Sudbury Social Justice News - December 2, 2012

Dec 2, 2012

Sudbury Social Justice News - December 2, 2012

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EVENTS & MEETINGS:

1) Wednesday, December 5: Workshopping a New Workshop on Writing and Grassroots Journalism
2) Wednesday, December 5: Highway to the North: Cree Narratives of Homelessness (a film event)
3) Tuesday, December 11: Meeting of Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty
4) Thursday, December 13: Meeting of Grassroots: Sudbury's Media
Collective
5) Thursday, December 13: Sudbury Bus to Sault Ste-Marie Anti-Poverty Protest
6) Monday, December 17: Sudbury Event for International Day to End
Violence Against Sex Workers

NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:

None this time!

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Wednesday, December 5: Workshopping a New Workshop on Writing and Grassroots Journalism

Time: 7pm to 9pm
Location: Sudbury Public Library, main branch (74 Mackenzie Street)

Grassroots: Sudbury's Media Collective
(http://www.mediacoop.ca/group/sudbury) will be workshopping their new
writing workshop and are looking for a small group of participants who
want to develop their writing skills, learn about doing grassroots
journalism, and offer feedback on the workshop.

If you wish to participate, please register in advance with Scott Neigh
at scottneigh@sympatico.ca.

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Wednesday, December 5: Highway to the North: Cree Narratives of Homelessness (a film)

Time: 6pm
Location: Rainbow Cinemas (40 Elm Street, Sudbury)

Join us to watch a FREE screening of our award winning short documentary 'Will to Live' followed by several digital short stories that explore the challenges of poverty and homelessness of Cree individuals from Northern Ontario. Our event will open with a First Nation Drum and prayer and will conclude with a brief question and answer period with the filmmaker and storytellers. Refreshments and snacks provided. This event will be held at the Rainbow Cinemas, 40 Elm Street, Sudbury.

The Poverty Homelessness and Migration project team, George Stephen, and Cree individuals featured in the films will be available to answer questions.

The website of Poverty, Homelessness and Migration will be launched at this event: lul.ca/homeless.

For more information, please contact Suzanne Lemieux, Poverty, Homelessness and Migration, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, homeless@laurentian.ca, 705.675.1151, ext. 5155.

This event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/439036942810285/

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Tuesday, December 11: 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 )

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. The venue is wheelchair accessible. 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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Thursday, December 13: Meeting of Grassroots: Sudbury's Media
Collective

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,
December 13,  10 - 11am in the ERC (176 Larch, back entrance).  We'll be
debriefing from our "workshopping the workshop" event, discussing the
membership campaign we will be launching in the new year, and of course,
brainstorming story ideas.

Also, mark future meetings on your calendar, 10-11 am on the 2nd
Thursday of each month: 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, December 13: Sudbury Bus to Sault Ste-Marie Anti-Poverty Protest

Time: all day
Location: From Sudbury to Sault Ste-Marie!

The Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty is taking as many people from Sudbury as we can on a bus to Sault Ste-Marie for a joint protest with the North Shore Tribal Council against the provincial government's cuts to the Community Start-up and Maintenance Benefit, an important component of social assistance that can prevent homelessness and allow women to leave abusive relationships. The regional office for the Ministry of Community and Social Services that includes Sudbury is in the Sault and we will be taking our message of opposition to the cut to a protest outside this office. This office includes the Regional Director, and Program Supervisors who are located in the Roberta Bondar Building, on Bay Street. More details will be available soon. If you are able to go to the Sault that day please contact S-CAP at sudburyCAP@gmail.com or at 249-878-7227.

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Monday, December 17: Sudbury Event for International Day to End
Violence Against Sex Workers

Time: 4pm opening, march begins at 4:30pm
Location: Starting from Sudbury Women's Centre (324 Elm Street)

Please join us as we stand together as a community in solidarity to end
violence against sex workers locally and worldwide. A free meal and
refreshments will be served. A march will leave from the Sudbury Women's
Centre at 4:30 pm and proceed to Tom Davies Square. Be sure to dress
warmly!

For more information, please contact Tracy Gregory at (705) 688-0500
ext. 222.