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Cutting Through Elections Noise, Friday 21 February 2025 at SDCWR
What: SDC Pre-Election Event To Focus On Community Power
When: 7:00pm to 9:00pm on Friday 21 February 2025
Where: Social Development Centre Waterloo Region (enter from Duke Street)
Location: 23 Water Street North, Kitchener, Ontario Map
Online: https://waterlooregion.org/sdc-pre-election-event-to-focus-on-community-power
Register: on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cutting-through-elections-noise-a-forum-for-building-community-power-tickets-1248691492869
Contact: Phone: +1‑519‑579‑3800, E-mail: [email protected]The last-minute announcement of a provincial election has left many of us reeling. And there’s a growing sense that our governments and political processes don’t work for us.
But what if we can turn our collective anxiety into something productive? That is our hope with “Cutting Through the Noise: A Forum for Building Community Power.” Happening Friday 21 February 2025 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm, the event will create a space for us all to catch our breath, acknowledge our worries, and practise building local collective power in the face of systems that fail us.
Only together can we create the futures we want. Grassroots organizers, community groups, and residents from across Waterloo Region are welcome. Please RSVP today and share widely.
Things are not okay, and we can all feel it.
Mass layoffs seem imminent in the face of a looming tariff war. Housing costs are eating up an ever-increasing share of our incomes. Our schools are under-funded. Our hospitals are inundated. And homeless encampments have become entrenched, as more people are pushed into poverty. All of this against a backdrop of dizzying political announcements – new legislation, new funding, new election timelines – and yet, no improvement in the realities we see around us.
But history has shown us that social change is possible.
The rejection of encampment evictions at 100 Victoria St. in Kitchener. The overturning of land swaps at the heart of Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal. The change in a 13-year stance when Canada condemned Israeli settlements in occupied-Palestine. Time and again, we’ve seen deep-seated political forces fall apart in the face of sustained community action.
Let’s turn our collective anxiety into something productive.
Join us on Feb. 21 and together, we can combat the feeling that we’re on our own. We can listen and care for one another, even as our systems fail us. And in the midst of so much noise, we can practise building local, collective power to create the future we want.
Some Resources Your May Find Helpful in The Lead Up to Election Day
With the provincial election announced a mere 28 days before Election Day, we understand many voters don’t feel like they have enough time to get to know their candidates or the platforms of their respective parties. Here are some of the resources we’ve come across that you might find helpful:
- A primer of questions about decent work and cost of living (Justice for Workers)
- Candidate responses to questions compiled locally by One Millions Neighbours Waterloo Region
- Resources for voters who care about Good Food for All (Sustain Ontario)
- Search for your candidate’s campaign page (Elections Ontario)
- Promises made by each of the 4 parties (Global News)
- How to cast your vote on or before Election Day (Elections Ontario)
#DavidAlton #ElectionOntario #Elxn44 #ONpoli #SDCWR #SocialDevelopmentCentreWaterlooRegion #WaterlooRegion
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Civic Hub Exchange Lunch: Dialogue on Transgender Day of Remembrance, Noon on Wednesday 20 November 2024
What: Learning and Solidarity: A Dialogue on Transgender Day of Remembrance.
When: Noon to 1:00pm, Wednesday 20 November 2024.
Where: Civic Hub Waterloo Region
Location: 23 Water Street North, Kitchener (but use the Duke Street entrance). Map
Register: Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApduuuqzkjHNLN65C-tyc8RoVV6S-_kGvV
Contact: Dr. Ritika Shrimali (She/Her) [email protected]Join us for an afternoon of Learning and Solidarity: A Dialogue on Transgender Day of Remembrance at our next Civic Hub exchange lunch on November 20th.
Our guest speaker for that day is Milo Tia Hansen (they/them). They are a transgender, queer, disabled, advocate for solutions to homelessness, Indigenous sovereignty, and queer liberation, with lived experience and knowledge in activism of being homeless intergenerationally, extreme poverty, queerness, and disability.
Milo will talk about a few definitions and the history of the day (Starting 1999 honouring Rita Hester’s death in 1998), bring it into contemporary issues (current state of affairs in Canada, critical lens in regards to race) and why we need to continue commemorating those who have been lost to gendered violence. They also hope to share experiences they have had with losing loved ones to all kinds of violence in the wake of election results, considering our current political climate, as well as hold space for those lost in the last year. They will then open the floor to questions.
If you are planning to attend the lunch in person, or online, please register on Zoom for the event.
This is a hybrid event. Light meal provided.
#CivicHubWR #MiloTiaHansen #SocialDevelopmentCentreWaterlooRegion #TransDayOfRemembrance #WaterlooRegion
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Festival of Neighbourhoods Summit, Noon on Sunday 24 November 2024 at Kitchener City Hall
What: Festival of Neighbourhoods Summit
When: Noon to 3:00pm on Sunday 24 November 2024
Where: Kitchener City Hall Rotunda
Location: 100 King Street West, Kitchener Map
Online: https://festivalofneighbourhoods.ca
Contact/RSVP: Heather Majaury [email protected]
Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2024-community-summit-connect-the-dots-tickets-1067786049819 (Free!)Trends in rapid neighbourhood change across Kitchener. Greater vulnerability of residents in underserved areas. The rise of homelessness. Intensification and infills with the high pace of developments. All of this has called for a thoughtful response from our Festival and we have been learning a lot. We are taking careful consideration about our role in our civic future. Now it’s time to hear from you.
Agenda
Noon to 1:00pm
- Registration
- Meet & Greet
- Light Refreshments
1:00pm to 3:00pm
- Welcome
- Opening Remarks
- Presentations
- Interactive Roundtable Discussions
#CityOfKitchener #FestivalOfNeighbourhoods #HeatherMajaury #Kitchener #SocialDevelopmentCentreWaterlooRegion #WaterlooRegion
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Rally to keep CTS sites open in Ontario, 5:30pm Wednesday 28 August 2024 at 150 Frederick Street, Kitchener
What: Rally to keep Consumption and Treatment Sites open in Ontario
When: 5:30pm to 8:30pm, Wednesday 28 August 2024
Where: in front of Waterloo Region Council Chambers
Location: 150 Frederick Street MapFrom the Social Development Centre Waterloo Region:
SDC stands in solidarity with those asking the province to keep CTS (Consumption and Treatment Services) sites open in Ontario. Come show your support at at a rally for change tonight.
Dear friends,
SDC is deeply concerned about the planned closure of Consumption and Treatment Services (CTS) sites across Ontario, and we wanted to share our official statement with you. The Ford government’s decision is anti-science, anti-evidence, and yet another way to limit the healthcare options available to Ontarians. SDC stands in solidarity with drug use advocates and all those who’re asking the province to keep CTS sites open.
Read The Media Release (PDF, 251 kBytes) (Mirror)
Julian Ichim and Donald Lacasse are members of SDC’s lived expertise consultancy and have been fighting for safe injection sites with the Alan Ryan People’s Defense Brigade since 2014. These are some of their reflections on the provincial government’s decision to dismantle harm reduction services like CTS sites and safe supply.
What some lived experts are saying: “By closing down the safe injection site and rejecting safe supply, the Ford government is promoting criminality and keeping drugs in the hands of dealers who only care about profit and not people’s lives.” “I am worried that this is a process of elimination. They did this when they first came to this land. By eliminating us, they can start over. They can erase us and rewrite history again.”
How You Can Help
Please join us in supporting grassroots organizers at a peaceful rally this evening – together, we can bring greater awareness and urgency to the need for an adequately resourced, evidence-based drug strategy in Waterloo Region.
Tonight’s rally for change is being organized by the Drug Action Team Waterloo Region, an unfunded, volunteer-driven team of Waterloo Region residents with interest, experience, and expertise in resolving a wide range of drug-related issues. You can find them online at drugactionteam.ca.
Overdose Action Day Rally for Change. Wednesday, Aug 28th. 5:30 – 8:30pm. 150 Frederick St. Kitchener. 820+ residents of Waterloo Region have died by preventable overdose. Rally together to call all levels of government and community to action. We have the evidence, we know the solutions, now is the time for action. Bring your signs, banners, shirts, photos of loved ones. Free Pizza (while supplies last).
In solidarity,
The team at SDC#Health #ConsumptionAndTreatmentSites #CTS #SDCWR #SocialDevelopmentCentreWaterlooRegion #WaterlooRegionDrugActionTeam
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Kitchener Centre By-Election Housing Forum, 6:30pm, Thursday 23 November 2023 at St. John The Evangelist Church
What: Kitchener Centre By-Election Housing Forum
When: Doors open 6:30pm, Forum 7:00pm, Thursday 23 November 2023
Where: St. John The Evangelist Church
Location: 23 Water Street North, Kitchener, Ontario Map
Contact: Text message 519-635-8951Come ask the candidates how they will tackle housing issues.
#Democracy #ACORNTenantUnionWaterlooRegion #BasicIncomeWaterlooRegion #BeyondHousing #GrandRiverUnitarianChurch #GreenWR #GroundUpWR #HoldTheLineWR #OldeBerlinTownNeighbourhood #SocialDevelopmentCentreWaterlooRegion #TheCouncilOfCanadiansKitchenerWaterloo #UnshelteredCampaign #VictoriaParkNeighbourhoodAssociation #WRYIMBY