EVENTS & MEETINGS:

1) Monday, November 5: Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury Working Group Meeting
2) Tuesday, November 6: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists -- Two Book Launches and Talks
3) Friday, November 9: Special S-CAP Direct Action Support Work Event
4) Monday, November 12: Sudbury Nuclear Waste Route Forum
5) Tuesday, November 13: Eat Local Sudbury's All Member Local Food Challenge Dinner
6) Tuesday, November 13: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
7) Tuesday, November 20: Meeting of Justice and Freedom for John Moore
8) Thursday, November 29: reThink Green Silent Auction Fundraiser

NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:

1) Priorities of Green Groups in Sudbury
2) Interested in Direct Action Support Work?

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Monday, November 5: Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury Working Group Meeting

Time: 7pm (Community revitalization) and 8:30pm (Shoreline)
Location: Environmental Resource Centre (176 Larch Street, back entrance)

7 p.m.:  Community revitalization working group – time to brainstorm some great doable sustainable community revitalization projects and select a few to pursue
8:30 p.m.:  Shoreline working group – standing up for our shorelines. If you are interested in taking part in either of these exciting new working groups, please come out!  Come to one or both.

Can’t make it, but want to join a working group?  Contact us at
clsudbury@live.com.

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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.

This event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/117089138443547/

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Friday, November 9: Special S-CAP Direct Action Support Work Event

Time: 1pm
Location: Environmental Resource Centre (176 Larch Street, back entrance)

The Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty wants everyone who is available to come out for a special direct action support work event that we need lots of people for. Gather at 1pm at the Rethink Green Space, Environmental Resource Centre, Behind Eat Local  (176 Larch Street, back entrance). Hope to see you there.

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Monday, November 12: Sudbury Nuclear Waste Route Forum

Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: 4th Floor Resource Room, St. Andrew's Place (111 Larch Street)

Independent Member of Parliament Bruce Hyer (Thunder Bay-Superior North) is launching a series of town hall style meetings in communities along likely transportation corridors for much of Canada's nuclear wastes, mostly accumulated radioactive fuel bundles used to generate electricity.

Do you care if 50,000 tonnes of nuclear waste is shipped through Sudbury for decades? Should Sudbury residents have a say about this? Should nuclear waste be transported through our community and buried in Northern Ontario? What are the risks? What are your questions or concerns?

Mr. Hyer has indicated that organizations will be given 15 minutes to make their presentations, and individuals will also be able to speak. There will be limited display space available for organizations to share information with meeting attendees. Visit www.brucehyer.ca for details

For a media release about Hyer's tour, see here:
http://www.mediacoop.ca/blog/grassrootssudburymedia/13906

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Tuesday, November 13: Eat Local Sudbury's All Member Local Food Challenge Dinner

Time: 6pm
Location: contact RSVP below for inforamtion
Open to: Members of Eat Local Sudbury Co-opreative (anyone can join!)

Lets get together and do what we love: Eat Local Food!! Create a tasty local dish and bring to to be shared. All those who bring a local dish will be entered in a raffle to win a special prize.

You are cordially invited to an All Members Meeting and Potluck!

Come spend some time together as a co-operative family to chat about what’s happening with the co-op, where we are going, and how the co-op can best reflect members’ priorities.

One of the goals of the current Board of Directors is to increase membership engagement at the co-op. The Board wants to try as best it can to reach out to the membership and to foster the co-op’s sense of community. After all, co-ops exist to serve their members! To that end, we would like to invite co-op members to an All Members Meeting and Potluck on Tuesday, November 13th.

Please take a look at the agenda below – there are a number of exciting topics we’d like to discuss as a membership, including some that may be voted on if that is appropriate.

Agenda
6 – 6:45 pm
Potluck and Brainstorming
Do you like how things are at the co-op? Ideas for improvement?
      * Are there ways that you would like to be involved?
       
6:45 – 7:45 pm
Discussion of ELS’s current structure and business plan

7:45 – 8:45 pm
Proposed changes to legal documents (Articles of Incorporation - Would require vote by Members)
Allow us to take on debt (e.g. line of credit)
      * Allow us to specify membership fees in the by-laws[1]
      
8:45 – 9 pm
“Housekeeping” items related to our legal documents (time permitting) According to Ontario’s Co-operative Corporations Act, co-operatives must operate on a one member = one vote basis. The Board is supportive of continuing household memberships, but each household is only entitled to one vote, no matter how many people share the membership. A change to our by-laws is required to reflect this.
       
PLEASE RSVP IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND!
(Just in case we need to book a bigger space …)

Kate Mackenzie (Chair of the Board)
katherine.mackenzie@utoronto.ca
If you can’t attend we would still love to hear from you! Please contact Kate or another Board member or staff person.

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Tuesday, November 13: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty

Time: 6:30pm
Location: To be announced.

Matters to be discussed include planning actions against the cuts to the community start-up fund and our ongoing direct action support work. 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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Tuesday, November 20: 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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Thursday, November 29: reThink Green Silent Auction Fundraiser

Time: To be announced
Location: Fromagerie Elgin (5 Cedar Street, entry off Elgin)

Proceeds will continue to help support and grow the Environmental Resource Centre (ERC) at reThink Green. The evening will include a silent auction, music, wine tasting, raffles, 50/50 draw, food and fun!

NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:

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Priorities of Green Groups in Sudbury

On October 17, local green groups, including reThink Green, met for this year’s fall Green Gathering.  There are many wonderful groups and individuals making a difference for our environment, here in Greater Sudbury.  We all have our own focus and passion.  However together we agree on four top local priorities:

1.  Supporting local food and agriculture

2.  Keeping our natural environment healthy and protecting important green spaces

3.  Protecting water quality and keeping our lakes and waterways clean and healthy

4.  Supporting sustainable transportation:  walking, cycling, and transit

You can help!

Here are three things you can do today to make a difference on these priorities for our local environment:

1.  Support local food and local farmers:  get a membership at Sudbury's local food cooperative Eat Local Sudbury, and sign up for their weekly e-newsletter that will keep you posted on the local products available, and opportunities to learn the skills you need to grow and preserve food yourself

-  Memberships can be bought at the store (176 Larch), or from their on-line store:  http://store.eatlocalsudbury.com/75/Eat-Local-Sudbury/

For more information, contact:  info@eatlocalsudbury.com

2.  Speak up for clean lakes, a healthy natural environment, and safe & convenient active transportation.

The City is currently reviewing its Official Plan, which is the ‘rulebook’ for how the city will grow and change.  They are asking for public input – let them know what’s important to you.

The attached leaflet identifies some key changes that would make a big difference.

You are also encouraged to join others in requesting that the proposed “LU parkway” be removed from the Official Plan.  This proposed highway goes through one of our community’s most highly valued green spaces, cutting through Laurentian University’s hiking and ski trails, impacting Lake Laurentian and other lakes, and cutting this area off from the adjacent conservation area.  Let's support getting around with sustainable mobility - not yet more roads we can't afford.

Comments should  be sent to officialplan@greatersudbury.ca and campusmasterplan@laurentian.ca

3.  Get connected to local green events and information.

Get informed on local green events, issues, and actions with the Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury e-newsletter.  Contact clsudbury@live.com to get on their e-mailing list.

Thank-you!

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Interested in Direct Action Support Work?

We are looking for volunteers. Training will be provided as well as being teamed up with someone with experience.

We realize everyone is busy with school, work, family, volunteer work, etc. So, we are asking that if you would like to volunteer but have a very busy schedule, if you can commit to certain days and/or times during the week, any week in the month. You can email us your availability depending on your work schedule (some being posted only every two weeks) and weekly or monthly agenda. Any time during any given week would be much appreciated. We have one person holding the phone so if someone calls in requiring assistance the phone-holder will coordinate volunteers and assistance as needed.

If you have any questions please contact us by replying, phone or email: 249-878-7227 // sudburyCAP@gmail.com