TO. Greenspirational Events: docs, books, workshops
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Mon May 4 10:54:37 EDT 2009
Toronto Greenspirational Events
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Hot Docs (documentary film festival) is happening http://
schedule.hotdocs.ca/ April 30 – May 10.
Here are some recommended enviro and activist films:
http://schedule.hotdocs.ca/index.php/2009/subjects/Activism/P12/
http://schedule.hotdocs.ca/index.php/2009/subjects/Ecology%20&%20the%
20Environment
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Sprout Show
A sprout show showcasing locally produced seeds, seedlings, and
gardening information is taking place from May 1st to 15th at Hotshot.
It will include workshops, activities, garden exhibits and
installations for all ages. The purpose of the show is to provide a
space to exchange information and ideas relating to gardening and
farming.
This will also provide a space where local businesses and people can
promote their projects, products, and services. Any gardener, urban
farmers, chef, or person who has knowledge about plants to share is
welcome to participate in this event.
There is space available for demonstrations, workshops, exhibits, or
artist/political exploration surrounding seeds, plants and gardening
in general.
If you are interested in this please email Josh at
Urbanredhead at gmail.com
The demonstrations and activities will take place on the first two
weekends of May (2nd and 3rd ; 9th and 10th ) between noon and 7 pm.
at Hotshot gallery, 181 Augusta Ave. (in Kensington Market)
www.hotshotkensington.com
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NO WATER TO WASTE!
Ontarians March to Dump Site 41 to Protect Our Water
Monday, May 4th: 3 p.m. gather, 4 p.m. march
Marchers will gather at Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church,
106 Yonge St N, Elmvale at 3:00 p.m. The march will leave from "The
Flow", a pure spring located near the chruch, where marchers can fill
their re-usable water bottles. A rally at Site 41 will start at 5:00
p.m.
For more information, contact Stuart Trew, Ontario-Quebec Regional
Organizer for the Council of Canadians: strew at canadians.org
More info and directions: http://www.canadians.org/water/issues/
Site41/index.html.
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War and urban renewal, from Hiroshima and Dresden to Baghdad; general
butler was right:
War is a Racket
FREE Lecture - Studies in Propaganda
Monday, May 4th from 6-8pm
U of T, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Room 1190, 1st Floor
For more info, contact Sydney White, Investigative Journalist
416-787-0592
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Last chance for input into bike lanes on Jarvis
Transportation Services just announced that it has completed the
Jarvis Streetscape Improvement EA Environmental Study Report.
Apparently not swayed by the significant public input it received,
the recommended design up for approval has no bike lanes.
We have reported on the Jarvis Street redesign many times previously
in TCAT News, most recently here. While we applaud the City for its
efforts to improve the public realm, any redesign street must
properly accommodate cyclists. TCAT's position is that Jarvis should
be transformed from a 5-lane road to a 3- lane road, maintaining the
reversible centre lane. Read our submission to the City here.
Please consider attending the Public Works and Infrastructure
Committee on May 5th to make a deputation.
Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Meeting Place: Committee Room 1, 2nd Floor, City Hall, 100 Queen St. W.
To get on the deputation list, contact Ms. Candy Davidovits or Ms.
Belinda Bains at the City Clerks Division at pwic at toronto.ca or (416)
392-8032 or (416) 392-6315 by 12:00 noon on May 4, 2009.
If you cannot attend the meeting please submit your comments in
writing by 12:00 noon May 4, 2009 to:
Ms. Candy Davidovits
Public Works and Infrastructure Committee Administrator
City Hall, 10th Floor, West Tower
100 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M5H 2N2
Fax: (416) 392-1879
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The Real News Cafe promises to be another great source of discussion
this coming week, as we delve into the politics and media coverage
around pandemics. For many of our Toronto subscribers, the specter of
SARS is a recent memory, and The Real News would like to invite you
to join us next week at The Gladstone Hotel as we discuss the various
issues raised when a pandemic is declared.
Attend in person:
Tuesday 5 May @7pm EST
Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St West
Toronto ON
Arrive by 6.45pm EST
RSVP to Geraldine at geraldine at therealnews.com or call 416.916.5202
and speak with Taruna.
Seats are limited but there is standing room. It's best to try and
arrive early so that you can be comfortable for the discussion.
LIVE STREAMING from www.therealnews.com 7pm EST sharp
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Public Forum Honouring:
Dr. Ursula Franklin
Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 1:00 to 3:00 pm
Toronto City Hall, Council Chambers
Greater Expectations:The Promise of Real Democracy ---
Considering the Priorities of Most Canadians in the Hard Times Ahead
Featuring:
Leo Panitch: author and renowned political economist, Distinguished
Research
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy.
Humanitarian Award recipient Dr. Ursula Franklin: author, scholar and
life-long advocate for human rights, gender equality, social justice
and peace.
Program Moderator: Ian Brown, award winning journalist, author,
broadcaster and
host of TVOntario's acclaimed documentary series The Human Edge and the
View From Here.
With the participation of Toronto Mayor David Miller, plus video
appearances by
Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, and
Rick Mercer, CBC Television personality.
Free to the Public - All Ages Welcome
This 16th Annual Public Forum is presented by the 'Older Canadians
Network'.
Telephone: 416-260-3429. Email: oldercanadiansnetwork at bellnet.ca
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A discussion with Michael Parenti on
Capitalism's Prosperity and Poverty
Thur. May 7, 7:00pm
OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor St. W. U of T
Parenti will deal with the crisis of the corporate global system of
investment, how it undermines democracy and prosperity and fosters
poverty and instability, and how only strong popularly supported
government ownership can treat the ongoing crisis.
For more info contact:
opirg at yorku.ca, opirg.toronto at utoronto.ca
Special thanks to our co-sponsors: CUPE 3903, York University
Political Science Department, rabble.ca, CHRY 105.5FM, and many more.
Suggested donation $5
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WHAT: Shampoo!!! Mother's Day Teach-In
WHERE: The Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Avenue
WHEN: Thursday, May 7, 2009 6 to 10pm
COST: $20, proceeds benefit WHEN
REGISTER: WHEN Office at 416 928-0880
or here: http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/383
Join in for a teach-in with Anarres Natural Health & WHEN
• Learn about the history of toxins in products
• Receive valuable Do-It-Yourself demonstrations on
how to make natural products and real shampoos at home!
• Create positive social change!
* Turn in your toxic toiletries for a chance to win!!
* A public screening of Toxic Trespass will be presented after the
demonstrations.
Taking action for prevention is key to reducing health risks!
Reserve your spot here: http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/383
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Join the Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Venezuela We Are With You
Coalition, Latin American Network and Students in Solidarity with Haiti
Book Launch: The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy by Yves Engler
Canada versus Latin American Democracy: from Jacobians to Salvador
Allende, Hugo Chavez and Jean Bertrand Aristide
Audiovisual presentation by author Yves Engler
Introductory remarks by Globe and Mail columnist Rick Salutin
Thursday, May 7 at 7:00 pm
Bahen Centre (40 St. George Street) Room 1130
(Admission is Free)
The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy is the first critical
overview of Canada’s role on the world stage. While most Canadians
believe their country’s primary role has been as peacekeeper or
honest broker in difficult-to-solve disputes, the book cites hundreds
of examples of colonialism, racism, naked self-interest and willing
participation as a policeman for the British and then American empires.
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Buddha Lounge
Thur. May 7, 7 p.m.
Hart House, U of T
For more info: 416 964 6156, yoginihelen at gmail.com
Come to the launch of Buddha Lounge Toronto, a monthly event. Meet
eco-aware, spiritual souls and make new business and personal
friends. Hosted by Helen Goldstein, co-sponsored by Hart House and
Green Enterprise Toronto.
Unlike anything you've experienced before - it's a gathering of like-
minded people in a positive, relaxed, fun and sophisticated soiree.
Great music- Pam Gerrand, The Bhadra Collective, & DJ.
Great food. Cash bar. Dancing.
'Green' Goodie Bags, valued over $200.
$25 online, $30 at the door.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=74655059199
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H2Oil
PREMIERE AT HOT DOCS FILM FESTIVAL IN TORONTO & ACTION EVENT, MAY
8-10th, 2009
"Thanks to Alberta's Athabasca oil sands, Canada is now the biggest
oil supplier to the United States. A controversial billion-dollar
industry is heavily invested in extracting crude from the tarry sands
through a process so toxic it has become an international cause for
concern. Four barrels of glacier-fed spring water are used to process
each barrel of oil, then are dumped, laden with carcinogens, into
leaky tailings ponds so huge they can be seen from space. Downstream,
the people of Fort Chipewyan are already paying the price for what
will be one of the largest industrial projects in history. When a
local doctor raises the alarm about clusters of rare cancers,
evidence mounts for industry and government cover-ups. In a time when
wars are fought over oil and a crisis looms over access to clean
fresh water, which resource is more precious? And what price are we
willing to pay?" -Gisèle Gordon.
SCREENINGS OF H2OIL:
Friday, May 8 / 6:30PM / Bloor Street Cinema
Sunday, May 10 / 11:30AM / The ROM Theater
Watch the film trailer here: www.h2oildoc.com
ACTION EVENT:
Saturday, May 9 / 1:00 PM/
University of Toronto, OISE, 252 Bloor St West, Room #2-211
As part of our H2Oil screenings, we have teamed up with organizers
fighting the Tar Sands on the ground.
Come out to the action event to learn more about the Tar Sands and
find out how you can get involved in the campaigns that are already
underway.
Speakers include:
GEORGE POITRAS
Former Chief from Fort Chipewyan's Mikisew Cree First Nation
CLAYTON THOMAS MULLER
Indigenous Environmental Network
ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER
Rainforest Action Network & Athabascan Chipewyan First Nation
JESSIE KALMAN
The Polaris Institute Tar Sands Organizer
This event is hosted by OPIRG in collaboration with the Indigenous
Environmental Network, Polaris Institute, Rainforest Action Network,
the Dominion, and Loaded Pictures.
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>> Beautiful Destruction – Aerial Photos of the Alberta Tar Sands
>>
>> April 30 – May 31st, 1239 Queen Street West at Koma Designs
>> and April 30 - May 9th, 1111 Queen Street East at Ben Navaee Gallery
>> http://www.beautifuldestruction.ca/
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Book Launch with Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader
Losing Confidence - Power, Politics and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy
Friday May 8, 5:30 p.m.
215 Spadina Ave. (between Dundas and Queen)
An insider's view of the ills that beset out federal politics and the
changes wrought over the past three decades.
Admission is $20 and registration is online at http://
sustainabilitynetwork.ca
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Ontario Coalition for Social Justice SPRING ASSEMBLY
OCSJ will host our spring assembly in downtown Toronto to decide how
we shall organize to go beyond poverty to economic
security for everyone.
Jobs & Justice
From Poverty to Economic Security
Friday, May 8: at 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Location TBA at Ryerson University
With Carolyn Egan, Steelworkers’ Toronto Area Council
& Avvy Go, Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic
& Chris Schenk, Labour Studies at McMaster University
We shall discuss how the current economic crisis affects our ability to
share society’s wealth, including the example of encouraging green jobs.
& Saturday, May 9: 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location TBA downtown Toronto
Assembly participants will discuss:
*Lessons for organizing from previous night’s panel
*Lessons from provincial partners
*OCSJ plans for 2009, including organizing for change
With Peggy Nash, CAW
Advocating the importance of organizing at the grass-roots.
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…join us for the book launch of….
Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know about Shock
Treatment (Rutgers University Press) by Linda Andre
SATURDAY MAY 9, 7pm
toronto women's bookstore
73 harbord street
refreshments provided.
we regret our washroom is not wheelchair accessible.
all our events and courses are trans inclusive.
Mechanisms and standards exist to safeguard the health and welfare of
the patient, but for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)-used to treat
depression and other mental illnesses-such approval methods have
failed. Prescribed to thousands over the years, public relations as
opposed to medical trials have paved the way for this popular yet
dangerous and controversial treatment option.
Doctors of Deception is a revealing history of ECT (or shock therapy)
in the United States, told here for the first time. Through the
examination of court records, medical data, FDA reports, industry
claims, her own experience as a patient of shock therapy, and the
stories of others, Andre exposes tactics used by the industry to
promote ECT as a responsible treatment when all the scientific
evidence suggested otherwise.
As early as the 1940s, scientific literature began reporting
incidences of human and animal brain damage resulting from ECT.
Despite practitioner modifications, deleterious effects on memory and
cognition persisted. Rather than discontinue use of ECT, the $5-
billion-per-year shock industry crafted a public relations campaign
to improve ECT’s image. During the 1970s and 1980s, psychiatry’s PR
efforts misled the government, the public, and the media into
believing that ECT had made a comeback and was safe.
Andre carefully intertwines stories of ECT survivors and activists
with legal, ethical, and scientific arguments to address issues of
patient rights and psychiatric treatment. Echoing current debates
about the use of psychopharmaceutical interventions shown to have
debilitating side-effects, she candidly presents ECT as a problematic
therapy demanding greater scrutiny, tighter control, and full
disclosure about its long-term cognitive effects.
About Linda Andre
Linda Andre is a writer, activist, and the director of the Committee
for Truth in Psychiatry. Since receiving ECT in the early 1980s, she
has been an advocate for the human and civil rights of
psychiatrically labeled people, particularly the right to truthful
informed consent. She has been interviewed by numerous publications
and media such as 20/20, The New York Times, and the Washington Post.
Co-sponsored by the Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault (CAPA).
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End the killing in Sri Lanka! Stop the genocide now!
City-wide solidarity rally and march
Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
Saturday, May 9, 2009
12:00pm - 3:00pm
United States Consulate
360 University Avenue
Phone: 416.795.5863
Email: info at nowar.ca
End the killing in Sri Lanka! Stop the genocide now!
City-wide rally and march
The Government of Sri Lanka has unilaterally abandoned the
internationally mediated ceasefire, and is killing civilians in an
intense war on the Tamil minority. Since January, more than 6,000
people have been killed, over 10,000 wounded, and hundreds of
thousands internally displaced.
The international community has not stopped this massacre. Join us to
demand an end to the killing in Sri Lanka.
Organized by
Canadian Federation of Students - Ontario
Canadian Peace Alliance
Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
For more information or to endorse, please contact the Canadian Peace
Alliance:
Phone: 416-588-5555
E-mail: cpa at web.ca
Web: http://www.acp-cpa.ca
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D A N C E L U C K
Fundraiser for Big Sky Ranch Animal Sanctuary
WHAT: A Dance Luck is a dance party where each guest is invited to bring
one song for the DJ to play. Songs must be in CD format.
WHEN: Saturday May 9th 2009 (7 to 10:30pm) - $10 to $20 sliding scale
WHERE: 805 Dovercourt Road (The Dovercourt House, 2nd Flr)
COME DANCE WITH US BAREPAW (no shoes or socks) FOR A GOOD CAUSE
For more information email pengdiva at gmail.com or
wai_renooy at sympatico.ca.
Big Sky Ranch Animal Sanctuary (www.bigskyranch.ca) was established
in 2002 and is located in Kemptville, Ontario near Ottawa. It is the
only non-kill sanctuary of its kind in Eastern Ontario.
To date Big Sky Ranch Animal Sanctuary has helped over 800 hundred
animals of many different kinds and sizes achieve a happy and healthy
outcome in their future, through rehabilitation and adoption programs.
The Sanctuary maintains 2 barns, 8 paddocks (fenced in fields), 13
pens, 4 coops (of different sizes), 4 running pens, 15 stalls, 2
holding paddocks, 1 coral, and 1 quarantine room and houses over 150
abused and unwanted animals. Big Sky Ranch Animal Sanctuary is a
private non-profit organization, which does not receive any
government funding. The Sanctuary relies on annual Fundraising Events
and the support and donations offered by the public.
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END STATE-SPONSORED VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN!
Stop Shocking our Mothers and Grandmothers
Mother’s Day - Sunday, May 10, 2009
March @ 1:15 p.m. - Gather at the North-east corner of Spadina and
College
Rally @ 2:00 p.m. - Please join us at the Queen’s Park Legislature if
you will not be marching.
Keynote speeches by Linda Andre, author of Doctors of Deception, and
Parkdale-High Park MPP Cheri DiNovo!
Join us for this family event. Testimonies by ECT survivors, music
with Faith Nolan, live theatre, and food.
For more info, Bonnie.burstow at utoronto.ca
http://capa.oise.utoronto.ca
Event proudly sponsored by CAPA. Co-sponsor: Maggie’s. Endorsed by
Street Health, Resistance Against Psychiatry, Greenspiration,
Nellies, Friendly Spike Theatre, Sistering, the Assaulted Women’s and
Children’s Counsellor/Advocate Program (George Brown College), the
Women’s Counselling Referral and Education Centre, Opportunities for
Advancement, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, the
Transformative Learning Centre, Call Us Crazy, the Centre for Women’s
Studies (University of Toronto), and MindFreedom International.
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It's Spring and the Bud's are Coming OUT!
The Buddhist community is pleased to announce the launch of Toronto's
and Canada's first:
Buddhist Film Festival
which will highlight the ongoing cultural and entertaining
contributions of Buddhist culture, art and activism. Our first film
will be screened on Wesak (Buddha's Birthday) which happens to be
Mother's Day this year. The Buddha believed we were all Mothers at
some point...a truly feminist viewpoint.
Launch: Sun. May 10th, 4 p.m.
Revue Cinema (on Roncesvailles)
Tickets available at Wonderworks on Harbord and the Snow Lion off the
Danforth
http://www.dalailamafilm.com/
Other screenings and events to follow including :
Buddhist "Arrest Yourself Day" to internationally appeal for the
release of Buddhist political prisoners around the world.
For Festival information: 416-604-5711
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Spacing Radio Program about Bikes On-line now
If you missed New York City Commissioner of Transportation Janette
Sadik-Khan's talk last week, you're still in luck. Spacing Radio has
uploaded this inspiring talk for their most recent podcast released
yesterday. Find out about New York City's plans to transform their
streets into a network of shared spaces that favour people instead of
cars. (New York's ambitious plans will also be featured at TCAT's
upcoming Bike Summit 2009 with speaker Joshua Benson who oversees
NYC's 3-year 200-mile expansion of the bicycle network.)
Also interviewed in the Spacing Radio podcast are Fred Sztabinski,
formerly of TCAT, and Nancy Smith Lea, TCAT's Program Director.
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Toronto Announces Public Bike Program!
With very little fanfare, the City of Toronto has recently announced
that it will launch a public bike program operational by the spring
of 2010. Toronto's program is to start with approximately 3000
bicycles, which would make it the biggest installation in North
America! If you're excited about the idea, you may want to join in
the on-line discusssion happening on ibiketo.
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