T.O. Greenspiration Events: Happy spring!

Bischoff Angela greenspi at web.ca
Sun Apr 25 20:22:14 EDT 2010


Toronto Greenspiration Events

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Defend free speech -- Let George Galloway speak in Canada

Federal Court hearing in Toronto and solidarity rallies across Canada
Monday, April 26
Rally: 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. (outside)  Hearing: 9:30 a.m. to 3:00  
p.m. (inside)
Federal Court Building, 180 Queen Street West

On Monday, April 26, the Federal Court of Canada will hear arguments  
by lawyers representing British MP George Galloway and the organizers  
of his 2009 speaking tour who are challenging Minister of Citizenship  
and Immigration Jason Kenney's decision to ban Galloway from Canada.  
Galloway's legal team will be joined by lawyers representing the  
Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) which has been granted  
leave to intervene in the case.  In Toronto, please join us before the  
hearing begins for a rally to defend free speech, and to let George  
Galloway speak in Canada. After the rally, please attend the hearing,  
and help us fill the court room with supporters.  The hearing is open  
to the general public and media.

Solidarity rallies will be held the same day, on April 26 from 12:00  
p.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Federal Court Buildings all across Canada.
www.transformingpower.ca

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Foundry Theatre Company presents:

A Reading of The Trial of Jeremy Hinzman
By Oonagh Duncan & Josh Bloch

Monday, 26 April, 7 - 9:30 pm
The Rearview Mirror, 193 ½ Baldwin Street, Kensington Market
Tickets: pay what you can

The trial of Jeremy Hinzman is a verbatim documentary play using the  
edited transcripts of American war resister Jeremy Hinzman’s  
Immigration and Refugee Board hearing. In trying to gain refugee  
status in Canada, Jeremy tells the story of how he went from being a  
‘soldier’s soldier’ to a conscientious objector and finally a deserter  
seeking refuge in Canada.

http://torontotheatre.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/event-a-reading-of-the-trial-of-jeremy-hinzman-by-oonagh-duncan-josh-bloch-foundry-theatre-company/

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MAYWORKS Festival

April 24-May 2

For the 25th year the Mayworks Festival will bring a medley of artists  
to Toronto with live music, storytelling, spoken word, film,  
photography, dance, community theatre and more!

To check out the full program visit our website  www.mayworks.ca

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STUDIES IN PROPAGANDA
Free Lecture Series -- Spring 2010 - 10th Year - With Sydney White,  
Investigative Journalist

Mon. April 26, 6 - 8 p.m.

New Location: 10 King's College Road, Sanford Fleming Building, Room  
1105

Resource Wars and HAARP. The Myth of Peak Oil. General Smedley Butler  
was right. "War is a racket." The report from Iron Mountain.

For more info: 416 787 0592

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Better Ballots Town Hall

Monday, April 26, 7 p.m.
Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen St. West (at Bay)

Civic elections in Toronto are not meeting our expectations.

Turnout is surprisingly low. New faces on City Council are uncommon.  
Candidates can 'win' a seat with as low as 20% of the vote. And  
perhaps most importantly, our City Council does not reflect the  
evolving demographic of Toronto’s diverse population.

Should Toronto have municipal parties? Term limits? A lower voting  
age? Ranked ballots? Multi-member wards? Borough Councils? Online  
voting? Finance reforms?

Join us at the Better Ballots Town Hall meetings to learn about  
fourteen specific ideas that could make Toronto's elections more  
inclusive, diverse and fair. What are the possible benefits and  
concerns for each proposal? This is your chance to learn about options  
for election reform in Toronto and join the discussion.

  http://bit.ly/betterballots
Etobicoke (April 27): http://bit.ly/betterballots_WEST

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MILITARIZATION and the CLIMATE CRISIS: TIME to be BOLD

Tuesday April 27, 10:30 a.m.

St. Andrew’s United Church 117 Bloor Street East, 2nd floor, Toronto  
(near Yonge and Bloor)

BARBARA FALBY: Barbara is an Eco Conscientous Objector - who works  
with ForOurGrandchildren, the Just Earth Coalition; endorses the work  
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, the Toronto Environmental Alliance,  
Greenpece and CELA in their work for CO2 reductions and environmental  
sustainability. Former President, Anglican Church Women at St. James  
Cathedral

SHIRLEY FARLINGER: Member of Pugwash; Editor of The Bulletin, Science  
for Peace; member of Older Women's Network, International Institute of  
Concern for Public Health (Rosalie Bertell); author of "A Million for  
Peace: the History of the Peacemaking Fund of the United Church of  
Canada". Freelance writer Peace Magazine and other magazines.

Coffee at 10 a.m., Lunch around 12 noon: sandwiches, wraps, tea.

Presented by: VETERANS AGAINST NUCLEAR ARMS, ON-QUE REGION
For further information please contact Audrey Tobias Tel/FAX (416)  
423-8523.  emailatobias at primus.ca

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Tina Clarke talk on equity in Transition Town movement

Tuesday, April 27th, 4:30-6PM
University College, Room 256, 15 King's College Circle, University of  
Toronto

Higher energy costs, climate change, and economic instability pose a  
Triple Challenge that requires creative action. Transition Towns is a  
positive, inspiring, bottom-up response that brings people together to  
build community resilience.  Created in the UK & now used by 100s of  
communities around the world, the Transition process engages community  
members in building local security, well-being, and vitality.  How can  
the Transition process help increase social equity?

TINA CLARKE is a certifed Transition Towns Trainer with 30 yrs  
experience in social change movements, including 7yrs in the  
Environmental Health and
Justice movement in the U.S.

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The Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, Co-Sponsored by the  
Centre for Environment and School of Public Policy and Governance Is  
pleased to present a Public Issues Forum:

Climate Change and the Ethics of Responsibility: The View from Ontario

on Tuesday, April 27th, 3 - 5 pm at
at the Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre for  
International Studies, 1 Devonshire Place
Free and open to the public.

The public issue forum explores the ethics of climate change with a  
special focus on the current policy debates in Ontario.  Drawing  
together philosophers, policy analysts, and climate change  
specialists, it aims to address the question of what it means, at both  
a practical and a theoretical level, to adopt an ethic of  
responsibility for global warming. More specifically, the forum will  
explore the boundaries of moral responsibility when it comes to  
climate change and the most appropriate measures for meeting our moral  
obligations in the near and distant future.

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Confront Barrick Gold

Rally outside Barrick's Annual Shareholder's Meeting

Wednesday, April 28, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Metro Convention Center, 255 Front St.
Once a year, the board of directors for the world's most powerful gold  
miner converge in downtown Toronto. Be there to Confront Barrick Gold!

WHO is Barrick Gold? Barrick is the world's largest gold mining  
company, founded and chaired by Peter Munk. Barrick is one of the  
biggest forces pushing Corporate Social Responsibility as an  
alternative to government oversight. With a former executive on the  
board of the Canadian Pension Fund, and a former Prime Minister on  
their board of directors, Barrick enjoys public funding and  
diplomative support.

WHY Protest Barrick? Barrick takes advantage of inadequate and poorly  
enforced regulatory controls to rob indigenous people of their lands,  
destroy sensitive ecosystems and agricultural land, support brutal  
military and security operations, and sue anyone who tries to report  
on it. Impacted communities are coming to Toronto to share their  
undeniable perspectives and shed light on this criminal mining giant.  
Come out and support them!

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113078698713183
Website: www.protestbarrick.net

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Historical Walk of Downtown East End
with anti-poverty activist Gaetan Heroux

Wednesday April 28, 6pm to 8pm
Meet in front of 51 Division (South East Corner of Parliament and  
Front Streets)

East Downtown Toronto is home to one of the city's oldest working  
class neighbourhoods. East Downtown Toronto was once the home to some  
of Toronto’s wealthiest residents. Today, Toronto's "skid row" is  
located in the heart of East Downtown Toronto, and the area has one of  
the largest concentration of social housing in Canada. The current  
gentrification of the area threatens the very existence of this  
working class neighbourhood. During the Great Depression and in the  
mid 1990's East Downtown Toronto become a staging ground for some of  
the most militant anti-poverty demonstrations in the country.

How did this transformation happen? What was the relationship of  
Toronto's wealthy philanthropist and the various church organizations  
to the "vagrants", "tramps", and "unemployed" who were flooding the  
city in the 1830’s and onward? What role did the House of Industry,  
Toronto’s first poor house, play in the lives poor people and the  
unemployed? How did this poor house come to dominate the lives of  
Toronto's poor for over a hundred years? What was the city's response  
to slums which emerged in East Downtown Toronto shortly after the  
industrialization of the city? How did a local church, All Saints  
Church, which at one time claimed some of
city’s richest citizens as its parishioners, come to open its doors to  
Toronto’s poorest residents? How did a local park, Allan Gardens, go  
from being the playground of the rich to being the staging ground for  
some of the most militant anti-poverty demonstrations in the country?  
Why are the poor now being displaced and from their own community by  
the city?

Come and walk in East Downtown Toronto with Gaetan Heroux and find out  
how the poor survived, organized and fought against relief policies  
that often left them destitute. Gaetan is an anti-poverty activists  
with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. He has worked in East  
Downtown for the last twenty years. Over the last five years Gaetan  
has been researching the history of how the poor in East Downtown  
Toronto have resisted and organized.

More information?
Contact the Downtown East Fightback Campaign eastfightback at gmail.com /  
416-760-6579  Visit: www.ocap.ca

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HOW TO COOL THE PLANET

Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate by Jeff  
Goodell.

Thursday, April 29th at Innis Town Hall at 7:00 pm, U of T

The evening will include two short films programmed by Planet in Focus  
with a Q&A afterwards with Jeff Goodell.

JEFF GOODELL is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and a frequent  
contributor to the New York Times magazine. He is the author of the  
New York Times bestseller Our Story: 77 Hours That Tested Our  
Friendship and Our Faith. Goodell’s memoir, Sunnyvale: The Rise and  
Fall of a Silicon Valley Family, was a New York Times Notable Book.  
His most recent book, Big Coal, is the basis of an upcoming feature  
documentary, “Dirty Business”.

In How to Cool the Planet, Goodell explores the scientific, political,  
financial, and moral aspects of geoengineering. How are we to change  
the temperature of whole regions if we can’t even predict next week’s  
weather? What if a wealthy entrepreneur shots particles into the  
stratosphere on his own? What about wars waged with climate control as  
the primary weapon? What happens to our relationship with nature when,  
as Goodell puts it, we all find ourselves living in a giant terrarium?

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dandyhorse launch party

number four for Volume 3, Issue No. 1
Toronto's Cyclist Magazine

Canadian Corps Club***, 201 Niagara south of King
Thursday April 29, 7 pm - 12 midnight

NO COVER for Subscribers! http://www.dandyhorse.com/subscribe.html
$7 includes magazine

**Tunes by DJ Triple-X**

Park in bike piles with your friends. Ring and post lock ups on King,  
Niagara and Wellington to the south.

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May Day Concert

Thursday, April 29 at 7:30pm
Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto.

Labour has travelled a long way since workers were hanged in the Cook  
County Jail fighting for the Eight Hour Day, and we're not going to  
allow companies like VALE-INCO and their political minions to  
undermine the gains our society has made.

Joining George Hewison at the Tranzac Club will be a reunion of the  
Rank n File Band (Paula, Bill, Mark, and Kevin), activist, singer/ 
songwriter Sara Marlowe, musician Kevin Wrycraft from Local 1285 of  
the Canadian Autoworkers Union and a couple of surprises.

We hope to produce a recording out of this special concert, so bring  
your singing voices!

Seating is limited, so reserve a seat or better still a table at this  
year's event.
Contact: georgehewison at gmail.com

www.socialis tproject. ca/events/ #e1023

www.facebook .com/event. php?eid=10439361 2931150

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Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story”
Join NDP Leader Andrea Horwath & NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo

Thursday, April 29th,
Doors open at 6:00 pm, Screening starts at 6:30 pm, Reception starts  
at 9:15 pm

Revue Cinema – a heritage building and community-run theatre, located  
at 400 Roncesvalles Ave.
Tickets: $40 per person movie only. $100 for movie and after-movie  
Reception.

After the movie, join Andrea and Cheri for a reception at the gorgeous  
River Restaurant, right across the street from the theatre at 413  
Roncesvalles – critique the film and catch up with other activists.

For further information and tickets contact  Paul Pighin paulpighin.ndp at gmail.com 
  or call 416-537-5001 or email info at phpndp.ca

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Critical Mass Ride

Fri. April 30 (and the last Fri. of every month)
Meet at 6 p.m. at the corner of Bloor and Spadina (leaves at 6:30 p.m.)

Part of a global movement of cyclists that ride en masse through city  
streets in safety and joy.

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Benefit Concert for Beit Zatoun - CASSAVA & Olive

Friday, April 30 @ 8 pm

612 Markham St. (1 door south of Bloor - at Bathurst subway) ~  
647.726.9500

Featuring the very talented and tantalizing CASSAVA Latin Band

Tickets are $20 at the door or in advance at Beit Zatoun (see hours)  
or can be reserved online at Beit Zatoun's website. Also you can visit  
facebook to respond.

Admission includes tasty cold and hot refreshments, and olive oil &  
za'atar snack.

Visit for News and Events: www.beitzatoun.org;   www.facebook.com/beitzatoun 
   email: info at beitzatoun.org


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M1M RALLY & MARCH: Working Class People Unite on MAY DAY!

On Saturday, May 1, 2010, rally, march, and celebrate May Day with the  
May 1st Movement (M1M), as we organize ourselves to strengthen the  
unity and solidarity of working people in Toronto.
1:00pm Rally, Bathurst and St. Clair (rear parking lot)
1:30pm March Up Vaughan Rd. / Down Oakwood / East on St. Clair to  
Wychwood Barns
3:00pm Cultural Event, Wychwood Barns - 601 Christie St. (Christie  
south of St. Clair)

For well over 100 years, May Day – or May 1st – has been the day of  
resistance and celebration for workers all throughout the world. It is  
a day when workers quit their slaving away and pour into the streets  
to demonstrate the power of unity. In many cases, May Day has been a  
launching point for massive working-class fight-backs.

While May Day was born out of Chicago after the 1886 Haymarket  
Massacre of workers by the police, us workers in North America have  
been denied this tradition by having our ‘Labour Day’ pushed into  
September, diverting our class from celebrating and struggling with  
the international working class.

With the deepening of the world economic crisis combined with the  
destruction of the environment by capitalism, the unity and leadership  
of working class people is needed now more than ever before.

More info:  http://www.TorontoForumOnCuba.TYO.ca/?p=7463

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On Sat. May 1, 2010 (International Workers Day)

March for Status for All!

1pm, St. Jamestown
Wellesley St. and Ontario St.
5th Annual No One Is Illegal May Day of Action

**Endorse the march! Email nooneisillegal at riseup.net**
**Art/Banner Making: April 18 and 25, 2pm-6pm, Wellesley St. and  
Ontario St. Spread the Word!**
**For more details, videos and posters visit http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/MayDay 
  **

In the past 6 years the struggle for justice for immigrants and  
refugees has grown immensely. Rising out of schools, shelters and  
apartment blocks from Jane and Finch to Crescent Town, our voices have  
reached the streets and the hallways of power. From the 2004 No One Is  
Illegal march from Montreal to Ottawa, to the first Toronto May Day of  
Action in 2006, to the take over of Yonge and Dundas square on May Day  
in 2009, we have worked tirelessly to create real meaningful change –  
stopping deportations, winning access to schools, changing federal  
immigration policy. We have been on picket lines with labour unions,  
on barricades in solidarity with Indigenous struggles, supported  
people’s organizations in streets and in communities.

Now, in 2010, as the Conservative government arrests and deports our  
friends. As they tear apart our families. As they push us in to unsafe  
jobs. As they call us “bogus refugees” and “illegals”, and do it with  
a smile, we say no mas, no more.

On Christmas Eve, four migrant construction workers fell to their  
deaths, unable to demand safe working conditions. Days before  
International Women's Day, bullies from Immigration Enforcement raided  
shelters, intimidating, harassing and arresting women and children in  
the middle of the night. Workplace raids have increased dramatically  
in Southern Ontario. Faced with being sent back to certain torture,  
Habtom Kibraeb killed himself rather than be deported.

Kenney & Harper are writing a new story of migration. A ruthless story  
that claws back past victories, and launches new attacks. Now more  
than ever, we must fight back!

When a mother can’t bring her child to a hospital for fear of  
deportation, when a worker is condemned to unsafe work for fear of  
detention, when Immigration Canada acts as judge, jury and  
executioner, we need to join together across movements, across  
divides, and across the city to fight for Status for All.

The Struggle for Status is the fight for movement, good jobs, food,  
health-care, education, shelter, housing, justice and dignity for all  
people, irrespective of Immigration status.

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Mayworks Festival Closing Party
It Will Work!

Sat. May 1, Doors: 7:30pm
The Garrison, 1197 Dundas Street West
Tickets: $5-$15 (no one turned away)

Following the No One Is Illegal! May Day of Action (1pm.  
St.Jamestown), celebrate May 1st by shining the spotlight on the  
struggles, successes and strength of working class peoples, migrants,  
undocumented and temporary workers, by joining the Mayworks Festival,  
No One Is Illegal Toronto and the Canadian Labour Congress Ontario  
Region in presenting musicians, dancers and artists who will ignite  
the stage with words, musice and movement to provoke thinking as well  
as dancing and laughter!

Part of the Mayworks Festival | April 24 - May 2 | www.mayworks.ca

No One Is Illegal-Toronto  www.nooneisillegal.org   nooneisillegal at riseup.net

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Celebrate May Day!

Sat. May 1, 7 p.m.
Free Times Café, 320 College St, 2 west of Spadina

Since 1990 when the IWW celebrated May Day at the Sears Strike on  
Jarvis St. by spreading the last of Joe Hill's ashes in the breeze and  
later in the day at Trinity-Bellwoods Parks with anarchists,  
socialists and other ne'er-do-wells in attendance, we have refused to  
work on May first except to sing, speechify and quaff ale.

Musicians appearing this year will be (in alphabetical order) Jon  
Brooks, Smokey Dymny, Marianne Girard, Bill Heffernan, Glen Hornblast  
and Linda Saslove.

Excellent food & drink, as always. Phone 416-967-1078 for a  
reservation. CDs prizes, literature, etc. Tickets $5-10 or PWYC

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9/11: Explosive Evidence and the War in Afghanistan

With Dr. David Ray Griffin and Richard Gage, AIA

7-10 pm, Sunday, May 2nd
at the University of Toronto’s Walter Hall, Edward Johnson Building  
(80 Queen’s Park) (located west of Museum Subway Station, behind the  
ROM)
Tickets are $15 @Hart House or UofTtix.ca

The Toronto 9/11 truth community is presenting two world-renowned  
independent researchers of the attacks of September 11th, 2001: Dr.  
David Ray Griffin and Richard Gage, AIA, on the evening of May 2nd,  
2010.

Richard Gage, AIA, is a San Francisco Bay Area architect and a member  
of the American Institute of Architects.  He has been a practicing  
architect for over 20 years and has worked on most types of building  
construction, including numerous fire-proofed steel-framed buildings.  
Although it is widely reported that the destruction of the World Trade  
Center occurred as a result of the impact of jetliners and the ensuing  
fires, Mr. Gage and over 1100 professional architects and engineers  
listed at AE911truth.org have signed a petition that claims there is  
sufficient doubt about the official story to justify re-opening the  
investigation into 9/11.  Mr. Gage’s presentation will be focused on  
reviewing data gathered by government reports, videos of the  
collapses, and eye-witness accounts.  He was recently featured on the  
CBC’s flagship documentary series the fifth estate, and was described  
as lucid by the National Post.

Dr. David Ray Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and  
Theology, Emeritus, at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont  
Graduate University.  He is the author of 36 books, nine of which are  
on 9/11.  His most recent book is The Mysterious Collapse of World  
Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report about 9/11 Is  
Unscientific and False.  He was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace  
Prize (2008 and 2009), and was ranked in September 2009 by Britain’s  
venerated New Statesman as #41 of “the 50 people who matter today”.   
Recently featured in major documentaries on the BBC and CBC, Griffin  
will be speaking on the legal and moral aspects of the war in  
Afghanistan.  Due to the carefulness and sweep of his writings,  
Griffin is widely considered the world’s leading critic of the  
official story about 9/11.

For more information, please contact Adam Parrott, B.Sc.Eng., at (647)  
287 4350 or adam.parrott at gmail.com

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Sign the Petition to shut down Ontario's Coal Power Plants This Year!

Stop the smog, save lives. Ontario now has more than sufficient coal- 
free power to keep the lights on.

http://www.cleanairalliance.org/petition

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Need a place to live?

I have a friend who has a couple of spaces available in her loft that  
would suit anyone that resonates with "STUDY ~ PRACTICE ~ ACTION", the  
"Fierce Light" that shines within and needs space to live and co- 
create!  It might also suit a small collective? (ie. holistic healers,  
artists) that need space and would embrace and utilize what's offered  
there.
  For more details check out Craigs list AD (with pictures)

  http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/roo/1703483804.html

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Hot Docs is Coming to Toronto

170 documentary films!
April 29 – May 9
Get your tickets in advance - many are sold out in advance. http://www.hotdocs.ca/

Search program by subject: http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/subject/

Angela's recommendation:  A Different Path
Using humour and creativity, activists challenge car culture and take  
back the streets for pedestrians, cyclists, and wheelchairs. Seattle  
seniors paint their own scooter lane, Toronto cyclists throw a block  
party, and a New Yorker commutes by kayak.

http://www.hotdocs.ca/

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