EVENTS & MEETINGS:
1) Monday, December 1: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
2) Tuesday, December 2: Fierte Sudbury Pride Winter Warmer
3) Wednesday, December 3: Challenge the City!
4) Monday, December 8: Green Winter Solstice Fundraiser for reThink Green
5) Thursday, December 11: Beyond COP20: The Future of international Climate Negotiations, and What They Mean for Sudbury
6) Friday, December 12: Sudbury Worker Education & Advocacy Centre Open House
7) Wednesday, December 17: Meeting of the Sudbury Working-group of The Media Co-op
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "After Ferguson: Defend the Dead" by Rinaldo Walcott
2) "Sudbury Finally Sets Date to Open Out-of-the-Cold Shelter" by S-CAP
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Monday, December 1: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
Time: 6:30pm
Location: The Food Court of the Downtown Mall near the Pita Hut. .
The venue is wheelchair accessible. Children are welcome to attend, or childcare support is available upon request.
Matters to be discussed include: the Out of the Cold homeless shelter; access to Handi-Transit; the community organizing course; CHPI funding; possible forum on community policing; the raise the rates campaign; affordable housing; Palestine solidarity; 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, 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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Thursday, December 11: Beyond COP20: The Future of international Climate Negotiations, and What They Mean for Sudbury
Time: 7pm
Location: reThink Green (Suite 305, 176 Larch Street, Sudbury)
As COP20 in Lima, Peru, begins to wind down, anticipation is building towards a new international climate change agreement to be entered into in Paris in 2015. What might a new Kyoto Protocol look like? Will it involve carbon pricing? How will this effect Greater Sudbury and Northern Ontario? Join Dr. David Robinson for a presentation and discussion.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/998803056826783/
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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/
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Wednesday, December 17: 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)
At this meeting, we'll be debriefing from our big event happening on December 3, discussing plans for the new year (including a proposed training in collaboration with the Sudbury and District Labour Council), and continuing our ongoing work to find a wide-range of interesting and original local content to publish on our site.
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 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
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
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"After Ferguson: Defend the Dead"
by Rinaldo Walcott
(From Rabble.ca: http://rabble.ca/news/2014/11/after-ferguson-defend-dead)
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"Sudbury Finally Sets Date to Open Out-of-the-Cold Shelter"
by the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
(From The Media Co-op: http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/blog/grassrootssudburymedia/32327)
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.