EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, August 11: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
2) Wednesday, August 13: Solidarity With Palestine: Rally & March Through Downtown Sudbury
3) Saturday, August 16: S-CAP Fundraiser Food Sale & Yard Sale
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "Oh, the hubris of Israel's colonial power!" by Sunera Thobani
2) "Ontario Liberal Budgets Maps Out the Way to 'Social Justice' Austerity" by Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
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Monday, August 11: 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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Wednesday, August 13: Solidarity With Palestine: Rally & March Through Downtown Sudbury
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Starting from Memorial Park in downtown Sudbury
*This is a Fat/Trans/Queer-positive, Anti-racist, Accessible, Harassment-free event*
The time has come to show our solidarity in Sudbury for Palestinian people of the world facing extreme oppression under Israeli Apartheid.
From right here in Turtle Island (aka. North America) to Palestine, we must come together to resist our colonizers and hold them accountable.
"As they did during Israel’s attack on Gaza in 2008-09 that killed over 1400 Palestinians, the Canadian government is once again giving its full, uncritical support to Israel. Canada has supported Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza since it began over 7 years ago - never calling on Israel to end the blockage to allow food, medicine, building supplies and other necessities into Gaza. Canada continues to engage in free trade, particularly arms deals, with Israel. Canada is deeply complicit in the crimes being committed in Palestine."
(From the Toronto event page)
Join us on the streets! Bring flags, banners, noisemakers and your voices!
Show your support, show your solidarity, Free, Free Palestine!
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Date: Wednesday, August 13th
Time: 6:30pm
Location: We will rally together at the Memorial Park gazebo before marching through downtown Sudbury.
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Supported by:
Palestine Solidarity Working Group,
Laurentian's Palestine Solidarity Student Club,
S-CAP Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
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For more information about the war on Palestine please join the Palestine Solidarity (Sudbury) facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PalestineSolidaritySudbury/
Further information:
http://electronicintifada.net/
http://www.bdsmovement.net/get-involved
Gaza TV News
CJPME - Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
CANADIAN Boat to Gaza
The Palestine you need to know
http://www.caiaweb.org/
http://mondoweiss.net/
Petitions:
1. Petition to John Baird to pressure the Canadian government to offer humanitarian and medical assistance to Gaza:
http://ijvcanada.org/emergency-gaza-baird/
2. Call to the UN and governments across the world to take immediate steps to implement a comprehensive and legally binding military embargo on Israel, similar to that imposed on South Africa during apartheid.:
http://www.bdsmovement.net/stoparmingisrael
To join the email list or for more information on this event, please contact: eileenroth@gmail.com
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/606581122790194/
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Saturday, August 16: S-CAP Fundraiser Food Sale & Yard Sale
Time: 10am to 4pm
Location: O'Connor Park (140 St. George Street, Sudbury)
S-CAP will be holding a fundraiser yard sale and food sale inside the shack at O'Connor Park in the Flour Mill, at 140 St. George Street. We are asking that people donate any unwanted household items as well as baked goods or homemade cold and packaged foods for us to sell. Please contact me at annaharbulik@gmail.com to let me know if you have items that you'd like to contribute. We are asking that donations be dropped off at O'Connor Park on the morning of the sale between 9 and 10 am. Please also contact me if you'd like to help out at the event, or if you'd like to help with transporting items.
We'd also like to explore the possibility of selling some t-shirts at this event, so if you'd like to donate a t-shirt design that we can have printed, then please contact me for that as well!
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
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"Oh, the hubris of Israel's colonial power!"
by Sunera Thobani
(Original with links to background at Rabble.ca: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2014/07/oh-hubris-israel...)
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"Ontario Liberal Budgets Maps Out the Way to 'Social Justice' Austerity"
by Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
(Originally published here: http://www.ocap.ca/node/1186)
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