Sudbury Social Justice News - November 23, 2014

EVENTS & MEETINGS:

1) Tuesday, November 25: One Struggle Anti-Capitalist Movie Night: Advertising & the End of the World
2) Thursday, November 27: Meeting of Council of Canadians - Sudbury Chapter
3) Friday, November 28: A Screening of "Darwin's Nightmare"
4) Monday, December 1: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
5) Tuesday, December 2: Fierte Sudbury Pride Winter Warmer
6) Wednesday, December 3: Challenge the City!
7) Monday, December 8: Green Winter Solstice Fundraiser for reThink Green
8) Friday, December 12: Sudbury Worker Education & Advocacy Centre Open House

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

1) "Homeless man alleges Sudbury police took him on a 'starlight tour'" from CBC News
2) Justice For Deepan Asks You to Give the Gift of Health

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Tuesday, November 25: One Struggle Anti-Capitalist Movie Night: Advertising & the End of the World

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 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.

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Friday, November 28: A Screening of "Darwin's Nightmare"

Time: 7pm
Location: room 110, University of Sudbury building, Laurentian University

Join Sudbury's Canada World Youth/Jeunesse Canada Monde Women's Exchange Group & Laurentian University's CWY/JCM Student Network in a screening of 'Darwin's Nightmare' a 2004 film about the intersection between governance, security and the fishing industry in Tanzania.

Contact: Shaheen Lotun (416) 822-2892 & Eliza Mushi (705) 988-2362, Canada World Youth/UVIKIUTA Tanzania

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Monday, December 1: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty

Time: 6:30pm
Location: TBA

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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Tuesday, December 2: Fierte Sudbury Pride Winter Warmer

Time: 7pm
Location: Fromagerie Elgin (80 Elgin Street, Sudbury)

Join us on Tuesday December 2nd 2014 from 7-10pm at the Fromagerie for an evening of great music, good company, delicious cheese and a chance to bid on some wonderful items @ our first FSP Silent Auction

This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1414846722097359/

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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/). The venue will be wheelchair accessible. There is no charge for admission and light snacks will be provided.

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/

NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:

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"Homeless man alleges Sudbury police took him on a 'starlight tour'"
from CBC News
(Originally published: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/homeless-man-alleges-sudbury-polic...)

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Justice For Deepan Asks You to Give the Gift of Health
(From http://www.gofundme.com/healthfordeepan)

Lustice For Deepan

Born in Ottawa but currently Stateless

www.justicefordeepan.org

Deepan Budlakoti is born and rasied in Canada and has an Ontario Birth certifcate, Held multiple Canadian passports. The Canadian government took away Deepan's citizenship even though Deepan has no other citizenship any where else and has rendered Deepan Stateless.

Like hundreds of thousands of other people living in Canada, Deepan is being denied healthcare because of immigration status. As you know, Canada is refusing to recognize Deepan's citizenship, and attempting to cast him out of his home society. Because Canada ties healthcare to immigration status, he finds himself among the ranks of those who are either denied healthcare entirely, or must battle with a bewilderingly complex bureaucracy to obtain even the most basic coverage. Even though the Federal Court ruled in July that the government's 2012 retrenchment from refugee healthcare was "cruel and unusual", and the government was forced to backtrack earlier this month, immigration status is still used to deny healthcare to Deepan and more than half a million other people excluded from status in Canada.

Deepan is, of course, fighting this arbitrary withdrawal of a social right that he has exercised for more than 23 years in this, his home country. However, it is a long and uphill battle and in the meantime, Deepan has no coverage and no safety net.

Where the state refuses to abide by the Rule of Law and encourages a blatantly discriminatory policy, we the community are compelled to act. Particularly so, because Canada is also refusing to grant Deepan a work permit, making it illegal for him to work in Canada, and thus impossible for him to contribute to these costs himself.

This is why we have launched the campaign to Give the Gift of Health to Deepan this holiday season. We're asking you to give the gift of health by contributing to the purchase of health insurance for Deepan for one year. Insurance for someone in Deepan's strange and precarious position costs approx. $2200 per year. But that doesn't cover things like blood work, prescriptions, and other services not related to emergency situations. So we are asking for a bit more, just in case Deepan needs to go and see a doctor within the next year. In total, we are hoping to raise $3000 (which amounts to approximately $8.22 per day).

Deepan’s campaign provides an opportunity for us to speak out against the cruel practice that now prevails in our country to deny those in need medical services based on immigration status. We encourage you to give the gift of health to Deepan this holiday season and to join us in trying to protect those that have been deprived health care by our government. For every contribution of $25 or more, Deepan will send you (or a person of your choosing) a personal thank you and holiday greeting card. Making a donation in someone else's name makes a great and meaningful gift for those you love. For this option, please input the name and information of the person you are donating for on the first page of the form. The second page will allow you to input your own name and billing information. Cards will be sent as soon as possible after your donation is made.

This holiday season, please give the gift of health to Deepan.

Find out more about Deepan's case: http://www.justicefordeepan.org/

Donate here: http://www.gofundme.com/healthfordeepan