T.O. Greenspiration Events: Yes Men
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Mon Oct 18 00:47:11 EDT 2010
Toronto Greenspiration Events
- Pass this onto a friend! - angela
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Welcome To Toronto
Watch the 6 min. music video produced by young, progressive, local enviro rappers concerned about the upcoming municipal election.
http://breathetoronto.org/
Toronto’s election is just days away. On October 25th, we will decide the future of our city for the next four years. With hundreds of people dying as a result of the toxic smog cloud that hangs over our city every summer, TTC fares ever-increasing while traffic clogs the roads and poisons our air, and climate change already causing major crop failures, starvation, and wars, the time has come for serious action. While concrete and lawnmowers raze over the rich, fertile soils that could be feeding us directly with fresh foods of all varieties, that actually produce pure oxygen as they grow, talk of Toronto’s Food Security is almost completely absent from mainstream discussion, save for the words and actions of one unassuming candidate. Meanwhile, most of our meals are imported over thousands of diesel-spewing kilometers, while thousands within our city lack proper access to even that nutrition. The time has come to set things straight. The time has come for real action.
Sign the Toronto Clean Air Act to demand our City Council move immediately to deal with this crisis, and make sure our next Council is made up of responsible people, who are conscious and care about these life and death issues.
Find out where your local candidates stand by checking the Toronto Environmental Alliance’s report card at: http://www.torontoenvironment.org/voteto/reportcard/wardmap
http://torontoenvironment.org/voteto/reportcard/topmayoral
Read more here: http://breathetoronto.org/
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BIXI 1000 Members Party
Monday October 18th
Steam Whistle Brewery
FREE with BIXI Membership
Sign up now www.toronto.bixi.com
Doors open at 6:30
RSVP to bixitoronto at toronto.ca Subject: BIXI Party
BIXI Toronto is now over 720 members. To celebrate, we're hosting a party! All Members are invited to bring a non-member to push us over the 1000 mark. So come to the Steam Whistle Brewery to eat great local food, and drink award-winning Steam Whistle beer. The only cost is your membership. Steam Whistle Brewery has kindly donated their venue for this great event.
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The Case Against Fluoride
How Hazardous Waste Ended up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics that Keep it There
Mon. October 18, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m
Victoria College's Victoria Chapel (2nd Floor) (University of Toronto campus)
91 Charles Street West at University Avenue (Museum station)
Free
Light refreshments served.
Books for sale on-site and through the University of Toronto Bookstore.
Parents Should be Warned: Fluoridated Water is Not Recommended for Infants
New study confirms bottle-fed babies are overexposed to fluoride
Little-known adverse fluoride health effects led Paul Connett PhD, professor emeritus of chemistry and toxicology, St. Lawrence University, NY, James Beck, MD, PhD, professor emeritus of medical physics, University of Alberta and Spedding Micklem, DPhil, professor emeritus at Edinburgh University to co-authour and reveal the Case Against Fluoride. Come to hear two of the co-authours Dr. Jim Beck and Dr. Paul Connett present The Case Against Fluoride and answer your questions.
www.fluoridealert.org
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Engaged Buddhism, Protest, and Loving-Kindness
Monday, October 18 · 7:00pm - 11:30pm
Peace Lounge, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor st. West
U Pyinya Zawta & U Agga Nyana visit Toronto to speak about Engaged Buddhism, Protest, and Loving-Kindness
The Saffron Revolution of September 2007 has changed Burma’s history forever and placed Buddhist monks and nuns quite literally in the front ranks of peaceful resistance to Burma’s brutal and illegitimate dictatorship. This evening will focus on the way Loving-Kindness and other non-violent means were used to meet the brutali...ty of Burma's dictatorship. "Our spiritual message is to bring about a clear, more compassionate way and more harmonious relationship within all aspects of life in the country."
For Buddhist monks and nuns, turning their begging bowls upside down indicates their refusal to accept alms from the ruthless rulers and their servants. This follows a tradition established in the time of the Buddha by which monastic law allows monks to rebuke those who behave against “Dharma” (Buddhist Law).
In Burma’s Buddhist society, monks are highly respected, because they are disciples of Buddha who taught universal loving kindness, wisdom, peace and compassion. But we monks are facing many challenges at this critical moment in history.
Thousands of Buddhist monks and nuns who were praying for peace were brutally attacked on the streets of Rangoon and other cities in September 2007. Burma’s regime committed these atrocities in full view of the world.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119803304740494
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Smell Good From Head To Toe (and closet)!
Monday October 18, 6 to 8pm at Anarres, (College and Ossington)
Make custom deodorants, body sprays and air fresheners. We'll discuss the germ and odour fighting properties of essential oils, explore deodorizing ingredients and carriers and how they "work", then you'll make a custom underarm deodorant, a body spray, plus a room deodorizer to take home.
http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/881
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Burning Water - The Passionate Eye
Flammable tap water pits an Alberta farm family against Big Gas and the government.
Read more and watch a promo.
Monday October 18 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/burningwater/
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Will Climate Change Burn The Woods?
Monday, October 18, 1 – 3 p.m.
Toronto Reference library, Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium, 789 Yonge Street
Weird weather events are happening in the forest. As temperatures rise, fires increase, and predictions are that there will be ten times more forest fires in the near future. Professor Justin Podur, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, discusses what we know about the future of the forest, and how we know it.
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM55867&R=55867
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Behaviour modification and Big Pharma: Children at risk
Mind control from Madison Ave. to trauma-based
with Sydney White, investigative journalist
Mon. Oct. 18, 6 - 8 p.m.
University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Lecture Hall 159
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Red Tent Canada Day of Action for a Federal Housing Strategy
Toronto Solidarity Rally: All levels of government must respond to the housing crisis!
Tuesday, October 19th, 12-1pm
Ministry of Housing – 777 Bay St. (southeast corner of Bay & College)
Canada is currently the only G8 country without a housing strategy. The result has been a housing and homelessness crisis that the United Nations described in a 2009 report as a national emergency.
In Toronto we will gather in front of the Ministry of Housing to send a message to all three levels of government:
• Support Bill C-304 and Introduce a Federal Housing Strategy!
• Ontarians need a fully-funded long-term provincial affordable housing strategy!
• On October 25th vote for housing - Toronto’s new Mayor and City Council must stand up for homeless people and low-income tenants!
From Halifax to Vancouver, simultaneous actions are set to take place across the country on the 19th and during the week leading up to the Canada Day of Action. Ottawa will play host to a day-long action for housing: people will gather on Parliament Hill with 100 red tents to stand as symbols of Canada’s homelessness crisis and the growing support for a federal housing strategy.
To find out more about Bill C-304 and the Red Tent Campaign, or to help pitch in by sponsoring a tent, visit the campaign site at www.redtents.org
The Toronto Solidarity event for a Federal Housing Strategy is a joint effort of ACORN Toronto, Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario, The Dream Team, FORWARD, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, and Voices from the Street. TTC fare can be provided. For more information please contact: dirksy at lao.on.ca
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Mayor David Miller: Exit Interview
Tuesday, October 19, 7 – 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.)
Toronto Reference library, The Appel Salon, 789 Yonge Street
The Mayor looks back on seven years of transforming Toronto.
Preceded by a cash bar reception; Q&A to follow. David Miller's new book, Witness to a City: David Miller's Toronto, will be available for sale at the event.
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM58954&R=58954
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EARTHLINGS!
Free screening of the documentary
Wednesday, October 20 · 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Bennett Lecture Hall, 78 Queen's Park, Toronto (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Flavelle House)
EARTHLINGS is an award-winning film examining human dependence on and exploitation of other animals. It is narrated by Joaquin Phoenix and features music by Moby. Phoenix has said: “Of all the films I have ever made, this is the one that gets people talking the most. For every one person who sees EARTHLINGS, they will tell three.” There will be a Q&A =after the film.
All are welcome! Please share.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=163717293644968
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RALLY FOR G20 ACCOUNTABILITY, UofT COMMUNITY DEMANDS "COPS OFF CAMPUS"!
Wednesday, October 20 · 10:30am - 5:30pm
Rally begins at Graduate Students' Union, 16 Bancroft Avenue, and will end at the University of Toronto Faculty Club, 45 Willcocks Street.
What: Rally against the Toronto Association of Police and Private Security (TAPPS) "G20 De-Briefing"
Why: To demand accountability and justice for all those arrested during the G20, and to keep 'Cops off Campus!'
*** PLEASE WEAR PINK OR BLACK CLOTHES IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND ***
Find out more here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103226683078538
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Our Perilous Imbalance: How Globalization Caused Canada to Go from Leader to Laggard – and What to Do about It
Wednesday, October 20, noon - 2 p.m.
208N - North House, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place
Speaker: Stephen Clarkson (Professor of Political Economy, University of Toronto)
Speaker: Stepan Wood (Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University)
Chair: Gerry Helleiner (Distinguished Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies)
Sponsored by Centre for International Studies
Register online at: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=9039
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The Reality and Future of Genetically Engineered (GE) Foods
Thursday, October 21, 7 – 8:30 p.m.
The Big Carrot, Room 212, 348 Danforth Avenue
Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN), will present on the issue of genetic engineering and answer questions such as: What GE foods are already on the market and what are the risks? How did we get here? Will the public ever have a say in the future of this technology?
CBAN is the national home of research and campaigning against GE, the only organization in Canada that works exclusively on this issue. A coalition of 17 groups in Canada, CBAN promotes food sovereignty and democratic decision-making on science and technology issues, genetic engineering in particular.
thebigcarrot.ca/img/octoberseminars.pdf and www.cban.ca
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Organizing In Crisis - Anti-capitalist dilemmas and priorities
with Nick Dyer-Witheford
Friday, October 22, 7pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor Street W., Room 5250
The anti-globalization moment of the 1990s and early years of the 21st century was a tumultuous time of change and radical action in anti-capitalist movements. New political configurations sprouted, with destructured organizing models – horizontal and non-hierarchical with a penchant for affinity over authority, autonomy and heterogeneity over order and homogeneity. This movement reached a fever pitch quickly, and just as quickly seemed to dissipate after the fall of the World Trade Centres in New York City. What was the anti-globalization moment, and how does it compare to today’s moment of economic crisis? What are today's anti-capitalist movements and how are they configured? How do these movements promote or impede an anti-capitalist future?
Nick Dyer-Witheford will examine the anti-globalization movement, the current economic crisis, and anti-capitalist concepts and strategies to provide fodder for current movements.
Organized by Upping the Anti: A journal of theory and action (www.uppingtheanti.org) and the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (www.opirguoft.org). This event is wheelchair accessible.
For more information, please write to uppingtheanti at gmail.com or opirg.toronto at gmail.com.
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The Cry of the Forest
Friday, Oct 22, 1 PM
Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Avenue
Co-presented by aluCine Latin Media Festival
El Grito de la Selva (The Cry of the Forest) 2008, Bolivia, 97 min, Beta SP, Castellano with English Subtitles, North America Premiere Directors: Nicolas Ipamo, Alejandro Noza, Ivan Sanjinas.
It is the mid-nineties and an era of change for the Indigenous people of Bolivia. Mercedes, a mysterious and frightened woman on the run, takes refuge in a Moxe village in the forests of Beni. She refuses to speak about her past, but as time passes, she eventually makes herself a part of the community. When a logging company comes to town offering jobs and profit, a split forms in the community and Mercedes must come out of the shadows to reveal her fierce opposition to the company's exploits, as the community must band together to decide its fate.
Described as Bolivia's first Indigenous feature film, this groundbreaking! film is an intimate portrait of village life, a people's on-going struggle against corruption and a vivid recollection of a tumultuous time in Bolivia's history.
http://www.imaginenative.org/program.php?id=84
$7 Regular Admission. Students/Seniors free before 6pm.
ImagineNATIVE runs from October 20-24, 2010.
To buy tickets and for more information, please visit http://www.imaginenative.org/page.php?p=buytickets&y=2010
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Toronto’s 30th Annual Take Back the Night
30 Years of Struggle, Resistance, Liberation
Friday October 22
Yonge-Dundas Square
3:00 - 5:00 pm - Townhall Meeting hosted by PAVE (Parkdale Anti-Violence Education Group)
4:00 - 7:00 pm - Community Fair
6:00 - 8:00 pm - Rally
8:00 - 9:30 pm - The Take Back The Night march for women and children only, men are encouraged to attend in solidarity by participating in the other activities, including the provision of childcare so their partners, mothers, sisters, and aunties can march.
9:30 - 11:00 pm - AFTERPARTY with DJs
The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape (TRCC/MWAR) hosts its 30th Annual Take Back the Night (TBTN)
Take Back the Night is about bringing visibility and exposure to the impact of sexual violence in women’s lives. It’s a space created to ensure women and children can take up space and have our voices heard.
We demand our rights to safety, and lives free of the fear and perpetration of violence. We demand Aboriginal rights, equal status for all women, safe affordable housing, rights for sex trade workers, de-criminalized prostitution, safe shelters, health care, child care, education, employment, the raising of social assistance rates by 40%, immigration status for all, and the raising the minimum wage now. Without access to a safe place to live, an adequate income, child care and other community resources, women are being left to face violent situations. We, as survivors, demand lives free of sexual violence, murder, living in poverty, police injustice and any violence that is directed towards women and children.
TBTN is a Trans-Positive, wheelchair accessible event with ASL interpretation, Attendant Services, childcare and refreshments.
For more information contact: deb singh
Phone: 416-597-1171 Ext. 230 E-mail: trcc at web.net
Website: www.trccmwar.ca Event website: www.tbtn30.weebly.com
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Toronto Socialist Action Presents Rebel Films
The Yes Men Fix the World
2009, 87 minutes
Friday, October 22 - 7 p.m
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-212 (St. George Subway Station)
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested.
The prankster duo Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, posing as their industrious alter-egos, expose the people profiting from Hurricane Katrina, the faces behind the environmental disaster in Bhopal, and other shocking events.
Preceded by a brief introduction, and followed by a commentary and an open floor discussion period.
For more info: www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com or call 416 – 535-8779.
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Human Approaches to World Peace
With His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Fri. October 22, 2 p.m. (gates open 12:30 p.m.)
at the Rogers Centre, Toronto
In this timely address, the Dalai Lama will speak in particular about striking a balance between material progress and humanitarian values and will share his outlook on how each of us as individuals may bring about peace not only on a personal level but also at the community and world-wide level.
General Admission - Ticketmaster.ca or 416-870-8000
Tickets: $20 - $50
http://www.dalailamatoronto2010.org/index.php/page/public-talk
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dalai-Lama-Toronto-2010-Visit/129421373764053
Hosted by: Tibetan Canadian Association of Ontario and Tibetan Canadian Cultural Centre (not-for-profit charitable organizations).
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Resilience: Stories of Single Black Mothers
Film screening and panel discussion
Sat Oct 23, 7 pm (doors open 6:30)
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave. (near the intersection of St. George & Bloor, and close to the St. George subway station)
Admission fee $10 or Pay What You Can
Screening and panel discussion to be followed by a reception - all are welcome!
This event will benefit Literature For Life, a non-profit organization that works to empower at-risk teenage mothers through literature.
www.resiliencedocumentary.com
www.literatureforlife.org
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Building Better Cycling Arteries in Cities: Lessons for Toronto examined how to accommodate cyclists on arterial roads. Since these streets carry a high volume of high-speed motor vehicles, providing safe passage for cyclists is especially critical.
Case studies from Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Portland, New York City and Berlin demonstrated how policies and practices improve cycling arteries. Suitable bicycle facilities and sufficient bikeway networks along with policies that support cycling are important in creating safe and convenient cycling arteries in cities.
http://torontocat.ca/main/sites/all/files/TCAT_CyclingArteriesReport.pdf
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