TO. Greenspiration Events: welcome autumn with action
Bischoff Angela
greenspi at web.ca
Mon Oct 5 10:49:16 EDT 2009
TO. Greenspiration Events
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6TH ANNUAL DISABILITY PRIDE CELEBRATION
Simply People Celebrating Our Lives and Identies
Mon. October 5, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay
info at disabilitypride.ca, http://www.disabilitypride.ca
To mark the 6th annual disability pride celebration in Toronto,
"Simply People: Celebrating Our Lives & Identities," hundreds will
gather at Nathan Phillips Square. This free outdoor event is open for
all to attend (rain or shine) and one of this year's guest speakers
will include The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of
Ontario, Mr. David Lepofsky, Chair of the Accessibility for Ontarians
with Disabilities Act (AODA) Alliance, and others.
On stage, performers will include: Comedian Andre Arruda, Limitless
Productions (inclusive dance performance), Humourist Libby Thaw,
Writer Carol Krause, Folkloric Belly Dancer Lluvia, Poetry Recital by
Sol Express, etc. There will be various display tables by
organizations/groups and an experiential learning workshop. ASL
interpretation, attendant care and transcription services will be
available onsite.
This event is brought to you by Canada-Wide Accessibility for Post-
Secondary Students (CANWAPSS), and friends of CANWAPSS, including
LinkUp Employment Services, Abilities Arts Festival, VoicePrint,
Easter Seals Canada (Access 2 Entertainment) and diversityworX.
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9/11 revisited: Hundreds of scientific and engineering reports prove
the commission's finding are false.
Why are they being ignored
with Sydney White, Investigative Journalist
Monday, October 5th, 6 - 8 p.m.
University of Toronto, St. George Campus, Sandford Fleming Building,
Room 1101
STUDIES IN PROPAGANDA
FREE Lecture Series
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO – FALL 2009
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It's Getting Hot in Here - Climate Change and Global Patterns in
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Monday October 5, 2009 from 6 to 8 pm
The Pilot Tavern, Stealth Lounge (2nd floor)
22 Cumberland Street North, Toronto
(one block north of Bloor, just west of Yonge)
While the climate change debate has mainly focused on economic and
ecological issues, health factors have also been identified as a
concern.
Join SickKids researchers Dr. David Fisman, Dr. Nicola Jones and Dr.
Amy Greer in a discussion on the relation between changes in the
environment
and weather patterns to the incidence and distribution of various
types of infectious disease.
Admission is free.
Sponsored by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, The
SickKids Research Institute, and the Couchiching Institute on Public
Affairs:
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Helen’s War: Portrait of a Dissident
Film screening
Tuesday October 6, 6:30 pm in the Hart House Library, U of T
Free
Helen’s War is an intimate portrait of anti-nuclear activist Dr.
Helen Caldicott as she emerges from retirement to rally people
against the military-industrial complex in post 9/11 USA. Filmed by
her niece, filmmaker Anna Broinowski, the movie explores both the
personal and political sides of Helen Caldicott, and what it means to
be an activist in today’s world.
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The Push to Prescribe:
Women and Canadian Drug Policy
Book Launch
Wed. Oct. 7, 7 p.m.
Nicholas Hoare bookstore, 45 Front St. East
Women and Health Protection have recently published a book on women
and pharmaceuticals.
If you’re going to read any book about women and pharmaceuticals this
year, this is the one. The key strength of this book is the breadth
of material, with an approach that marries evidence with social and
political values. Written by some of Canada’s experts in this field,
the essays in this book will help women develop their own levels of
healthy skepticism and help them make rational and knowledgeable
prescription drug use the norm, not the exception.
Please RSVP to whp.apsf at gmail.com.
If you are unable to make it but would be interested in getting a
copy of the book, you can ask for it at your local bookseller or
order it directly from the publisher:
https://www.cspi.org/motion.asp?
siteid=100366&lgid=1&menuid=5376&prodid=121201&cat=9869
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The NFB Mediatheque and The Canadian Institute for Environmental Law
and Policy present
ANTARCTIC MISSION: WINDOW ON A CHANGING CLIMATE
as a part of our monthly GREEN SCREENS program
Wednesday, October 7 at 7 PM
FREE ADMISSION
In A Window on a Changing Climate, Sedna IV takes advantage of the
annual summer retreat of the pack ice to make its way to the
Antarctic mainland. Scientists from around the globe work together to
better understand the impact of warming observed in recent decades.
By tracking enormous drifting icebergs and studying the declining
colonies of Adelie penguins, researchers deepen our understanding of
the crucial role Antarctica plays in the vast planetary climate cycle.
Join us after the screening for a discussion with Chris Gates, Senior
Climate Change Policy Advisor, Office of the Environmental
Commissioner of Ontario.
GREEN SCREENS partners films from the National Film Board with
experts and panellists from the Canadian Institute for Environmental
Law and Policy. If you are interested in the environment, GREEN
SCREENS will both entertain and inform.
NFB MEDIATHEQUE | 150 John St., Toronto | 416.973.3012 | NFB.ca/
mediatheque
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Delist and Desist!
Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture.
Abousfian Abdelrazik Speaks in Toronto
With an Introduction by Dr. Sherene Razack
Thursday, October 8, 2009, 7:15 pm
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street (just west of St. George, south of
College)
Free.
Abdelrazik is a Canadian citizen who was detained, interrogated, and
tortured in Sudan with the complicity of our own government (further
background here). Indeed, the Federal Court of Canada found earlier
this year that spy agency CSIS was complicit in his detention.
Released and clared of all suspicion by Sudan in 2006, and then by
the RCMP and CSIS in late 2007, his many attempts to return home to
Montreal were repeatedly blocked.
Mr. Abdelrazik's horrific experience is part of a broader Canadian
pattern of involvement in torture, and his talk on October 8th kicks
off a speakers series that will focus on other cases of Canadian
complicity in the most brutal human rights abuses imaginable.
Organized by Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture and Christian
Peacemaker Teams Canada, endorsed by the Centre for Integrated Anti-
Racism Studies (CIARS) at OISE. Sponsored nationally by Project Fly
Home, the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), Council of Canadians,
Council on American-Islamic Relations - Canada (CAIRCAN),
International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG), and the
National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA).
For further information: tasc at web.ca, (416) 651-5800 ext. 1
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Countdown to Copenhagen!- Lobbying and Action Training
One day intensive skills training
Fri. Oct. 9, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
U of T, St. George Campus
$20 or pay-what-you-can
For more info and to RSVP, ontario at syc-cjs.org
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163797766257&ref=share
The Sierra Youth Coalition, the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, and
Climate Action Network Canada would like to invite you to an
intensive strategizing and skills training to prep students for a
semester of strategic, collective, and powerful action on campus
leading up to the talks in Copenhagen.
Come work with some of Canada's most experienced activists to develop
you media skills, learn how to effectively execute a direct action,
how to lobby your MPs, and how to formulate a comprehensive campaign
strategy - AND how to do all this in a way that will force the
Canadian Government wake up and take notice before Copenhagen.
This December, representatives from over 190 countries, will be
converging on Copenhagen Denmark, to negotiate a new international
climate change agreement. This will be an epic moment in climate
action history. The international agreement made in Copenhagen will
largely decide whether or not entire island nations will disappear
beneath the waves; whether or not hundreds of millions of people will
be without fresh drinking water due to massive glacier melt in the
Himalayas; whether or not coastal cities around the world will be
inundated and hit with severe and erratic weather; basically whether
or not we get through this crisis intact.
Canada has been historically ‘naughty’ first as polluters per capita,
and secondly with our disgraceful representation at the international
negotiations blocking progressive discussion and decisions to reduce
emissions etc. Over the next few months we have the ability to turn
this around. Join us we as develop a plan to move Canada from laggard
to environmental leader.
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- Toronto Socialist Action Presents -
Rebel Films
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-212
at the St. George Subway Station. Everyone welcome. $4 donation
requested.
Friday, October 9 - 7 p.m. Haiti: We Must Kill the Bandits Kevin
Pina's 80 minute documentary is a searing condemnation of the 2004
ouster of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and its
aftermath. It shows how the coup was actually an attempt by Canada,
the United States and other so-called "Friends of Haiti","to destroy
the people's movement for change through violence." A representative
of the Toronto Haiti Action Committee will speak following the film.
Please visit the SA web site: www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com
or call 416 - 535-8779.
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The Nuclear Question: 'Acute & Chronic Dangers of Nuclear Power,
Nuclear War & DU Weapons’
a public lecture by DR. HELEN CALDICOTT: Physician, Author, Educator
& Activist
Tuesday, October 13, 12 noon-1:30 pm, The Great Hall, Hart House.
Free
As the subject of the 1982 National Film Board of Canada’s Oscar
winning documentary “If You Love This Planet, Dr. Helen Caldicott
inspired a generation to work toward nuclear disarmament. She
continues her mission with her most recent books “Nuclear Power is
Not the Answer” and “War in Heaven.”As the world struggles with the
nuclear question, Dr. Caldicott will address the greatest, immediate
threat to the planet with passion, vision and clarity. http://
www.helencaldicott.com/
The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action
to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott,
has devoted the last 35 years to an international campaign to educate
the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the
necessary changes in human behaviour to stop environmental destruction.
RSVP to elayna.fremes at utoronto.ca
Special Thanks to All Organizing Partners:
Physicians for Global Survival, Safe And Green Energy, University of
Toronto Faculty of Medicine, Canadian Department of Peace Initiative,
Greenpeace Ontario, Ontario Clean Air Alliance, Science for Peace,
Seriously Time to Stop, Toronto’s Hiroshima Day Coalition, Veterans
Against Nuclear Arms, Voice of Women for Peace
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BikeCamp TO
Registration is now open for Saturday, October 17th.
Click here to register - http://bikeunion.to/sites/tcu/modules/
civicrm/extern/url.php?u=4653&qid=
More info at http://bikeunion.to/sites/tcu/modules/civicrm/extern/
url.php?u=4655&qid=
Presented by the Toronto Cyclists Union, BikeCamp TO is a series of
participant-driven workshops related to various aspects of cycling --
from the playfullness of art bikes & fashion, to the politics of
cycling advocacy.
It's an opportunity for those who ride, and have an interest in
cycling in Toronto, to come together and share ideas.
Think, Ideas Factory -- Not, Complaints Department.
This day-long workshop, including lunch, will consist of
presentations, group brainstorming sessions, and group discussion
regarding next steps. A preliminary agenda will be intertwined with
open format discussions.
Not to b e missed if you are interested in learning more, and/or
getting involved in day-to-day cycling concerns! Please note that
there are space limitations so only 75 participants can be registered.
* Session runs from 10am to 5pm
* Casual BYO party from 5pm to 7pm ; ) Open to all, including
those who could not attend the session.
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COMMUNICATION IN ACTION
Make Your Voice Count!
Develop effective strategies for interpersonal and group
communication in a series of six evening workshops:
Explore your conflict style
Become a better listener
Learn how to raise concerns – without raising hackles
Learn the principles of conflict resolution
Practice the basics of facilitating group meetings
Thursdays 6:30-9:30pm
October 22– November 26
Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (St. George subway station)
Trainer: Lyn Adamson is an experienced trainer in conflict resolution
with St. Stephen’s Conflict Resolution Service., and is a trainer
with Nonviolent Peaceforce Canada. A Quaker and mother of two, Lynis
a member of the boards of: Greenspiration, Canadian Voice of Women
for Peace, the Canadian Department of Peace Initiative and Nonviolent
Peaceforce Canada.
Cost: $150 (inquire if cost is a barrier)
To Register:
Send a $25 deposit to save your spot
Make cheque payable to “Toronto Monthly Meeting” (memo: peaceworks)
60 Lowther Ave. Toronto M5R 1C7
Limit of 15 participants
For more info:
PHONE: 416-731-6605 OR 416-596-7328
EMAIL: peaceworks at primus.ca
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