T.O. Greenspiration Events: On Guard for Earth
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Feb 10 20:16:47 EST 2013
T.O. Greenspiration Events
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Stand on Guard for Earth
Art Exhibit at Creatures Creating Art Gallery, 822 Dundas W.
Until Wed. Feb. 13, Free
We’re kicking off our #16yearsleft campaign with an exhibit in Toronto that details our globally-unprecedented solution to stopping climate change. Using powerful imagery and information, the exhibit is designed to shake us out of our sense of complacency and challenge how we think about our contributions to climate change. You may never think about mobility the same way.
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Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund
The Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund is seeking to fund 3 - 5 groups/projects that are led by people who are directly affected by discrimination, criminalization, and exploitation, and who work to build the power of their communities to change their conditions. Recipients will put this money to use for projects, staff wages, or to develop needed infrastructure. Grants will be in the $500 - $2500 range. The fund is financed entirely through donations made by individuals who support social justice principles. The collective administering the fund is composed of individuals who have been directly involved in social justice struggles for many years.
Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund is accepting applications until February 15, 2013. We will provide funding to five successful applicants by late April, 2013.
Visit groundswellfund.ca for information, to apply for a grant or to make a donation in support of the Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund.
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Free Women's Filmmaking Workshop - Calling for Participants!
Do you ever wish you could make movies? We'll teach you how. We are recruiting women for a free, beginners' filmmaking workshop on the 16th and 23rd of February in downtown Toronto. In this two-day course, participants will:
- receive crash courses in film process, documentation, story-making, and equipment use
- create several short films in small groups with help from facilitators
This workshop is for absolute beginners, with no skill requirements. We'll provide all the necessary equipment, and lunch, too. All identifying as women are welcome to apply - see how below. We'll ask you to help us make a space that is inclusive across race, class, gender, state of mind, etc. The workshop runs 10am-4pm on the 16th and 23rd of February.
How to Apply: Send a note to Lokchi at lokchilam at gmail.com or call 647 832 9175 with the following information:
- Who you are - Why you are interested in the workshop and what you would like to get out of it - A phone number or email address to reach you at
This is the first workshop of a project to teach video skills to laypeople at low cost. This iteration is for women as there is a shortage of women in tech roles.
Lokchi Lam is a freelance videographer and a music teacher.
Bronwen Keyes-Bevan is a filmmaking workshop instructor at Hart House and a graduate student in screenwriting.
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Free s'cool Winter Season has begun! Join us...
At free’Scool, everyone has something to teach, and something to learn. The facilitators and organizers with aim to create free, democratic education spaces that are geared towards self-directed, self-critical participatory learning. Our concept is simple: education should be a community building process that develops the individual personality, and everyone has a right to participate in that!
Classes that are now beginning (or have just begun) include:
- Art’scool: Drop-in Art Program
- Community Resilience Thur Human Rights
- Creative Cooking Healing the Mind: Self Esteem and Empowerment
- Libertango
- The Practice of Democracy: The Language of Storytelling
- Writing Together
Contact us if you have space to share for classes want to become a member and help us grow, want to teach or facilitate a course or wksp and of course register for some classes!
http://www.freescool.com/home/
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T.O.'s transportation future?
The City is seeking public input on Toronto's transportation future - including transit, roads, cycling and walking. The consultation will inform the City's long term transportation plan, including a transit plan and funding strategy. Attend a public meeting: http://www.feelingcongested.ca/#have-your-say/public-meetings
Mon Feb 11, 4-6:30pm and 6:30-9pm
North York Civic Centre, Members Lounge / Foyer
5100 Yonge Street
Wed Feb 13, 4-6:30pm and 6:30-9pm
City Hall, Main Floor Foyer, 100 Queen Street West
And/or Share your thoughts online at www.feelingcongested.ca
A healthy, green city needs a mix of transportation options that reach all parts of the city and serve all Torontonians, no matter where they live.
Metrolinx, the Provincial agency developing a transit plan for the GTHA is also seeking public input on transit funding - read more on the TTCriders website.
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Winona LaDuke
Join the University of Toronto Students' Union and the Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students for the Back-2-Back eXpression Against Oppression (XAO) Speaker Series featuring Winona LaDuke!
Monday, February 11, 7 -10 pm
Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle
Students: $5, Non-Students: $10
Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) is an internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities with advanced degrees in rural economic development, LaDuke has devoted her life to protecting the lands and life ways of Native communities. In 1994, Time magazine named her one of America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age, and in 1997 she was named Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year.
https://www.facebook.com/events/531733143518599/
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The Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE) presents:
What's Your Green Dot?: Preventing Power-Based Personal Violence
With Cheryl Champagne, an Assault Counsellor & Educator
Monday, Feb. 11, noon - 2 pm
OISE, 252 Bloor St W, # 2-227
Have you ever been in a situation where you wished you had been able to help someone who was experiencing abuse or potential violence, and didn’t know what to do? In this presentation we will identify potential risks of power-based personal violence, talk about the barriers that we face, and learn about strategies to help others and stay safe.
www.healthandwellness.utoronto.ca/greendot.htm
or www.oise.utoronto.ca/cwse
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Toronto Seed Library Planning Meeting
Mon. Feb. 11, 5 - 7 p.m.
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St.
The TORONTO SEED LIBRARY is a joint project initiated by Occupy Gardens Toronto, Dig In!- U of T Campus Agriculture and York University Masters of Environmental Studies candidate Katie Berger. We have also connected with and received the support of other good food and garden groups around the city including Seeds of Diversity, Foodshare,The Stop Community Food Centre, and Transition Toronto. This meeting will be a great opportunity for folks to share our knowledge, ideas and opinions about the following and more! Peas join us!
https://www.facebook.com/events/581146415246559/?ref=ts&fref=ts
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Idle No More - Tuesday Teach-In
Tues. Feb. 12, 6 - 8 p.m.
Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre, corner of Dundas and Parliament
Audrey Huntley is the co-founder of No More Silence, a group of Indigenous women and allies who have been organizing Toronto's February 14th memorial event for the missing and murdered women for the past 8 years. Audrey is a documentary filmmaker, community researcher, writer/producer of mixed settler and indigenous ancestry - she is currently based in Toronto but spent many years in Vancouver's downtown eastside as well as other parts of BC.
https://www.facebook.com/events/264265470369224/permalink/284212791707825/
Or watch livestream: www.livestream.com/occupytoronto
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Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Join the University of Toronto Students' Union and the Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students for the Back-2-Back eXpression Against Oppression (XAO) Speaker Series featuring Rubin "Hurricane" Carter!
Tues. February 12, 7 - 10 pm
OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor St. West
Students: $5, Non-Students: $10
Rubin Carter is a former boxer, writer, human rights activist, Doctor of laws and CEO & Founder of INNOCENCE INTERNATIONAL, a new generation of wrongful conviction services. Born in The United States of America on May 6, 1937, he has lived in Toronto Canada since his release from prison. Defending innocent people from wrongful convictions has become his life’s work.
https://www.facebook.com/events/280208172105980/
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Advocating at City Hall: A Session for Youth Leaders
Tuesday Feb 12, 5:30 pm - 9 p.m.
Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Room 301
Agenda
5:30pm - Welcome & Overview
6:00pm - City Hall Overview
7:00pm - Municipal Insider's Panel
8:00pm - Scenario games activity
More info: Anthony N. Fernando, Senior Manager, Public Affairs, afernando at uwgt.org
UWT City Leader Initiative
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Safe by What Standard? How nuclear facilities are regulated in Canada
This webinar/workshop provides an overview of how nuclear facilities are regulated in Canada, and includes information about how nuclear-related risks are calculated, what standards and regulations are based on, how the rules for protecting the public and environment from radiation are developed, and how security risks are regulated.
Presenter: Theresa McClenaghan, Executive Director and Senior Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association
Dates/Times: Tuesday, February 12 @ 12 noon and Friday, February 15 @ 2 pm
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Toronto Homeless Memorial - Celebrating Life
Tues. Feb. 12, noon - 2 p.m.
Church of the Holy Trinity (behind Eaton's Centre, off Bay, South of Dundas)
Homeless Memorial remembering those who died while battling homelessness in the city of toronto bringing attention to A great tragedy and injustice to us all. They were all once a child, someone that was once loved that we neglect to love in hardship ,trials and tribulation. We come together to acknowledge our regrets and show love.
https://www.facebook.com/events/499622426719857/
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Reel Paddling Film Festival
- showcasing some of the best paddling films in the world
Tues. Feb. 12, 6 p.m. - 10 p.m.
The Royal, 608 College
Tickets: $12/Advance or $15/door
The festival recognizes the best paddling films in a series of categories like, best white water kayaking film, best canoeing film, best fishing film etc. It aims to inspire more people to explore rivers, lakes and oceans, push physical and emotional extremes, embrace the lifestyle and appreciate the heritage of the wild places we paddle.
https://www.facebook.com/events/480013852036592/
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Justseeds: Migration Now! And More Graphics for Social Change
Tues. Feb. 12, 7 - 10 pm
OCAD, Graduate Gallery, 205 Richmond St. W.
- Refreshment, music by DJ Teach and silkscreen printing
- Panel Discussion at 7 p.m. with No One Is Illegal Toronto, Justice for Migrant Workers, Beehive Collective and Radical Design School
- The exhibit will feature a selection of graphics from No One Is Illegal Toronto, Justseeds portfolios on resource extraction and prisons, and the Imaging Apartheid poster project, based in Montreal. Programming will highlight the knowledge and experiences of activists and organizers from Toronto, and how art and social justice can impact one another.
www.migrationnow.com www.justseeds.org
https://www.facebook.com/events/146018452222511/
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Celebrate the 14th Anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution
Tuesday, February 12, 7 p.m.
Yellow Griffin Pub, 2202 Bloor St West (very near Runnymeade Subway Station)
The louis Riel Bolivarian Circle adn hands Off Venezuela invite all the supporters of the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela to a fiesta to celebrate its 14th Anniversary and to send good wishes for the recovery of President Chavez. Open mic. Bring your friends. We will celebrate. We will live. We will overcome!
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Public Art in Toronto
Tues. Feb. 12, 7 - 9:30 p.m.
Evergreen Brickworks, BMO Atrium
$10
Learn how artists and the City work together to bring art to our public spaces. Plus, explore the unique characteristics of the Lower Don that can become a platform for public art through the Lower Don Greenway Project.
Moderator: Andrea Carson Barker, Toronto Public Art Commission. Panellists:
Andrew Davies, No.9: Contemporary Art & the Environment
Ashley McKenzie-Barnes, Manifesto Community Projects
Clara Hargittay, Public Art Officer, City of Toronto
Eldon Garnet, OCAD University
Lara Tarlo, Urban Designer, City of Toronto
http://ebw.evergreen.ca/whats-on/special-events/innovation-talks
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Every Generation has its mission.... Build the anti-capitalist student movement!
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 7 pm
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 4410
Join the RSM for a public documentary screening on the activities of the far-left in the Quebec student struggle and open discussion to follow.
The Quebec Student Strike of last year no doubt inspired and radicalized a generation of young people. As capitalists continue ravaging this earth, ruthlessly exploiting and attacking workers and poor people across the globe in its relentless drive to squeeze more & more profit for their greedy selves, this generation of youth--and in particular, working class youth--is left facing a bleak, harsh, and grim future. Students in Quebec mounted a fierce resistance against the capitalist agenda, first fighting against tuition fee hikes and then expanding the fight into a mass social struggle against the Liberal government. The utter defiance against the Quebec government's repression and attempt to implement a special (emergency) law was a blow to bourgeois legality!
The Revolutionary Student Movement invite those who are fed up with the current state of student politics and who want to organize on a firmly anti-capitalist foundation to a free public documentary screening (with English subtitles) on the activities of far-left during the strike. We welcome discussion on the pitfalls of peaceful protests vs. the militant and sometimes violent actions that occurred over the course of the strike; on spontaneity and organization in the anti-capitalist struggle; on popular democracy in our schools and on our campuses. The RSM will present a report-back from the First National Conference for Students and Youth Activists, that took place in Toronto last December with the hope of rallying new forces to the cause!
For more information visit: http://rsmtoronto.wordpress.com/
or check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pracrsm.to
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Dear Democracy - Letter Writing Workshop
Wed. Feb. 13, noon - 2 pm
South Sitting Room, Hart House, U of T
Free
Students are invited to join us for a letter writing workshop to explore how healthy their relationship is with democracy. From those still trying to find their inner political animal to those that have had their heart broken by politics or have simply lost their spark, this writing workshop will provide creative writing support and good company as you share your true feelings about democracy and the political process. Keep these love letters private or submit them for possible publication. Here’s your chance to tell Democracy how you really feel about it, just in time for Valentines Day.
http://harthouse.ca/events/dear-democracy/
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The People and The Olive Love
Wednesday, Feb 13, 7 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. (Bloor and Bathurst)
This inspiring documentary is screening during the annual olive tree planting season. The People and The Olive is shows the daily joys and struggles of Palestinian fair trade farmers and the American ultra-marathoners who ran across the West Bank planting olive trees and bridging cultures along the way. The runners faced many barriers in the endeavor - barriers that represented a microcosm of what Palestinian face every day. Along the way, they forged deep bonds with their hosts while witnessing the harsh political reality and uplifting beauty of life in the West Bank. The film was shot in February 2012 during the planting season.
http://beitzatoun.org/cms/events/view/13-02-13/The_People_and_The_Olive.aspx
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Attend the founding meeting of Toronto’s pedestrian advocacy group
Wednesday, February 13, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Metro Hall, 55 John Street (south-east corner of King and John), Room 308 / 309 (st. Andrews subway station)
Do you feel that Toronto’s pedestrians need a voice? Could the city benefit from a citizens’ advocacy group dedicated to pedestrian issues? If you are interested, come to our founding meeting to help make it happen – and choose a name for the new group. Rather than focusing just on policy, our group will be action-oriented. It will continue the legacy of the Toronto Pedestrian Committee, but be completely independent of City Hall.
http://pedto.wordpress.com/
If you plan to come, or if you cannot attend but want to be involved, please RSVP to PedToronto at gmail.com
Walking Toronto Facebook group (www.facebook.com/groups/walkingtoronto), or follow @WalkTO on Twitter.
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Competing Visions of Democracy in the Post-Soviet Space
With Seva Gunitsky, Asst. Professor of Political Science, U of Toronto.
Thur. Feb. 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/competing-visions-of-democracy-in-the-post-soviet-space
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Toronto's 8th Annual Ceremony to Honour our Missing and Murdered Sisters
Thur. Feb. 14, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Toronto Police Headquarters at Bay & College
Community Feast afterwards at The 519
No More Silence and Toronto’s February 14th Organizing Committee is busy organizing this year's 8th Annual February 14th National Day of Action Honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. This is a significant year as the international V-Day campaign initiated by Eve Ensler has chosen to put the spotlight on Canada. We will continue to push for a public national inquiry led by grassroots Indigenous women and accompanied by a UN Committee to End Discrimination Against Women at the United Nations investigation.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=589893967692918&set=pb.519388444743471.-2207520000.1358543254&type=3&theater
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Night Of Dinner & Celebration with Voice of Women
Thur. Feb. 14, 6 – 9 p.m.
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St. (near Spadina and College)
Advanced tickets $20. info at vowpeace.org
Solidarity Rate: $50, At the door: $20 (Dinner) , After 8 p.m. $10 (Entertainment only)
An inspiring evening with:
· Opening ceremony.
· Lishai Peel, spoken word poet (www.lishai.ca)
· Sacred Circle Dance facilitated by Margaret Rao,
· DJ & Dancing
· Jazz/blues singer
· Delicious Middle-Eastern buffet
PLUS: Lots of incredible silent auction and raffle prizes to be won!!!
More info: 416-603-7915
https://www.facebook.com/events/128792113952659/?fref=ts
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Free University Course - Intro to Animal Rights
Thursdays 7 - 9:30 p.m.
Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories, 80 St. George, University of Toronto, room 161
This is a weekly two hour lecture and discussion with different guest speakers, covering the work of thinkers who have made a significant contribution to the field of animal rights ethics, philosophy, and discourse. It will run from January to mid May, and possibly beyond, if there is interest. There will be many different lecturers.
https://www.facebook.com/events/409385955794789/
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Forced Marriage Project's One Billion Rising "V Day"
Strike. Dance. Rise. To End Violence Against Women
Thur. Feb. 14, Reception 5:30 pm, Performances 6 - 8 pm
2660 Eglinton Ave. E - Mid Scarborough Hub
Join us in celebrating “VDay” with a twist, shout, or whatever move that inspires you. The Forced Marriage Project joins One Billion Rising to dance with women and men worldwide to demand an end to rape and the culture that supports it. The evening will include Raffles, Door Prizes, Food, Dance & Spoken Word Performances, and a little something extra!
RSVP Online: www.FMP_VDay.eventbrite.com Or By Phone: 416-292-6912 Ext. 314
For More Information, Please visit: www.fmp-acsa.ca
TTC tokens will be provided to those with proof of transportation.
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T.O. Rising: V-Day Dance Celebration
Thurs. Feb. 14, 7 p.m. - midnight
The Opera House, 735 Queen St. East
One Billion Rising Toronto is part of a global movement to end violence against women founded by author of The Vagina Monologues and activist Eve Ensler. On February 14, 2013, One Billion Rising Toronto joins together with women and those who love them around the world to raise its voice and to dance for an end to violence against women. We will be joyful, expressive, loud, spontaneous, fun, inclusive, accessible, community driven. We will RISE, DANCE and will SHAKE this city together!
Tickets: http://www.ticketbreak.com/event_details/5725
Profits from One Billion Rising Toronto will be donated to a local beneficiary, TBA. The recipient will be an organization/individual committed to being a force for change in the fight to combat violence against women and girls.
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Symphony of the Soil - Toronto premiere
Friday, February 15, 7 p.m.
OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor St. West
$10 at the door
The director of the film, Deborah Koons Garcia, will be present. Symphony of the Soil is a 104-minute documentary feature film that explores the complexity and mystery of soil. Filmed on four continents and sharing the voices of some of the world’s most esteemed soil scientists, farmers and activists, the film portrays soil as a protagonist of our planetary story. Using a captivating mix of art and science, the film shows that soil is a complex living organism, the foundation of life on earth. Yet most people are soil-blind and “treat soil like dirt.” Through the knowledge and wisdom revealed in this film, we can come to respect, even revere, this miraculous substance, and appreciate that treating the soil right can help solve some of our most pressing environmental problems.
http://www.cogtoronto.org/COG_Toronto/Events.html
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Flirting with Democracy
with Dave Meslin
Fri. Feb. 15, 6 – 8 pm / Reception to follow
East Common Room, Hart House
Free
Are you just flirting with democracy, already head over-heels, or heart-broken by our political process? Whatever your status, this is your chance to rekindle your relationship with democracy. Join activist Dave Meslin to explore themes of political participation and democratic renewal and ask: How can we increase citizen participation in local democracy? This will be a fun and accessible event to learn about local democracy, ways to get involved, and how we can transform our local political culture into one that is more accessible, inviting and participatory.
http://harthouse.ca/events/flirting-with-democracy/
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No More Homeless Deaths: Take action to set-up emergency shelter space
Meal and Planning Meeting
Friday, Feb. 15, 11 am
Church of the Holy Trinity (on Bay, south of Dundas, behind Eaton's Centre)
There have been 2 homeless deaths in the past few weeks in Toronto making 36 deaths in one year alone. The city and the Province have cut funding to shelters, housing and homeless prevention services even though the reality is that shelters are full and cuts are costing lives. We have taken this issue again and again to the City of Toronto's Shelter Support and Housing Administration including demands signed by over 1000 people - and yet they refuse to take action. We can not sit by while more people die. Let's talk about taking and setting up an emergency shelter. If they won't open shelter beds - we will. Direct action is required. Please come out on Friday, February 15th to talk together about how we can do this.
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty www.ocap.ca
416-925-6939 @OCAPtoronto
Sign the demands to the City on-line here:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/No_More_Homeless_Deaths_Demand_the_City_of_Toronto_work_to_end_the_homeless_crisis/
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Toronto Coalition to Stop the War presents:
Celebrating a decade of resistance Ten years after the emergence of the “Other global Superpower”
Fri. Feb. 15, 6 - 9 p.m.
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St (near Bloor and Bathurst)
On February 15, 2003 millions of people marched in more than 600 cities worldwide to stop the war on Iraq. It was the largest peace mobilization in human history. In Canada, more than a half a million people demonstrated in 77 cities and towns to stop the Liberal Government of Jean Chrétien from supporting the war. Within a month, and after dozens more demonstrations, the Government of Canada was forced to officially stay out of the war in Iraq. In the decade since, the anti-war movement has campaigned on many fronts. We have held demonstrations against war on Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Syria, Libya and many more. We continue to fight against the racism and Islamophobia that is used to justify those wars and we have built campaigns in solidarity with the Arab spring and all people who are working for freedom and justice.
There is much to celebrate but also much more to do. The global war of terror has continued to expand and to bring death and misery to millions around the world. The Harper government has proven itself one of the most racist and hawkish in the world, and is spending unpreceidented amounts on the military, and establishing bases in Jamaica, Kuwait, Germany, Singapore, South Korea, Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania. This expansion will give our government the power to embroil Canada in the affairs of sovereign states, and will redefine Canada as an aggressive military power. Our work is far from over.
Suggested donation $5-$15
https://www.facebook.com/events/412280035527362/?fref=ts
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Icycle 2013
Sat. Feb. 16, 7 p.m. Sign up starts at 630 pm
Dufferin Grove Park
Thrills, spills and chills await you at the 12th Annual ice race. Come cheer on the antics as people race around a rink. Warning to racers, direction of the race may vary, depending on mood of race marshal.
https://www.facebook.com/events/443047092417472/447292205326294/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity
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Y.I.M.B.Y - Yes In My Back Yard Festival
Saturday, February 16, 2013, 11am–4pm
Toronto Reference Library, 2nd Floor, 789 Yonge Street (north of Bloor)
The YIMBY! Festival provides a social space for people and groups involved in grassroots, locally-driven community development to gather, exchange ideas and strategies to effect change, and imagine their future city. It's a chance to celebrate achievements and identify new challenges and opportunities, in an atmosphere focused on listening, learning and engaging. Toronto has a rich history of civic engagement and community involvement. This one-day event invites community groups from across Toronto to turn the table on politicians and policy makers, to educate them and each other about the issues that face each community. This is an opportunity for neighbours to meet neighbours, residents to meet politicians and politicians to meet community groups in the spirit of people coming together for positive change.
http://www.yimbytoronto.org/
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Organic: The Way Forward
Sat. Feb. 16, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
University of Toronto Conference Centre, 89 Chestnut St.
$65 ($85 after Feb. 5); COG members $55 ($65 after Feb. 5)
Info and registration: 416-466-4420 or www.cogtoronto.org
Organic is not just about lifestyle, it is about the way forward in a highly toxic world. Raising the stakes is what is required. Demanding organic is about demanding health. And it is about demanding fair treatment for our animals and the environment we all share. How our food is produced is worth fighting for! Keynote speaker is Deborah Koons Garcia, a documentary film maker, who focuses primarily on films about agriculture and the food system. We are also excited to have Gilles-Eric Séralini coming from France. Mr. Séralini recently led a team of researchers in a two-year study of the effects of feeding GM corn and glyphosate formulations to rats. Other topics we will cover include the real story behind chicken and egg production, a first-hand account of organic food production in China, a pediatrician speaks out, the organic farmer's perspective, what is the future of organic, and more.
Presented by Canadian Organic Growers Toronto in association with The Big Carrot
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Tsar to Lenin
Saturday February 16, 6 pm Dinner • 7 pm Film screening
Oak Street Co-op Community Room (Directions: take River Street north from Dundas or south from Gerrard St. E., walk east on Oak St. and look for stairs and a ramp on the right side, just past the convenience store. Community Room at bottom of stairs.0
Film screening and fundraising dinner. The definitive film record of the 1917 Russian Revolution. This film premiered on March 6, 1937, at the Filmarte Theatre in New York City, after nine years in the making. At that time, the New York Times praised Tsar to Lenin as “an important work… a complete, impartial and intelligent film history of the Russian revolution.” The critic of the New York Post described the film as the “most important moving picture I ever saw in my life… The most vital and absorbing film, to my mind, in the history of the movies.” But just five days after this praise from the New York press, the Daily Worker, newspaper of the US Communist Party, called for a boycott of the film. The boycott proved effective, and with the onset of the Cold War this film was denied the audience it should have received. But as the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution approaches, it is being rediscovered. Come to this special film screening and fundraising dinner for socialist.ca.
Suggested donation $7-15 (sliding scale)
Organized by Coxwell International Socialists. Info: 647.393.3096
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Jerusalem 1948 - A Personal Tour
A Portrait from the Palestinian Diaspora
Sat. Feb. 16, 7 - 9 p.m.
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (Bloor and Bathurst)
$5
A visual journey through Jerusalem's landmarks and history as they existed in 1948 and as experienced by the "Nakba Generation". Starting from the many gates of the Old City, the tour rays out into the neighbourhoods of the "New City". Discover the splendour of the City including the private and public buildings of historic Mamilla. Much has changed over the past 65 years and still remains under constant threat of "development" or erasure of history. Many Palestinians cannot visit the City but it lives in memory and story. This poignant photo slide presentation, is a personal narrative from a native Jerusalemite whose family roots go back centuries. Nahil Aweidah traces life as it was in the New City portion of Jerusalem prior to 1948 and explores recent changes in the context of the city's historical development.
http://beitzatoun.org/cms/events/view/13-02-16/Jerusalem_1948_-_A_Personal_Tour.aspx
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Sunday Poetry at Ellington's Presents...
Animal Rights
Sun. February 17, 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 pm
Ellington’s Music & Cafe, 805 St Clair Ave West – Toronto
With Maria Paez Victor, Tom Smarda, Bertha Ramirez-Galan. Plus Open Mic - Free - everyone welcome. Join our circle for Poetry, music, visual Arts, performance and discussion on the issues and movements that are changing global consciousness. The work you choose for this event must be for all-aged audiences to see.
To contact us and sign up for a space as a Featured Artist: email e_sundaypoetry at yahoo.ca
https://www.facebook.com/events/128665957309114/
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Prisoner Correspondence Project Letter Writing Afternoon
Sunday February 17, 2 - 4 p.m.
The 519 Community Centre, 519 Church Street Room 304 (Church and Wellesley)
Food and childcare provided, wheelchair accessible space
Join Prisoner Correspondence Project Toronto for our first ever letter-writing afternoon! Curious about the Prisoner Correspondence Project? Interested in corresponding with someone on the inside? Come read letters, write letters, or get matched up with a new penpal! Have a snack and learn more about the new Toronto chapter of the project! Everyone is welcome.
For more info: priscoprotoronto at gmail.com
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