T.O. Greenspiration Events: No More Fukushimas!
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Mar 9 20:25:43 EDT 2014
T.O. Greenspiration Events
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12 Inspired Actions to Outsmart Repressive Situations and Laws
http://www.popularresistance.org/12-inspired-actions-to-outsmart-repressive-situations-and-laws/
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Selling Sickness
11 short video interviews
http://sellingsickness.com/post-conference/conference-program/booktivism-a-project-for-activism-and-awareness/
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Poor People's History of East Downtown Toronto
For close to two centuries East Downtown Toronto has welcomed the unemployed, homeless and working poor. Infrastructures to support the unemployed, some of which date back to the establishment of Toronto first poor house to the 1830s, are now being threatened and dismantled by the city to make room for Toronto's more affluent residents. Where will the unemployed, homeless, and poor residents go? The tour explores how Toronto's "skid row" came to be established in East Downtown Toronto. What has been the relationship of Toronto poor with Toronto wealthy residents over the last one-seventy-years? What happened to the slums of Cabbagetown and how are they related to Regent Park, Canada's largest social housing complex? There is also long history organizing and militant resistance in East Downtown Toronto by the unemployed and the homeless dating back to the 1890s. How are these struggles connected to later unemployed battles of the 1930s and 1990s? This walking tour is led by Gaetan Heroux, who is a member of OCAP, a long time organizer in the neighborhood, and a people's historian. 27 min. video
http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls208.php
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Keep Central Tech’s Field Green!
Downtown west residents are fighting the Toronto District School Board’s deal to privatize the playing field and running track at Central Technical School (i.e. outside of school hours). A private developer will install artificial turf and an inflatable dome. To learn more and sign a petition to keep the field green, visit:
http://chn.ge/1hmJl2F
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If These Walls Could Talk Stories Behind Toronto’s Psychiatric Patient Built Wall
Monday, March 10, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre, 1499 Queen Street West
A Documentary Film Screening. Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) was first built in 1850 and was then known as The Provincial Lunatic Asylum. The film traces the history of the institution, and tells the stories of some of the patients, whom despite degrading treatment, managed to escape or rebel. It also explores contemporary narratives of mad people, as they cope in today’s world. Stay after for a critical discussion with the filmmakers, Naomi Berlyne and Sibyl Likely.
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Climate Change Warning Labels on Gas Pumps
Monday, March 10, 6:30 pm
Layton Room, 2nd Floor, Ryerson Student Centre (near Yonge and Dundas)
Want to stop Tar Sands? Pipelines? Climate Change? You need to disrupt demand! Rob Shirkey, lawyer and founder of not-for-profit Our Horizon, is coming to Ryerson to share their globally-unprecedented campaign to get climate change warning labels on gas pump nozzles. Learn the psychology, economics and law behind this simple yet powerful tool to shift market demand and drive change upstream. Our Horizon was launched in early 2013 and is already being talked about all over the world. Their game plan is to set precedents in Canadian communities and then take the idea global. Come to this talk to learn more about the campaign, get the tools to advocate for it in Toronto, and be a part of making climate change history! Free.
https://www.facebook.com/events/211983475675033/
http://ourhorizon.org
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How to Avoid a Fukushima Disaster in Ontario
Tuesday March 11
7 p.m. – Anthony Wilson, Layah Jane and Brian MacMilllan, singer-songwriters
7:30 p.m. – Jack Gibbons, advocate for a nuclear-free Ontario
The Ossington: 61 Ossington (just north of Queen)
Free
On March 11, 2011, the world experienced its worst nuclear power disaster to date. Triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear disaster revealed nuclear power’s vulnerability and danger. Three years later more than 100,000 people are still displaced, likely never to return to their homes, and 300 tonnes of radioactive water stream into the Pacific Ocean daily while technicians gingerly remove the used fuel rods from elevated pools before another earth quake topples the damaged structure. On the anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, join musicians and advocates as we mourn, learn and organize how to avoid a similar fate here in Ontario.
Did you know there are 18 working nuclear power reactors in Ontario? And because they’re all old, the province is moving forward with rebuilding 4 reactors at Darlington (on Lake Ontario), 4 reactors at Bruce (on Lake Huron), and extending Pickering, at huge public expense? Is it possible to power ON without these reactors? How would we do it, and would it cost more, or less?
Jack Gibbons is an economist and the Chair of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance. Because of his skillful research, advocacy and leadership, the province of Ontario phased out coal. Now he’s turning his attention to the phase out of ON’s nuclear stations. http://www.cleanairalliance.org/
Anthony Rankin Wilson, eco-psychotherapist and singer-songwriter, sings of loss and wonder, and shares the folk stage with his soulful daughter, singer-songwriter Layah Jane, and his friend and producer, the multi-talented musician, Brian MacMillan.
www.brianmacmillanmusic.com www.layahjane.com www.anthonyrankinwilson.com
Oss Talks are a community conversation, held the 2nd Tues. of each month at the Ossington, hosted by Angela Bischoff of Greenspiration and Ontario Clean Air Alliance. For more info or to volunteer your talent, angela at cleanairalliance.org
http://on.fb.me/1dAhyae
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dirt! The Movie A story with heart and soil.
Tues. March 11, 6:15 – 8:15 pm
Runnymede Library - 2178 Bloor Street West (one block east of Runnymede on the north side of Bloor)
DIRT!, The Movie, directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow, tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility – from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation.
DIRT! – narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis – brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that soil has.
DIRT! is simply a movie about dirt and it teaches how intimately linked humans are to dirt. The movie is a call to action.
http://www.green13toronto.org/event/green-13-movie-nights-dirt#sthash.cA4RuNvB.dpuf
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The Fight for the Minimum Wage and the Lessons of Seattle
Tuesday, March 11, 7 - 9 p.m.
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (Bloor and Bathurst)
In the ongoing struggle for a living minimum wage in Ontario, we have lots to learn from experiences taken from other cities and comrades. One of the most successful has been the stunning achievement in Seattle WA. The campaign around the minimum wage in Seattle has shown how the power of street politics can be integrated with socialist electoral politics to mobilize people and get things done. The Occupy movement didn’t just produce community and union activists, it brought to the fore organizations like Socialist Alternative and their Council candidate Kshama Sawant. In the November Council election, Sawant took on a well known Democratic Party incumbent to win the seat, getting 93,000 votes city wide. The main focus of her election campaign was the demand for the $15 minimum wage. Two weeks later in the Seattle community of Seatac, people voted through a referendum (proposition 1) to support the $15 proposal. There are lessons to be learned for the left in Toronto, especially in the area of orienting towards electoral politics.
http://beitzatoun.org/event/fight-for-the-minimum-wage/
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Webinar: How we can cut Transport Emissions by 50%
With Todd Litman, Victoria B.C.
Tues. March 11, 3 p.m. ETS
From your computer.
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/489728058
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From Promises to Obstruction, Canada and Global Climate Crisis
Tues. March 11, 6:45 - 8:45 pm
Community Centre 55, 97 Main Street
Guest speaker: Stephen Leahy - International environmental journalist specializing on climate change. Canada has been chosen six times as the most uncooperative country...
http://tcan.ca/event/promises-obstruction-canada-and-global-climate-crisis
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The Churchill Debate on Parliamentary Democracy with a keynote by the Hon. Michael Chong, MP
Tues., March 11, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Music Room, Hart House, U of T
Michael Chong has put forward the Reform Act, which is expected to go to second reading in either May or June. This is a very important act, supported by Elizabeth May of the Green Party and many other members from every federal party. This act will be debated by four of Canada’s top university debaters. Should Parliament pass the Reform Act, a bill that would strengthen the power of backbench MPs, weaken the power of party leaders, and empower local riding associations? The debate will be followed by a keynote speech by the Hon. Michael Chong, MP for Wellington—Halton Hills and author of the proposed Reform Act. Free
http://harthouse.ca/events/churchill-debate-2014/
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Organic Balcony Gardening 101
Wed. Mar. 12, 5:15 p.m.
Want to be in control of what’s in and on the food that you eat but not sure how a condo dweller can make it happen? Turn your balcony into an edible garden oasis in the sky. You will go from absolute beginner to savvy container gardener by the end of this workshop!
http://www.freshcityfarms.com/news-events-urban-farming-toronto-local-food-movement/organic-balcony-gardening-101/
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MP Michael Chong on his private members bill – the Reform Act
Wed. March 12, 7 p.m.
Ralph Thornton Center, 765 Queen Street E.
Last December Michael Chong, the MP for Wellington-Halton Hills, tabled a private members bill called the Reform Act 2013. It contains measures to reduce the centralized control of members of parliament by party leaders. Chong has begun speaking to audiences about his Reform Act, to increase public awareness of it and further debate. This bill is something which people interested in Democratic reform in Canada should be very interested in. This interest should cross party lines.
http://www.qaz.ca/event/Chongeventpage.html
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MISN New Volunteers Orientation Session
Wed. March 12, 6:30 - 8 pm
OISE Room 3311 (252 Bloor St. W)
A fun and interactive orientation to the issue of mining injustice, the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN), the work that we do, and how you can be involved! Light refreshments will be served. If you are interested in MISN but unable to attend, let us know @mininginjustice at gmail.com.
https://www.facebook.com/events/783586465003773/
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Red Panty Diaries (Femme International)
Wed. March 12, 8 p.m.
Lula Lounge 1585 Dundas W.
Menstruation-themed stand-up comedy performances by Zabrina Chevannes, Jess Beaulieu, Sara Hennessey and others. $15.
redpantydiaries.eventbrite.ca.
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Taxing for Fairness and Prosperity
With David Langille, Health Studies, University of Toronto and Work & Labour Studies, York University, Treasurer at Canadians for Tax Fairness.
Thursday Mar 13, 7 - 9 pm
Room 179, University College, 15 Kings College Circle, U of T
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/vital-discussions-of-human-security-fall-2013-spring-2014
If you miss it, the video podcast will be available on the SfP YouTube channel within 1-2 weeks after the talk.http://www.youtube.com/user/Science4Peace
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Ukraine: What's Happening? Who's Responsible?
Thursday, March 13, 7:30 pm
GCDO Hall, 290 Danforth Ave. (just west of Chester Stn.)
A discussion on the grave crisis and danger of war in Ukraine, the roots of the current conflict, and the role of Canada, U.S., Germany and other Western imperialist powers in fomenting regime change. With Wilfred Szczesny - editor of the Ukrainian-Canadian Herald.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1440438296191038/
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Navigating Ableist Spaces: Stories of Resistance
Thursday March 13, 5:30 pm
OISE Room. 2295 (252 Bloor Street)
Panel speakers: Kayla Carter, Lee Maracle, and Quinto Zazoue
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oGHsVUgdRLVlLu47eUUVRlxQ0A8a1b-x9Nq_IIY6jZI/viewform
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Be Your Own Advocate
Thur. March 13, 7 p.m.
Big Carrot 348 Danforth
Seminar on navigating the health care system. Free.
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Davy The Punk
Thur. March 13, 8 p.m.
Randolph Academy, 736 Bathurst
Folksinger Bob Bossin and Bob Rae present songs, visuals and stories about the secret underworld of "Toronto The Good" in the 30s and 40s. $15
pagesfestival.com.
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The Vagina Monologues Meets The F Word
Fri. Sat. March 14/15 @ 7:30 pm
Sat. Sun. March 15/16 @ 2:30 pm
Thur. March 13 @ 7:30 pm**special charity night with TICKETS DISCOUNTED to $16
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street (near Yonge and Dundas)
This yearly production in honor of International Women’s Day gives voice to women’s stories from around the world. Some funny, some shocking, all inspriring and completely true. Female, feminine, femininist and what it means to be any and all of these. Proceeds go to benefit Nellie's Shelter for Women & Children & the Centre for Women's Studies & Education (U of T). The F Word is an Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award.
Tickets from $16 - $26 Use the special code CIRCUS when purchasing tickets at the door & get $5 off the regular ticket price!
http://buddiesinbadtimes.com/event/the-vagina-monologues-meets-the-f-word/2014-03-13/
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The Green Majority
Toronto's Environmental Radio Show
Weekly, Fridays, 11 - noon EST
CIUT 89.5FM
Listen live or catch the podcasts
http://greenmajority.ca/
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ChocoSoil Workshop
Fri. March 14, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
1131 St. Claire Ave. W.
$25 per person (cash please)
Join ChocoSol’s Lead ChocoSoil Animator, Byron Koss, for a two hour interactive workshop exploring our community-based urban agriculture research project that integrates soil making into the day-to-day operations at ChocoSol. Learn about the closed-loop cradle-to-cradle waste use approach we are applying to our production systems, and how we up-cycle cacao shells, cacao char, paper towels, and food scraps into our worm composters to create healthy urban soil ecosystems and to grow roof-top spices and herbs for use in our chocolate. Attendees will participate in demonstrations on our roasting, winnowing, biochar, and grow light operations, as well as hands-on activities such as sifting cacao shells, mixing ChocoSoil blends, seed starting, and setting up worm composters. You will also have the opportunity to indulge in eating and drinking chocolate samples!
http://chocosoltraders.com/chocosoil/
To reserve your spot, please email info at chocosoltraders.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/738454962854652
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Lotions, Potions & Creams II at Anarres
Friday, March 14, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Bloor and Dovercourt
http://www.anarreshealth.ca/content/full-day-advanced-lotions-potions-creams-ii-anarres
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Waltz With Bashir
Documentary, 2008, 90 minutes
Fri. March 14, 7 p.m.
OISE, Room 4-422, 252 Bloor W. (St. George subway)
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict. Ariel Sharon, who died in January 2014, commanded Israeli forces that enabled Lebanese fascists to enter the Palestinian camps Sabra and Shatila and slaughter hundreds of civilians. Sue Goldstein, of Stop the JNF, will speak following the film.
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested.
www.socialistaction.ca
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Capitalism Is The Crisis
Fri. March 14, 7 p.m.
OISE, Rm 5230, 252 Bloor W.
CD launch of the radio documentary written by Asad Ismi. Free.
redstorm.ismi at gmail.com
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Securing Media for Your Campaign
Saturday, March 15, 1 – 6 p.m.
U of T location given to registrants
This workshop will help activists understand how the mainstream media works, and how to use it as at tool in your campaigns for social, economic and ecological change. We will cover the basics of how to write compelling press releases, give great interviews, and develop frames and messages that are effective and in line with your goals.
Trainers: Syed Hussan is an organizer and writer in Toronto working with undocumented and migrant peoples, in defense of Indigenous sovereignty, and against counter intuitive programs like war and capitalism. David Sone is a senior campaigner at Earthroots and supports First Nations struggles for land rights.
http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/securing-media-for-your-campaign-tickets-10638037657
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Rally to Support Canada's Postal Service
Saturday, March 15 2 p.m.
511 Lawrence Ave. West (at the south-west corner of Bathurst St. and Lawrence Ave.) - MP Joe Oliver's office
Demand that Conservative Minister Joe Oliver (MP for Eglinton-Lawrence) and the Stephen Harper government cancel the plan of Canada Post to eliminate door-to-door delivery of mail and increase the price of postage. Please bring placards, banners, musical instruments and noise makers.
Email socialistactioncanada at gmail.com or call 647-728-9143 or 416-461-6942
www.socialistaction.ca
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Zeitgeist Day 2014 Main Event
Sat. March 15, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
JJR MacLeod Auditorium, University of Toronto
Join us for the Zeitgeist Movement's annual Awareness Day packed full of amazing speakers and outstanding subjects. Peter Joseph, founder of the Zeitgeist Movement and creator of the Zeitgeist film series will be in attendance as well as John McMurtry, author of 'The Crisis Stage of Capitalism' and star of 'Zeitgeist: Moving Forward'.
zdaymainevent.eventbrite.ca
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Seed Saving Workshop for the Toronto Seed Library
Sun. March 16, 1 - 5 p.m.
PermaCulture GTA HeadQuarters - 160 Bartley Drive
Workshop: Saving Seed, Creating a Garden Plan, Harvesting
https://www.facebook.com/events/220147648189164/
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How to Host a Workshop Training
Sunday March 16, 1 - 5 p.m., location at U of T
This training will cover the principles of workshop design and delivery including how to create a comfortable learning environment, manage workshop logistics, and choose content and tools that caters to different learning styles and levels of participation. This workshop will specifically focus on methods and tools for active participation in trainings. The workshop will explore strategies to deal with common challenges workshop leaders face. Participants will have the opportunity to create simple workshop design, practice delivering tools and get feedback.
Trainer: Sharmeen Khan has 15 years of experience facilitating workshops on a variety of topics such as anti-oppression, media skills and grassroots financial management. She currently works for the Canadian Association of Labour Media and CUPE 3903. She is also an editor with Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Actio
Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-to-host-a-workshop-training-tickets-10154080127
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March Strategy Summit: Green Majority Toronto
Sun. March 16, 5:30 - 6:30pm
Centre for Social Innovation, 720 Bathurst St. (Just south of Bathurst Subway), Meeting room #1 (second floor)
Open meeting to discuss and stratagize for increased unity in the Toronto environmental movement. Individuals and organizational representatives welcome.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1398732000392128/
http://greenmajority.ca/home/schedule/
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Left Alternatives to Social Democracy
Sunday, March 16, 4 - 7 p.m.
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (Bloor and Bathurst)
Coffee house sponsored by the Education Committee of the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly. Speakers: Leo Panitch, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University; Roger Rashi, founding member of the left-wing Québec solidaire party; and Adolph Reed Jr. professor of political science at University of Pennsylvania, specializing in race, class and American politics and was a key leader in the attempt to establish the US Labor Party in 1996.
http://beitzatoun.org/event/left-alternatives-to-social-democracy/
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NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing
http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/listings/
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Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
506 Bloor W (at Bathurst)
Check out the program:
http://bit.ly/1cvxk9A
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