EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, November 17: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (NEW LOCATION!)
2) Monday, November 17: Raise the Rates Campaign Meeting (NEW LOCATION!)
3) Wednesday, November 19: Valley Transit Conference by Friends of Sudbury Transit
4) Thursday, November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance
5) Tuesday, November 25: One Struggle Anti-Capitalist Movie Night: Advertising & the End of the World
6) Thursday, November 27: Meeting of Council of Canadians - Sudbury Chapter
7) Wednesday, December 3: Challenge the City!
8) Monday, December 8: Green Winter Solstice Fundraiser for reThink Green
9) Friday, December 12: Sudbury Worker Education & Advocacy Centre Open House
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
None this time!
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Monday, November 17: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (NEW LOCATION!)
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Fromagerie Elgin (80 Elgin Street, Sudbury)
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
Website http://sudburycap.com/
S-CAP on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/257339454351403/
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Monday, November 17: Raise the Rates Campaign Meeting (NEW LOCATION!)
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Fromagerie Elgin (80 Elgin Street, Sudbury)
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, November 19: Valley Transit Conference by Friends of Sudbury Transit
Time: noon to 2pm and 7pm to 9pm
Location: Howard Armstrong Complex
Friends of Sudbury Transit will be having an interactive 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/1534150686827127/
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Thursday, November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance
Time: 9 am - flag raising; 7pm to 9pm - memorial ceremony
Location: Foyer, Tom Davies Square (200 Brady Street, Sudbury)
November 20th is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Please join us for the raising of the transgender flag at Tom Davies Square at 9 am, then later from 7-9pm in the foyer for a memorial ceremony.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/790183881044767/
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Tuesday, November 25: One Struggle Anti-Capitalist Movie Night: Advertising & the End of the World (46 minutes)
Time: 7 pm
Location: Downstairs meeting room #1, Main library, 74 Mackenzie Street
This month we’re going to look at the extraordinary resources that are mobilized to uphold the prevailing set of ideas that exist under capitalism. We’ll update some of the figures presented in this film, compare these figures with other industries, and also compare to Canadian statistics.
“Advertising & the End of the World features an illustrated presentation by Sut Jhally of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the producer and writer of the award-winning Dreamworlds series.
Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, he asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this market-based view of the world: Do our present arrangements deliver what they claim -- happiness and satisfaction? Can we think about our collective as well as our private interests? And, can we think long-term as well as short-term?
Drawing from the broad arena of commercial imagery, and utilizing sophisticated graphics, Advertising & the End of the World addresses the issues these questions raise, encouraging viewers to reflect on their own participation in the culture of consumption.
Making the connection between society's high-consumption lifestyle and the coming environmental crisis, Jhally forces us to evaluate the physical and material costs of the consumer society and how long we can maintain our present level of production.
Sections: Advertising as Culture | How Do We Become Happy? | What Is Society? | How Far into the Future Can We Think? | Imagining a Different Future”
To join or share this event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/353082578198424/
To learn more about One Struggle: http://onestruggle.net/points-of-unity/
For more information contact Rachael Charbonneau at rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca or 705-670-1982.
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Thursday, November 27: Meeting of Council of Canadians - Sudbury Chapter
Time: 6:30pm
Location: TBA
This will be a regular meeting of the Sudbury chapter of the Council of Canadians.
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Wednesday, December 3: Challenge the City!
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: small back room, Laughing Buddha (194 Elgin Street, Sudbury)
In this event, we look towards the new term of city council with a recognition that it is only through ongoing organizing in the community that Sudbury might become a more just and sustainable place.
This town hall discussion will bring together representatives of the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury, the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty, and organized labour -- groups that focus on different issues and take different approaches, but that share a commitment to pushing the City of Greater Sudbury to change. The event will be an opportunity to have a public conversation about our different ways of working for change. Each panellist will share their group's experiences around strategies, tactics, failures, and successes, leading into a broader discussion among all who attend.
We hope the event will provide an opportunity to share ideas and inspiration, 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/).
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/768888859845586/
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Monday, December 8: Green Winter Solstice Fundraiser for reThink Green
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Location: Fromagerie Elgin (80 Elgin Street, Sudbury)
Come to reThink Green's annual Silent Auction! This year we are hosting it at La Fromagerie Elgin on Monday, December 8th from 6-8pm.
Tickets are $25 in advance (available from reThink Green or Eat Local Sudbury) $30 at the door.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1523703614513174/
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Friday, December 12: Sudbury Worker Education & Advocacy Centre Open House
Time: 11am to 2pm
Location: 109 Elm Street, Sudbury
You are invited to the Sudbury Workers Education and Advocacy Centre’s Open House! Come learn about this new organization, meet the staff, Board of Directors and volunteers, and celebrate our official launch into the community.
There will be snacks and beverages provided. We will welcome our Executive Director and we will announce our funding sources.
Find out how we can help workers, and find out how you can get involved.
Please share this event far and wide!
Thanks, and we hope to see you there!
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/802649856443409/
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.