EVENTS & ACTIONS:
1) Monday, April 13: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
2) Wednesday, April 15: Fight for $15 and Fairness
3) Thursday, April 16: Sudbury Working-group of the Media Co-op Meeting
4) Thursday, April 16: Revolutionary Student Movement End-of-semester Meeting & Potluck
5) Saturday, April 18: Rally to Stop Bill C-51
6) Wednesday, April 22: A Taste for Life!
7) Saturday, April 25: Earth Day Sudbury 2015
8) May 4 to May 26: Eight Workplace Rights Workshops in Sudbury's Libraries
9) Thursday, May 28: Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury AGM
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
1) "Fighting Bill C-51 Requires Rejecting National Security" by Gary Kinsman
2) "RCMP Report on Murdered and Missing Aboriginal Women is Statistcally Skewed" by Pam Palmater
3) "You Don't Need to be Leading Marches for Your Activism to Matter -- Here Are 5 Reasons Why" by Michal Jones
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Monday, April 13: 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.
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, April 15: Fight for $15 and Fairness
Time: 5:30pm
Location: The Laughing Buddha (194 Elgin Street, Sudbury)
Join us for a discussion on:
- The effects of casual labour and unstable work
- Changes we want to see in the Employment Standards Act for fair work practices
- How is this contributing to poverty? Where are the gaps in the law?
- Learn more about the Sudbury Workers Education and Action Centre, the Campaign, and how you can make a difference
Students! Part-time workers! Contract workers! Non-unionized workers! Foreign workers! Temp agency workers! -- This event is for you!!!
Please RSVP to sudburyworkerscentre@gmail.com or call 705-470-3323.
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Thursday, April 16: Sudbury Working-group of the Media Co-op Meeting
Time: 10am to noon
Location: Main branch of the Greater Sudbury Public Library (74 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury)
At this meeting, we'll be planning for some tabling and leafleting at upcoming community events; talking about potential hosts for a new 'writing from experience' workshop we've been working on; decide about new approaches to boosting readership and writership, including paid social media promotion and callouts soliciting (paid) feature articles in specific areas.
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
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Thursday, April 16: Revolutionary Student Movement End-of-semester Meeting & Potluck
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Location: Clubs Room, SCE-210, RD Parker Building, Laurentian University
This is the last general RSM meeting of the school year! Come out to meet your friendly campus anti-capitalists and learn about the RSM while sharing some delicious food. This event is a potluck so bring some food if you can, but everyone is encouraged to attend regardless.
We'll be talking about what the Revolutionary Student Movement is all about, reviewing our activities from this past school year, and discussing our plans for the summer months and the school year ahead.
All students and youth are welcome, so invite your friends and comrades! This location is wheelchair-accessible.
Join us on Thursday April 16th at 6pm in the Clubs Room at Laurentian University, room SCE-210, R.D. Parker building.
If you are interested but cannot join the meeting, send us a message on Facebook or email RSMSudbury@gmail.com
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1381427505517129/
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Saturday, April 18: Rally to Stop Bill C-51
Time: 1pm to 4pm
Location: In front of Rainbow Centre Mall (40 Elm Street, Sudbury)
Join with Canadians (and residents of Canada) across the nation in solidarity against Bill C-51 at a family friendly, peaceful democratic demonstration against the government's proposed "Anti-Terrorism" Legislation - A legislation that threatens the rights and freedoms of all in Canada. This will be an opportunity for another HUGE PUSH to demonstrate opposition against the bill before Parliament begins its third (and final) vote on the legislation.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/794262290651132/
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Wednesday, April 22: A Taste for Life!
Time: Variable
Location: Participating restaurants
Cost: See link below
On Wednesday April 22nd, participating restaurants will donate 25% of the cost of your meal to support HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C education, prevention and outreach programs in Sudbury. Book your reservation now! See www.atasteforlife.org for more details.
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/388700467968567/
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Saturday, April 25: Earth Day Sudbury 2015
Time: 10am to 3pm
Location: Sudbury Secondary School (85 Mackenzie Street, Sudbury)
Discover the innovative, green initiatives developed in Greater Sudbury over the last 10 years , explore many ways to enhance your green lifestyle now, and add your hopes and dreams for the next 10 years. Enjoy local bands and local and cultural foods. There will be a vibrant children’s area, and many ways to participate as a family. Stay tuned for more details!
This event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1538731369737293/
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May 4 to May 26: Eight Workplace Rights Workshops in Sudbury's Libraries
In the month of May, the Sudbury Workers Education & Advocacy Centre will be hosting a series of workshops across multiple libraries in town.
Do you work part-time? In a contract? For a temp agency? Non-unionized workplace? Starting a new job? Questions about a workplace issue? This is for YOU!
Please join us at any of the following workshops to learn about your workplace rights:
May 4 @ 6:30pm Chelmsford Library (French)
May 6 @ 6:30pm Valley East Library (French)
May 12 @ 1pm New Sudbury Library
May 13 @ 6:30pm Downtown, Main Library
May 20 @ 6:30pm Lively Library
May 21 @ 6:30pm Garson Library
May 25 @ 6:30pm Dowling Library
May 26 @ 1pm Coniston Library
Questions? Call us at 705-470-3323 or like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SudburyWorkersCentre
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Thursday, May 28: Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury AGM
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: LAL classroom, St. Andrews Place (111 Larch Street, Sudbury)
Doors open at 6pm. Agenda to be announced.
NEWS, ANALYSIS & CALLS TO ACTION:
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"Fighting Bill C-51 Requires Rejecting National Security"
by Gary Kinsman
(From RadicalNoise.ca: http://radicalnoise.ca/2015/04/01/fighting-bill-c-51-requires-rejecting-...)
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"RCMP Report on Murdered and Missing Aboriginal Women is Statistcally Skewed"
by Pam Palmater
(From IndigenousNationhood.blogspot.ca: http://indigenousnationhood.blogspot.ca/2015/04/rcmp-report-on-murdered-...)
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"You Don't Need to be Leading Marches for Your Activism to Matter -- Here Are 5 Reasons Why"
by Michal Jones
(From EverydayFeminism.com: http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/03/marching-isnt-the-only-way/)
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.