Sudbury Social Justice News - November 2, 2014

EVENTS & MEETINGS:

1) Monday, November 3: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty [NEW LOCATION!]
2) Tuesday, November 4: Mobilize to Support Out-of-the-cold Homeless Shelter at City Council
3) Thursday, November 6: Meeting of the Sudbury Working-group of The Media Co-op
4) Thursday, November 6: Emancipation from Capitalism: Revolution is Not a System Upgrade with Stephanie McMillan
5) Thursday, November 6: Meeting of Council of Canadians (Sudbury)
6) Friday, November 7: Movie Night: *Tsar to Lenin*
7) Wednesday, November 12: Transit Conference by Friends of Sudbury Transit
8) Monday, November 17: Raise the Rates Campaign Meeting
9) Wednesday, December 3: Challenge the City!

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

1) "Sexual Assault in Progressive Spaces" by Mathieu Murphy-Perron
2) "No Safe Haven: Canada's 'Managed Migration'" by Harsha Walia

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Monday, November 3: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty

Time: 6:30pm
Location: PLEASE NOTE -- The labour council offices are being renovated, so the meeting will take place instead in the food court of the Rainbow Centre mall.

The venue is wheelchair accessible. Children are welcome to attend, or childcare support is available upon request.

Matters to be discussed include: evaluation of the municipal election intervention; mobilization for the emergency homeless shelter; access to Handi-Transit; the community organizing course, the raise the rates campaign, and our direct action support work.

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

Website http://sudburycap.com/

S-CAP on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/257339454351403/

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Tuesday, November 4: Mobilize to Support Out-of-the-cold Homeless Shelter at City Council

Time: 6pm
Location: City Council Chambers, Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)

Snow has fallen in Sudbury and the City has yet to set up an emergency Out of the Cold homeless shelter. Again the homeless are being left out in the cold. S-CAP is asking people to come out to the City Council meeting this Tuesday November 4th at 6pm at Tom Davies Square to show your support for the immediate establishment of such a shelter. S-CAP is also asking that it be made accessible for those who cannot use stairs and that the staff working in it not be from the Salvation Army since a number of homeless people have had negative encounters with these staff in the past. At the same meeting we will be calling for the ending of the discriminatory reviews of Handi-Transit users which are denying many people who have non-physical disabilities the use of Handi-Transit. The results of the Sudbury election has led to the election of a mayor and many councillors who either did not respond to, or were largely non-supportive, of our anti-poverty action survey. We need to send out a loud message that we will be continuing to fight on a daily basis for the needs of people living in poverty.

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Thursday, November 6: Meeting of the Sudbury Working-group of The Media Co-op

Time: 10am to noon
Location: meeting room #1, Main Branch, Greater Sudbury Public Library (74 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury)

Along with our ongoing quest to find a wide-range of interesting and original local content to publish on our site, we will be working our plans for a big public event in early December. We encourage anyone and everyone who might be interested in making media themselves, or who recognize that a robust grassroots media infrastructure is essential for social change work being done across a broad range of issues, to come out to the meeting that we're having on October 16th at 10 am in meeting room #1 at the Mackenzie Street branch of the library. Please come out and share your ideas!

If you can't make it to the meeting but still think you might want to be involved somehow -- through organizing things, through participating in some of the editorial stuff, through writing or producing other content -- then be in touch with me at the email address above or send a note to grassrootssudburymedia@gmail.com.

Find our site at:
http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/

Our callout for content, some of which we might even be able to pay for:
http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/blog/grassrootssudburymedia/19108

Find us on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/GrassrootsMediaCollective

 
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Thursday, November 6: Emancipation from Capitalism: Revolution is Not a System Upgrade with Stephanie McMillan
Time: 7 pm
Location: Room C, Parkside Centre, 140 Durham Street

We’re excited to welcome back award-winning cartoonist and anti-capitalist organizer Stephanie McMillan to Sudbury for the second year in a row in what we hope will be an annual event (unless of course revolution is a lot closer than we think). Before heading to Haiti to work with autonomous union organizers from Batay Ouvriye, and then on to San Francisco where she’ll be speaking at the Earth at Risk conference, she will spend four days here in Sudbury. We’ll be doing lots of group work while she’s here so if you’re interested in organizing against capital, please do get in touch. On Thursday, November 6, Stephanie will present a slide show about how capitalism works, why it's inherently destructive, and what it will take to end it.

This event is brought to you by One Struggle Sudbury and the Sudbury Revolutionary Network.

To join or share this event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1490376881247489/?ref_dashboard_filter=u....

For more information about One Struggle, please read our Points of Unity: http://onestruggle.net/points-of-unity/.

For more information about the Sudbury Revolutionary Network, check out their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sudburyrevnet.

To get involved or for additional information contact Rachael Charbonneau rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca or 705-670-1982.

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Thursday, November 6: Meeting of Council of Canadians (Sudbury)

Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: Steelworkers' Hall (66 Brady Street, Sudbury)

This will be a regular meeting of the new Sudbury chapter of the Council of Canadians. Should you have any information on coalition groups or campaign issues that you would like to address please either forward them to Ron Tough (rontough@sympatico.ca) or Andre Clement (andredrc57@gmail.com) prior to the meeting. Please RSVP if you intend to attend. The room can accommodate up to 15 individuals or three groups of five or five groups of three or infinite permutations arriving at the maximum of 15. However if we have more than that we will adjust.

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Friday, November 7: Movie Night: *Tsar to Lenin*

Time: 6pm
Location: Room C-309, Classroom Building, Laurentian University, Sudbury

    On the 97th anniversary of the Great October Revolution, join us for a free movie, food and discussion!

    TSAR TO LENIN (68 min. – Documentary – 1937)

    “Based on archival footage assembled over more than a decade … TSAR TO LENIN provides an unparalleled film record of a revolutionary movement, embracing millions, which ‘shook the world’ and changed the course of history. … [It] presents an extraordinary cinematic account of the Russian Revolution – from the mass uprising which overthrew the centuries-old Tsarist regime in February 1917, to the Bolshevik-led insurrection eight months later that established the first socialist workers’ state, to the final victory in 1921 of the new Soviet regime over counter-revolutionary forces after a three-year-long civil war.”

    The movie will be preceded by a short presentation from RSM. Come out to learn what lessons Lenin's legacy of internationalist class struggle can offer revolutionary anti-capitalists today for navigating the contemporary sociopolitical situation, marked by rampant militarism, national chauvinism, state surveillance and terror.

    Find us at 6pm in room C-309 on the third floor of the Classroom Building at Laurentian. The location is wheelchair-accessible.

    Donations are welcome – support your local revolutionaries!

 
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Wednesday, November 12: Transit Conference by Friends of Sudbury Transit

Time: noon to 2pm and 7pm to 9pm
Location: Peddler's Pub (63 Cedar Street, Sudbury)

We will be having a transit conference to get feedback/input from transit users and drivers about what route, hub and schedule changes they would like to see. We will have maps and markers so bring your ideas!

Please join us from 12-2pm or 7-9pm, whichever is most convenient for you.

Due to a great interest in new Handi-Transit restrictions, we will also be discussing this issue.

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1494508680801094/

 
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Monday, November 17: Raise the Rates Campaign Meeting

Time: 7:30pm
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. If you arrive late and doors are locked, please call the S-CAP phone (249-878-7227).

The Raise the Rates campaign is sponsored by the Canadian Union of Public Employees - Ontario and the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. This meeting is to plan for future Raise the Rates actions.

For updates visit raisetherates.ca or like Raise the Rates on facebook  Email raisetheratescampaign@gmail.com, oe call OCAP at 416 925 6939

 
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Wednesday, December 3: Challenge the City!

Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: TBD

This event looks towards the new term of city council with a recognition that it is only through ongoing organizing that we will have a chance of making Sudbury a more just and sustainable place.

It will be a town hall discussion that will bring together representatives of groups that organize around different issues and that take different approaches, but that all are oriented in one way or another towards pushing the city to change. The event will be an opportunity for a focused public conversation about those different approaches. Each panellist will share their group's experiences around strategies, tactics, failures, and successes, leading into a broader discussion among all who attend.

Participants will include representatives of the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury, the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty, and organized labour.

We hope the event will provide an opportunity to share ideas, to start and renew conversations, to build relationships, and to strengthen all of our struggles. All are welcome!

This event is organized by the Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op (http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca).

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

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"Sexual Assault in Progressive Spaces"
by Mathieu Murphy-Perron
(From Rabble.ca: http://rabble.ca/news/2014/10/sexual-assault-progressive-spaces-thinking...)

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"No Safe Haven: Canada's 'Managed Migration'"
by Harsha Walia
(From Rabble.ca: http://rabble.ca/news/2014/10/no-safe-haven-canadas-managed-migration)