T.O. Greenspiration Events: Planet in Focus
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Nov 2 23:50:23 EST 2014
T.O. Greenspiration Events
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A healthy democracy isn’t about voting every four years. It’s about participating in your community, creating change, connecting with your elected officials to let them know what you expect of them. And working with and supporting groups like TEA (Toronto Environmental Alliance) and OCAA (Ontario Clean Air Alliance) and all the groups below that organize and push the green agenda politically and socially.
http://torontoenvironment.org
http://cleanairalliance.org
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Top 10 Greenest Cities in the World
Surprise – Toronto’s not one of them. What makes them green? Bicycle friendly. Aiming for carbon-neutrality and/or fossil fuel free. Lots of green space. Car restrictions. Available public transit. Cleanliness. Aiming for zero waste. Efficiency programs and green building initiatives. Wild space protection.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/top-10-greenest-cities-world?akid=12408.290405.o8Cwv6&rd=1&src=newsletter1024737&t=8
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Dandyhorse - Toronto on Two Wheels
http://dandyhorsemagazine.com
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My friend is looking for a healthy home, solo or with people. If you know if anything, please contact her: Maria Goretti <gocotovio at yahoo.ca>
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Exposing Energy East:
People and Places at Risk by TransCanada’s Energy East Pipeline Proposal
Mon. - Wed. November 5, 2 pm - 7 pm
The Richmond, 477 Richmond St W.
This exhibit brings together photographs of people and places threatened by Energy East – the largest proposed tar sands pipeline in the world. From wetlands to whales, forests to fish, lakes to rivers, the Energy East pipeline plan threatens some of Canada’s most pristine wilderness and wildlife. This exhibit turns the lens on the exquisite landscapes put at risk by the pipeline, and it shines the light on the concerns of people, from farmers to fishermen, who live along the pipeline’s proposed route.
http://environmentaldefence.ca/exposing-energy-east-people-and-places-risk-transcanada%E2%80%99s-energy-east-pipeline-proposal
ExposingEnergyEast.ca.
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Unlearning the Great War's Lessons
Monday November 3, 7 p.m.
Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park
Award-winning scholar and Queen's University Professor Ana Siljak will discuss the political, economic, and cultural lessons learned by a chastened West in the aftermath of last century's wars - and whether those lessons are increasingly forgotten in today's turmoil. It’s axiomatic among many journalists and commentators that we're regressing into Cold War geopolitics. But does today's political and economic climate actually more resemble the world prior to 1914? Worldwide conflict among the great powers, the rise of a new Gilded Age in economics, the growth of terrorism, the faith in science and technology - these are just some of the similarities between our current situation and the years leading up to World War I.
reviewcanada.ca.
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New member orientation. Mining Injustice Solidarity Network
Mon. Nov. 3, 7 – 9 p.m.
Intergalactic Travel Authority, 1165 Bloor Street West
Interested in learning more about MISN? Join us at a fun and interactive orientation to the issue of mining injustice, MISN, the work that we do, and how you can be involved! Orientation will include dinner and a screening of the film Defensora, which includes a MISN cameo. Everyone is welcome to attend!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1482128478734841/
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‘Comfort Women’ in Asia: Alone in Atrocity, Together for Justice
Holocaust Education Week
Monday Nov 3, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks St (corner Willcocks St & Spadina Ave)
During the years of the Asia-Pacific War, the Imperial Japanese Army mobilized more than 200,000 women from across Asia into a military sexual system. Those women coming from distinct culture, identity, heritage, and memory were all euphemistically referred to as "Comfort Women". Their ongoing struggle has brought them together in solidarity for their rights as women, as human beings. Discuss approaches to move towards peace and reconciliation with speakers who have been engaged in supporting survivors of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery through art, education, and activism etc.
For information on this event, please contact June Larkin (june.larkin at utoronto.ca)
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The Pathocracy and mind control: Banks, Bible and Big Pharma
Children at risk; psych drugs and school shootings.
MK Ultra gone underground after 1973, soft to hard to trauma-based.
Speaker: Sydney White, Investigative Journalist, Studies in Propaganda, FREE University of Toronto
Monday, November 3rd from 6pm to 8pm
33 Wilcocks St., Room B142 Earth Sciences Building, U of T
More info, call 416-787-0592
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Morning TAI CHI – with green guru Brian Milani
Mondays and Wednesday, 9 – 10 am. starting Nov. 3
Cecil St. Community Centre (near Spadina and College)
Looking to combine exercise and meditation? Need to relax after a stressful election campaign? High quality instruction of the internal/mental dimension as well as the mechanics. Beginners welcome to start any time. Whether your interest is relaxation, meditation, fitness, health & healing, or even self-defense, Cecil Tai Chi can meet your needs. And unbeatable bargain rates: FREE, with community centre membership ($6 or $10 per year, depending on where you live).
www.greeneconomics.net/Cecil_TaiChi.htm
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Microplastics
Tues. Nov. 4, 6:30 p.m.
Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W.
Join the Toronto RAP to learn more about the emerging issue of microplastics in the Great Lakes, with an emphasis on the Toronto region. Listen to leading experts in the field of microplastics discuss their research into microplastics in the environment, the origins of the plastics and how Lake Ontario is affected. Free.
http://www.partnersinprojectgreen.com/events-and-workshops-sp-758372809/events-and-workshops/icalrepeat.detail/2014/11/04/1088/-/lake-ontario-evenings-microplastics-edition
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Transgender Rarebits and Father
Toronto premiere screenings with director and protagonists in attendance
Tuesday, November 4, 6:30 p.m.
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West
Suggested donation $5-10
cinemapolitica.org/bloor
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Dance Our Way Home: Reclaiming ISIS
Tuesday, November 4, 7 - 8:30 pm
Anarres Apothecary, 749 Dovercourt (at Bloor)
For Women, let's dance our way to a powerful inner and outer peace, honouring the Divine Love, Divine Partnership and the Divine gift of Health in us.
www.AnarresHealth.ca
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CREW Toronto is looking for you
Tues. Nov. 4, 6:30 pm
Room 308, Metro Hall
CREW, Creating Resilience to Extreme Weather, is looking for volunteers to join our team! We are a group of committed volunteers who are working to create a network to help Toronto’s residents, households and communities connect in preparation for extreme weather events. We are forming relationships with the City of Toronto, the Red Cross and community groups across the city. In order to reach this goal we are hoping to launch a variety of projects including a city wide event and the creation of ward profiles which will map resources available during an extreme weather event. We need your help to make this possible! We are looking for volunteers to join us in the following areas: • Outreach and Communications Committee • Technical and Web Team • Research Team • Event Planning Committee. Please RSVP to thecrew at crewtoronto.ca
http://crewtoronto.ca
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Occupy Now!
Tuesday, November 4, 5 pm
Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Ave, 4th floor
Three years after Occupy took over our national conversation, what has changed? How has the movement grown? Join rabble.ca and THIS magazine for a panel moderated by Judy Rebick (activist and author of Occupy This!) to discuss Occupy's effects today: the gains it has made challenging the one percent, ongoing displays of protest and activism, plus its role in inspiring other, modern movements. Panellists will also discuss threats to Occupy's success, and to today's activism in general, and how we can sustain momentum.
https://www.facebook.com/events/346560568848489/
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Ghost Bike Memorial Ride
Wed. November 5, gather 8:30 a.m. for a 9 am departure
Starting point Mat Cohen Park (south east corner of Spadina Ave, at Bloor Street West)
A 71-year-old male cyclist was struck by a pickup truck on Victoria Park Ave at O'Connor Drive on Tuesday, 28 October 2014. He died in hospital the next day. Advocacy for Respect for Cyclists (ARC) will be hosting a memorial ride for this fallen cyclist. The ride takes place a week from the cyclist's death. A Ghost Bike will be left at the site of the collision.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1487563544838624/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
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Israel: A Nation-State?
With Abraham Weizfeld, Ph.D. UQAM, Toronto-raised Jewish refugee descendent.
Wed. Nov. 5, 4 – 6 p.m.
Room 140, University College, 15 Kings College Circle, University of Toronto
Hosted by Science for Peace
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Gideon Levy: The Israel-Palestine Conflict: How will it end?
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 7 p.m.
OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor St W.
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East and local partners are pleased to announce a 6-city lecture tour with renowned Israeli author and human rights journalist Gideon Levy. Levy — who has written for the Israeli daily Haaretz since 1982 — will focus on Israelis’ and Palestinians’ respective attitudes to the conflict, and how such attitudes are shaping the conflict’s evolution, duration and outcome. A frank critic of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, Levy questions the “two-state solution” and has become a strong supporter of the boycott of Israel. $10 - $15.
http://nb.cjpme.org/levy_tor_2014
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Women and Harm Reduction Workshop
Wed. Thur, Nov. 5 & 6, 9:30 - 4:30 pm
Regent Park Aquatic Centre, 640 Dundas E, Meeting Room
Why do women use substances? Substance Use, Mothers & Child Welfare. Harm Reduction in a VAW Shelter Setting. Connecting Substance Use & Trauma. Sex Work & Harm Reduction. Imprisoned Women & Use
Success Stories
To register: Toronto Health Connection @ 416-338-7600 orpublichealth at toronto.ca
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Council of Canadians T.O. Chapter Meeting
Wednesday, November 5, 7 - 9 p.m.
Metro Hall, Room 313A
Ontario Health Coalition talks about ON’s increasing health care privatization and their upcoming Queen's Park rally on Nov. 21. Adam Myers will be re-launching our Trade Campaign with an overview of FIPA. Michael and Aisha discuss the Great Lake Commons. CoC Annual General Meeting report back from Tracy & Michael. Everyone is welcome!
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Emancipation from Capitalism: Revolution is Not a System Upgrade
A conversation with political cartoonist Stephanie McMillan
Wed. November 5, 3 pm - 5 pm
O.I.S,E, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 5280
Award-winning cartoonist and anti-capitalist organizer Stephanie McMillan presents a slide show (with comics) about how capitalism works, why it's inherently destructive, and what it will take to end it.
Sponsored by OPIRG-Toronto, and organized by One Struggle (Sudbury)
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Remembering For Peace: Canada’s Great War Centenary
With author with Jamie Swift
Wednesday, Nov. 5, 6:30 pm
Bloor/Gladstone Library
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Camille Labchuck on where the Canadian political parties stand on animal rights issues.
Camille is an animal rights lawyer and was a candidate for the Green Party of Canada.
Thur. Nov. 6, 7 - 9 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor St. W. room 2281
http://animalrightsacademy.org/lecture-schedule/
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Anti-Muslim Racism & The Law: Omar Khadr's Sentencing Hearing At Guantanamo
Thur. Nov. 6, 7 p.m.
Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford
Lecture by U of T prof Sherene Razack. Free. 416-444-7148
noorculturalcentre.ca.
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Supporting Your Immune System The Holistic Way
Thur. Nov. 6, 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Big Carrot, 348 Danforth
Talk by holistic nutritionist Kate McMurray on bolstering your immune system with flu fighting foods and the best supplements to have on hand for winter. Free. 416-466-2129.
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Planet in Focus – 15th Annual Environmental Film Festival
Thur. – Sun. November 6 – 9
Various downtown theatres including AGO, City Hall, Rainbow, Nat Taylor and more
Planet in Focus is dedicated to showcasing and promoting outstanding and compelling environmental films and videos in all genres by Canadian and international filmmakers.
www.planetinfocus.org
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Joyeux Noel
116 min, 2005
Friday, November 7, 7 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 5-280 at the St. George Subway Station.
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested.
In 1914, the bloodiest war ever to that point in human history was well under way. However, on Christmas Eve, along the Western Front an informal, and unauthorized truce occurred. Front-line soldiers from both sides in the conflict peacefully met in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage, and exhibited a fleeting brotherhood. This film dramatizes one such convergence as French, Scottish and German combatants partake in the unique event, aware that their superiors will not tolerate it. Ben Rostoker, a Socialist Action student activist at U of Toronto will lead off the discussion with a presentation marking the 100th anniversary of the imperialist First World War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRrr-CDXijs
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The Secret Trial 5
Fri. Nov. 7, 9, 10, 12 & 13, 6:30 p.m.
Bloor-Hot Docs Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)
Imagine spending years in prison without being charged with a crime or knowing exactly what you’re accused of. A film about the human impact of the “War on Terror,” this is a sobering examination of the Canadian government’s use of security certificates, a tool that allows for indefinite detention without charges, based on evidence not revealed to the accused or their lawyers. Over the last decade, this rare and highly controversial device has been used to detain five men for nearly 30 years combined. To date, none of them have been charged with a crime or have seen the evidence against them. Through the experience of the detainees and their families, the film raises poignant questions about the balance between security and liberty. Filmmakers and special guests will participate in Q&As following all screenings.
http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=32165~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&
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Citizen Mark
November 7-13, 7 pm
Big Picture Cinema, 1035 Gerrard St. E.
A documentary about famed marijuana legalization activist, Marc Emery, the self-styled 'Prince of Pot'. In 2005 Emery was arrested by the U.S. DEA, charged with trafficking pot seeds over the Internet and convicted of international drug trafficking. A Canadian citizen, Emery was extradited to the U.S. to serve five years in federal prison. In Canada at that time, the penalty for selling marijuana seeds was a fine. But Emery's incarceration, this film suggests, does not constitute a simple miscarriage of justice. It rather fulfills Emery's complex, often narcissistic vision of himself as a fierce libertarian and quasi-biblical prophet whose destiny is to defeat government. Citizen Marc wittily questions what it means to be a citizen in a post-identity, post-equality North America.
https://guestlistapp.com/events/295788
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Conflict and Climate: Changing Course NOW!
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace annual conference, general mtng and a special awards dinner
Fri. - Sun. Nov 7 – 9
Sun. Nov. 9, 9:30 am - 5 pm
Metro Hall, 55 John St, Rm 308/309
• Film “Conflict and Climate Change”
• Speaker Joanna Kerr from Greenpeace
• Panel discussion: Water, Food Security, and Militarism
• Action groups
Regular $20, Students $15. But all VOW events are pay what you can, please consider making a donation
http://vowpeace.org/conflict-and-climate-changing-course-now-vow-conference-and-agm-november-7-8-and-9-2014/
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Annual Skills Swap Training with Toronto Cycle
Saturday November 8 (9am-6pm) and Sunday November 9 (11am-6pm)
City Hall, Queen and Bay
Do you want to make streets in your community safer? With a new term of council upon us, it’s time to re-focus on local and city-wide improvements. You’ll learn about accessing City Hall, Lobbying 101, Public Speaking & Media Training and connect with other ward bicycle advocates from across Toronto. You’ll also be a part of a pre-consultation session for Toronto’s next bikeway plan. You’ll hear from experts from across the field and we’ll also provide lunch on both days. Have your say and help shape the future of cycling in Toronto!
RSVP by emailing Mark Romeril by Oct 25, 2014.
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Fundraiser for Darlene Necan
Sat. November 8, 6:30 pm
Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd.
Darlene Necan is building her own plywood home on her family's land in Savant Lake, 2 hours south of Pickle Lake, ON . Indigenous women continue to go missing and be murdered while Darlene faces charges and steeps fines for taking the kind of action that our people need. Her next court date is November 20. No More Silence Muskrat Magazine, the Anti-Colonial Committee of the Law Union of Ontario and CUPE 3903 FNSWG present an evening of speakers, food and music with Amai Kuda and Simone Schmidt. Come out to hear Darlene and others speak, lend your support!
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Non-GMO Citizen's Action Night
Sun. Nov. 9, 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Big Carrot, 348 Danforth
Meet members of the Toronto Non-GMO Coalition and learn how you can participate in the movement. Free. 416-466-2129.
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Hot Docs
Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)
http://bloorcinema.com/
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NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing
http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/listings/
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