EVENTS & MEETINGS:

1) Sunday, January 27: Eat Local Sudbury Indoor Yard Sale
2) Monday, January 28: 25 Years Since the Morgentaler Decision: A
Celebration of Struggle -- PLEASE NOTE THE ROOM CHANGE!
3) Monday, January 28: Idle No More Sudbury - #J28
4) Friday, February 1: Eat Local Sudbury Musical Fundraiser
5) Tuesday, February 5: Free Meal and Follow-up Meeting on the Struggle
to Save the Community Start-up Benefit
6) Saturday, February 9: Direct Action Support Work Training Workshop
7) Thursday, February 14: Meeting of Grassroots: Sudbury's Media
Collective

NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:

1) "Stories from the front lines of the abortion victory in Canada" by Judy Rebick

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Sunday, January 27: Eat Local Sudbury Indoor Yard Sale

Time: 10am to 4pm
Location: Eat Local Sudbury, 176 Larch Street

Get out of the cold and come to our indoor fundraising sale this Sunday! Help reduce waste, get a deal on some cool items, enjoy socializing with our friendly staff and volunteers all while supporting your local food cooperative! Please note donated items can be dropped off at Eat Local Sudbury on Saturday January 26th from 10am-4pm.

Items for sale will include:

-gardening supplies and tools
-decor
-musical instruments
-local arts and crafts
-local photography
-awesome books and magazines
-cool kitchen
-lots of other exciting items

We hope to see you there!

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Monday, January 28: 25 Years Since the Morgentaler Decision: A
Celebration of Struggle -- PLEASE NOTE THE NEW LOCATION!

Time: 2:30pm to 4pm
Location: Room T260, second floor of Thorneloe University, Ramsey Lake Road at the Laurentian University campus. (Building is accessible from back parking lot.)

A celebration of the struggle that repealed Canada’s abortion law, and the struggle for reproductive justice today

Discussion to follow a showing of “Abortion: Stories of Choice" (english) that focuses on different women's experiences with abortion in Canada

Discussion à suivre après la présentation de "Abortion: Stories of Choice" (en anglais) avec un focus sur les expériences divers de l'avortement au Canada

Cost: FREE

Sponsored by the Department of Women's Studies (www.thorneloe.ca/womn) the Women's Studies Association (https://www.facebook.com/WomenStudiesAssociation), the Women's Centre (https://www.facebook.com/womyn.centre) and the Mineure en etudes des femmes (Department of Sociology)

More information on the struggle for abortion rights in Canada http://www.morgentaler25years.ca/ and the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada http://www.arcc-cdac.ca/

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Monday, January 28: Idle No More Sudbury - #J28

Time: 4pm to 6pm
Location: starting from Tom Davies Square, 200 Brady Street

    
This is a march in support of the Idle No More Global Day of Action and in support of Chief Spence. Anyone who is generally concerned about increasing government & banking corruption, erosion of rights, and environmental destruction is encouraged to come out!

Idle No More began in part as opposition to omnibus Bill C-45 which has not been repealed. Until the government stops this Bill which eliminates the protection of 95% of Canadian waterways - Idle No More will continue. Most Sudburians and Northerners, Native and non-Native, appreciate the natural world around us, in someway or another. We must stand up against the all out assault on nature by industry and government while we still can. Re-peal Bill C-45 and all other legislation that is harmful to the greater public. For example, Bill 115 which is clearly an attack on Unions, just ask any teacher you know.

We will gather in the lobby of Tom Davies Square for 4pm. We will begin with the Jingle Dress Danace which symbolizes healing. Healing of the nation to nation relationship, healing to environment, and healing of people. We will then march on Minto to Van Horne @ Paris, to Paris @ Elm, and finish Elm @ Pine which is N'Swakamok.

We will have a short presentation on Idle No More and a meal/coffee/tea.

Following the event will be the usual Monday night Social with drumming and great company.

Start spreading the word. Let's heal the Earth and her people. :)

This event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/200903890053643/

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Friday, February 1: Eat Local Sudbury Musical Fundraiser

Time: 9pm to 2am
Location: The Townhouse Tavern, 206 Elgin Street
Cost: $10 at the door

Friday, February 1st - The Havocs, Little Sir Echo, Bad Policy, Jessy Brunette- Fundraiser and Awareness raiser for Eat Local grocery and store - $10.00 at the door.

Tonight we raise money for Eat Local Sudbury. ABOUT EAT LOCAL SUDBURY Eat Local Sudbury Co-operative is a grocery store and distributor that connects eaters with producers. Our store primarily sells produce from farms within a 150 miles radius of Sudbury, secondly from the rest of Ontario. The Co-op serves as a hub for consumers and producers.

Increasing your diet to include delicious locally produced food is a great way to reduce the human impact on the environment by reducing food miles. A local diet is often healthier by decreasing the amount of processed food and substituting those products with fresh fruits and vegetables that are picked when ripe. Economically you will be supporting local producers that live in our own community rather than large multinational corporations that often use socially and environmentally unfriendly practices.

Who is Eat Local Sudbury Co-op? Consumers or eaters, as we call them, and producers who have become members of the co-operative. We are a co-operative that is run by members for the benefit of members and the greater community. Eat Local Sudbury is a not-for-profit co-operative. All profits are re-invested in the grocery store and programming to meet the need of the community and to support our local food system.

This event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/495596783825662/

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Tuesday, February 5: Free Meal and Follow-up Meeting on the Struggle
to Save the Community Start-up Benefit

Time: free meal at 6pm, report-back meeting at 7pm
Location: 2nd floor gym, St. Andrew's Place, 111 Larch Street

Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty is hosting a community meal and report-back meeting on the struggle against the cut to the Community Start Up. Come and discuss how we are going to continue to make sure that people's start up and maintenance needs get met.

Wheelchair accessible. Childcare & transportation subsidization available on request.

For more information, including childcare and travel subsidization contact:
249-878-7227
sudburyCAP@gmail.com
www.sudburyCAP.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/257339454351403/

Organized by the Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty (S-CAP)

Sponsored by:
• The Poverty, Homelessness and Migration Research Project at Laurentian Univesity
• The Sudbury and District Labour Council (SDLC)
• Sudbury CUPE Council
• Centre de santé communautaire du Grand Sudbury

This event on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/544665845552741/

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Saturday, February 9: Direct Action Support Work Training Workshop

Time: 11am to 3:45pm
Location: Sudbury Public Library, downtown branch, 74 Mackenzie Street

The date for Sudbury Coalition Against Poverty's Direct Action Support Work Training Workshop has been set! Saturday Feb. 9th 11am- 3:45pm at the Mackenzie Street downtown library. Find out about what Direct Action Organizing is all about!

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Thursday, February 14: 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, on Thursday, February 14,  10 - 11am in the ERC (176 Larch, back entrance). We'll be discussing our community roundtable-slash-membership campaign launch event as well as other aspects of our new membership campaign and of course, brainstorming story ideas.

Also, mark future meetings on your calendar, 10-11 am on the 2nd Thursday of each month: 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

NEWS, ANALYSIS, & CALLS TO ACTION:

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Stories from the front lines of the abortion victory in Canada
by Judy Rebick
(Originally published at Rabble.ca: http://www.rabble.ca/news/2013/01/stories-front-lines-abortion-victory-c...)