screenings on Earth Day, Tuesday April 22, 2014
Please stay tuned:
Tom Davies Square
Sudbury's City Hall
6:00 to 9:00 pm
6:00 - doors open
6:15 - introductions and brief discussions
6:30 - movies starts
8:00 - deeper facilitated discussions
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Thursday, April 24: Rwanda20 Film Screening & Discussion
Time: 6:30pm
Location: The Open Studio (93 Cedar Street, Sudbury)
On April 6, 1994, Rwanda, a tiny land-locked country in central Africa, spiraled downward into a putrid stew of massacre and bloodshed. Between 800,000 and one million people were killed during 100 days of genocide. Approximately 80 per cent of Tutsis were murdered and entire families vanished from existence. The genocide in Rwanda remains unparalleled in its vastness and efficiency.
“The nature of the killing, with so many thrown into pit latrines or buried and dissolving in dank mass graves, makes an accurate count impossible,” writes journalist Scott Peterson in his 2000 memoir, Me Against My Brother: At war in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda. “They were murdered eyeball to eyeball by friends and neighbors. A mathematical calculation of Rwanda’s national suicide makes the speed of any other recorded catastrophe or single act of war pale by comparison. … No system of genocide ever devised has been more efficient: the daily kill rate was five times that of the Nazi death camps.”
On Thursday, April 24, Cambrian College commemorates 20 years since the terror with an evening of documentary film and uplifting discussion. The 2012 film Rising from Ashes tells the story of cycling phenom Jock Boyer’s efforts to build a national cycling team in Rwanda. A discussion and Q&A panel follows the screening. Markus Schwabe, host of Morning North on CBC radio, hosts. The film’s trailer is available online at www.risingfromashesthemovie.com.
For more information, please e-mail Mary Katherine Keown at mary.keown@cambriancollege.ca or call 705.566.8101 ext. 6876.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/737922762896098/
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Thursday, April 24: Water Water Everywhere...or Not?
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Science North (100 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury)
As climate change,s how does our relationship with water need to change? Discover why and how we need to adapt to current climate change in relation to our lakes, city, and own backyard. An Earth Week open panel discussion.
Sponsored by the Greater Sudbury Watershed Alliance and Science North.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/303807523104371/
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Saturday, April 26: Greater Sudbury Earth Day Festival 2014
Time: 10am to 5pm
Location: Ecole Secondaire Du Sacre-Coeur (261 avenue Notre-Dame, Sudbury)
Details TBA!
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1510817362478795/
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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.
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Monday, May 5: Town Hall With UK Disability/Anti-Poverty Activist Ellen Clifford
Time: TBA
Location: Kinsmen Room A, Parkside Older Adult Centre (140 Durham Street, Sudbuty)
The Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty will be hosting a town hall meeting with disability activist Ellen Clifford of Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) of the UK on Tuesday, May 6, time yet to be determined. The event will take place in the Parkside Older Adult Centre on Durham St, Kinsmen Room A. For more information visit DPAC’s website:
http://dpac.uk.net/2014/04/fighting-back-against-cuts-to-disability-bene...
More details to follow.
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Tuesday, May 6: Meeting of Sudbury Cyclists Union
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: reThink Green (Suite 305, 176 Larch Street, Sudbury)
Agenda TBA.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/600471723355643/
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
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"PLAY Materials needed for Earth Day festival" from reThink Green
Pierre Harrison of PLAYLearnThink is organizing this year's Children's Area at the festival and he's looking for materials, so please have a look at the list below. If you have any of the items on the list and you would like to make a donation, please get in touch with reThink Green at 705-674-1685 or info@rethinkgreen.ca. Any and all donations are greatly appreciated!
Through play children experience awe for the world around them and joy in the freedom of their play. This leads to strong connections to the natural world and the development of a positive sense of self and self-esteem.
So join us in a day of fun! Play Leaders will be on site to answer questions, offer guidance and support the children as they play. There will be plenty of loose parts to engage imaginations and let creativity soar... you may even want to join in!
The list of needed materials is here: http://www.rethinkgreen.ca/download/Materials%20List.pdf
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"Call climate change what it is: violence"
by Rebecca Solnit
(From *The Guardian*: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/07/climate-change-viol...)
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