T.O. Greenspiration Events: Greedy Lying Bastards

Angela Bischoff greenspi at web.ca
Sat Mar 9 10:03:23 EST 2013


T.O. Greenspiration Events

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Help the Ontario Clean Air Alliance win a LiveGreen Toronto Award for its work to phase out coal in Ontario. 
View and comment on our new video (90 seconds) about what this achievement means for Toronto -- and the world. 

http://bit.ly/WRcciX   
Thanks - angela

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Human Chain Reaction to Shut Down Nuclear Power

Sat. March 9, noon - 1:30 p.m.
GE Hitachi Uranium Fuel Processing Plant, at 1025 Lansdowne Ave, north of Dupont St.

An international event connected with the second anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophy. With the «Human Chain Reaction», the event is to create a long human chain that will surround as much of the GE Hitachi Uranium Fuel Processing Plant as we can. In France in March 2012, 60 000 people created a human chain along the roads of France. Together we can assemble concerned people here in Toronto in order to obtain our goal of bringing awareness to the continuing danger of the Nuclear energy industry and send a strong message and image to our governments and the corporations involved in the nuclear business in Canada and in the world «United, we will win!».

https://www.facebook.com/events/491792764219281/

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International Women's Day - Fires are Burning, We are Rising - No more violence, no more abuse

Saturday, March 9
Rally, 11 a.m. OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor St West 
March, 1 p.m.
Fair, 2 p.m., Ryerson Student Centre, 55 Gould St.
Dance, 8 p.m., Scadding Court Community Centre 707 Dundas (at Bathurst)

International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday. IWD has been celebrated for more than 100 years. In Toronto, IWD has traditionally been a rally and march, and is organized by a committee of social justice, labour, health and women's rights activists.

https://www.facebook.com/events/490398371016665/

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Womyn: Destroy the Patriarchal Prison System
With Kelly Pflug-Back

Saturday, March 9, 8 p.m.
GSU Gymnasium (University of Toronto) – 16 Bancroft Avenue (Just East of Spadina, North of College)

Recognized author and Toronto G20 Political Prisoner will officially be launching her poetry book, “These Burning Streets” upon her release from Vanier Correctional Centre for Women. Kelly has spent the last 7 months in prison for having allegedly participated in the riots during the Toronto G20 Summit in 2010. She is a published poet and author as well as a well known activist for her work in anti-poverty and harm reduction organizing. She will also speak of her experience within the prison industrial complex, where prison serves as a Patriarchical tool to confine and dispose the bodies of those that do not conform to the norms of society, specifically in the case of women.

Special Guests:
- From Greece: Sofia Papagiannaki, Vangelis Nanos & Thanasis Xirotsopanos 
- From Peterborough: Amanda Lickers (Anarchist Black Cross of Peterborough): Anti-authoritarian prison abolitionist on the Patriarchical nature of the Prison Industrial Complex from a radical feminist analysis.
- George Horton Norabuena (Anarchist Black Cross of Peterborough)

Poetry, Live Music, Video Shorts and Much More...

More info at http://wccctoronto.wordpress.com/

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Have your say on improving transportation in Toronto

Over the past month, the City of Toronto has conducted four “town hall” consultations to gather public input on selecting and funding future transportation projects. If you missed the meetings, don’t worry – you have until Friday, March 15 to visit Feeling congested? to voice your transportation concerns, total up the impact of your preferred revenue choices, and download a discussion guide to stimulate fascinating dinner conversation.

http://feelingcongested.ca/#home  

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Our Horizon's Climate Change Exhibit: Warning Labels on Gas Pump Nozzles

March 1 – March 17
Weds-Fri: 2 pm to 8 pm, Sat: noon to 8 pm, Sun: noon to 6 pm
Toronto Free Gallery , 1277 Bloor St. West @ Lansdowne Station

Our idea is globally-unprecedented: we want to put warning labels on gas pump nozzles just like those on cigarette packs. How would the idea work? What do psychologists say about it? What about economists? And can cities across Canada actually do this? Come check out our panels to learn all about our proposal. It takes 20-30 minutes to explore the exhibit. Admission is free. When you're done exploring the exhibit, you can send an email to city councillors from www.ourhorizon.org to encourage them to pass this by-law.

@OurHorizonOrg    www.facebook.com/OurHorizonOrg    www.ourhorizon.org
Toronto Star article: http://bit.ly/YhPHH9
Live Green Award video: http://bit.ly/13rfXmq
City Youth Council of Toronto pass our idea: http://bit.ly/15drF3a
Launch article: http://bit.ly/UDgwEg

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Fukushima 2 Years Later: Global Symposium to address mounting Medical and Ecological Consequences 

March 11-12, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York City

Watch it live-streamed here: http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=hcf

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3/11 Global Candles for Peace - Fukushima 2nd Anniversary Remembrance

Mon. Mar. 11

Will you join our global Candles for Peace chain on March 11, in memory of the triple disaster of March 11 in Japan and support of the global stand for a nuclear-free world? You can join from anywhere in the world simply by lightning a candle that day. 

On March 11 it will be 2 years since the Northeastern Earthquake and Tsunami hit Japan, killing over 15,000 people, destroying numerous villages along the Tohoku coast and disrupting the lives of millions. March 11 also is the day that the Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster put and end to the peaceful lives of even more people, waking us up to the nuclear reality and the need for a new energy direction for Japan and the world. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/420275958062841/

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Occupy Gardens for World Peas
presentation and discussion

Monday March 11, 6 - 9 pm 
OISE Room 2212

Jacob Kearey-Moreland will be giving a public presentation and facilitated discussion on the Occupy Gardens and Free Food For All movement, and how radish food project can facilitate a transition to the sharing economy, one that is just and sustainable for all life on Earth. Included is discussion of the Toronto Seed Library, the GrowTO Plan, May 1st day of SOILidarity and scaling up urban agriculture in Toronto. As well as thoughts for building a Provincial/National movement to create a National Food Act amid a global food revolution! We will screen our shortfilm "SOILidarity", share seeds and develop a plan for feeding the movement. 

The lecture is part of a series organized by Zeitgeist U of T and Zeitgeist Toronto,

https://www.facebook.com/events/468428193230813/

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Water Under Fire

Tuesday, March 12, 6:15 pm           
Runnymede Public Library, 2178 Bloor Street West

PWYC/Free screening of this documentary, episodes 5-7, is a 7-part series exposing the Nation's water crises. Host BOBob McDonald challenges our comfort level, as we do take water for granted, and calls us to take action by presenting potential solutions. Our guest speaker is Paul Baines, who bike toured Lake Ontario as part of a larger and on-going collaborative mapping project for the Great Lakes. Visit www.greatlakescommonsmap.org to learn more about the project.
 
http://www.green13toronto.org/ 

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Weekly Idle No More Teach-in

Tuesdays, 6 - 9 p.m.
439 Dundas Street East

www.councilfire.ca
For everyone else worldwide we will be livestreaming this LIVE at www.livestream.com/occupytoronto

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The Oversimplification of Early Detection: Screening Mammography and Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis
Free Webinar

Did you know that mammograms do not prevent breast cancer? In truth, they actually detect cancer that already exists. And while screening mammography* is currently the best tool we have for detecting breast cancer, it misses 20% of all tumors, and women younger than 50 are even more likely to have a missed tumor. Over the last 30 years, the promise of early screening to significantly reduce deaths from breast cancer has under-delivered. Nevertheless, early detection and debates over whether breast cancer screening does more harm than good continue to oversimplify and dominate the conversation.The truth about screening is more complicated.

Please join us on Tuesday March 12th or Thursday March 14th for an open and honest discussion on screening and the potential for overdiagnosis and overtreatment with mammography.
Register for Tuesday March 12, 4pm (EST) https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/309935622
Register for Thursday March 14, 12 noon (EST) https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/415357662 

During the webinar we will:
	• Deconstruct the early detection saves lives mantra
	• Analyze the benefits and harms of mammography
	• Explain the effect three decades of screening mammography has had on breast cancer incidence
	• Help to translate the science around overdiagnosis and overtreatment related to mammography
	• Discuss what all this information means for you

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Indigenous Resistance! Stop the Tar Sands! No Line 9 Reversal!

Wednesday, March 13, 7 p.m.
Koffler Centre, room 108, 569 Spadina Avenue

Toronto Report Back from the 2013 Earth First! Organizers Conference: Lessons in strategy and solidarity from communities across Turtle Island. Speakers include: 
- Amanda Lickers, Haudenosaunee from Nogijiwanong
- Vanessa Gray, Anishinabe from Aamjiwnaang First Nation

The resource extraction industry across Turtle Island is environmentally destructive, violates land treaties with First Nations and harms any community in its path. The Alberta Tar Sands is just one aspect of this industry and one of the fastest growing contributors to climate change. Indigenous communities downstream from the Tar Sands in Alberta continue to face the devastating health and environmental impacts of the pollutants and toxins. Oil spills in both Canada and the U.S have prompted action across Southern Ontario to oppose the pumping of Alberta Tar Sands bitumen by Enbridge Line 9 from Sarnia and through Toronto to Montreal. 

Organized by the Association of Part Time Undergraduate Students (APUS), University of Toronto Graduate Students Union and OPIRG-Toronto.
https://www.facebook.com/events/157993521025185 

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From 'Feeding the World' to Sustainable Farming
With Harriet Friedmann, Professor of Geography, U. of T
 
Thur. March 14, 7 – 9 p.m.
University College, 15 Kings College Circle, U of Toronto, Rm. 144
All welcome. No charge.
 
Co-Sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace, and Voice of Women for Peace.
http://www.scienceforpeace.ca/from-feeding-the-world-to-sustainable-farming

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Food Inc.
 
Thur. Mar. 14, 9:30 p.m.
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)
 
Food Inc. explores how consumers can be agents of change in altering the choices they make at the supermarket. The screening will be followed by a brief discussion from directors, practitioners, academics and activists, and will be moderated by the Toronto Society of Architects.
 
bloorcinema.com/movies/Food-Inc/

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University of Toronto Cinema Politica presents:

Myths for Profit
Explores Canada’s role in industries of war and peace.

Thur. March 14, 8 p.m.
OISE, Rm. 5150, 252 Bloor W. (St. George subway)

www.cinemapolitica.org/uoft

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Greedy Lying Bastards
 
Fri. Mar. 15 – Thur. Mar. 21
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)
 
In the provocatively titled documentary, Greedy Lying Bastards, activist and filmmaker Craig Rosebraugh exposes the oil industry’s influence over political processes with campaigns that deny climate change. Ignoring scientific evidence, industry and political leaders with vested economic interests in fossil fuels engage in practices of deceit and corruption, shaping regulations and undermining democratic processes. The film examines tactics by the Koch Brothers, ExxonMobil and prominent politicians who are more concerned about profits than the future of the world’s population. Filmed over two years and across nine countries, Rosebraugh’s interviews feature many of the world’s leading scientists, experts, advocates and skeptics, presenting an alarming document of the absurdity and dangers of an environmental smear campaign.  

Director Craig Scott Rosebraugh will participate in a Skype Q&A on Friday, March 15, at 9 p.m., and Saturday, March 16, at 7 p.m.
 
http://bloorcinema.com/movies/Greedy-Lying-Bastards/
 
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Roadmap to Apartheid
2012  95 minutes 

Friday, March 15 – 7 p.m. 
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West , Room 2-212 (St. George Subway Station:.
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested. 

Ana Nogueira is a white South African and Eron Davidson is a Jewish Israeli. Drawing on their first-hand knowledge of the issues, the producers take a close look at the apartheid comparison often used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This film is as much a historical document of the rise and fall of apartheid, as it is a film about why many Palestinians feel they are living in an apartheid system today, and why an increasing number of people around the world agree with them. Johannah May Black, PhD candidate, and Hammam Farah, Palestinian activist, both members of Students Against Israeli Apartheid, will open the discussion.

For more info: www.socialistaction.ca or call 416 – 461-6942.
Presented by Toronto Socialist Action as part of their Rebel Film series

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International Day Against Police Brutality

Fri. Mar. 15, 5 - 8 p.m.
52 Division, University and Dundas, Police Station

Every year we remember this day to put a call to elected officials to end Police Brutality in Canada and the World. Toronto has bad cops (Sargents, Managers and Staff) and those cops make all the rest of the T.P.S look bad. We have had serious events in which Toronto Citizens have been physically and verbally assaulted and the use of unnecessary force buy rogue members of the T.P.S..This has to stop. We call on Mr William Blair the Chief of Police and Dr Aloj Mukherjee , Chairman of the T.P.S Board to put words into action , we demand an end to Abuse of Authority, we demand the inmediate terminiation of those T.P.S officers who they know well are still on payroll paid by Toronto Taxpayers. Violence, bullying and abuse of authority is the not the norm and should not be tolerated in our Society. Please join us to celebrate, commemorate and remind our Elected Officials to end Police Brutality and please consider joining the first TORONTO COP WATCH group in Toronto. We need committed volunteers who can contribute with logistics and time . YES!!...We can do it for the rest of Toronto Citizens victims of Police Brutality who are afraid to speak! 

TORONTOCOPWATCH.WORDPRESS.COM
https://www.facebook.com/events/228245747320357/

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Free'Scool Popular Education and free art workshops 

Sat. March 16, 10 am - 4:30 pm
Scadding Court Community Centre - Dundas and Bathurst

Workshop with Ayendri runs from 1pm-4pm, with discussion and visioning before 
Snacks will be available, if you can contribute please email us to let us know what you can bring
Please email back to register, spaces are limited. 

If you are interested in getting involved with free'Scool, either as a facilitator, or organizer, this is a great event to attend! 
http://www.freescool.com/current-classes/blast-from-the-past-classes-once-held-at-freescool/fall-workshop-series/

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First Unitarian Church presents:

Why Are More Consumers Choosing to Support Organics

Sun. Mar. 17, 12:30 to 2 pm 
Shaw Room of the First Unitarian Church, 175 St. Clair Avenue West
 
How does buying certified organic ensure that your food is healthy without pesticides and GMO? How does the certified organic farmer help protect Canada's soil, water systems, plants, pollinators, and wildlife? What are the best tips on starting and maintaining an organic garden? How does certified organic farming deal with pests? and much more. The audience will be able to ask the speakers questions. With:
- Jodi Koberinski (Organic Council of Ontario,)
- Sarah Dobec, (The Big Carrot)
- Tanmayo Krupanszky (Toronto Chapter Canadian Organic Growers)
- and Peter Finch, (Certified Organic Farmer) are our speakers). 
 
We are serving Michael and Jennifer Laur's homemade 100% raw organic Vegan Pizza and homemade 100% raw organic Vegan chocolate to the first 50 people who RSVP by email. They are to RSVP, only if they are sure that they can attend because we only have enough pizza and chocolate for 50 people, to: AllenGoldfeder at firstunitariantoronto.org. They are to indicate how many people will be attending. We are asking for a $5.00 donation or whatever they could give for the cost of the food.

For more information, http://firstunitariantoronto.org/what-we-do-here/upcoming-events/ or call (416) 924-9654

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Seeking kitchen fairies, and preps extraordinaire to help us cook for this years' Permaculture Design Course

Friday, April 12 - 28
Facilitated by Jillian Hovey & Garden Jane
 
A call out to all those blessed with the gift of turning nature into delicious food! Our goal is to create a small team to support us with the very essential and important job of feeding 15-25 students daily for just over 2 weeks.  If you are passionately drawn to becoming part of a team of experienced and mindful cooks, working in a deep learning environment, please see the opportunity details here:  http://www.gardenjane.com/permaculturefoodteam.html 
and consider the course in detail here:  http://www.gardenjane.com/workshopsandevents/permaculturecourse.html

Deadline for stepping forward is March 14. Please pass this onto anyone you know who is qualified and may be interested.
Contact Jane or Petra: pdcfood at gardenjane.com 

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Creative Loft Living 

All inclusive $650 / month
4 floor walk up warehouse shared by 3
24/7 transit / laundry / parking  no smoking/ no pets
YOU ARE neat, clean, mature, responsible, independent self motivated, respectful, financially secure-mature, good listener and proactive communicator 
I AM a community animator creating infrastructure  and planting seeds for a sustainable permanent culture
Please share with friends. Inquire and call for viewing now. 
416 273 8965  or email: pei.czech at gmailm.com

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