Fight austerity at a free meal this Thursday

The Sudbury Raise the Rates Campaign is organizing a two-day anti-austerity push-back with John Clarke.

Clarke will be speaking at two venues this week, at Laurentian University and at a community meal and meeting downtown.

Across the province communities in poverty are suffering as soaring food prices threaten their food security.

There will be a discussion on why the struggle against poverty must be anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist. This meeting will be held in room C203 at Laurentian University from 4 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.

On March 24, Clarke will be discussing challenging poverty and austerity in Ontario, starting at 10:00 a.m. in the upper Fraser Auditorium at Laurentian University.

The community meal and meeting will be held Thursday evening from 5 p.m to 8 p.m., at the ParkSide Centre on Durham St.

A free community meal begins at 5 p.m. with an Indigenous opening and closing sponsored by the NSTC.

Nicole Beaulieu of SWEAC will speak on the minimum wage struggle. John Clarke will speak on how the attack on social assistance adequacy has been furthered by the Liberals and focus on the present crisis being pushed by rising food prices and how poor people can resist.

Sponsors for March 23-24 include the Centre for Research in Social Justice and Policy at Laurentian University, CUPW, Labour Studies at Laurentian University, Laurentian University Graduate Students Association, Mamaweswen, The North Shore Tribal Council (NSTC), OPSEU Local 104, Sudbury and District CUPE Council; Sudbury and District Labour Council, Sudbury Workers Education and Advocacy Centre (SWEAC), Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, The provincial Raise the Rates Campaign.