Sudbury Social Justice News - October 9, 2012

Oct 9, 2012

Sudbury Social Justice News - October 9, 2012

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EVENTS & MEETINGS:

1) Tuesday, October 9: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
2) Wednesday, October 10: NISA at the STC: A Play in Honour of Mental
Illness Awareness Week
3) Wednesday, October 10: Sudbury Anti-Poverty Town Hall Meeting
4) Wednesday, October 10: "Casseroles" Student Protest
5) Thursday, October 11: Meeting of Grassroots Sudbury Media
6) Thursday, October 11: What is the Community Start-Up Benefit?
7) Tuesday, October 16: Friends of Sudbury Transit Meeting
8) Wednesday, October 17: Myths and Mirrors Community Arts Annual General Meeting
9) Monday, October 22: Meet-the-Author Dinner for *Paved with Good Intentions: Canada's Development NGOs From Idealism to Imperialism*
10) Tuesday, October 23: Meeting of Justice and Freedom for John Moore
11) Saturday, October 27: Eat Local Sudbury Chef Showdown Fundraiser
12) Sunday, October 28: Books for Food!
13) Tuesday, November 6: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists -- Two Book Launches and Talks

NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:

None this time!

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Tuesday, October 9: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty

Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Sudbury and District Labour Council Office, the second floor
of 109 Elm Street (across the street from the Native Friendship Centre)

Matters to be discussed include the anti-panhandler campaign and our victory against the poster campaign, the workshop/clinic on Thursday the 11th on applying for community start-up, and our direct action support work. At 7:30 it becomes a joint meeting with the organizing group for the Town Hall meeting which is the next night. This is an important meeting so please try to come out. Everyone welcome. Children are welcome to attend, or childcare support is available upon request at sudburycap@gmail.com.

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 affect working people and people living in poverty. We believe in the power of people to organize themselves.

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

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Wednesday, October 10: NISA at the STC: A Play in Honour of Mental
Illness Awareness Week
Time: 7:30pm
Location: 170 Shaughnessy Street, Sudbury

In honour of Mental Illness Awareness Week, Northern Initiative for Social Action is pleased to present “Henry and Alice: Into the Wild”, the sequel to the very successful comedy, “Sexy Laundry”.

Join us for a night of comedy on Wednesday, October 10th at 7:30pm at the Sudbury Theatre Centre.

Featuring art from NISA’s Artists' Loft (show runs from September 7th to October 17th), with a short intermission and locally catered desserts.

Tickets are $40 and can be purchased by going to nisa.on.ca.

Thank you for supporting NISA and mental health awareness. For more information, please call 705-222-5375 and ask for Alex.

This event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/434992269884647/

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Wednesday, October 10: Sudbury Anti-Poverty Town Hall Meeting

Time: Free meal & refreshments at 6pm, the Town Hall at 6:30pm
Location: Jubilee Centre, 195 Applegrove Street, Sudbury (Off Lorne, behind the Court House). Wheelchair accessible.  

Join the discussion at the Sudbury Anti-Poverty Town Hall Meeting

Contact: Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (S-CAP)
sudburyCAP@gmail.com // 249-878-7227
Also contact us for information on childcare and transportation subsidization.

Speakers include:
• John Clarke of the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
• Carrie Lynn Poole from CUPE-Ontario
• Elizabeth Richer from Mamaweswen, The North Shore Tribal Council

Since the Mike Harris cuts of the 1990’s people on Ontario Works and ODSP have seen the spending power on their cheques fall by close to 60%. This year’s Provincial Budget continued the rapid decline with rates that don’t even keep up with inflation. Following the previous gutting of the vital Special Diet benefit, this year’s Budget also brought a series of cutbacks for people on social assistance including the elimination of a benefit known as ‘Community Start-Up’. This vital benefit is planned to be cut in January 2013.

The Liberal government froze the minimum wage in 2011. Workers trying to survive on a minimum wage are already making poverty wages and are seeing their incomes fall even further as a result of inflation and this freeze. Currently close to 1 in 6 workers in Ontario are working at or close to the minimum wage rate.

We are fighting this cut and demanding raises in social assistance and minimum wage rates to where people can live with health and dignity. Join us to talk about ways we can fight back together.

Sponsors: The Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty, The Sudbury and District Labour Council, The Sudbury CUPE Council, Mamaweswen, The North Shore Tribal Council, The Research Centre in Social Justice and Policy and Poverty, Homelessness and Migration Research Project at Laurentian University, The Sudbury Worker’s Education and Advocacy Centre, Laurentian University’s Association des étudiantes et étudiants francophones (AEF) and Graduate Student’s Association (GSA), Sudbury Action Centre for Youth (SACY), Laurentian University’s Labour Studies Program, PSAC Sudbury and District Area Council

These Town Hall Meetings are organized across the province by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and CUPE-Ontario.

This event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/199946496804811/

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Wednesday, October 10: "Casseroles" Student Protest

Time: 8pm
Location: Sudbury Arena, 240 Elgin Street

Inspired by the student movement in Quebec, students and supporters in Sudbury are doing a weekly "casseroles" protest in the downtown in support of financially accessible education, and also for accountability and democracy and equality in society more broadly.

Bring your voice, your friends, and some pots and pans to make some noise!

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Thursday, October 11: Meeting of Grassroots Sudbury Media

Time: 10am to 11am
Location: Environmental Resource Centre (176 Larch Street, back entrance)

Everyone is welcome to join us for our next meeting, next Thursday, Oct. 11,  10 - 11 a.m. in the ERC (176 Larch, back entrance).  We'll be discussing some writing workshops, membership, and of course, story ideas.

Also, mark future meetings on your calendar, 10-11 am on the 2nd Thursday of each month: Oct. 11, Nov. 8, Dec. 13, Jan. 10, Feb. 14, March 14, Apr. 11, May 9, June 13 in the ERC.

Grassroots Sudbury Media is a working group of the The Media Co-op. We are creating 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.

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

Contact the Sudbury Working Group to learn more about writing for us or to let us know about community issues and events at: grassrootssudburymedia@gmail.com

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

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Thursday, October 11: What is the Community Start-Up Benefit?

Time: 10am
Location: Downtown Library, 74 Mackenzie Street, larger meeting room downstairs

What is the Community Start-Up Benefit and why are they trying to take it away from us? How to best apply for the Community Start-Up?

Join John Clarke from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) in a workshop for people on OW and ODSP and for those who assist them in applying for what they need. The workshop will be followed by a clinic for people applying for the Community Start Up Benefit where John Clarke and members of S-CAP will asssit people in applying for this benefit and supporting them in getting it from OW or ODSP.

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Tuesday, October 16: Friends of Sudbury Transit Meeting

Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: Environmental Resource Centre, reThink Green, 176 Larch Street
(back entrance)

This will be a regular meeting of the Friends of Sudbury Transit.

This event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/476807685685021/

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Wednesday, October 17: Myths and Mirrors Community Arts Annual General
Meeting

Time: 5:45 -- potluck, 6:15 -- project unveiling, 6:30pm -- meeting
Location: painted building, Victory Park, 496 Frood Road

We are pleased to announce and invite you to our Thirteenth Annual Membership Meeting on Wednesday, October 17th at Victory Park (496 Frood Road, mural painted building).  We start with a potluck at 5:45, the unveiling of our Pillars of the Earth project at 6:15 and the meeting starts at 6:30 pm.

Join us and invite your family, friends and neighbours!  Please R.S.V.P. by Monday, October 15th to help us accommodate everyone.

The Invitation, Agenda, Minutes from previous meeting, current and proposed By-laws, Appendices A & B and the membership form are linked and available for download from this page:
http://mythsandmirrors.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/invitation-to-myths-and-...

For further information contact Glenda Forward at g4word@hotmail.com or
Monique Beaudoin at mythsinfo@vianet.ca.

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Monday, October 22: Meet-the-Author Dinner for *Paved with Good Intentions: Canada's Development NGOs From Idealism to Imperialism*

Come to the Laughing Buddha at 7pm to have an informal dinner with Dru Oja Jay, co-author with Nikolas Barry-Shaw of *Paved With Good Intentions: Canada's Development NGOs From Idealism to Imperialism*. To learn more about the book, visit http://www.pavedwithgoodintentions.ca/.

There will be opportunity for informal conversation about the book and related issues, and a chance to purchase a signed copy.

If you wish to attend, please send an email in advance to Scott Neigh at scottneigh@sympatico.ca.

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Tuesday, October 23: Meeting of Justice and Freedom for John Moore

Time: 6:30pm
Location: Fromagerie Elgin, 5 Cedar Street (entry from Elgin), Sudbury

We will be discussing the ongoing work to cultivate opportunities for John to speak about his case outside of Sudbury, John's current letter campaign, and fundraising possibilities.

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Saturday, October 27: Eat Local Sudbury Chef Showdown Fundraiser

Time: 5:30pm to midnight
Location: Italian Club, 7 Craig Street, Copper Cliff

Are you excited about local food, the environment and agriculture? Want to be more active in supporting Northern Ontario’s food industry?

Eat Local Sudbury is hosting its first ever fundraising gala that will take place on Saturday, October 27, 2012. This unique event will showcase food from our region that will be prepared by three of Sudbury’s finest chefs during a “Chef Showdown”.

Chef Jean Huneault from Coopérative Boréal, Chef Alejandro Winzer of Ristorante Verdicchio and Chef Stephanie Piché from Legacy Catering will be put to the ultimate test while they prepare exclusively local food that will be judged by a panel of celebrity judges from the Sudbury community.

We invite you to attend this delicious fundraising event and enjoy a taste of local food and entertainment. Your support has a direct impact on ensuring this local initiative will continue to thrive and achieve its vision of creating a sustainable food system right here in Sudbury.

About the Event

The first ever Chef Showdown will take place Saturday, October 27, 2012 at the Italian Club at 7 Craig Street in Copper Cliff. The event will begin with a cocktail hour at 5:30 pm, followed by a live cooking demonstration at 6:30 pm, then a delicious dinner, silent auction and lastly live entertainment to end the night at 1:00 am. This is the first ever fundraising event put on by the Eat Local Sudbury Co-operative.

Yes, I want to attend this event!

Tickets will go on sale August 1st. Tickets can be purchased at the Eat Local Sudbury Co-operative at 176 Larch Street in person during store hours or on-line at http://store.eatlocalsudbury.com/. Tickets are just $70 for co-op members and $75 for general admission. Tables of 8 can be purchased as well for $600. Your ticket includes a gourmet 3 course meal, wine with dinner and live entertainment. The Eat Local Sudbury Co-operative is open Tuesday - Friday 11 am- 6:00 pm and Saturdays 9 am- 4:00 pm.

This event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/285811704857581/

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Sunday, October 28: Books for Food!

Time: 10am to 2pm
Location: 875 Notre Dame NFIA/Industrial Alliance

Used Book Fair! All the money raised will go to the Sudbury Food Bank.

I'm looking for people to help with this book fair, and I'm looking for book donations. This can only happen if people are willing to donate their used books.

If you have books to donate please contact Aimee Marlok @ 705-929-1989 or amarlok1@hotmail.com

We will also have food donation boxes set up too. So feel free to bring some canned goods!

This event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/501726066506058/

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Tuesday, November 6: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists
-- Two Book Launches and Talks

Time/Place:
    3 pm -- Brenda Wallace Reading Room, J.N. Demarais Library, Laurentian University
    7 pm -- Fromagerie Elgin, 5 Cedar Street (entry off Elgin), downtown Sudbury

Join Sudbury-based author and activist Scott Neigh for one of two events on November 6, as he launches new books published by Fernwood Publishing: *Gender and Sexuality: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists* and *Resisting the State: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists*. Hear about some of the many struggles that have shaped the Canada of today, and talk about new ways of relating to the past as we struggle for a transformed tomorrow.

At 3pm he will be speaking in the Brenda Wallace Reading Room of the Demarais Library at Laurentian University. His talk will be "Active Remembering and History From Below."

At 7pm he will be talking about "Our Movements and Our Histories" at the Fromagerie Elgin (5 Cedar Street, entry off Elgin) in downtown Sudbury.

Sociology professor Gary Kinsman of Laurentian University, who wrote the Foreword for the books, will also be speaking at both events.

To learn more about the books and the project of which they are a part, and to read and hear excerpts from the interviews around which the books are organized, visit http://talkingradical.ca/.

Scott Neigh is a writer, parent, and activist based in Sudbury, Ontario. He blogs regularly on political topics at http://scottneigh.blogspot.com/.

The event at the Laurentian University is sponsored by the Centre for Humanities Research and Creativity and the Centre for Research in Social Justice and Policy. Both events are sponsored by Fernwood Publishing.