TO. Greenspiration Events: blessings
Bischoff Angela
greenspi at web.ca
Sat Apr 3 00:15:50 EDT 2010
Toronto Greenspiration Events
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Super Size Me - The Passionate Eye
Sunday April 4 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network
Award-winning director Morgan Spurlock provides an insider's look at
the legal, financial and physical costs of America's hunger for fast
food.
http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyesunday/feature_070107.html
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OCAD welcomes ‘environmental hero’
Dr. Vandana Shiva: "Soil not Oil: Earth's design in times of climate
change"
Tuesday, April 6, 7 p.m.
Ontario College of Art & Design
Auditorium (Rm 190), 100 McCaul Street, Toronto
416-977-6000 | www.ocad.ca
All are welcome; admission is free. Limited seating available; guests
are advised to arrive early.
A renowned environmental activist, philosopher, eco-feminist, author,
and interdisciplinary researcher, Dr. Shiva is celebrated for her work
supporting people-centred, participatory processes towards sustainable
agriculture and genetic resources. For more than 15 years, Dr. Shiva
has campaigned on the ethical and ecological impacts of genetic
engineering. She has also organized campaigns on bio-safety and helped
to formulate a citizens' response to the introduction of genetically
modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.
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Stand with Grassy Narrows Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek
Please join us in Toronto as we demand justice for our people and
protection for the water, air, and forests that give life to us all.
Public Talk. Tuesday April 6, 6:30 p.m. Steel Workers Hall, 25 Cecil
St. (S of College, E of Spadina).
River Run - creative march and rally. Wednesday April 7, Noon. Meet
at Grange Park (Beverley St. S of Dundas, behind the AGO). Together
we will form a wild river that will flow to Queen’s park to deliver
our demands on World Health Day. We invite Indigenous people to wear
your regalia. Others are invited to wear blue, or dress as your
favourite wild creature.
To endorse, donate, or for more information contact us at: riverrun2010 at gmail.com
http://freegrassy.org/
40 years ago our people were poisoned with mercury by a paper mill
that contaminated our river upstream. Our people are demanding
justice because we are still dealing with the ongoing health impacts
of this avoidable disaster. We want to sound the alarm that this
poison will affect everyone if we don’t stand together to protect our
water.
For decades our GNAA grassroots people have been on the front lines of
the movement to defend the earth, and to uphold Indigenous self-
determination, culture, and spirituality. We have kicked out logging
giant Abitibi for now, but there is still much work to be done. This
is a great opportunity to show your support, and to join us in the
fight to protect the water, air, land, creatures, and rights that we
all depend on.
Migwetch - Grassy Narrows Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek
http://rabble.ca/whatsup/river-run-grassy-narrows-creative-march-and-rally
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Poverty and the Provincial Budget: Health, Jobs, and Resistance
Tuesday, April 6, 7 pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), 252 Bloor St. West,
Room 5260
The McGuinty government will release Ontario's 2010 budget on March
25th. Even before the predicted cuts to public services, poor and
working people are being forced to endure the devastating brunt of the
recession. From piecemeal job cuts to impudent attacks on social
programs, provincial policies are already starving Ontario families.
We should be outraged, but we shouldn't be surprised; attacks against
poor people are standard fare in Ontario. In previous decades,
grassroots movements have responded to such attacks with mass
mobilization. Join us to discuss what we can do now.
For more information about this event, contact OPIRG-Toronto at opirg.toronto at gmail.com
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Featuring:
John Clarke, Organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.
Michael Hurley, President of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions
and Vice-President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Ontario.
Dr. Roland Wong, Occupational and Community Medicine Physician.
Sponsored by:
Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG-Toronto) www.opirgtoronto.org
University of Toronto Health Studies Students' Union
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) www.ocap.ca
Health Providers Against Poverty www.healthprovidersagainstpoverty.ca
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The NFB Mediatheque and The Canadian Institute for Environmental Law
and Policy present:
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE: BATTLE FOR THE POLE
Wednesday, April 7 at 7 PM
NFB Cinema, 150 John St. (near Queen and Spadina)
FREE ADMISSION
Directed by Wally Longul and Takashi Shibasaki, 2009, 43 min.
Climate change is hitting the Arctic harder and faster than any other
region on Earth. Although the North may seem remote from the
population centres of the world, this is where the impact of human
activity – sensitive ecosystems forever altered by climate change – is
felt the most.
The Arctic Circle: Battle for the Pole introduces us to some of the
people racing to pump oil and gas from beneath the Arctic seabed. For
the engineers constructing ice-breaking tankers and the crew on the
world's northernmost oil rig, this race is all about excitement,
opportunity and new frontiers.
Join us after the screening for a panel discussion.
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Corporate Profits or Human Rights - Which Should Canada Champion in
Colombia?
Panel Discussion: Canada- Columbia Free Trade Agreement
Thursday April 8, 7–9 P.M. (Doors open at 6.30)
New Horizons Auditorium, 1140 Bloor St. West (at Dufferin)
Moderator: Andrew Cash, NOW columnist, Davenport NDP candidate
Speakers:
Peter Julian, federal NDP Trade Critic
Jasmin Hristov, author, Blood & Capital: The Paramilitarization of
Colombia
Carleen Pickard, Council of Canadians
Sid Ryan, President, Ontario Federation of Labour
Yhony Muñoz, OPSEU International Solidarity activist
Canada is set to sign a sweeping trade deal with Colombia—our
hemisphere’s most egregious human rights violators where violence
against indigenous peoples, Afro-Colombians, workers, farmers and
journalists is a regular occurrence. More labour leaders and human
rights activists are killed in Colombia than in any other country in
the world. Yet, shockingly, this free trade deal does not contain
substantive conditions to protect human rights. Instead, there is one
obscene clause that would have Colombia pay fines when a labour leader
or human rights activist is killed by the state military or by
paramilitaries tied to the government. Why is Stephen Harper’s
Conservative government, with the support of some Liberal members in
Parliament, pushing such a bad deal?
Sponsored by: CAW, OPSEU, Ontario Federation of Labour, Latin American
Solidarity Network, CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee,
Council of Canadians.
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The Age of Stupid
2009, 92 minutes.
Friday, April 9 - 7 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-212 at the St. George Subway Station.
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested
British film by Franny Armstrong, director of McLibel and founder of
10:10, and first-time producer Lizzie Gillett. The film is a drama-
documentary-animation hybrid which stars Pete Postlethwaite as a man
living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage
from around 2008 and asking "Why didn't we stop climate change when we
had the chance?"
Preceded by a brief introduction, and will be followed by a
commentary, and an open floor discussion period.
Please visit the SA web site: www.socialistaction-
canada.blogspot.com or call 416 - 535-8779.
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Dr. Jane Goodall: 50 Years of Chimps and Change
Friday, April 09, 7 p.m.
Convocation Hall, U of T
In the 50th anniversary year of her research into the behaviour of
chimpanzees, world-renowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall will
reflect on the meaning of the past five decades, from the incredible
insights her research has offered into our closest animal relatives,
to the extraordinary change the world has seen since 1960, for people,
for animals, and for the environment.
Tickets are available from www.uofttix.ca or 416-978-8849. $26 - $63.
For more information visit www.janegoodall.ca
Presented by the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada in partnership with
the Centre for Environment, University of Toronto and the Royal
Ontario Museum.
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Toronto Anarchist Assembly
FRIDAY APRIL 9, 7-9pm
Bike Pirates (1292 Bloor Street West)(wheelchair accessible)
Panel Discussion: “Anarchism in the 21st Century”
SATURDAY APRIL 10 – The Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil Street, (near
Spadina/College) (wheelchair accessible)
10:30am – 3pm: Bookfair and Workshops
3pm – 4:30pm: Giant Go-Around
5pm – 7pm: Food, Movies, Games
7pm – 12am: Music, Bar, Party
http://torontoanarchistassembly.blogspot.com/
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Defend the Special Diet, Raise OW/ODSP Rates Now! - PUBLIC MEETING
Friday, April 9th
6 pm @ Parkdale Activity and Recreation Centre, 1499 Queen St. W,
Toronto
*snacks and drinks to be provided
*childcare to be provided
Are you being cut off the Special Diet or having a hard time getting it?
Are you struggling to make ends meet on OW or ODSP?
Are you angry at the Liberal government for taking away the one thing
we had left to try to put food on the table?
Come out to hear testimony, or give testimony, on the importance of
the Special Diet money and the need for a total raise in Welfare and
ODSP rates.
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty www.ocap.ca/416-925-6939
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CarrotMob Toronto
The CarrotMob will take place on Sat. April 10th, from 12:00 pm - 4:00
pm, at G's Fine Foods, on the corner of Bloor and Huron.
Everyone is welcome to participate! Entertainment will be provided, as
well as a social afterwards, and the opportunity to BuyCott for Change
- to put your dollars where your values are.
“Carrotmob” is a network of consumers that rewards businesses who
pledge to make environmentally and socially responsible decisions.
“Buycotting allows consumers to vote with their dollars,” says event
organizer Nico Koenig.
Local stores spent the last month competing for the chance to have the
first-ever Toronto “Carrotmob” come to their door. The winning bid –
from G’s Fine Foods, located on the corner of Huron and Bloor – is the
largest in the history of Carrotmob campaigns. They have pledged to
spend 100% of their revenues from April 10th on energy efficient
renovations to the store. They have also pledged to start stocking
their shelves with products from 15 local and sustainable-certified
producers and farmers.
Toronto’s first Carrotmob has partnered with Local Food Plus (www.localfoodplus.ca
), an award-winning non-profit organization that will assist G’s Fine
Foods with supplying local and sustainable foods.
Windfall Ecology Centre (http://www.windfallcentre.ca), an
environmental non-proft specializing in energy efficiency, will
provide technical and policy advice for the renovations.
For more information about Carrotmob please visit http://
carrotmob.org/ and http://toronto.carromtob.org 6-978-0785.
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Climate, Culture, Change
KAIROS EVENT
Saturday April 10, 9:00 am - noon
St. James United Church, 400 Burnamthorpe Road, Etobicoke
Sponsored by KAIROS Toronto West
A panel discussion with:
Tim Leduc, author of the forthcoming book “Climate, Culture,
Change” (release Nov 2010)
Lauryn Drainie, youth delegate to the 2008 (Poznan) and 2009
(Copenhagen) international conferences on climate change
Tom Cullen, member of Green Awakening Network and the Green Team of
Fairlawn United Church
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Haiti : Walk for Shelter and Media Truth
Sat. April 10, 11:30 a.m.
Meet at Kensington Market, at Augusta and College Street, to walk to
CBC and the US Consulate
Canadians, show your support for the one million and a half Haitians
still without shelter, three months after the earthquake. We will
speak the truth about the reality facing the children and the people
of Haiti, which the Media is not reporting.
Sponsored by the Toronto Haiti Action Committee
For more information, contact Thelma Dalamba: tdalamba at gmail.com
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Blessing of Bicycles and Cyclists
Ceremony
Sunday, April 11 at 1:00 pm.
Trinity St. Paul's Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts, 427 Bloor
St. West
ALL WELCOME.
Free bike maintenance and valet parking provided.
Part of the April 11th Eco-Festival at Trinity St. Pauls
"When the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them; and
when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose.
Wherever the spirit would go, they went, and the wheels rose along
with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
When they moved, the others moved; when they stopped, the others
stopped; and when they rose from the earth, the wheels rose along with
them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels." Ezekiel
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Take the Train - Bring your Bike!
Cycle Ontario This Summer!
The Bike Train Initiative introduces bike racks onboard select
passenger rail trains
to destinations across Ontario, making cycling holidays easy and
accessible.
The initiative is a project of Transportation Options, a non-profit
organization
dedicated to stimulating sustainable systems of transportation.
http://www.biketrain.ca/
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Sign the petition to oppose Metrolinx’s plan to build an eight fold
expansion in diesel rail traffic, from 50 trains per day to over 400
trains per day, in the Georgetown corridor which cuts through west-end
neighbourhoods including, Liberty Village, Parkdale, Roncesvalles, The
Junction and Weston.
This expansion will make this the busiest diesel-rail corridor on the
planet.
Exhaust from diesel locomotives is a known danger to public health,
linked to cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, cancers and
premature death.
Sign here: http://www.cleantrain.ca/petition.php
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The City of Toronto is working with the Toronto Coalition for Active
Transportation (TCAT) and the Clean Air Partnership (CAP) to evaluate
cycling conditions on College Street before and after the installation
of a new bicycle pavement marking application – and they need your help.
What will I need to do?
Complete an online survey about your experience cycling on College St
between Lansdowne Ave and Manning Ave on one day in April and one day
in June.
When is the survey happening?
Part 1: April 19th to May 3rd, 2010
Part 2: June 14th to 18th, 2010
Who can participate?
Cyclists who ride along College St. during rush hour, for at least a
couple blocks between Lansdowne Ave and Manning Ave. Rush hour is from
7:00 to 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 to 6:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.
All participants must be 18 years of age or older.
How can I sign up?
Contact the city by email at bikeplan at toro nto.ca to sign up. For all
emails, please include “College Street Survey” in the subject line and
indicate:
• your name,
• preferred email address for correspondence, and
• what section of College Street you cycle on (e.g. Brock Ave to
Clinton St).
The City of Toronto will not be responsible for any injury or damage
related to the completion of the survey form. Information will be
collected in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection
of Privacy Act.
Visit www.toronto.ca/cycling for more details.
Help find survey participants by forwarding the text above to your
email contacts who cycle.
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