TO. Greenspirational Events: activism, films, forums
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Mon Mar 2 00:42:05 EST 2009
Toronto Greenspirational Events
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Please join me to honor Tooker Gomberg on the 5th Anniversary of his
passing:
http://www.greenspiration.org
Monday, March 2nd
7 - 9 p.m.
at Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (St. George subway), Toronto
We will remember Tooker through his writings and his videos.
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TORONTO GREEN COMMUNITY SPEAKERS SERIES
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND RACISM IN CANADA
Monday, March 2nd, 2009 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Intercontinental Hotel Yorkville
220 Bloor Street West (location is wheelchair accessible)
Entrance: $5.00
Please join us for presentations by:
- Cheryl Teelucksingh, author of Environmental Justice & Racism in
Canada and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at
Ryerson University
- Jennifer Foulds, Communications Director and Pollution Watch web
project lead at Environmental Defence
The presentations will be followed by a panel discussion with:
- Beenash Jafri, co-founder of the Anti-Racist Environmental
Coalition, instructor on
- Anti-Racist Environmentalism, and anti-racism workshop facilitator
- Damien Lee, founder of Anishinabek Gitchi Gami Environmental
Programs – one of the first community-driven environmental not-for-
profit organizations in an Ontario First Nation
- Ben Powless, fills a variety of roles with the Indigenous
Environmental Network, Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, the National
Council for the Canadian Environmental Network, and the Youth
Advisory Group to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.
For more information please contact Toronto Green Community at:
Email: togreencommunity at gmail.com or Tel: 416-781-7663
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Rainforest Action Network has a local activist campaign against Royal
Bank of Canada.
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is investing your money to finance the tar
sands. Climate change is the biggest threat to the planet and the tar
sands are the world's dirtiest oil. RBC is Canada's Number One fossil
fuel financier. They are playing a key role in the massive expansion
of tar sands oil production. Projects they finance are destroying
First Nations communities and will contribute to a doubling of Global
Warming emissions from the tar sands in the next few years.
We need your creativity and energy to bring the message to RBC
executives, shareholders and customers that they are bankrupting our
future by financing tar sands expansion.
We will have a meeting this Tuesday March 3rd at 7pm at Trinity
St.Paul's Church, 427 Bloor Street West (just west of Spadina subway
station) downstairs in the Garden Room.
We will do an update on the campaign, brainstorm some activities and
then go out and get active at Royal Bank branches and bank machines
(spreading our message with "Global warming crime scene" yellow
caution tape and other creative messaging techniques).
Please let me know if you can make it. If that date doesn't work for
you but you still wish to get active, contact me. There are things
you can do anytime, from anywhere.
Facebook "Push Royal Bank out of the tar sands"
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=70387706013
Mark Calzavara
markc at ran.org
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Cyclists ride for Bike Lanes on Bloor - submit 5000 signature
petition - in Tooker's honor
Wednesday, March 4th
Noon - meet at Christie Pits (the park at Bloor and Christie), Toronto
Together we will ride our bikes along Bloor to arrive at City Hall
(Queen and Bay) at 12:30 p.m.
At City Hall we will unfurl the 100 ft. TaketheTooker bike lane, and
then as a group we will submit to Councillor Heaps the 5000
signatures on our petition for Bike Lanes on Bloor. In the 3 years
since we launched this campaign in Tooker's honor (Mar. 3, 2006),
this issue has become the number one priority for cyclists in
Toronto, although at the time we launched the campaign people thought
we were crazy.
Join us!
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International community resistance to Barrick Gold: photos, film &
lecture
A multimedia presentation by several international experts on the
experience of indigenous communities who are resisting the world's
largest gold mine, Barrick Gold:
Photos from Papau New Guinea, Tanzania and the Phillipines; film
footage from Pascua Lama, Chile; updates on community resistance and
shareholder divestments; strategies for solidarity and resistance to
human rights violations and environmental destructio
Host: Toronto Mining Support Group
Wednesday, March 4 at 7:00 p.m.
O.I.S.E. Rm 2211, 252 Bloor Street West (above St. George subway)
For more info: 6473427995, paulyork.2008 at gmail.com
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5 YEARS AFTER THE OVERTHROW OF DEMOCRACY IN HAITI ... DISASTER!
HAITI TODAY: TAKING ACCOUNT
With Filmmaker Kevin Pina and former Haitian Parliamentary Deputy
Jean Candio.
Every social and economic indicator in Haiti has shown a decline
since 2004. Food production is down and hunger is up. School
enrollments, medical facilities, house construction, road repair and
construction, and economic investment are all in sharp decline. The
ministries of the Haitian government have been deliberately
incapacitated and underfunded as a result of foreign governments in
Haiti.
Please join the Toronto Haiti Action Committee and Students in
Solidarity with Haiti as we take account of the aftermath of the
Canadian, American and French coup d'etat in Haiti with a film
screening and public discussion. There will be a screening of
acclaimed documentary "Haiti: We Must Kill the Bandits" and
presentations by the filmmaker Kevin Pina, and former Haitian
parliamentarian, Jean Candio.
Free event, but donations will be welcome
Date: Wednesday, March 4
Time: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Where: Room 162 in Lash Miller Chemical Labs building (80 St. George
Street), University of Toronto
Co-sponsored by Caribbean Studies at New College, University of Toronto
For a preview of the opening and premise of Pina's provocative
documentary go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKUp5K66Zuk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngK_2MEjJpM
For more information visit www.thac.ca / 647-408-2654 / 416-731-2325
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Media Action Presents...
Beauty (Mis)Represented:
What's the matter with airbrushing advertisements?
Thursday, March 5
7:30-9 p.m.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (353 Bloor St.), Room 5-280
Free
Is photo-manipulation in advertising benign and irrelevant, or
damaging and indefensible?
Join Media Action Média (formerly known as MediaWatch) in its first
public discussion as we debate the issue from all sides.
Featuring:
Shari Graydon (author, activist and Media Action Média member)
Stacey May Fowles (publisher of Shameless Magazine and author of Be
Good)
Tonika Morgan (community activist and member of the Medina Collective)
Ivan Pols (Associate Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather)
www.media-action-media.com
In Partnership with The Centre for Women's Studies in Education and
Shameless Magazine
(www.oise.utoronto.ca/cwse, www.shamelessmag.com)
This venue is wheelchair accessible
Contact: info at media-action-media.com
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CERLAC Conference
Rethinking Extractive Industry: Regulation, Dispossession, and
Emerging Claims
Thursday-Saturday, March 5-7, 2009
York University
INFO: http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/ei-conf.htm
Registration is now open.
For information about the film screening, see:
http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/news_events.htm#UnderRichEarth
This conference responds to growing public debate as well as
academic, industry and policymaker interest in the consequences of
the rapid growth of mining and petroleum industries in Canada and
elsewhere in the world.
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International Women's Day 2009
Women Lead the Fight! Good Jobs and Dignity for All!
Saturday March 7
Rally - 11 am
March - 1 pm
Fair - 1:30 pm
Wheelchair Accessible
Sign Language Interpretation
OISE Auditorium 252 Bloor Street West (St. George Subway Stn.) Fair
at Ryerson, 55 Gould Street
INFO WWW.IWDTORONTO.COM / FOR TABLES - ED.COMMUNICATIONS at RSUONLINE.CA
RALLY AND MARCH ORGANIZED BY WOMEN WORKING WITH IMMIGRANT WOMEN & IWD
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
FAIR ORGANIZED BY RYERSON STUDENTS’ UNION & THE RYERSON WOMEN‘S
CENTRE / FUNDING PROVIDED BY CAW, CUPW & THE STEELWORKERS
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"The March of the Despised" Gandhism Reigns in India
FILM SCREENING
A film by Louis Campana documents the march of 25,000 people
in 2007 for the land rights of landless Indian peasants and farmers.
This documentary is proof that non-violent action works!
Free Screening & Discussion Schedule in Toronto
March 8 @ 7pm - Friends House, 60 Lowther Avenue
March 9 @ 4pm - George Brown College, 200 King St. E.
March 9 @ 7pm - Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street
March 10 @ 12pm - UofT, OISE, 252 Bloor St. W.
Sponsored by the Quakers, Canadian Department of Peace Initiative,
George Brown College Labour Fair, Kairos, Christian Peacemaker Teams
(CPT)
For more information, please contact jillcarrharris at yahoo.com
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No Nukes in Ontario – a Teach-In
Join us for a teach-in on nuclear energy in Ontario. What are the
concerns surrounding nuclear energy, and what are the alternatives?
What are the provincial government’s plans to expand nuclear, and
what can we do to persuade them to move towards a 100% renewable
electricity grid?
Register now: http://nuketeachin.eventbrite.com/
Mar 13-14, 2009
University of Toronto
$25 – or pay-what-you-can. Free for U of T students (just show your
student card, but you still need to pre-register).
Sponsored by: Ontario Clean Air Alliance, Greenpeace, University of
Toronto Students Union, Students Against Climate Change, the
Hiroshima Day Coalition, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, and
Physicians for Global Survival.
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Speakers include
- Jack Gibbons, Ontario Clearn Air Alliance
- Dave Martin, Greenpeace
- Shawn-Patrick Stencil, Greepeace
- Dr. Dorothy Goldin-Rosenberg
- Cherise Burda, Pembina
- Keith Stewart, World Wildlife Fund
- Phyllis Creighton
- Greg Allen
and many more.
For more information and all other inquiries, please contact us at
nuketeachin at yahoo.ca
Register now: http://nuketeachin.eventbrite.com/
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