T.O. Greenspiration Events: Resist!
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Feb 6 21:02:12 EST 2011
Toronto Greenspiration Events
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A Tale of Two Taxes: Environmental Tax Reform in Canada and British Columbia
with Kathryn Harrison , University of British Columbia
Monday, February 7, 2 PM - 3:30 PM
108N - Seminar Room, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
Register online at: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10010
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The Forms and Dynamics of Anti-Poverty Activism in Toronto
Insights on Methods from the Anti-Poverty Community Organizing & Learning (APCOL) Community University Research Alliance (CURA)
Monday, February 7, 4:30 p.m.
Faculty of Social Work, 246 Bloor St West, Room 548 (St. George subway, Bedford exit; next to OISE)
with Grace-Edward Galabuzi & Peter Sawchuk, Ryerson University & OISE, University of Toronto
A seminar sponsored by the Cities Centre’s Community Development Collaborative Program & the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work’s Chow
Yei Ching Chair in Housing
The Anti-Poverty Community Organizing and Learning Community University Research Alliance (2009-2014) seeks to apply the methodologies of
participatory action, community-based case study research to the study of activism in Toronto to explore the processes of participation, non-participation and past-participation. In this session co-leaders of the CURA will outline for discussion the community-based research process and partnership dynamics involved in the research. Preliminary case study findings will also be presented.
APCOL is a project of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW), OISE/UT.
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Green Neighbours - Taking Action for a Greener World
Monday, February 7, 7 - 9 p.m.
St. Michael's And All Angels Church, 611 St Clair Avenue West (enter off Wychwood Ave.), top floor
Fighting global warming means more than changing our homes and lifestyles – we also need to get politically involved. Come and learn about two urgent citizen’s action campaigns and what we can do to support them.
Franz Hartman (Toronto Environmental Alliance): Saving Transit City – What We’re Doing and How You Can Help; Cheryl McNamara (Citizens Climate Lobby) and Lauryn Drainie (Climate Action Network): Ending Canada’s Fossil Fuel Subsidy – How We can Make it Happen.
www.gn21.ca
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Tunisia, Egypt... From resistance to revolution
Tuesday, February 8, 7 pm - 9 pm
Bahen Centre room 2159, 40 St. George Street (north of College Street), U of T
The spark of revolution was lit in Tunisia, but the fuse runs through the entire world. The slogan raised in the streets of Cairo captures the truth of it: "Yesterday we were Tunisian. Today we are Egyptian. Tomorrow we will be free." Join us for a discussion about the possibility of revolution in the Arab world, its long history of struggle, and what we can do to support the Egyptian people's fight for freedom and democracy.
Speakers:
Dr. Mohammed Shokr, Egyptian National Association for Change
James Clark, International Socialists
Organized by the International Socialists (Toronto District)
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191581564200377
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WEBINAR - Presented by the Canadian Women’s Health Network in collaboration with National Eating Disorder Information Centre
Motivational Interviewing: how does this innovative therapy help some women with Binge Eating Disorder?
Join us during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
Tuesday Feb. 8, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Eastern time
Motivational interviewing is a non-confrontational psychotherapy approach designed to work with feelings of ambivalence that people might have about making behavioural changes. The therapist expresses empathy and supports the client’s self-determination. Motivational interviewing aims to resolve ambivalence and increase self-efficacy, with the goal of promoting behavioural change.
The approach was developed to treat people with addictions, but therapists saw that many symptoms overlapped with Binge Eating Disorder, a prevalent condition with few treatment options. On average, Motivational Interviewing is more effective in changing eating behaviours than in changing drug and alcohol use.
Dr. Stephanie Cassin will present the findings of her research on the efficacy of Motivational Interviewing with people who have Binge Eating Disorder.
Dr. Cassin is completing a clinical research postdoctoral fellowship in the practice and research of cognitive behavioural therapy at the Mood and Anxiety Treatment and Research Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Following her postdoctoral fellowship, she will begin a Staff Psychologist clinical/research position at the Bariatric Surgery Program at Toronto Western Hospital. She is also an Instructor in the Department of Psychology and a Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
Please click here to register. Space is limited - reserve your place today!
The webinar is free of charge and open to the public. You will need a computer with a high speed internet connection and speakers (or a headset).
If you would like to suggest a question for Stephanie Cassin, please email it with your registration request.
Can't attend? Please sign up and we will send you the slides and on-demand recording. Feel free to forward to this invitation to co-workers.
Click here if you would like to subscribe to CWHN’s monthly e-newsletter, Brigit’s Notes.
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El Contrato
Film presented by Pueblito for International Development Week 2011
Tues. February 8, 6:00pm-9:00 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St.
“El Contrato” follows the path of migrant workers from Central Mexico to pick tomatos in Lemington, Ontario and the struggles and racism they face.
Following the movie, prominent speaker Chris Ramsaroop will be addressing the issues about how immigrant workers in Canada still face injustices in
today’s labour market and what should be the role of the Canadian labour movement.
To register for this event please email barrerasandy at hotmail.com with your name, email address and number of tickets you would like to reserve.
Suggested donation: $10.00
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Managing without Growth, Slower by Design, not Disaster
Peter Victor, professor, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, York University
Wednesday, February 9, 4:10 p.m.
Sidney Smith Hall, Room SS 1072, 100 St. George Street
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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Jarvis Collegiate presents:
Teens Of Terror - Open meeting re: gay-bashing by Jarvis Collegiate teens
Wed. Feb 9, 7 – 9pm
519 Church Street Community Centre, Room 107,
Attending the meeting will be representatives of the highschool, the community, and the Toronto Police. The meeting is open to the public.
The recent attacks include hurling crushed ice beverages at local residents, along with offensive remarks.
The meeting’s organizer, Enza Anderson, says that the goal of the gathering is to create accountability, consequences, and a program of education for the teens involved.
For more info: Enza Anderson Tel: 416.923.7779 Mobile: 416.951.ENZA
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On Animals
Wednesday, February 9, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Gradroom at Grad House, 66 Harbord St.
http://www.widentoronto.com/on-animals/
RSVP on Facebook
All are welcome. No advance registration is required.
Jana Crawford (Philosophy) - Do Animals Have Moral Status? Does It Matter?
Sarah Figley (Medical Science) - Ethics and Animal Research
Lucas Wilson (Law) - Canadian Criminal Law on Cruelty to Animals
Directions: To get to Grad Room in Grad House, enter through the coffee shop on the North-East corner of Spadina and Harbord and then go down the stairs at the back. An elevator to the room is accessible through the main entrance of the Grad House Residence.
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Pig Rally: Stop U of G's "Enviropig"
Wednesday, February 9, 12:30 - 1:00, The Cannon, University of Guelph
With transport from Toronto! (see below)
The University of Guelph will profit financially from commercializing the hugely controversial GE pig trademarked “Enviropig”. What happens when a public university fights to bring a product to market? The university has requested approval from Health Canada but:
There is no transparency in GE regulation and there has never been a democratic public debate.
There is no GE food labeling to give consumers a choice.
The GE pig could destroy the domestic and global markets for hog farmers, while providing few or no benefits to farmers.
More info: http://www.cban.ca/enviropig
Including Free Transport from Toronto!
Action Road Trip! Wed Feb 9. Join us to Stop the GM Pig!
Catch the Big Carrot Bus! to Guelph. Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Join Members, Staff and Friends of the Big Carrot for the Pig Rally: Stop University of Guelph’s genetically modified “EnviropigTM”
The Big Carrot Natural Food Market has long opposed genetically engineered food crops. Now a genetically engineered pig from the University of Guelph could soon be approved! Members of Parliament will be visiting the UofG on Feb 9 to tour the biotech labs! Show our politicians and the Canadian public that we don't want GM pigs.To register our rejection of this monstrous application of technology we are chartering a bus to Guelph.
The Big Carrot will provide return transport and distribute pig snout masks to all riders to wear at the Rally.
The bus leaves at 9:30 am sharp (first come first seated!) on Wednesday February 9, 2011 and departs Guelph at 2:30. Free!
Rally presented by: The Big Carrot, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Council of Canadians Guelph Chapter, Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario, Guelph PIRG, National Farmers Union Ontario.
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Leah Lakshmi at the AGO
Wed. February 9, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West
Come to a night of performance and art about disability activism, anti-colonialism and the many ties that connect these movements.
FREE
Featuring Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Kenji Tokawa, Romeo, new video work by John Richard Allen, and more!
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About Leah:
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled Sri Lankan writer, teacher and cultural worker. The author of Consensual Genocide, her work has been widely anthologized. She co-founded Mangos With Chili, the national queer and trans people of color performance tour, is a lead artist with Sins Invalid and teaches with June Jordan's Poetry for the People. In 2010, she was named one of the Feminist Press' 40 Feminists Under 40 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her life's work is at the intersection of community accountability, disability justice, queer and trans people of color artistic community and teaching for liberation.
mangoswithchili.wordpress.com
www.brownstargirl.org
ASL Interpretation provided.
Wheelchair accessible.
For more info:
http://www.ago.net/leah-lakshmi-piepzna-samarasinha
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HAITI One Year Later: What Must Still Be Done?
a free panel discussion on the role of the Canadian government in aid and development efforts in Haiti since the devastating earthquake of January 2010.
Wednesday February 9th, 7:00- 9:00 p.m.
East Common Room Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, U of T
It has been over a year since the catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti just outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince, causing enormous destruction. Although billions of dollars have been pledged by the international community to aid reconstruction and provide humanitarian relief in Haiti, only a fraction of the funding has been released and development efforts have faced significant challenges.
Join the Hart House Debates Committee and partners for an evening of insightful, interactive discussion on Canadian aid and development efforts in Haiti: What has the Canadian government done, how effective has it been, and what still needs to be done? Melanie Newton will moderate a panel of four distinguished speakers including Valerie Rzepka, Joel Etienne, Maryse Bermingham and Antoine Derose
Presented by: The Hart House Debates Committee, in partnership with the Canadian International Council – Toronto Branch (CIC), Students in Solidarity with Haiti(SSH), the University of Toronto Student Union (UTSU), The Caribbean Studies Students Union (CARSSU) and The Caribbean Studies Department
Cost: Free. In lieu of snacks and refreshments, a donation will be made to l’École La Reine Soleil Jardinière.This is a primary school and professional development school three hours outside of Port au Prince.
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Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine
A compelling look at those who’ve transcended the wall and refuse to see "The Other" as enemy
Thursday, February 10th, 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham Street, Toronto
Sorry, not wheelchair accessible
Join us to bring Michael Riordon's new book, Our Way to Fight, into the world.
Our Way to Fight: Peace-work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine documents creative resistance to occupation on both sides of the wall. In olive groves, besieged villages, refugee camps and checkpoints, here are the dangerous lives of non-violent activists, the sparks that led them to resist, the escalating risks they face, and the many small victories that sustain them - and us!
Meet these courageous people of the book, through the writer's eyes and their own words, recorded on-location.
For more info : www.beitzatoun.com
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Effective Lobbying with Mark Reynolds – Training Session
from Citizens Climate Lobby (Toronto)
Tired of government inaction on climate change? Want to do something about it? Citizens Climate Lobby announces that Mark Reynolds, Executive Director of Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL), will visit Toronto in February to conduct two training sessions to give concerned citizens the tools they need to make their voices heard by decision-makers in Ottawa.
Thursday, February 10, 6:00 to 9:00pm
60 Lowther Avenue, Friends House (St. George subway)
AGENDA
Introduction to CCL methodology
The problem, what the scientists say, the influence of paid lobbyists
Effective communication, what matters is what they hear not what you say
Practicing a laser talk
Preparing for a meeting with a MP
Mock meeting with MP
Write a letter to Million Letter March, time permitting.
Please RSVP to Cheryl McNamara , cherylmcnamara at rogers.com ● 416-875-0097
About the Citizens Climate Lobby
Join Citizens Climate Lobby and be part of a growing organization of local volunteer groups in Canada and the US that are pressing for progressive climate legislation. We lobby our federal governments to support carbon fee and dividend and end subsidies to fossil fuel companies. The former puts a direct fee on carbon-based fuels at the source, providing a market signal to invest in clean energy technology, while returning the fee’s revenue to households in the form of monthly payments or reduced payroll taxes.
The Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL) is an initiative that began in the US three years ago. We take the view that politicians generally do not create political will, rather they respond to it. CCL uses a model for citizens to create political will that has proven to be successful in Canada and the U.S. by the organization RESULTS (which has the mandate to reduce poverty).
By joining CCL-Toronto you will work with a group of dedicated volunteers committed to fostering a regulatory environment that supports clean energy development, and a wider continental web of CCL groups working for the same purpose.
To find out more, please contact Cheryl McNamara, CCL Toronto Group Leader, at cherylmcnamara at rogers.com or 416-875-0097.
Not in Toronto? Contact Mark Reynolds at mark.reynolds at citizensclimatelobby.org and visit http://citizensclimatelobby.org/Canada to find out more about CCL and how you can get involved in your own community.
http://citizensclimatelobby.org, www.climateresponse.ca, www.carbonslim.blogspot.com
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Amnesty International Business & Human Rights Group presents:
Canadian Mining in Guatemala
Thursday, February 10, 7:30 p.m.
Amnesty International office, 1992 Yonge St. 3rd floor
Choc v. HudBay Minerals Lawsuit - Come and learn from Grahame Russell, Rights Action
Adolfo Ich Chaman, a teacher in Guatemala and critic of a contentious mine affecting his community, was brutally murdered in 2009. Witnesses say he was hacked and shot by the mine's security guards, yet no one has been brought to justice. In December of 2010, Adolfo's widow launched a lawsuit in Ontario courts against HudBay and two subsidiaries.
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183104088390326
For more info: 416.363.9933 x 325
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Fight the Ford Cuts: People's Delegation to the Budget Committee
Thursday, February 10, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West
Rod Ford’s Budget Committee is right now working out the details of the opening round of his attack on poor and working people in this City. Ford campaigned on the basis of stopping the ‘gravy train’ at City Hall, but his Budget plans show how exactly he defines ‘gravy’.
The proposed cuts are real and they are deep- this is the information we have managed to gather so far, but can imagine are only the tip of the iceberg.
Ford claimed there would be no service cuts – but what we are seeing from shelters, to tenants, to community services, to transit is that this is nothing but a blatant lie.
We are calling on communities to confront Ford and his budget plans at all public consultations this week, and also COME OUT on February 10th for a People’s Delegation at the final meeting of the Budget Committee to bring our anger and our demands directly to them.
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, www.ocap.ca or 316-925-6939
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No Toronto Money to Support Fear & Deportations
End Austerity! Ensure Public Services for All.
10 February, 10am - 1pm
Toronto City Hall
On February 10, 2011, the budget committee of the City of Toronto is meeting to cut 6,000 beds for refugee claimants, as well as access to food and services. They want to increase funds for a Toronto police force that does Immigration Enforcement's dirty work, and puts cops in schools to harass undocumented and racialized youth. Rob Ford would rather give tax cuts to the rich than ensure that Toronto's 200,000 undocumented residents can go to school, get healthcare, get good food, get community housing or live with justice and dignity.
Cuts to public services, increased money on policing and repression, and money for corporations are part of the Austerity agenda. The worst impacts of Austerity are felt by those already excluded from public services, and those already heavily criminalized - undocumented communities, migrant communities and poor and working people of color around the world. In times of recession, governments try to blame immigrants and refugees to distract from the real enemy - themselves.
In the spirit of unity and solidarity, No One Is Illegal - Toronto is calling our allies to join us to speak to Toronto's Budget Committee to stop Toronto from being a Sweatshop City and to demand:
** All city services funded, or administered by the city ensure that lack of immigration status is not a barrier to accessing services.
** Reinstate the 6,000 beds, services and meals for refugee claimants.
** Stop Toronto Police, Court Officers, TTC Special Constables and others from handing over undocumented people to Immigration Enforcement.
** Give untied funding to immigrant service agencies that have been denied funding by the federal govt., many for their political opinions.
At the same time, we support calls to raise the rates, and to ensure free community housing, free and accessible transit, a living wage, unionized work for all city workers, and accessible childcare and schools.
Our friends at the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty are collecting information about the massive service cuts to shelters, to tenants, to community services and to transit. To see the information they have gathered, please visit www.ocap.ca
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My journey to Afghanistan
Eyewitness report and launch of Afghans for Peace
"Very glad to learn about what you are doing. There can hardly be a more important contribution to saving Afghanistan from endless savage war."
- Noam Chomsky, in a message to Afghans for Peace, December 12, 2010
Thursday, February 10, 6:30 p.m.
Steelworkers' Hall, 25 Cecil Street. Directions: 1 block south of College, 1.5 blocks east of Spadina. Parking available on site, behind main building
Event on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/Afghans4Peace
Join us for an evening of Music, dinner, dance performance, and a first-hand account of the situation in Afghanistan, featuring Spogmai Akseer, spokesperson forAfghans for Peace. Spogmai recently visited Afghanistan and will talk about the realities facing the Afghan people under NATO occupation. Guest speakers include Peggy Nash, former Member of Parliament for Parkdale-High Park (NDP) and negotiator for the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union. Featuring special performances from Matadanze and musician Alborz Atashband and Afghan spoken word poet AcidFlow.
Admission: $20 in advance $25 at the door (sliding scale $10 minimum for dinner).
To reserve tickets, please contact the Canadian Peace Alliance:
Phone: 416-588-5555 E-mail: info at nowar.ca
In person: CPA office, 427 Bloor Street West, 2nd floor, Suite 207 on Fridays between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. Tickets include dinner and will also be available at the door.
This is a fundraising event for Afghans for Peace and the Canadian Peace Alliance. Thank you in advance for your generous support.
Organized by: Afghans for Peace, Canadian Peace Alliance, Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
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Art Creates Change: The Kym Pruesse Speaker Series: Wafaa Bilal
Thursday, February 10, 7 p.m.
OCAD University, Auditorium, 100 McCaul Street
The Chicago Tribune named Iraqi born Wafaa Bilal Artist of the Year in 2008 and called his dynamic installation, Domestic Tension, “one of the sharpest works of political art to be seen in a long time.” Through his varied art practices of installation, photography and performance, and utilizing the interactivity of the Internet, “re-skinned” video games, or body tattoos, Wafaa Bilal provokes and challenges audiences to consider the absences that result from war and contemporary violence. His works are incisive and chilling, conceptually driven, and at the same time playful and full of mourning. Wafaa Bilal is Assistant Professor of Art at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
416-977-6000 | www.ocad.ca
All are welcome; admission is free. Limited seating available; guests are advised to arrive early.
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Toronto Free School Project Launch Party!
Friday, February 11th, 8:30 PM - midnight
CINECYCLE, 401 Richmond St. (down the alley off of Spadina)
To kick off the spring semester of Toronto Free School, and belatedly celebrate the beginning of the project, we’re hosting a community launch party! The Toronto Free School is a new project that aims to promote participatory education, host radical skill share workshops, facilitate activist discussions and film screenings, and build inclusive community through learning. In order to start this community building process, we’re hoping you’ll join us for an evening of fun, friends and fantastic music.
We’ll have musical performances, class introductions from facilitators and presentations from community allies, and delicious cupcakes and cocktails- the event will be licensed. Hope to see you there!
The Toronto Free School Collective
https://torontofreeskool.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/toronto-free-school-project-launch-party/
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Toronto Socialist Action and Youth for Socialist Action Present Rebel Films:
100 Days of Resistance
Friday, February 11, 7 p.m.
OISE, Room 2-212, 252 Bloor Street West (St. George subway)
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested.
A documentary by Avi Lewis, from Al Jazeera's Fault Lines series first aired in September/October 2009. This will be an evening of film and discussion about Honduras since the summer 2009 military coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya. Guest speaker Karen Spring, who works for Rights Action in Honduras and Guatemala, is on an international speaking tour to expose “Mining and Tourism in Honduras: How Canada is impeding the Pro-Democracy People's Movement and the Re-foundation of Honduras”.
Toronto Socialist Action and Youth for Socialist Action present Rebel Films.
Please visit www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com or call 416-461-6942
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Class Struggle and the Body: Anti-Capitalism, Disability and Injured Workers
Friday February 11, 7:30 PM
Regal Beagle Pub, 335 Bloor St West, Toronto
On Feb 11, the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly will be holding another one of our coffeehouse discussions at the Regal Beagle. This time, with two speakers from DAMN 2025 and a labour activist working around the important and nearly invisible issue of the fate of injured workers, we will be discussing concrete strategies for the class struggle and accessibility that incorporate the unique predicament of members of the working class who are not able bodied. Bringing together social movement and labour activists, this should be another interesting and unique discussion.
Speakers:
* Andrew Mindszenthy (DAMN 2025)
* Jeff Peters (DAMN 2025)
* Nick DeCarlo (Canadian Auto Workers)
Moderated by: Ameilia Murphy Beaudoin (OPSEU)
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GREEN JOBS - Green Community Forum: Perspectives from the Hood
Forum with Keynote speaker: Majora Carter
Saturday Feb. 12 9:30-12:30 am
HNES Bldg., York University
For more info and reg: http://www.greenxchange.ca/
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ICE RACE 2011!!!
Sat. Feb. 12 – 6 – 9 p.m.
Dufferin Grove Skating Rink (Dufferin, south of Bloor)
The most fun on Two Wheels
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Decolonizing the Heart: Healing from rage and using anger constructively
Saturday, February 12, 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street (one block south of College between Spadina and Beverley)
Price: suggested sliding scale donation $5-$20 or PWYC.
Building a movement of allies and not just coming together over issues requires the personal work of decolonizing one’s own heart.
Colonization writ large and small requires decolonization solutions large and small. We must start by decolonizing ourselves in order to build decolonized communities, and from there, begin to decolonize the state.
This workshop will use “The Walk of Life”, a proven structure and process which guides people towards personal healing through understanding the “baggage” they came into the world with. After all, whether we like them or not, from our infant and child perspective, we came into the world as members of families, not members of the state. “The Walk of Life” is a tremendously effective multi-generational healing instrument and a useful structure to be passed on and used by participants to encourage and support further healing work.
Through the telling of personal stories, we will face some of the challenges and moments of truth that we all experience in our colonized
states. From there we can do the work of decolonizing our hearts.
Featuring: Professor Murray Kelly, and Dr. Victoria Freeman.
Prof. Murray Kelly works in the deeper areas of healing - exploring the unconscious wounds within family and community systems, the primary elements that cause us pain, and why we medicate our relationship to the world in which we live
Dr. Victoria Freeman is a mother, teacher, peace builder, community and social justice activist and author (Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America). She is known for her work in support of relationship building between Indigenous and settler people and communities.
Moderator: Diem Lafortune-Brown (Mama D). Artist, activist, author, educator, healer, and lawyer.
Event is wheel-chair accessible and close to TTC.
Light refreshments provided.
For more info: 416 538 0224 or bigbear3 at sympatico.ca
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Jeff Halper and Why We Need the Canadian Boat to Gaza
Saturday, February 12, 7:00 PM
@ Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor Street W. (2 Blocks East of Spadina)
Halper is an Israeli author and speaker about non-violent strategies to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is a co-founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). Jeff was on board the first boat to Gaza which successfully sailed through the naval blockade, docking on the shores of Gaza in 2008. Please join us for this Canadian Boat to Gaza/ICAHD fundraiser where Jeff Halper will speak on the importance of the flotillas that travel to Gaza by sea to break Israel's illegal stranglehold on1.5 million Palestinian civilians.
Advance Tickets: $10 available at: Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. & Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord St. and online at PayPal.
More Info: cbgtickets at gmail.com or 416-588-6356.
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Seedy Sunday
Sunday: February 13, 12:30 pm - 6 pm
Hart House, University of Toronto
Free
Seedy Saturday and Sundays are the days when the new gardening season begins in earnest. You can have an opportunity to learn more about gardening, hone and share your gardening skills, and buy or exchange vegetable and flower seeds. We are seeking to ensure that there is an ample supply of heritage and organic seeds available. There will be organic gardening supplies, soil amendments, tools and resources. Environmental organizations and community groups will have information tables on topics of interest to gardeners. And, as always, there will be food and beverage stands to enhance the overall experience and atmosphere.
For more Info: http://www.tcgn.ca/wiki/wiki.php?n=Events2011.SeedySundayFeb13-2011.
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Save CKLN!
The Canadian Radio & Television Commission/CRTC plans to revoke CKLN’s (Ryerson Campus radio) license on February 12. If you care about independent, alternative and community-based radio, please sign CKLN's online petition -http://www.petitiononline.com/ckln881, contact your MP and write CRTC.
CKLN volunteers, staff and Board of Directors are fighting back - we have a strategic and public awareness action committee and legal support and plan to hold a public rally. Tune in for more info: 88.1FM, www.ckln.fm
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT NOW.
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Petition against military recruitment on U of T campus
Please sign the petition and pass it on!
http://www.petitiononline.com/armyout/petition.htm
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Long Range Acoustical Devices
Here are some links to coverage of the LRADs at Police Services Board on Thursday. It was a frustrating experience, given that the purchase
appears to be a done deal! The presence of three deputants was
important, as well as some written submissions. Deputations were made by me, Peter Rosenthal and Graeme Norton, public safety project director with The Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
The story is not over, as the Province is looking into regulation of the LRADs.
Here are 3 links; the Star coverage sums it up:
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/933139--police-board-shocked-force-will-keep-sound-cannons
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/933798--porter-a-loud-and-clear-lesson-in-police-power
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/police-keep-range-of-equipment-acquired-for-g20-summit/article1893922/
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Room for Rent in Loft
Ossington and Dupont, $625
Community and activist oriented
Great space ~ Great location ~ Unique
Contact Petra 416.732.8965, pei.czech at gmail.com
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