T.O. Greenspiration Events: Bright Ideas

Angela Bischoff greenspi at web.ca
Mon Jun 7 23:41:46 EDT 2010


Toronto Greenspiration Events

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It's Still Bike Month in Toronto!
Check out the myriad of events:

The City of Toronto's Bike Month Calendar http://wx.toronto.ca/festevents.nsf/Cycling?openform
Our joint Cycling community calendar http://www.bikeevents.to/
Don't miss the screening of Roadsworth: Crossing the Line on Thur.  
June 10: http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/mediatheque/schedule.php?id=2074  
sponsored by TaketheTooker.ca (deets below)

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A People's Visit to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre

Tues. June 8, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 222 Bremner Blvd.

Bring Large Placards and Signs Describing the Worlds We Wish to Live In

We've spent the last eight months knocking on doors, talking to  
families, friends and neighbours, arranging transportation and  
accommodation, gathering food, sleeping bags and tents and supporting  
over a dozen actions that will take place between June 21-27, 2010.  
Thousands of people are planning to attend these events that will  
showcase the world we wish to live in.

Throughout all this, the G20 leaders have remained in hiding, while  
their lackeys, the Toronto Police, the RCMP, CSIS and now the  
Integrated Security Unit have harassed and intimidated organizers,  
bought themselves CAD $1,100,000,000 worth of weapons, fences and  
goons and made plans to turn the city into a residents' nightmare.

Of course, for us, this isn't about the cops, it's about the G20's  
anti-people and anti-environmental policies. So on June 8th, we are  
going up to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre with large placards  
describing the world we wish to live in. A world with Indigenous  
Sovereignty and Self-Determination, Environmental and Climate Justice,  
Migrant Justice and an End to War and Occupation, Income Equity and  
Community Control over Resources, Gender Justice and Queer and  
disAbility Rights.

We invite everyone to join us with their own signs and placards. And  
your own cameras and recorders. On a walk through the Metro Toronto  
Convention Centre. The G20's policies impact our communities  
everywhere - our resistance is also everywhere.

NOTE: Speakers at this event include people who have faced police  
intimidation and violence, organizers from the summit legal project  
and community organizers.

http://g20.torontomobilize.org

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Bright Ideas for Religious Buildings

Tuesday, June 8, 6:30 -9:00 pm

Forest Hill United Church
2 Wembly Road, Toronto (off Bathurst Street, 1 block north of  
Eglington.  Take #32 bus from Eglinton or Eglinton West Station)

The Green Awakening Network presents a free workshop on lighting.
Learn practical ideas on lighting audits, retrofits, innovations,  
financial incentives, energy efficiency & reducing costs.

Pre-registration required:  contact Corey Helm greenawakening at tucc.ca  
(905) 771-5124 ext. 25

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Top Eggsperts Discuss Past & Future of Toronto's Food Movement

Wed. June 9, Toronto Food Policy Council Meeting, 2 - 5 p.m.
Committee Room 4 at Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West, 2nd floor

You'll enjoy an eggciting debate if you come to the June 9, 2010 (2:00  
- 5:00 pm), meeting of the Toronto Food Policy Council to hear great  
talks on what eggsactly the food movement has accomplished over the  
last ten years, and what we can eggspect to take part in over the next  
ten years.  Wayne Roberts will review the highs and lows of what he's  
seen during his ten years as TFPC coordinator. A panel of five  
eggsperts - TFPC Chair Janice Etter,  young urban farmer Chris Wong,  
Toronto animator Anan Lololi, Toronto Food Strategy manager Peter  
Dorfman - will respond to challenging questions about the future of  
the Toronto Food Connections report adopted by the Board of Health and  
heading toward City Council's Executive Committee this month. To see  
the latest version of the food strategy and/or register your opinion  
of it, please go to www.toronto.ca/foodconnections .

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Dead Man's Letters: Movie screening and discussion

Wed. June 9, 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. (receoption at 6, film at 7)
Nat Taylor Cinema, Ross Building, York University, 4700 Keele St.
(see map http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=4700+Keele+St%2C+Toronto%2C+ON)
Coffee/snacks provided
Free

“Dead Man’s Letters” is an amazing Soviet movie about post- 
nuclear-war world. The film is short on special effects but rich in  
texture and ideas. Winner of 14 international prizes, Letters so  
impressed Ted Turner that he arranged to have the film broadcast on TNT>

Year: 1986
Director: Konstantin Lopushansky
Writers: Konstantin Lopushansky and Vyacheslav Rybakov and Boris  
Strugatsky
Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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Roadsworth: Crossing the Line

Thur. June 10, 7 p.m.
NFB Theatre, 150 John St (at Richmond St W)
FREE
Directed by Alan Kohl, 2008, 74 minutes.

Alan Kohl’s documentary Roadsworth: Crossing the Line is about a  
Montreal stencil artist’s clandestine campaign to make his mark on  
the city streets. After all, who owns public space?

A panel discussion will follow on the topic of bike culture, with  
Greenspiration’s Angela Bischoff; Most Tenacious Cycling Advocate  
Award-winner Hamish Wilson of Take the Tooker, Michael Lewis Johnson  
of Streets are for People - and YOU!.

http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/mediatheque/schedule.php?id=2074

Watch the trailer: http://films.nfb.ca/roadsworth/

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#voteTOin27: So You Think You Can Council? (An All Candidate Game Show)

Hosted by Maggie Cassella from "We're Funny that Way",
Performance by Bruin Pounder from Boylesque.

Thursday, June 10.
Doors open at 6:00
, show starts at 6:30.
FLY Nightclub, 8 Gloucester St. (east of Yonge, north of Wellesley)
FREE TICKETS: http://guestlistapp.com/events/22098

We know that there will be plenty of opportunities for the various  
candidates to participate in formal policy debates, but it is still  
early in the race and we want to know who these politicos are. The  
format is designed to get candidates to show their knowledge of the  
city, the area neighborhoods, and the people they seek to represent.  
Candidates will have to work with each other and compete in a series  
of game show-inspired challenges. This is not going to be ye olde tyme  
all candidate debate, but a social space to learn more about the  
issues, candidates and to get involved. Facebook event: http://bit.ly/9QsA3W 
.

#voteTOin27 promises to be an entertaining night, celebrating the  
diverse and wonderful neighborhoods of Toronto Centre-Rosedale. Even  
if you live outside the ward, join us and bare witness to this chaotic  
and fun experimental format.

Thanks to FLYnightclub and Fire On the East Side for their support.

Presented by #voteTO,
Twitter: @vote_TO
Website: http://voteto.ca/
Facebook: http://bit.ly/dCdVDj

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Debates in the movement... The over-population myth

Fri. June 11, 6 p.m.
Motorama Restaurant, 862 Danforth (between Pape and Donlands subway  
stations, north side of the Danforth at Jones)

With Ian Angus, editor of the blog "Climate and Capitalism," www.climateandcapitalism.com

"The 'population problem' has a Phoenix-like existence: it rises from  
the ashes at least every generation and sometimes every decade or so.  
The prophecies are usually the same, namely, that human beings are  
populating the earth in 'unprecedented numbers' and 'devouring' its  
resources like a locust plague." --Murray Bookchin

Study group organized by the Pape/Danforth International Socialists - pape.danforth at gmail.com

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120428297994255

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Canada, the G8 and Global Health: A Discussion with Dr. Michel  
Kazatchkine

Speaker: Dr. Michel Kazatchkine (Executive Director of the Global Fund  
to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria)
Friday, June 11, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School, 1  
Devonshire Place

Sponsored by Comparative Program on Health and Society
Co-sponsored by Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Global Health  
Diplomacy Unit, University of Toronto
Register online at:
http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=9110

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THE 6th GREAT YEAR IN TORONTO

WORLD NAKED BIKE RIDE
to protest fossil fuel dependency.

Saturday 12 June
Meet 12 noon at Coronation Park  (closest intersection Bathurst and  
Lakeshore)
Everyone Welcome * Celebrate Spring in Style

There's NOTHING CRUDE about us!

learn more and join the mailing list at
http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org

and keep an eye on the Toronto specific wiki at:
http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/index.php?title=Toronto

If there's one thing that we learned from the 1989 Exon Valez oil  
spill, it's that people won't learn anything from this latest spill  
either - unless we make a scene.  It makes sense to bike against the  
traffic when the traffic is bound for a cliff.

Join the thousands of riders in over 70 other cities in over 20  
countries.  Get out on your BICYCLE, roller-skates, skateboard or  
wheelchair.  Ride AS BARE AS YOU DARE, or in your best SARTORIAL  
SPLENDOR.

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Social Planning Toronto Community Planning Forum: Moving Forward,  
Breaking Through!

Some steps forward, but many more to go: How can we push ahead and get  
real change?

A Community Planning Forum for Anti-Poverty Groups in Toronto

Saturday, June 12
10:00 - 3:00 p.m.
North York Memorial Hall
5110 Yonge Street, next to North York Civic Centre (North York Civic  
Centre subway station)

- Join with other community groups across the city fighting to end  
poverty;
- Share what's happening in your community
- Hear what others are doing; connect with new ideas
- Explore new opportunities to open the way for change

For RSVP and more information, please contact: Mary Micallef -  
416-351-0095 ext. 251 or mmicallef at socialplanningtoronto.org

Child minding assistance available on request. This venue is  
wheelchair accessible. Refreshments provided.

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Prisoners’ Justice Community Meeting

Saturday June 12th from 2 to 5 p.m.

Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, 401 Bay  
Street, Suite 2200.   This is an accessible space.

Mapquest Directions:  http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Toronto&state=ON&address=401+Bay+Street

On February 27th, 2010, and then again on April 17th, a group of over  
50 people came together to create a coalition that is committed to  
creating community justice. The group consists of people from  
different backgrounds and disparate areas of expertise, but we are all  
united to find ways of opposing the Canadian government’s proposed  
new legislation that will increase prison populations. The government  
remains committed to building new prisons to accommodate them (despite  
‘crime’ rates remaining stable or going down). Without a doubt,  
Canada is moving towards the US-style of justice that has proven to be  
ineffective.

Are you concerned about increased spending on prisons?

Law-and-order legislation and increased prison construction will not  
make our communities safer. In fact, if things transpire as they have  
in the US, the result will be just the opposite.

Money spent on new prisons could be spent on increasing income  
subsidies, affordable housing, effective drug and harm reduction  
programs, youth programs, etc. – that is, actions shown to be far  
more effective in diminishing crime than are tougher sentences and  
additional prisons.

We have created 5 working groups:

* Harm Reduction and Bill S-10 (mandatory minimums)
* Human Rights and Bill C-43 (changes to the Corrections and Conditional
   Release Act)
* Youth Justice
* Prison Expansion Working Group
* Families of Prisoners Group

Please join us in working to make a difference!

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Let Green Power Grow: Stop New Reactors at Darlington

When: Sunday, June 13th – 12 – 4 p.m.   Lunch served at noon.  
Meeting begins at 1.
What: Information and Organizing meeting to stop approval of the new  
Darlington reactors.
Where: Toronto Free Space Gallery, 1277 Bloor St West (Landsdown Subway)
Why: Learn about environmental impacts of new reactors at Darlington  
and find ways to stop them.

This is to invite you or a representative from your organization to  
attend an information and organizing meeting on the federal  review  
now underway of the McGuinty government’s proposal to build new  
reactors at the Darlington site east of Toronto.  These proposed new  
reactors are the biggest threat to building a  renewable and  
sustainable energy system in Ontario.  While the McGuinty government  
has taken some steps to develop green energy, its plan to build new  
reactors at Darlington will effectively stop the growth of green  
energy. To build an Ontario built on 100% green power, we must stop  
the approval of the Darlington reactors. This is why we need your help.

An alliance of environmental organizations, including Northwatch,  
Greenpeace, Safe and Green Energy (SAGE), has been working to stop  
Harper government’s free pass for Dalton McGuinty’s reactors. Join  
us.

Please RSVP at shawn.patrick.stensil at greenpeace.org

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Toronto Clean Air Act

The Toronto Clean Air Act is a citizen-initiated movement to tackle  
Toronto's toxic smog cloud, estimated to be responsible for several  
hundred deaths every summer, and negative health effects that we can  
all feel.  The main points are demands for road tolls to help reduce  
traffic and fund the TTC, a ban on combustion engine lawnmowers and  
leaf blowers, and funding from the city government for education in  
urban gardening and re-training of the landscaping workforce to focus  
on food production and decorative gardens.

  Please take notice if you have experience in web design and would  
like to help build a webstie for the Toronto Clean Air Act. www.breathetoronto.org 
  has just been purchased and is waiting for design.  The Act can be  
read at

http://www.petitiononline.com/toronto7/

And Torontonians For Breathable Air is the facebook group started to  
promote the movement:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=52852873325&ref=ts

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Coaching for Transformation
Coaching Skills for Managers, Activists and Community Workers who Want  
to Empower People

Fri. July 9 from 9:30 to 5:00
training repeated on Sat. July 10 from 9:30 to 5:00
- Toronto, Ontario

ARE YOU:
- Eager for new ways to motivate and empower people?
- Excited about developing the abilities of colleagues, volunteers or  
clients?
- Passionate about helping people transform their dreams into action?
- Curious about how coaching can awaken potential in yourself and  
others?

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN
While psychotherapy is primarily healing-focused, coaching is learning  
and action-oriented, moving people toward fulfillment of their life  
purpose, visions and goals. In this training you will learn core  
coaching skills for acknowledging people's unique gifts and strengths,  
tapping resourcefulness, expanding their options and creating  
compelling action plans.

YOU'LL PRACTICE
1) Three levels of listening
2) The art of asking powerful questions
3) Identifying the powerful motivations that underlie feelings
4) Ways to move from being stuck to readiness to act
5) Expanding the view of what is possible and translating desire into  
action.

You will complete the workshop with the confidence and ability to use  
these basic coaching skills in work, personal and community  
relationships,

TRAINING LED by Martha Lasley and Richard Michaels
- co-founders of Coaching That Works  www.CoachingThatWorks.com
JOIN A FREE TELEPHONE SESSION - 8 to 9 pm June 15th,  2010
During this interactive call you'll get an overview of the training, a  
demonstration of coaching skills, and a chance to ask questions.  
Registration required - contact (416) 913-8861 or wai_renooy at sympatico.ca

INFO: Henry Wai  (416) 913-8861 or wai_renooy at sympatico.ca

REGISTRATION and TUITION
$150 regular rate
    $125 - early bird rate if payment receive by Fri Jun 18
         $95 - student or limited means (help us by registering by Jun  
18)

To register, please mail to Henry Wai - Unit 14 - 2378 Queen St. E,  
Toronto  M4E 1H4
1) your name, phone number and email
2) whether you are registering for Fri OR Sat
3) cheque for full payment (made out to Henry Wai)

If you'd rather pay by credit card, please visit http://coachingthatworks.com/course_registration.php?list=true
Register early to secure your space as class size is limited.

LOCATION: downtown Toronto

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The 2010 People’s Summit: Building a Movement for a Just World

June 18th-20th, 2010
Ryerson University, The University of Toronto, and other locations  
around Toronto
The 2010 People’s Summit is civil society’s alternative “counter  
Summit” to the G8 and G20 Summits happening in Huntsville and Toronto  
this June 25th – 27th.  Together we will create a space where diverse  
local and international movements can democratically organize to  
advocate and educate for global justice.

http://peoplessummit2010.ca/section/2

.....

WEEK OF ACTION

And after the People’s Summit, the Toronto Community Mobilization  
Network is coordinating a Week of Action from June 21st to 27th.  For  
full details of actions and events planned that week, please visit www.g20.torontomobilize.org 
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