T.O. Greenspiration Events: sharing the streets
Bischoff Angela
greenspi at web.ca
Sun May 16 10:15:22 EDT 2010
Toronto Greenspiration Events
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M.U.C.K. presents:
The Nuclear Comeback
Q & A to follow with Panel Experts
Sunday May 16, 3:00 pm
The Royal Theatre, 608 College Street
In a world living in fear of climate change, the nuclear industry has
put its hand up as a solution. It claims that nuclear power generation
produces zero carbon emissions… and people are listening. What we’re
witnessing is the start of a global nuclear renaissance, with 27
nuclear power stations under construction, and projections for another
136 to be commenced within the next decade.
The earth’s electricity consumption is expected to double in the next
25 years and the nuclear industry claims that nuclear power is the
only large-scale method of power production that can reliably replace
coal, gas or oil-fired power plants. However, many people have an
inherent fear of things nuclear. Is it time we learnt to love the
split atom? Or, is there a risk that we might be jumping out of the
carbon frying pan and into the plutonium fire?
This film goes on a worldwide tour of the nuclear industry in search
of answers. The Nuclear Comeback visits some of the planet's most
famous nuclear facilities – including inside the Chernobyl control
room and it investigates the state of “the grand old lady” of
commercial nuclear power – the UK’s Calder Hall; and travels through a
nuclear waste repository under the Baltic Sea.
http://icarusfilms.com/new2008/nuc.html
http://www.muckfilmfestival.com/#
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Stand Up for Women's Healthy Environments Network
A Dose of Laughter in Support of Cancer Prevention
Sunday, May 16, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge Street, Toronto (just north of Eglinton
Avenue)
Tickets are $20 - contact us to register. http://www.womenshealthyenvironments.ca/contact
"Stand up" for a great cause and enjoy a night of laughs as well! Join
us at 7pm for a pre-drink and to learn about what you can do to make a
difference in your own household and your community. Bring your toxin-
filled household products for safe disposal with our Household Toxin
Return Program. Comedy show starts at 8pm.
Lower Your Doses is a WHEN campaign aimed at raising awareness about
the toxins (parabens, phthalates, triclosans and musks) present in our
everyday household bath and beauty products. Taking action for
prevention is key to reducing our health risks!
http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/764
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The City Series: Sharing the Streets
Mon. May 17, 7 PM, Toronto Reference Library (Yonge and Bloor)
Bikes, cars and pedestrians are finding it difficult to coexist
peacefully on Toronto's streets. Catch this panel on the problem of
sharing the streets, and what can be done to solve it.
Toronto Star Urban Affairs columnist Christopher Hume moderates a
panel of experts, including Gil Penalosa (8-80 Cities), Fiona Chapman
(City of Toronto Pedestrian Projects), Ellen Greenwood (Moore Park
Residents Association), and Yvonne Bambrick (Toronto Cyclists Union)
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Studies in Propaganda
Free Lecture Series -- Spring 2010 - 10th Year - With Sydney White,
Investigative Journalist
Mon. May 17, 6 - 8 p.m.
The Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St., Lecture Room 1170
Surveillance and the police state: PROMIS, GPS mapping and chips.
Waco, Ruby Ridge, CIA, ATF, DEA – Are alphabet reruns coming here?
For more info: 416 787 0592
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Sunscreening Lotions, Potions and Creams!
Monday, May 17 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Anarres Natural Health, College & Ossington
$90, $50 preregistred pre paid, $45 when you pre register and prepay
with a friend. This workshop costs @$300 at other local schools!
Materials, samples and packaging included.
To register: http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/423
This workshop by request combines my Lotions, Potions and Creams
workshop, where we'll make shea butter and cocoa butter lotion, SPF
15, from scratch, then make Sun Protection Cream with zinc SPF 30.
You'll not onl;y learn how to make a basic white lotion from scratch,
but also how to protect yourself and your loved ones, no matter how
young, from harmful sun rays, while still making and storing essential
vitamine D.
You'll leave with 170ml metal pump bottle or jar of shea lotion, a
170ml pump bottle or jar of cocoa butter lotion and a 120ml jar of sun
protection cream - a $38 value!!!
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Rally in Support of Canada’s first 3-foot bicycle passing law
On Tuesday, May 18, NDP Transit critic Cheri DiNovo will introduce a
private members bill requiring vehicle drivers to give 3-feet of
clearance when passing cyclists.
So-called “3 foot laws” have been passed in 15 U.S. states, and go a
long way in educating drivers and making cycling safer in both urban
and rural settings.
Cyclists and friends are invited to join in the launch of this Bill at
Queen’s Park on Tuesday, May 18:
9:30 am – Rally for Safe Cycling – bring your bikes and your kids and
show your support for a new provincial 3 foot law. Front Lawn of the
Main Legislature Building, Queen’s Park Circle (just north of College
St. and University Avenue)
10:00 am – Media conference. Queen’s Park Media Studio.
For more information, contact Cheri DiNovo's Queen's Park Office at
416-325-2044 or dinovoc-qp at ndp.on.ca
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122564071103307
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Living Downstream
Canadian Premiere of documentary feature film, Living Downstream
Bloor Cinema, Toronto
Tues. May 18, 7:30 p.m.
General admission: $10. Advance tickets available via Brown Paper
Tickets (http://ca.brownpapertickets.com/event/109106) and in person
from all Book City locations. Remaining tickets available at the box
office one hour before the screening.
Co-presentation of Planet in Focus and Women’s Healthy Environments
Network
Living Downstream is an eloquent feature-length documentary that
charts the life and work of Sandra Steingraber: a biologist, author,
cancer survivor and cancer prevention advocate. Like the book on
which it is based, Living Downstream documents the growing body of
scientific evidence that links human health with the health of our
environment.
http://www.livingdownstream.com
Review in NOW mag: http://www.nowtoronto.com/movies/story.cfm?content=174946
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PEACEFLICKS!!
A co-sponsorship by the National Film Board and PeaceWorks
The Peacekeepers
Winner, Vaclav Havel Special Award,
One World International Human Rights Film Festival, 2005, Directed by
Paul Cowan, 2005, 85 minutes.
Tuesday May 18, 7 p.m.
at the NFO, 150 John Street
Free
With unprecedented access to the United Nations Department of
Peacekeeping, The Peacekeepers follows the determined and often
desperate manoeuvres to avert another Rwandan disaster, this time in
the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Join us for a discussion with Rob Acheson, co-chair of the Toronto
chapter of the Canadian Department of Peace Initiative following the
film.
PeaceFlicks! is a collaboration between the NFB Mediatheque and
Peaceworks, in conjunction with Nonviolent Peaceforce Canada,
Greenspiration, and Canadian Voice of Women for Peace.
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Town Hall: An Evening with Alanna Mitchell, Author of
Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis
Wed., May 19, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Lawrence Park Community Church, 2180 Bayview Ave., Toronto
Moderated by: Michele Landsberg
Invited Guests: Rob Oliphant MP for Don Valley West, Kathleen Wynne
MPP for Don Valley West
“SEA SICK is the first book to examine the current state of the
world’s oceans, and the great unexamined ecological crisis of the
planet: the fact that we are altering everything about the oceans,
from their temperature, salinity, and acidity, to the life within them.”
There will be a book signing following the Question & Answer Period.
A joint project of JustEarth.net and WHEN (www.womenshealthyenvironments.ca
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Ride of Silence
Wednesday, May 19 at 7:00pm.
Meet at South East Corner of Bloor and Spadina
Come out and remember those who have passed. This will be a very
slow, non-confrontational, silent ride. Should only take a half
hour. The route is to leave Bloor and Spadina and to ride to City
Hall where we will have a moment of silence at the Peace Garden and
share stories of the friends who are no longer with us. Please pass
on the word to others.
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=125179987498157&mid=2562ba5G1ee15286G48ea449G7&n_m=greenspi%40web.ca
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Vigil for War Resisters
Wed. May 19, 5 pm
Peace Garden, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto City Hall (Queen and Bay)
Pax Christi will conduct a Prayer Vigil in support of Conscientious
Objector Jeremy Hinzman & his family. We wish to invite the entire
community & all faith groups to join us on that date. We are
particularly eager to engage our friends in the Mennonite & Quaker
community for an experience of solidarity in prayer & public witness
to conscience and nonviolence.
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SPIN
by Evalyn Perry
Thursday May 20th, 8:30 PM
$15 / $12 for Bike Union members
Tranzac Club (Facebook event listing) (Brunswick and Bloor)
Sponsored by Toronto Cyclists Union
Part concert, part theatrical performance, 100% engaging, outspoken
entertainment, spin is an innovative musical show that investigates
the bicycle as muse, musical instrument, and instrument of social
change.
Created by Toronto-based songwriter, spoken word and theatre artist
evalyn parry, spin travels the distance between social history and
social comment; first wave-feminism and corporate sponsorship; the
first woman to ride around the world in 1895 and Toronto’s most
notorious, accused bicycle thief awaiting trial in 2010; bicycle as
revolution, bicycle as metaphor, and bicycle as musical accompaniment.
Funny, personal, political, engaging, challenging and thought-
provoking: spin is intelligent entertainment for a world on the brink
of a paradigm shift.
http://evalynparry.com/spin/
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Codepink Event - an info and movie night for US Iraq War Resisters
living in Canada!
This is a crucial time for Iraq War Resisters as their bill is about
to be debated in Parliament, so they need us now!
Thur. May 20
6:30pm: Presentation on B C-440 with Jesse McLaren - member of the War
Resisters Support Campaing and Discussion of How Code Pink can help!
7:00: Screening of "Breaking Ranks" - a 1 hour documentary on 4 US War
Resisters seeking Sanctuary in Canada.
8:00 Possible National and International Conference call with out of
town women and Code Pink! (There is no need to stay for this part but
you are also welcome to stay.)
Food will be provided!
We are a 3 minute walk from Dufferin Subway Station.
Please RSVP for directions to my house (and so I know how much food to
make).
RSVP at: torontocodepink at yahoo.ca
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Tell Your Local Liberal MPP to Leave the Special Diet Alone and Raise
the Rates Instead!
Day of Action at Local Ministers of Provincial Parliament Offices:
Thursday, May 20th
The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) is challenging the
decision to eliminate the Special Diet for people on welfare and
disability. We are demanding this vital benefit be left alone and that
the Government Raise the Rates now.
Coming out of the momentum of April 15th, we are organizing a series
of actions to build up resistance to the attack on the Special Diet
between now and the closing of Provincial Legislature in June. This
will include a major mobilization at the Provincial Government
Buildings on June 17. To ensure that the fight is taken into as many
communities as possible, we are calling for a day of actions at local
Liberal MPPs' offices on Thursday, May 20.
We leave it up to people to decide the kind of event that is right for
them. Some may choose to occupy an office. Some may think it better to
rally outside. Others may want to bring a delegation and call for a
meeting. Please let us know what ideas you have for ways to drive this
issue home at Liberal offices so we can share them with people in
other communities.
Whatever tactic you think is possible and works best for you, we are
calling on people across this Province to make May 20 a day when the
cut to Special Diet is put before the Liberals in a way they can't
ignore.
The loss of the Special Diet means people will not have a healthy
diet. Some will be made homeless, many will suffer ill health and
lives will be shortened. We don't just want to protest this attack but
intend to defeat it.
If you want to be part of this fight back and the May 20th Day of
Action, e mail us atocap at tao.ca or call us at (416) 925-6939
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Socialism 2010: Socialism or Barbarism / Eco-socialism or Extinction
an International Educational Conference
May 20, 21, 22, 23
at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, U of Toronto, 252 Bloor
Street West
Tickets: $20 in advance for weekend; $30 at door for wkend; $5 per
session (or PWYC)
For more information: www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com
416 535-8779 barryaw at rogers.com
co-sponsored by: Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste ˆ
Canadian state, Socialist Action ˆ USA, and the Socialist Unity League
(LUS) ˆ Mexico
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CANSEC is Canada's largest weapons trade exhibition, and it will be
held in Ottawa, June 2-3, 2010. Many thousands of buyers, sellers,
users and promoters of the latest military technologies will be
rubbing shoulders at this war industry extravaganza. Ottawa's
fairgrounds will be bristling with displays set up by hundreds of
companies to showcase cutting-edge military hardware used in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Gaza, and all-too-many other killing fields.
War is Big Bad Business - Come and Protest
The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace is marking its 50thanniversary
with a bus trip to Ottawa to protest the display and sale of military
goods by the 800-member Canadian Association of Defence and Security
Industries supplying wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti. A 20-year
ban on such activities in Ottawa has been overturned. For full details
of CANSEC see the November edition of Press for Conversion.
We plan to leave Toronto on June 2 at 8:30 a.m. from Friends House, 60
Lowther Ave., near the Bedford exit of the St. George subway station
and return June 3 at 4 p.m. from Ottawa.
We will arrive at the Bank Street entrance to Lansdowne Park in Ottawa
in time to join the many protesters already there. We will help
decorate the fence with peace statements and images. The Raging
Grannies will be raging and speakers include MP Paul Dewar, Richard
Sanders (COAT) and one from Voice of Women.
Travel by bus will cost $70.00 each and does not include accommodation.
Please send your cheque to the VOW office at 761 Queen St., W., #203,
Toronto, ON M6J 1G1, 416-603-7915 to secure your seat. Space is
limited. Put in a request for accommodation and we will try to find a
spot for you.
Link: http://coat.ncf.ca/CANSEC2010/OpposeCANSEC.htm
Contact Richard Sanders at overcoat at rogers.com.
Help Oppose CANSEC, Canada's Top Weapons Bazaar!
COAT: http://coat.ncf.ca
CANSEC: War is Business. http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/64/64.htm
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