T.O. Greenspiration Events: Solidarity City
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Sep 12 21:41:29 EDT 2010
Toronto Greenspiration Events
- Pass this onto a friend! - angela
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No One Is Illegal - Toronto presents:
Status for All | Sanctuary/Solidarity City
Education Not Deportation! No One Is Illegal! (Workshop)
Mon. September 13, 2 pm - 4 pm
OISE (252 Bloor West), Room 5150, University of Toronto
Canadian corporations and military interventions push people out of their homes and off of their lands. Many people travel across borders and checkpoints to build a better life, for justice and dignity. Most recently, almost 500 Tamil migrants came to Canada fleeing war and violence. Yet many migrants face exploitation, racism and abuse. Those without full status live without full access to education, healthcare, childcare, good jobs, social services or basic freedoms. Grassroots communities in Toronto have organized to fight back against temporary work programs, against security certificates and deportations and for access to basic services. University students have been an integral part of this struggle. Come to this workshop to hear about the myths and realities of migration and ways that you can join the movement.
Watch our short documentary on Education Not Deportation: http://vimeo.com/7698225 http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org
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*DisOrientation 2010* DOUBLESPEAK: Hypocrisy and this globalisation sh#t
A week of events at the U of T
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108902295835346
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Mon. September 13, 6 pm to 9 pm
University of Toronto Art Centre, University College (15 King’s College Circle)
Come join us for a panel examining the opposition to the G20 and the impact of its policies on people around the world, as well as on our education here. This forum will also address the criminalization of dissent, surveillance of activists, and over-policing of marginalized communities, in addition to providing a critical examination of U of T's role in the events this June.
An OPIRG Toronto G20 DisOrientation Event. ASL Interpretation will be provided.
FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108902295835346
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Mayoral Debate: Building a Fair Toronto For All
Tues. September 14, 7:00 to 9:00pm
Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, St. George Campus, 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto
For more details: www.equitytoronto.org Jessica Bell, (416) 937-0076, jbell at labourcouncil.ca
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Climate Reality: A Conversation with Dr. James Hansen, Naomi Klein & Clayton Thomas-Muller
Science for Peace and The Centre for Global Change Science welcome to Toronto the world’s foremost climate scientist and author of Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen
Wednesday, September 15
McMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Bldg (North), 80 Queens Park, Toronto
5:30pm 6:30pm Science presentation by Dr. James Hansen
6:30pm 7:00pm Intermission
7:00pm to 8:45pm Climate Reality: A Conversation with Dr. James Hansen, Naomi Klein & Clayton Thomas-Muller, moderated by Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux.
Admission free. www.scienceforpeace.ca
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Join us for Toronto's 10th Annual Car Free Day @ Queen’s Park, Wednesday, Sept. 22nd from 10am - 2pm
Volunteer Orientation
Wednesday September 15th @ 6:30 - 8pm
This session is directed towards volunteers interested in contributing on Car Free Day, Wednesday September 22nd from 9am - 3pm in Queen's Park. Please ensure you are available for at least 3 hours to volunteer at the event.
NO CARS on Queen's Park Crescent East and West from Wellesley St. to University. Space and freedom to play in the open street.
Art Battle and Charity Auction!
Free Yoga classes on University Avenue!
Giant board games in the park!
Mini golf, badminton and other activities!
Cycling safety awareness, bike tune ups and circuit training
We are able to provide documentation for community service hours for high school students. Volunteers can earn up to 20 hours for Car Free Day.
In the Greater Toronto Area there are several Sierra Club-sponsored Car Free Days. They all aim to be fun, free events encouraging people to get out of their cars and run, walk, cycle or take public transit. Go to our website to see the listings and find the Car Free Day nearest you: http://www.ontario.sierraclub.ca/en/car-free-day
Please support the event using your networks if you can't participate. Contact Emma Cane (emmac at sierraclub.ca)
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Bananas!
Documentary Film Screening
Thur. September 16, Doors open at 7:00 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St., Toronto
Free
Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it? In the suspenseful documentary BANANAS!*, filmmaker Fredrik Gertten sheds new light on the global politics of food.
Mario Tellez, Community Projects Coordinator for Casa Canadiense in Managua, will introduce the film and the context of the Dole Food battle in Nicaragua.
For more info about this documentary click here <http://www.bettermail.ca/ct/242/117312/118440727/280fa68ab6ab7d37635cd1d6e60382db> .
For more about this screening email Katie <mailto:katie at pueblito.org> or call (416) 642-5781.
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International Festival of Poetry of Resistance
Sept. 16 – 20
Event opening: Thursday, September 16 at 5 p.m. at the New Horizons Auditorium, 1140 Bloor Street West (at Dufferin), Toronto.
The children's "Festivalito" will take place on Friday, September 17 from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the 519 Church Street Community Centre, Toronto.
It will continue until Monday, September 20 at various locations.
The Festival will be celebrated in Honour of the Cuban Five, Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoners held in U.S. jails, and for self-determination of the peoples of Cuba, Honduras, Venezuela and several other nations that are fighting and refuse to live under colonialism and oppression.
For more detailed information, visit the festival's Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=45244523425&v=info&ref=ts#!
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Resisting Harper's War at Home and Abroad
Thur. 16 September · 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Bahen Centre, U of T, room 1210, 40 St. George (north of College)
Stephen Harper is imposing austerity at home and occupation abroad.
Join a discussion on building resistance to these twin attacks.
Organized by the International Socialists: www.socialist.ca
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~Film: Waltz with Bashir
Friday, September 17 @ 7:30 pm
at Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St., Toronto
To commemorate the massacre at Sabra and Shatila - September 15, 1982. Almost 30 years after the event, within the Lebanon War, it remains a chilling memory to the inhumanity and abuse of military power over the lives and deaths of ordinary people - in this instance Palestinians. Waltz with Bashir, a 2008 film by Ari Folman, an Israeli, offers a worthy perspective on memory and remembering. Winner of many awards and many hearts.
Learn about about this film.
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Strengthening our Resolve: Movement building and on-going resistance to the G20 Agenda
Fri. September 17, 6:30 – 9 pm
Ryerson University - Rogers Communication Centre, room RCC 204 (Eaton Lecture Theatre), (80 Gould Street, Toronto ON)
Speakers include Alex Hundert, Jen Meunier, Judy Rebick, Liisa Schofield, Ro Velasquez, Harsha Walia, and a representative from the Greater Toronto Workers Assembly
This is a Pay What You Can event. All contributions go to the G20 Legal Defence Fund (http://g20.torontomobilize.org/support)
Across the globe we see G20 austerity measures snatching away health, educational and social services, while the governments of G20 countries continue to bail out banks and corporations. Locally, we witness racist criminalization of migrants and refugees becoming more vicious, while colonization and destruction of Indigenous nations and their lands continues. Many of us daily experience the entrenchment of a racist, ableist, patriarchal, queer-phobic, profit-driven culture, while countless bodies bear the violence of an oppressive police state that enforces these norms.
Join us in this event with speakers and discussion about responses the G20 agenda, and making linkages across issues and ongoing struggles. With courage and with care, this event is about building solidarity and understanding, about creating real alternatives to this exploitative and destructive system, and to strengthen our resolve to continue resisting.
Sponsored by: Toronto Community Solidarity Network, the 247 G20 Defence Committee, CAW Sam Gindin Social Justice and Democracy Chair, OPIRG York, OPIRG Toronto, CUPE 3903 First Nations Solidarity Working Group, CUPE 3907
For more information, email alex.hundert at gmail.com or call 416 922 4595.
FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151407704884426
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- Toronto Socialist Action Public Forum presents -
Chomsky speaks to anti-war mov't
Friday, September 17, 7 p.m.
OISE U. of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. W., room 2-212 (the St. George Subway Station)
On the July 23-25 weekend some 800 activists, representing virtually every major anti-war group in the USA, as well as hundreds of local, state and regional organizations, converged on Albany, New York for the United National Anti-war Conference. It was the biggest such meeting in over a decade, and adopted an impressive plan of action.
This Toronto SA public forum will start with a screening of a 30 minute video of a talk by Noam Chomsky, which was transmitted solely to the conference. The renowned social activist, linguist and historian addresses the state of current U.S. military interventions worldwide and the need to re-energize and mobilize the global anti-war movement.
The meeting will then hear eyewitness reports by Toronto members of Socialist Action who attended the UNAC gathering in Albany.
Q & A, and discussion period will follow the presentations.
Everyone is welcome. $3 donation is requested.
For more information, visit the SA web site at:
www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com or call 416-535-8779
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Changing of the Seasons Gathering
September 17 - 20
Obabika Lake, Temagami, ON
Retreat with Earthroots in Temagami!
All are welcome!
For more information about the event:
http://earthroots.org/index.php/component/option,com_events/Itemid,101/agid,41/day,17/month,09/task,view_detail/year,2010/
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Dig'n'it(y) - The inaugural Dignity street music benefit for Canada Without Poverty
Sat. Sept. 18, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
outside the Parkdale Library in Toronto at Queen & Cowan Streets.
Dig'n'it(y) is a street music benefit for Canada Without Poverty and the CWP Advocacy Network
Featuring folk singer/songwriter Craig Cardiff and soul jazz singer/songwriter Elizabeth Shepherd (2-time Juno nominee)
$ Donate what you can, all funds go towards Canada Without Poverty's emerging Poverty and Health Program.
Information is at http://www.cwp-csp.ca or 1 (613) 789-0096 or 1 (800) 810-1076.
Come out to enjoy the sweet sound of fighting poverty in Canada
http://www.cwp-csp.ca/Blog/events?event_id=14
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M.U.C.K. (Movies of Uncommon Knowledge) present:
Bring Your Own Cow
Sunday September 19th
www.muckfilmfestival.com
The Royal Theatre - 608 College Street
3:00 pm Pig Business
Four years ago, seasoned campaigner, eco-warrior and mother of three Tracy Worcester set out to discover who was paying the true price for the cheap imported pork for sale in Britain’s supermarkets. Documenting her investigation into intensive pig farming and the damaging impact it is having on the quality of our food, the environment, and the health and welfare of agricultural communities, True Stories: Pig Business follows the Marchioness as she infiltrates farms in Europe and America and confronts the biggest firm in the pig business. The film reveals that these huge meat factories overcrowd and mistreat the animals, put small farmers out of business, and pollute the water and air, endangering the health of local residents and consumers.
5:00 pm Chemerical - Q&A to follow with director Andrew Nisker
“Chemerical” explores the life cycle of everyday householder cleaners and hygiene products to prove that, thanks to our clean obsession, we are drowning in sea of toxicity.
7:30 pm Milk War - Q&A to follow with director Kevin O’Keefe and farmer Michael Schmidt
On November 21st, 2006 twenty armed officers from the Ministry of Natural Resources raided organic dairy farmer Michael Schmidt’s farm. He was charged with 20 criminal offences for selling and distributing unpasteurized milk. The Documentary Milk War follows his battle to legalize the sale of raw milk in Canada. A fight Schmidt believes is fundamentally about the freedom to choose what one puts in their body.
Check out the M.U.C.K. catalogue, movie trailers, show times, dates and more at www.muckfilmfestival.com
Tickets $10 per screening or $20 for all 3 screenings
Tickets are available at the door or at Ticketbreak.com
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September 18 - 26
GREAT CANADIAN SHORELINE CLEANUP - at a shoreline near you - across Canada
The 17th Annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
Whether we live near a coast or hundreds of kilometres inland, we are all connected to the ocean. It drives and moderates our climate. It helps provide the water we drink and much of the oxygen we breathe. It directly feeds millions of people. It also absorbs much of the air and water pollution generated worldwide.
It’s time to give back! In celebration of World Oceans Day, sign up today for the 17th annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup taking place September 18-26, 2010 atshorelinecleanup.ca.
Rivers and streams in every Canadian province and territory are constantly moving water towards the ocean, making it possible for litter to travel from hundreds of kilometres inland. Trash is one of the most widespread pollution problems endangering our oceans and waterways, yet it’s entirely preventable and you can help.
Canadians from every province and territory will be removing litter from their shorelines—anywhere land meets water, including lakes, rivers, streams or oceans—as part of the 2010 Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup.
A few hours removing litter from your local shoreline can make a big difference. In 2009, the combined efforts of communities across Canada removed over 160,000 kg of litter from 2,457 km of shoreline. That is the equivalent of 358 male moose and the driving distance from Vancouver, BC to the Manitoba/Ontario border. Together, we can protect our shorelines and help keep our waterways and oceans free of litter.
Celebrate World Oceans Day by registering for the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Already registered? Let’s make this year’s event bigger and better! Forward an invite to two friends and encourage them to organize their own cleanup. If you have yet to register, visit shorelinecleanup.ca today.
Registration is now open for the 17th annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup taking place September 18 – 26, 2010.
Visit our website at shorelinecleanup.ca to register for a shoreline in your community.
See you on the shorelines,
Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup Team
1-877-427-2422
For more information:
Contact Name: Jean Fong
Website: http://www.shorelinecleanup.ca
Phone: 1-800-375-8776
E-mail: shorelinemedia (at) vanaqua.org
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Toronto Bicycle Music Festival
Sun. September 19, 1:30 - 7:00 PM
Westend Toronto Parks
Toronto's inaugural pedal-powered, mobile music festival!
What's that, you say ... a bicycle-powered music festival?
That's right! Toronto's first ever pedal-powered, mobile music fest will take place on September 19th. The festival will move between various parks in Toronto's west end before culminating at Dufferin Grove Park. Music lovers, make sure to wear your biking shorts, because this festival will be 100% audience-powered. Rock out to some sweet tunes while turning your sweat into electricity as you hop on one of our stationary generator bikes.
Schedule:
Trinity Bellwoods Park (in the pit)
2:00 pm - Tomboyfriend (www.tomboyfriend.com)
2:40 pm - roving bike music party
Dovercourt Park
3:30 pm - Griffin (www.myspace.com/andthetruebelievers)
4:00 pm - kit wilson-yang (www.myspace.com/chrisyangchrisyang)
4:30 pm - Richard Laviolette (www.myspace.com/richardlavioletteforprimeminister)
Dufferin Grove Park
5:30 pm - The Strumbellas (www.thestrumbellas.ca)
6:00 pm - TBA
We are still looking for volunteer roadies for the day. If you have a bike trailer, cargo bike or rickshaw, and want to help us cart around instruments and equipment, drop us a line!
torontobicyclemusicfestival at gmail.com
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The Floods In Pakistan
Sunday September 19, 2:30 pm
TRS 1-149, 7th Floor, Ted Rogers School of Management, 55 Dundas Street West, Toronto
A socio-political and economic analysis of the damage caused by the floods in Pakistan by Professor Murtaza Haider of Ryerson University and
How Cuba attempts to limit damage by natural disasters on its citizens and the assistance it provided to Pakistan in the aftermath of the 2005 earthquake by Jorge Soberon, Consul General of Cuba in Toronto.
Organized by: Committee of Progressive Pakistani-Canadians
Endorsed by: South-Asian People's Forum | PDF poster
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Pakistan Floods: Natural Disaster or Disaster Capitalism
Sun. 19 September · 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Bloor & Ossington
Dinner, Discussion and Social
Speakers: Ayesha Adhami, Jesse McLaren
A fundraiser for the Toronto-West International Socialists
For more info: torontowest.is at gmail.com or 416-537-4866
Podcast of Jesse McLaren's talk "Floods, Famine, Earthquakes: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" from May 2010 Marxism conference is available athttp://www.marxismconference.ca/
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