T.O. Greenspiration Events: Jan. 30 - Feb. 6
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sat Jan 29 22:11:01 EST 2011
Toronto Greenspiration Events
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Budrus
Canadian TV Premiere on CBC's " The Passionate Eye"
Sunday January 30th - 10pm ET/PT
Just Vision is pleased to announce the Canadian television premiere of its new film, Budrus. Hailed in The New York Times as " this year's must-see documentary," Budrus tells the story of a Palestinian community organizer, Ayed Morrar, who unites members of all factions along with Israeli supporters in an unarmed movement to save his village of Budrus from destruction. Success looks improbable until his 15-year-old daughter, Iltezam, launches a women's contingent that quickly moves to the front lines.
Winner of multiple prizes at top international film festivals, including Tribeca, Berlin and San Francisco, Budrus is produced by Just Vision a nonprofit organization comprised of an Israeli, Palestinian, North and South American team of journalists, filmmakers and human rights advocates. Just Vision creates film and multimedia materials to increase the power, legitimacy and exposure of Palestinians and Israelis working towards nonviolent solutions to the conflict.
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Darlington - wazzup?
Mon. January 31st , 7 p.m.
OISE, 7th Floor, Peace Lounge, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto
A public hearing has been announced for March 2011 on a proposal to build up to four new nuclear reactors at Darlington Nuclear Generating Station near Oshawa, 60 km east of Toronto, at an estimated cost of $36 billion!
. This workshop will share information about key issues and strategies for presentation. All welcome, whether or not you're presenting!
The workshop will include:
brief presentation of key issues and associated information sources
outline of strategies for presentation and preparation of written submissions
presentation of a "model" written submission
group discussion and break-out groups as needed to support
A brief overview of the proposal by Ontario Power Generation to build additional reactors at Darlington and an explanation of the hearing rules and timeline will also be available with an opportunity for question and answers on the review process and OPG proposal.
For more information email nukes at onlink.net or telephone 1 877 553 0481.
Please note that this workshop is being provided by public interest groups working together to support public participation.
If you missed the January 13th deadline to register but would like to participate in this review contact the Hearing Secretariat immediately: 1-866-582-1884 or darlington.review at ceaa-acee.gc.ca
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Never Again for Anyone
Over the 2011 international Holocaust Remembrance Day, please join us in welcoming Dr. Hajo Meyer, who will be sharing the lesson of his experience in Auschwitz: Never Again for Anyone. Dr. Meyer will be on tour in the U.S. and Toronto is his only Canadian stop.
In Toronto Dr. Meyer will be joined by Gina Csanyi from the Roma community, Lee Maracle, acclaimed writer and member of the Sto: Loh nation, Khaled Mouammar, president of the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF), and one other speaker (TBA) to discuss the urgency of this message in Canada and the US today.
In the face of the on-going ethnic cleansing of Palestine, attacks and persecution of Muslim and Arab communities in Canada and the US, the repression of dissent on campuses, the continued military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the on-going struggles of People of Colour, Immigrant, Indigenous, Queer, and Disabled communities for their rights, we assert a commitment to collective humanity against the application of “never again” to only a few.
WHO: Dr. Hajo Meyer, Gina Csanyi, Alan Sears, and Dawud Assad
WHEN: Mon. 31 January 2011 7-10 PM
WHERE: Friends House: 60 Lowther Avenue
HOW: St. George subway stop, Bedford St. exit, 2 blks. north of Bloor
ACCESSIBILITY: Wheelchair accessible via side entrance from parking lot, and two accessible washrooms.
WHO: Dr. Hajo Meyer, Lee Maracle, and Khaled Mouammar
WHEN: Tues. 1 February 2011 7-10 PM
WHERE: The Winchevsky Centre:, 585 Cranbrooke Avenue
HOW: Bathurst bus north of Lawrence,, Cranbrooke off east side of Bathurst Street
ACCESSIBILITY: Not wheelchair accessible
Both events are $10 or PWYC
No one will be turned away for lack of funds
For more information, contact canada at ijsn.net or info at neveragainforanyone.com or visit www.neveragainforanyone.com
Tour sponsored by American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), and the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) Local co-sponsors include: IJAN, Toronto and the United Jewish People's Order (UJPO)
Endorsers include: Canada Boat Gaza; Canadian Arab Federation (CAF); Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA); Codepink, Canada; Educators for Peace and Justice (EPJ); Faculty For Palestine; Gaza Freedom March, Canada; Greater Toronto Workers Assembly; Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), Toronto; Labour For Palestine; Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation (NECEF) Not In Our Name (NION): Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism; People for Peace, London (ON); Salaam: Queer Muslim Community; Science For Peace; Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA); Women in Solidarity with Palestine (WSP)
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West End Food Co-op will be holding its first canning workshop of 2011
Tuesday February 1st, 6 p.m. (reg. at 5:30)
Parkdale Neighbourhood Church at 201 Cowan Avenue (steps south of Queen Street, between Dufferin and Lansdowne).
Online registration is now open!
Heather Kilner, pickler of many years experience will be leading you through a delicious recipe - we are working hard to source local produce even in February and are hoping to do a variation of pickled mixed vegetables traditionally eaten for the Lunar New Year!
You will learn about the theory and practice of preserving, gain hands-on experience using a hot water bath canner, and leave with a jar of delicious preserves to take home with you. We will also take time to reflect on the meaning and significance of learning to preserve our own food, and our experiences of preserved food.
The total cost for the workshop is $45 for West End Food Co-op members or $50 for non-members (which includes the cost of a lifetime membership). Payment can be made in person at the workshop.
Please register online by visiting our website at westendfood.coop.
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Angela Davis and Ward Churchill
As part of UTSU's 2011 eXpression Against Oppression (XAO) Week (Feb 1-4), back by popular demand is Professor Angela Davis, and new this year, UTSU is honoured to host writer and activist Ward Churchill, as XAO's keynote speakers.
The evening will feature a presentation from both speakers followed by a panel discussion, and potential Q+A.
If you have a question for either or both speakers, please email them in advance of Friday, January 28 to xao at utsu.ca.
Wed. Feb. 2, 6:30 PM
Convocation Hall, University of Toronto, 31 King's College Circle
Single Tickets: $16.50 student (with valid student ID), $29.50 non-student
Group Rates (10 or more people): $13.50 student (with valid student ID), $26.50 non-student
*Tickets are General Admission
*Available in advance, by phone or in person at the UTSU office at 12 Hart House Circle or www.uofttix.ca for tickets.
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Haiti - One Year Later
Wednesday, February 2, 6:45 – 8:30 p.m.
North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge Street
This panel discussion on the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Haiti focuses on the last year's humanitarian, the current situation and how Canadians can help. Speakers include Marilyn McHarg, the Director General and co-founder of Doctors Without Borders, and Toronto Star columnist, Catherine Porter. Eric Doubt, Director General of Helping Hands for Haiti International, will be moderating the discussion.
Seating is limited. Call 416-395-5660 to register. Event details
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Thunder Soul
Wednesday, February 2, at 6:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.
at the Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)
Hot Docs is pleased to announce that the February installment of the Doc Soup monthly screening series will feature the inspiring THUNDER SOUL, winner of the Audience Award at Hot Docs 2010 and numerous other film festivals across the continent. Filmmaker Mark Landsman will be in attendance to introduce the film and answer audience questions following the screening.
Conrad "Prof" Johnson composed original funk songs and arranged fantastic stage antics with Houston’s Kashmere High School Stage Band. He became the first black high school bandleader with an all-black high school band to win the Texas state championship in the 1970s. His "give it all you got" attitude made the group unstoppable, leading them to win 42 out of 46 contests over the course of the decade and establishing them as international funk legends with tours in Paris and Japan. THUNDER SOUL combines archival footage of the kids in action, showing off their James Brown showmanship, platform shoes, and Bootsy Collins-type rhythms, with the band members' recent reunion. With nothing but love for the father of funk from their youth, they practise for the first time in three decades, hoping they "still got it" enough to perform a tribute show for the ailing 92-year-old Prof.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.hotdocs.ca/docsoup.
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The Political Economy of Thermodynamics: Peak Oil, Capitalism and Climate Change
by Tom Keefer
Wed, Feb.2, 5-6:30pm
155 College (HlthSciBldg, UofT) rm 106
This presentation will look at the potential connections & divergences between ecological economics & an ecologically aware historical materialism in order to examine what they might be able to tell us about the dynamics underlying the problems of peak oil and climate change.
Tom Keefer is a PhD candidate in Political Science at York University and a founding editor of the journal "Upping the Anti" <www.uppingtheanti.org>. He is also a contributor to the anthology "Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World" edited by Kolya Abramsky.
Co-Sponsored by Post Carbon Toronto, the Environmental Health Justice Research Network, Centre for Urban Health Initiatives, and the Student Social Justice Collective.
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Cities Leading the Way – In Canada and Around the World
with David Miller, former mayor of Toronto
Wednesday, February 2, 4:10 p.m.
The Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks Street, U of T
Eric Krause Memorial Lecture
No registration of fee required, all are welcome.
Please visit www.environment.utoronto.ca or email environment.seminars at utoronto.ca or phone 416-978-3475 for updates, abstracts and speakers' bios.
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Refugees of the Blue Planet
Wednesday, February 2 at 7 PM - FREE Screening
NFB Cinema - 150 John St.
Directed by Hélène Choquette and Jean-Philippe Duval, 2006, 53 minutes. In French with English subtitles.
Each year, millions of people the world over are driven to forced displacement. From the Maldives to Brazil, and even closer to home, here in Canada, the disturbing accounts of people who have been uprooted are amazingly similar. The enormous pressure placed on rural populations as a result of the degradation of their life-supporting environment is driving them increasingly further from their way of life. The Refugees of the Blue Planet sheds light on the little-known plight of a category of individuals who are suffering the repercussions of this reality: environmental refugees.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion Dr. Laura Westra, PhD in Law & Professor at York University & Univ. of Windsor, Faculty of Law, and Dr. Rafi Mustafa, who is the past president and current member of the Board for International Development and Relief Foundation (IDRF), an organization that has worked in partnership with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to provide emergency relief in disaster-struck areas like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Haiti.
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Mining Injustice Solidarity Network - New Members' Meeting
Wednesday, February 2, 5 p.m.
OISE, 5th floor, 252 Bloor Street West
We stand in solidarity with mining affected communities and work with them to resist the destructive acts of Canadian mining companies that threaten:
*indigenous sovereignty, *community rights, *labour rights, *the environment, *our water, *health and wellness, *food security, *survival
and exacerbate:
*gendered violence and inequity, *militarization and forced displacement, *criminalization of community leaders, *the corporatization of education, *mass poverty
From North to South, East to West - from university campuses to the rural highlands of mining affected regions - we believe that resistance is possible. We take direction from local community leaders who experience the impact of mining companies first-hand. We work to join our struggles together and form a network of mining impacted people (directly affectected and otherwise)
Join us! We put on the annual Mining (In)Justice Conference in Toronto where we bring affected community members from around the world to tell their stories, and organize. We also do protests, petions, independent media, vigils, art projects, photography, and documentaries. We are made up of community members and also have a chapter at the University of Toronto that you can get involved with, specifically focused on taking on corporatization and the support of the university for these mining abuses.
Find us online: solidarityresponse.net
Email us: csrt at gmail.com
RSVP on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=599797469&ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=125070904229050
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Powering the Future in a Finite World
- With David Hughes
Thursday, February 3, 7:00 PM
Toronto City Hall, Cttee. Rm. 2
David Hughes is a geoscientist who has studied the energy resources of Canada for nearly four decades, including 32 years with the Geological Survey of Canada as a scientist and research manager. He developed the National Coal Inventory to determine the availability and environmental constraints associated with Canada’s coal resources. As Team Leader for Unconventional Gas on the Canadian Gas Potential Committee, he coordinated the recent publication of a comprehensive assessment of Canada’s unconventional natural gas potential. Over the past decade, he has researched, published and lectured widely on global energy and sustainability issues in North America and internationally. He is a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and his work has been featured in the popular press (Canadian Business, Walrus etc.) and other public media. He is currently president of Global Sustainability Research Inc, a consultancy dedicated to research on energy and sustainability issues.
RSVP to this Meetup:
http://www.meetup.com/PostCarbonTorontoMeetup/calendar/15976138/
To visit Post Carbon Toronto MeetUp, go here:
http://www.meetup.com/PostCarbonTorontoMeetup/
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Growing a Greener Future - From Field to Table
Thursday February 3rd and Friday February 4th
FoodShare Toronto, 90 Croatia Street
A two day province-wide conference about school gardens, local food procurement and climate change. Come discover innovative ways to incorporate local, organic, and fresh food into your school or organization and learn more about how it relates to climate change.
For educators, student nutrition program coordinators, school administrators, farmers, academics, public heath staff, non-profit employees and school lunch staff from across Ontario
Free, thanks to the support of the Government of Ontario
For schedule, registration etc: http://www.foodshare.net/upcoming-GrowingGreenerFuture.htm
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Deputations against LRADs (sound cannons) needed at the Police Services Board
This item (#11) is on the agenda at Tuesday's Police Services Board meeting, this coming Thursday, February 3nd at 1:30 p.m.
Toronto Police HeadQuarters - College and Yonge
Please contact Board Secretary Deirdre Williams at 416 808 8094 as soon as possible to get on the deputation list.
LRADs (long range acoustical devices), known as sound cannons, are on the agenda at this Thursday's meeting of the Toronto Police Services Board. Under Item #11, the Police Chief states the LRADs will be cost shared with the federal government. He also wants to retain the Closed Circuit TVs that were installed during the G20. Both items are big additions to the Police budget and have implications for civil liberties and in the case of LRADs, people's health.
The chief gives no assurances that the alarm function will be permanently disabled on the LRADs, although this was requested by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and other advocates.
Together these purchases will add to the police gravy train and increase the costs of the city operating and presumably the capital budgets.
Deputations are needed.
For more info: Helen Armstrong <helena at web.ca>
http://www.tpsb.ca/documents/agendadoc.pdf
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Transport Futures Mobility Pricing Conference
Thur. Feb 3
Transport Futures is hosting its fifth and largest learning event to date to explore what role transport-based user fees play in Ontario and how mobility pricing can drive transport efficiency, sustainability and social justice.
More information and registration here.
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No One Is Illegal - Toronto invites you to a film screening and talk:
Secret Trial 5, Sophie Harkat and the Human Impact of Canada's Anti-Terror Laws
Thur. February 3, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
103, Fitzgerald Building, UofT, 150 College Street
The Secret Trial 5 is a new crowdfunded documentary, currently in production, that examines the human impact of Canada’s “war on terror”; specifically the use of security certificates, a tool that allows for indefinite detention, with no charges, and secret evidence. Over the last decade, 5 Muslim men, Hassan Almrei, Adil Charkaoui, Mohamed Harkat, Mahmoud Jaballah and Mohammad Mahjoub have been held under security certificates in Canada. They’ve spent between 2 and 7 years in prison each. None of them has been charged with a crime.
Though Adil Charkaoui and Hasan Almrei's certificates have been quashed, Mohamed Harkat's security certificate was ruled "reasonable" on December 9, 2010. On Jan 21, 2011, Immigration Enforcement served him with a deportation notice that his lawyers have vowed to fight all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada if necessary. The Justice for Harkat Campaign is calling for individuals and organizations to sign the statement at www.harkatstatement.com(and below). Sophie Harkat, Mohamed Harkat's wife and and organizer with the Justice for Harkat Campaign will be speaking at the event.
The evening will include a free screening of The Good Son, director Amar Wala’s short film about the Jaballah family, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers about their new documentary. This film will be crowdfunded, meaning anyone, anywhere can become a part of the project by donating to the production, and helping spread awareness.
Supported by: Ontario Public Interest Research Group - UofT, Immigration and Legal Committee of the Law Union of Ontario, Council of Canadians, Toronto Action for Social Change, Campaign to Stop Secret trials in Canada!, Immigration Legal Committee (Law Union of Ontario & No One Is Illegal - Toronto)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136733899724898
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/556
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Remembering Our Sisters
On February 3rd, the Centre for Integrative Anti-racism Studies (CIARS at OISE/UT), with the support of No More Silence, will screen short docs on missing and murdered Indigenous women in preparation for February 14th when rallies and memorial marches will take place across the country.
Thur. February 3, 7:00 pm
at OISE 5th floor Room 5-250 (Bloor/St. George)
Screening work by director/producer Audrey Huntley including “A New Day” produced for CTV First Story in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside - the piece looks at the tragic death of 22 year old Ashley Mischiskinic in mid September. Community members believe she was thrown out of the window of the 5th floor of the Regent Hotel by drug dealers as punishment for a drug debt and to send a message and warning to the community. Residents were outraged when police initially closed the investigation declaring her death a suicide on the same day. Huntley interviews members of the February 14th Women's Memorial March organizing committee looking at the bigger picture and their quest to end the violence. The screening will be followed by a skype Q & A with Vancouver activists and DTES residents.
Sponsored by: Centre for Integrative Anti-racism Studies, CIARS at OISE/UT
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Leadnow Launch Event
Thur. February 3, 4:30pm – 5:30pm
Centre for Social Innovation: CSI Spadina, Suite 120, 215 Spadina Ave., Toronto
Free
Are you happy with the direction our country is heading in? Leadnow is bringing a new and proven method of political organizing to Canada to make our politicians more responsive to the needs of all Canadians. It started in the USA with MoveOn.org, then was successfully replicated in Australia (GetUp), England (38 Degrees) and Globally (Avaaz). Leadnow will bring generations of Canadians together to take action for our long-term interests and hold politicians accountable. We will build a community of over half a million Canadians who work together to help set the political agenda, take effective action on important issues and shift elections. Our community will act to deepen our democracy, strengthen our communities, extend economic opportunity, advance social justice and protect our planet.
For more info: http://www.leadnow.ca/
To register: http://leadnowsocialinnovation.eventbrite.com/
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Home Safe Toronto
Chronicling the housing crisis and the impact of this recession on families with children
Friday Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m.
Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard St. East (just east of Greenwood)
> with Street Nurse and Executive Producer Cathy Crowe and Director Laura Sky
> Presented by Cinema Politica Danforth - a project of the Toronto Danforth NDP
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> HOME SAFE TORONTO is the second in the Sky Works series of documentaries that deals with how Canadian families live with the threat and the experience of homelessness.
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> It shows how the housing crisis in Canada is an expression of the increasing economic and job insecurity that has devastated the manufacturing sector in the Greater Toronto Area and throughout southern Ontario.
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> The film reveals the consequences of this “new economy”, where families surviving on low wages with no benefits, or on dwindling social assistance, are faced with the terrible choice between keeping a roof over their heads or putting food on the table.
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> For families in economic crisis, the threat of losing safe and secure housing lives out in many ways. Some families are forced to relinquish their homes and double-up with friends or family. Others rush to sell their homes before the bank forecloses on their defaulted mortgages. Tenants who are financially vulnerable are stretched to pay too much rent for sub-standard housing,
> or face the threat of an eviction notice. Some must resort to seek refuge in shelters.
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Toronto Socialist Action and Youth for Socialist Action Present Rebel Films:
Toronto G20 Exposed
Friday, Feb. 4 - 7 p.m., 2010, 120 minutes, documentary.
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-212, at the St. George Subway Station.
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested.
Examines the criminal activities of police at the G20 Summit in Toronto. Features demos, abandoned burning cop cars, officer 'Boris' Bubbles lawsuit, interviews with documentary producer Derek Soberal, audio of Toronto Police Chief Blair on The Agenda, RCMP Supt. Alphonse MacNeil's testimony at House of Commons Committee, and more. Discussion to follow will be led by Daniel Libby, CKLN 88.1fm news dept. producer and videographer, and Julius Arscott, a leader of Socialist Action and Youth for Socialist Action.
Film will be preceded by a brief introduction, and will be followed by a commentary, and an open floor discussion period.
Please visit: www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com or call 416 461-6942.
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K.I.N................Human cultural diversity for bio-diversity presents a public talk:
We live in a World that Speaks
Friday 4th February, 7-9pm
Centre for Social Innovation, Alterna Boardroom, Suite 120, 215 Spadina Avenue
$20.00 entry, $10.00 for unwaged/ low waged. Spaces limited, book to avoid disappointment.
We humans are part of a deeper Life-World that is alive, participatory and profoundly relational. However many of us have forgotten how to belong and how to listen. In a world where materialism and Western Science have come to dominate, colonization is not only about people and lands but ultimately about human consciousness and perception. As a person whose psycho-spiritual history is both colonizer and colonized, Lewis will draw on her own experiences, and work with indigenous (Ngai Te Rangi, and Cree peoples) and immigrant communities in Aotearoa and Canada which relate to the recovery of this deeper Life World of interconnectedness - this is ultimately a story of hope. She will then apply this to the work of K.I.N.; a growing international movement whose aim is human cultural diversity for bio-diversity through the recovery of indigenous worldviews within all cultures.
Lewis Williams, PhD, is the Founder and Chair of K.I.N., an eco-activist, social innovator community developer and academic. Born in Aotearoa and of Ngai Te Rangi and Scottish descent her work is with people and organizations to deepen their life-world perspective and to apply this understanding to collective ecological action. She has researched, published and taught on a variety of issues relating to ecological well-being and has worked with a wide range of cultural groups. Formerly Director of the Prairie Region Health Promotion Research Center and Associate Professor with the Department of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Lewis is the lead editor and a contributor of "Radical Human Ecology: Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches", a soon to be published book on ecological praxis. This publication brings together a range of indigenous, intercultural and spiritual perspectives to the field.
We are honoured to have Dr Eileen Antone leading the opening Ceremony for the evening. Dr Antone is an Elder and member of the Oneida of the Thames First Nation; Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives, University of Toronto; and member of the KIN Elders Council.
To reserve a place, register, by mailing a Cheque (made to Lewis Williams), P.0 Box 203, 119 Spadina Avenue, Toronto M5V 2L0.
Enquiries can be directed to koru at korunetwork.com<mailto:koru at korunetwork.com>
For related workshops see www.kinincommon.com<http://www.kinincommon.com/>
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Cuban Film Festival
Fri/Sat. Feb. 4-5
Free
At the Royal Cinema, 608 College St.
Hosted by the Canadian-Cuban Friendship Association Toronto
http://cubaintoronto.com/archives/3342
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The Work That Brings Us Home: Part One
February 4, 7:00pm – 9:00pm and
February 5, 10:00am – 5:30pm
Centre for Social Innnovation: CSI Spadina, Alterna Savings Room, 215 Spadina Ave
$120
This participatory workshop is for social change agents wanting to make a positive difference through exploring indigenous and intercultural approaches to ecological well-being. You will have the opportunity to learn more about why the recovery of indigenous world views within all cultures is important for ecological well-being as well as exploring your own story of deepening ecological relationship. Tap, your inner wisdom, learn from others, come and be part of building and ecological movement.
This workshop is a pre-requesite for “The Work that Takes us Home: Part two” which focuses more on the work of ecological alliance across different cultural communities and the key contextual issues we need to be aware in developing the work of KIN locally in the Greater Toronto Area and communities beyond.
For more info and to register click here
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David Suzuki's The Nature of Things presents:
Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands
Saturday February 5, 7 pm ET on CBC News Network
Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil Sands is a two-hour visual tour de force, taking viewers inside the David and Goliath struggle playing out within one of the most compelling environmental issues of our time. The age of innocence for the oil sands is over.
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/2011/tippingpoint/
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1st Anniversary Open House - One year of art & culture, of community & activism
Bounty of Riches: Seven inspiring performances
Saturday, February 5 @ 6:30 to 11:00 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (Bloor and Bathurst)
Thank you dear communities. With your support, help and enthusiasm, Beit Zatoun found its roots and thrived from the first breath. Incredibly, it will soon be a year that Beit Zatoun held its first event on January 30, 2010. That one event was followed by 70+ events of inspiring variety and quality from across many communities and forms.
We are pleased that you were part of the last 12 months and enthusiastically invite you to help Beit Zatoun and the community to celebrate our 1st Anniversary Open House on Saturday, February 5. Beit Zatoun is fortunate and thrilled to have a spectacular group of performers signed up for the night. They have generously accepted our invitation to donate their talents to help us celebrate. Some are returning and others new to Beit Zatoun and they all share the enthusiasm for the work of Beit Zatoun and the communities around it.
What a bounty of riches!! Count them, SEVEN amazing performers / sets of performers with the spirit that animates Beit Zatoun.
- Sarv Ensemble, Persian traditional instruments;
- Joseph Maviglia, accompanied poetry;
- Zainab Amadahy and Bonita Lawrence, First Nations traditional women's hand drum songs;
- Karim Sultan, oud;
- Sheniz Janmohamed, spoken word;
- Maryem Hassan Tollar and Roula Said; and
- Suleiman Warwar, Middle Eastern percussion.
Performance set to begin at 7:00 pm. Break scheduled for 8:30 and resume with second set at 9:00. We ask everyone to be attentive to the performers. A very full evening of great music, songs, words and solidarity. Refreshments and light snacks served. Doors open at 6:15.
- Admission by donation
- Sorry, not wheelchair accessible
For more information or to reserve online, please visit. http://beitzatoun.org/cms/Events/View/11-02-05/1st_Anniversary_Open_House.aspx
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Economic Recession, Climate Change and War: How can we make sense of a world in turmoil?
A One-Day Conference
Sunday, February 6, 11am
Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street
$10 or pay what you can
11:00am Registration
11:30-12:30pm Opening plenary:
Economic recession, climate change and war: how can we make sense of a world in turmoil?
12:45-2:00pm Workshops
Islamophobia and the war on terror
Economic crisis and austerity: the case for socialism
Sexism and women's oppression: why does it continue?
2:15-3:30pm Workshops
The working class: the power to change the system
The ideas in our heads: alienation and consciousness under capitalism
How do we stop capitalism from killing the planet?
11:30-12:30pm Closing plenary:
How do we build a revolutionary movement?
Organized by International Socialists—Toronto District www.socialist.ca toronto.socialists at gmail.com
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Extracting Profits: Patterns of Oppression and Resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean
In five open study sessions, “Extracting Profits” will discuss patterns of oppression and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean. The sessions, held from February to May, include readings, brief presentations, and small-group discussions in an informal and spontaneous atmosphere. No registration – everyone welcome.
Sundays, 2 p.m.-4 p.m, OISE, 252 Bloor St. W., Toronto
1. February 6: Mexico and the Burden of “Free Trade”
NAFTA, capitalist devastation, and community resistance
OISE, Room 5150
2. February 27: Bolivia and the Right to Water
The Bolivian people have taken their “water wars” to the world stage
3. March 20: Haiti and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty
A story of pigs and rice – how Haitians were robbed of their own food supply
4. April 10: Mining in Central America
Canadian corporations at war against rights of indigenous peoples
5. May 15: ALBA and CETA: Fair Trade vs. “Free Trade”
Canada’s trade agreements violate popular rights; ALBA is based on solidarity.
Organized by Toronto Bolivia Solidarity, an action group of OPIRG–Toronto
torontoboliviasolidarity at gmail.com
http://t.grupoapoyo.org
See us on Facebook: ‘Toronto Bolivia Solidarity’
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What is Climate Justice?
Sunday, February 6, 11 am - 1 pm
519 Community Centre, 519 Church Street, Room 201
Education and Outreach (E/O) People’s Council has met throughout January to consider the action ideas we came up during the People’s Assembly. There was a general sense that we need more discussion on Climate Justice, where the concept came from and why it is so central to tackling the Climate Crises that is upon us…and so that’s where we’re starting. Out of these discussions we hope to develop a draft mandate on Climate Justice that will be presented to the next People’s Assembly in the spring.
We encourage all of you who would like more discussion on Climate Justice to attend. Bring friends! It’s a perfect occasion to introduce people to this important concept in an open informal setting. Let’s pick up on the positive vibe of last year to energize our work in the new year!
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