TO. Greenspiration Events - bikes, Bush rally, fun

[Angela Bischoff]

Toronto Greenspirational Events

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In recognition of  International Women's Day for Peace & Disarmament,  
join the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace for a

Forum on War-Affected Women

with keynotes Amina Sherif Hassan (Voice of Somali Women) Bodia  
Bavuidi & Ajamu Nangwaya (Friends of the Congo)

Thursday, May 28th at 7:00 PM
Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (St. George subway).

For more info: www.vowpeace.org Email: ladamson at primus.ca

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George W. Bush is coming to Toronto!
This Friday, tell him that war criminals are not welcome here!

 From launching an illegal war on Iraq that has killed over one  
million people, to advocating torture at Guantánamo Bay and secret  
detention centres around the world, Bush has lots to answer for - and  
should be held to account.

On Friday, May 29, Bush will join former US president Bill Clinton  
for an exclusive speaking engagement in downtown Toronto. Clinton  
should also be held to account for his crimes in office: under  
Clinton, US sanctions against Iraq caused the deaths of over 500,000  
Iraqi children.

Join us on May 29 for a city-wide rally to say that war criminals are  
not welcome in Toronto!

R A L L Y
Friday, May 29
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street West
(the location of George Bush's speaking engagement)

3:00pm to 5:00pm: 'Unwelcome' Bush activities
- Music, drumming, shoe-tossing (bring your old shoes), unveiling of  
the 'unwelcome' mat

5:00pm to 6:00pm: Main rally
- With guest speakers and musical performances

Event on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=89123079461

For more information, please e-mail info at nowar.ca.

The Toronto Coalition to Stop the War is Toronto's city-wide anti-war  
coalition, comprised of more than 70 labour, faith and community  
organizations, and a member of the Canadian Peace Alliance.  
www.nowar.ca | info at nowar.ca | 416-795-5863

Please donate! Send a cheque or money order payable to TCSW Canada to:
TCSW, 427 Bloor St W, Box 13, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X7

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Critical Mass Ride

Fri. May 29th, 6 p.m.
Meet at Bloor/Spadina
Ride with hundreds of other cyclists through city streets - on the  
last Fri. of every month - in safety and joy.

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Countdown to Copenhagen

Fri. May 29th
7:45pm- 10pm EST
7 Hart House Circle (Debates Room)
Contact Pieter Basedow
Students Against Climate Change
pbasedow at yahoo.ca

is Isuma’s six-month internet campaign to promote the importance of  
Inuit knowledge and human rights in the global discussion of Climate  
Change. Monthly webcasts on IsumaTV from May to November will  
culminate in Live From the Floe Edge, ten days of daily internet  
streaming hosted by Zacharias Kunuk live from his arctic wilderness  
hunting camp during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen,  
December 7-17.

The series will launch with a live webcast on Friday May 29,  
featuring Siila Watt-Cloutier, Inuit climate activist and 2007 Nobel  
Peace Prize nominee, speaking on Inuit, Human Rights and Climate  
Change live from Iqaluit, Nunavut to a worldwide audience.. The  
program leads off at 7:45 pm EST with the World Premiere of Tungijuq,  
Isuma’s new 6-minute video starring Inuit jazz and throat-singing  
sensation, Tanya Tagaq. At 8 pm Siila Watt-Cloutier delivers the 9th  
annual LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture, introduced by John Ralston Saul,  
The Right Honorable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada,  
Isuma’s Zacharias Kunuk and The Honourable Ann Meekitjuk Hanson,  
Commissioner of Nunavut.

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Holocaust in the Congo: how 6 million have died & why the West is  
oblivious
A presentation by Makeda Crane of the Baltimore Sun, which highlights  
the role of Western business and geo-political interests in the  
plundering of the the DRC's abundant natural resources, as well as  
the suffering of the Congolese people.

Fri. May 29, 7 p.m.
Sydney Smith Hall,  / Student Life Centre, Room 1087, 100 St. George,  
University of Toronto
Info: Friends of the Congo, U of T, paulyork.2008 at gmail.com

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Natural Sun Protection Lotion Workshop

Fri. May 29, 7:30 to 10 pm
Where: Anarres Natural Health, College & Ossington
Cost: $40 pre-paid, $30 each when you register with a friend, $60 the  
day of and drop in.

http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/423
What's worse? The sun, or the toxins in the sunscreens? It's not an  
either/or situation. Regular exposure to the sun lets your skin adapt  
to defend itself against harmful rays, all the while making vitamin  
D. So tanning is a healthy response, and those who get regular  
exposure to the sun lower their skin cancer risk. Burning is  
absolutely not healthy – it clearly increases your risk of deadly  
skin cancer.

So what to do? You'll learn everything you need to know to stay safe  
and select safe products for you and your loved ones. We'll make a  
safe, all natural sun protection lotion, and you'll go home with 175  
ml in a beautiful re-usable metal pump bottle.

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MI5 Whistleblower Speaks Out: The Inner Workings of the Secret State

Sat. May 30, 7:00 PM
Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto
100 St. George Street
Room: 2117


Annie Machon, former intelligence agent, worked in counter-subversion  
and counter-terrorism departments at the British Intelligence service  
Mi5 in the 1990s. After witnessing gross mismanagement and a state- 
sponsored attempted assassination, Machon resigned and blew the  
whistle on these state crimes. Machon stands with several respected  
academics that believe the official 9/11 narrative is insufficient to  
explain the events as they occurred, and therefore must be re- 
investigated.

General Admission is $10. Tickets available starting wednesday at  
UofTtix.ca or at the door.

http://www.anniemachon.com/annie_machon/canadian-speaking-tour- 
may-2009.html

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Bells on Bloor
a pedal-powered parade for bike lanes on Bloor

Sun. May 31, noon
Meet at High Park (main Bloor St. entrance)

Join hundreds/thousands of cyclists of all ages in Toronto's biggest  
ever pedal-powered parade, ringing our bells along Bloor Street from  
High Park to Queens Park to demonstrate the need for Bike Lanes on  
Bloor!

Bring a bell. Ring a Bell. Or get a free bike bell. Prizes for best  
costume.

http://www.bellsonbloor.ca
info at bellsonbloor.ca

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What do we want?
Bike lanes on Bloor/Danforth!

The City's study of the Bloor/Danforth bikeway goes to the Public  
Works and Infrastructure Committee on June 3 for general support and  
delineating of different options for the different segments. Please  
email your support for bike lanes on Bloor to <pwic at toronto.ca> (this  
will go to all members of the Public Works and Infrastructure Cttee),  
and your local councillor. (councillr_name at toronto.ca).

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Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market

Sun. May 31st
 From noon - 7 p.m. the streets are yours - people, pets and  
pedestrians only - and musicians, street performers, vendors, and more!
Fun fun fun...
Pedestrian Sundays don't permanently change the streets, they forever  
change the way you perceive them!

http://www.pskensington.ca/

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Toronto's Bike Month
May 25 to June 25
Bike Month is a celebration of all thing bicycle related in Toronto.
Check out the schedule here:

http://wx.toronto.ca/inter/uds/cyclingcal.nsf/AllEvents?OpenView

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Public Spaces and Public Life for the 21st Century
A discussion with Danish Architect Jan Gehl

Wed. June 3, 3 - 5 p.m.
Design Exchange, 234 Bay St.
Free, all welcome

Please join us for a presentation and discussion of Jan Gehl's work  
and research in the area of public space design -- from the  
revitalization of some of the world's most important urban streets to  
waterfront redevelopment. Mr. Gehl will discuss his criteria for  
creating good public spaces using lessons from his recent work in  
places such as New York, San Francisco, and Melbourne.

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Restorative Circles

June 3            Evening Presentation of Restorative Circles
June 6 & 7      Building A Compassionate Systemic Response to Conflict:
          An Introduction to Restorative Circles
June 8, 9 and 10  In-depth Restorative Circle Facilitator Practice -  
module 1
Toronto

Co-sponsored by Interchange for Peace www.interchange4peace.org
    and Restorative Circles - Southern Ontario Network

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Restorative Circles offer ways for individuals and communities to  
establish connection, discover meaning and recover power on profound   
levels. They create a forum for reaching agreements that help sustain  
effective and nurturing relationships both personally and within  
society.

The Circles bring the profoundly open-hearted clarity and tangible   
power-sharing dynamics of Nonviolent Communication to restorative  
practices, which in recent decades have rediscovered and adapted ways  
for communities to promote responsibility and healing. Rethinking our  
view of and response to conflict, and engaging with the challenge of  
consciously building whole system responses to community well-being,  
has opened up revolutionary possibilities for furthering a culture of  
peace

Learn more about Restorative Circles
http://www.youtube.com/user/RestorativeCircles
http://www.iirp.org/on08/ON08Papers/ON08_Barter.pdf
http://www.iirp.org/realjustice/library/brazil.html

For more details and registration, please contact Henry Wai at  
416-913-8861 or wai_renooy at sympatico.ca

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PEACE ENERGY PARADIGM SHIFT

VIGIL  ANTI-CORRUPTION & $40 BILLION FOR NUKES IN THE PROVINCE OF  
ONTARIO

VIGIL ANTE: CHALK IT!!!

STOP OMNIDESTRUCTION  currently underway in  ONTARIO BY:

1. TYPES OF FUELS* – COAL^GAS^NUKES

2. PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF OUR POWER*

3. FALSIFICATION OF PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS* and WEAKENING OF PUBLIC POWER*

Thursday – JUNE 4, 2009

11AM-12NOON

ONTARIO POWER GENERATION

S/W corner College/University

psea4earth at gmail.com

MAKE THE SIDEWALK CHALKFULL WITH MESSAGES OF GREEN PUBLIC POWER –  
100% – (materials provided)

Stop spread of nuclear power AND fossil fuel burning in Ontario AND  
privatization of Ontario power * Keep Ontario Energy Public * Rebuild  
it 100% local public complementary renewable and energy efficient!

Tags: democracy, planning, pro-public regulation, free and infinite  
sources of energy, inexpensive technologies fast to bring on-line in  
collaborative complementary ways, good for economy, vertical and  
horizontal spread of green jobs everywhere in Ontario, good for  
health, good for environment,

Tags Cont’d:
public, universal, accessible to all, efficient – renewable energy  
systems with no need for the  conservation  propaganda of Ontario’s  
government’s brainwashing the poor and the kids in our public  
schools, no “change the light bulb” trick and treat, no begging for  
affordability rates, no cut-offs, no subsidies to nuclear and fossil  
fuel smokestacks in the name of the poor (affordability rates).

Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance

Tags: Pickens, Buffet, McGuinty, Tom Mitchell, Nuclear Winter,  
Rockefellers, Spread of Nuclear, Gas, Coal, Destruction of Lives,  
Environment, Economy, Fast Trillions of Dollars to Save the Banks...

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Economic Crisis and Food Sovereignty
An open discussion of food, ecology and farming

Friday, June 5, 7 p.m.
489 College St.
Centre for Social Justice, just west of Bathurst

Around the world, hunger is growing, while millions of working  
farmers face ruin. Even in Canada , unsound and dangerous corporate  
practices menace our food supply.

The worldwide movement for food sovereignty aims to ensure peoples’  
capacity to shape their own food production systems, free from  
control by  agribusiness giants. This is a common task in the world’s  
poor countries as in Canada .

Lead-off speakers:
* Debbie Field, Foodshare
* Mustafa Koç, Food Secure Canada
* Jorge Soberon, Consul General of Cuba
* John Riddell, Venezuela We Are With You Coalition
* Juan Valencia , Bolivian agronomist

Sponsored by Venezuela We Are With You Committee, Toronto Bolivia  
Solidarity, Latin American Solidarity Network
Contact: cvec-tor at yahoogroups.com;  
www.venezuelawearewithyou.blogspot.com

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Ever Wanted to Live in a Loft?

2 rooms available with super cool, progressive woman
Dupont and Ossington
available June 1

For more info:
416 732 8965
petra
pei.czech at gmail.com
Subject in email: LOFT SPACE for RENT

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