T.O. Greenspiration Events: Active Hope
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Mon Oct 13 17:35:39 EDT 2014
T.O. Greenspiration Events
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Volunteer 3 hours to get Olivia elected!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1tR8jbf2opDTTY3_lOIIrtFQjv7c3TiMbgyY1HFv2tSY/viewform
Joint Statement: Women Endorsing Olivia Chow
"As women dedicated to advancement of women and girls, equality and diversity and the eradication of poverty, we proudly endorse Olivia Chow as the next Mayor of Toronto.”
http://www.oliviachow.ca/women_endorsing_olivia
And let’s work to get a cycling champion to City Hall - Albert Koehl - 3 hours can make a difference. Thanks.
http://www.votealbertkoehl.com
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How Green are the Council Candidates?
TEA has just released our Mayoral Report Card on the environment based on candidate responses to the Green Action Agenda Survey.
toenviro.nationbuilder.com/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torontoenvironment.org%2Fsites%2Ftea%2Ffiles%2FReportCardSummary-mayor-top3.pdf&utm_campaign=cw_oct_9_2014&n=2&e=4316595780be3aa5d6d6144082df2596686d7fcc&utm_source=toenviro&utm_medium=email
Find out how Council candidates in your ward answered TEA's Green Action Agenda survey.
http://www.torontoenvironment.org/vote2014/candidatereportcards/surveyresults
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Safe Bike Lanes for Toronto Now! #MinimumGrid
Please sign the petition.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Toronto_Mayoral_Candidates_Support_Minimum_Grid_100km_protected_lanes_100_km_bike_blvds_by_2016/?buLrXbb&v=44920
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Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything
An excerpt
"Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the civil rights movement turned it into one. Sex discrimination wasn’t a crisis until feminism turned it into one. Apartheid wasn’t a crisis until the anti-apartheid movement turned it into one.
In the very same way, if enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one, and the political class will have to respond, both by making resources available and by bending the free market rules that have proven so pliable when elite interests are in peril...
Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the list of things to worry about, next to health care and taxes. It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions— telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet. Telling us that we need to evolve."
http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/one_way_or_another_everything_changes_20140917
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Fight for Fare Free Transit in Toronto
http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls234.php
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Kill the Messenger
Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU4IJiGwqZM
Cineplex Cinemas Yonge-Dundas
10 Dundas Street East, 12:25 3:05 5:45 8:20 10:55
This is a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets...and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications. His journey takes him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C. - and draws the kind of attention that threatens not just his career, but his family and his life.
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Raise the Rates Week of Action October 13-17
The minimum wage has been set at a level that leaves people in poverty. Those on Ontario Works (OW) and ODSP are living on incomes that leave them unable to feed themselves and pay the rent. The real value of social assistance payments has fallen by some 55% since 1994 and people have continued to get poorer during the years the Liberals have been in office. The vital Community Start Up benefit that kept people housed has been taken away. Many people on ODSP are now facing medical reviews that threaten to take away their income. The Raise the Rates Campaign, a coalition of poor people fighting back along with community and union allies, is not buying into Kathleen Wynne’s ‘social justice austerity’. We are demanding living wages, decent income, the reversing of cutbacks and adequate and secure ODSP benefits. From October 13-17, we’ll be going to MPP’s and provincial offices throughout Ontario with our demands. For updates visit raisetherates.ca or https://www.facebook.com/RaiseTheRates?ref=hl
If you want to be part of an action in your community during October or want to help build one, email raisetheratescampaign at gmail.com, call OCAP at 416 925 6939
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Disruption
Tues. Oct. 14, 6:30 p.m.
Jane Dundas Library - 620 Jane Street
Join us for a free screening of Disruption, a new, fast-paced cinematic journey through the wild world of climate change: the science, the politics, the solutions, and the stories that define this crisis at this pivotal point in human history. The movie is about an hour long, and after we watch it we'llhave a discussion about what we can all do together on this imprtant issue.
http://www.green13toronto.org/event/disruption-free-screening-and-discussion
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Occupy Economics Workshop
Tues. Oct. 14, 6:30 - 8:30 pm.
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil (near Spadina and Coillege)
Looking at whether capital accumulation in unregulated funds is a threat to democracy. Free. info at occupyeconomics.ca.
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Elizabeth May - The Green Party leader talks about her memoir/manifesto
Who We Are in an onstage interview.
Tues. Oct. 14, 8 pm. $10.
Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen W
pages-unbound.com.
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Real City Matters: Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Tues. Oct. 14, Doors 7 p.m.; Panel 7:30 p.m.
Revival, 783 College
How do we talk about—or fail to talk about—race, class, and geography in a sprawling and diverse megacity? And how can we learn to talk about those things better?
http://torontoist.com/realcitymatters/
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Challenges Ahead for Kosovo
With Robert Austin, Ph.D. Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, U of Toronto
Wed. Oct. 15, 4 – 6 p.m.
Room 140, University College, 15 Kings College Circle, University of Toronto
Hosted by Science for Peace
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War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Wed. October 15, 6:30 pm
ENG 103, George Vari Engineering Centre, 245 Church Street, Ryerson U
Chris Hedges, award-winning veteran foreign correspondent who has spent two decades covering conflicts throughout much of the world. For fifteen years he was both the Middle East bureau chief and the Balkan bureau chief with the New York Times. In 2002 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize along with a team of reporters for his work covering global terrorism. Among his fourteen books is the critically acclaimed War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award for Nonfiction, and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), which was on the New York Times best-seller list. CBC Radio One will be recording the event for the show Ideas With Paul Kennedy.
iid.kislenko.com
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WiRE Meet-up
Wed. October 15, 5:30 - 7 pm (please arrive before 6 pm)
5:30 - 6 pm Introductions & Networking
6 - 6:30 pm Speaker tba
6:30 - 7 pm Networking
The Imperial Pub, 58 Dundas St E. (2 Blocks East of Yonge)
All women in renewable energy (WiRE) welcome.
http://womeninrenewableenergy.ca/meet/
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Bold As Love
is a new music series at the intersection of art performance by and for Indigenous and other folks of colour
Wed. October, 15, 7 pm – 1 am
The Rivoli, 334 Queen Street West
Tickets: Tickets are available at the Door! $10-$12. Everyone is welcome.
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Cheat Sheet To A TED Talk
Wed, Oct. 15, 6:30 - 9 pm.
Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina
Workshop on effective public speaking. $19-$29.
pre-register eventbrite.ca/e/12313081759.
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Eco-Home Renovations
Wed. Oct. 15, 6 pm.
Conservation Council of Ontario, 215 Spadina
Panel discussion on ways to save money and reduce energy demand in your home. $5.
pre-register 416-533-1635, weconserve.ca.
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Keep Neighbourhood Legal Clinics
Wed. Oct. 15, 6 p.m.
Scadding Court Community Centre 707 Dundas W.
Public meeting to discuss how to prevent the closing of 14 neighbourhood legal clinics. Free. keepneighbourhoodlegalclinics at gmail.com.
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The New Black
Wed. Oct. 15, 6 - 7 p.m.
U of T Art Centre, 15 King's College Circle
Screening of the Yoruba Richen documentary about the intersection of gay rights and civil rights in the U.S. Free. utac.utoronto.ca.
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Celebrating Vanessa’s Law
Thursday October 16, 7 - 9 pm
Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario ((near Dundas and University)
Adverse reactions to prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death behind cancer, heart disease and stroke. To illustrate that integrative medicine is safer than many predominant prescription drug approaches to treating health conditions, PRIM (People’s Right to Integrative Medicine) will be hosting “Celebrating Vanessa’s Law”, a panel discussion to make Canadians more aware of the importance of Bill C-17 (Vanessa’s Law) … “potentially one of the most significant reforms to federal drug safety legislation in 50 years” (Diana Zlomislic, Toronto Star, May 30, 2014).
Vanessa’s Law: Empowers Health Canada to recall an unsafe prescription drug without obtaining consent from the pharmaceutical company; Increases fines for pharmaceutical companies that are, for example, convicted of illegally promoting prescription drugs from $5,000 to $5,000,000 a day and imprisonment of people for up to 2 years for criminal negligence; Forces pharmaceutical companies to be transparent with clinical trial data. In June 2014, Bill C-17 was passed in the House of Commons and passed its first reading in the Senate. Panelists:
- Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Terence Young - driver behind Vanessa's Law
- Dr. David Healy, CEO, RxISK.org - world leading expert on the side effects of prescription drugs.
- Blair Hamrick - former sales rep for GlaxoSmithKline in the US. Whistleblower. Blair will share his inside knowledge of illegal practices of sales representatives.
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Will GM Crops Feed The World?
Thur. Oct. 16, 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Big Carrot, 348 Danforth
Discussion with Taarini Chopra of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network and Seeds of Diversity on experiences with GM food and the risk of introducing new GM crops. Free.
416-466-2129.
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Paul York on an introduction to animal rights philosophy, covering the distinction between rights and welfare, animal ethology, and parallels with other forms of discrimination.
Thur. Oct. 16, 7 - 9 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor St. W. room 2281
http://animalrightsacademy.org/lecture-schedule/
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Unify Toronto Dialogue: A New Story
Fri. Oct. 16, 6:30 - 9 pm.
OISE Peace Lounge, 7th flr, 252 Bloor W.
Series with discussion on how to face the global mess we're in and how to move forward to a sustainable fulfilling future. Suggested donation $10-$20.
unifytoronto.ca/events.
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Community Arts Jam
Friday, October 17
Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island: 9am (Ferry meet up) – Event ends at 4pm
A day long retreat style gathering and skill share on Toronto island for community-engaged artists, creative facilitators, artist-educators and community arts leaders interested in exploring themes of race & equity in community based programming, arts education & organizational development.
Register before Oct. 12. Space is limited! – communityartsjam.eventbrite.ca
Tuition $40 includes ferry ticket and food (subsidies and scholarships available.)
For more information contact : Ella Cooper : ella at torontoarts.org
@NANToronto @SketchToronto #communityartsjam
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Assistance Mortelle (Fatal Assistance)
Haiti, NGOs, Imperialism 99 min, 2013
Friday, October 17 – 7 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Room 5-280 at the St. George Subway Station.
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested.
This is a 2-year journey inside the challenging, contradictory and colossal rebuilding efforts in post-earthquake Haiti. The film offers a closeup of the so-far failed efforts to address the aftermath of the catastrophic Haitian earthquake, which destroyed the homes of 1.5 million people, about 15% of the population. A wide variety of Hatians are interviewed, and the interviews are telling and touching. The photography is first-rate, revealing the beauty of the landscape and the horror both of the devastation and the failure to deal with the housing crisis, even after two years. B.C. Holmes of the Toronto Haiti Action Committee will lead off the discussion.
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From Global Mess to Local Stress
Bringing the Impact of Environmental Harm to the Forefront of Public Health
Friday Oct. 17, 8:15 am - 4:15 pm
Health Sciences Building, 155 College St.
With this conference, we seek to question whether the Canadian and global public health community has considered environmental harm to our planet as a fundamental public health concern. Indeed, could environmental harm be the public health issue our time?
http://envirohealthconf2014.com/
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Demonstrate, Dance, Drum Against Poverty on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Friday, October 17, 4 - 7 p.m.
South East Corner of Jane & Finch
We demand:
- Raise the rates! (raisetherates.ca)
- Raise the Minimum Wage to $14 Now! (raisetheminimumwage.ca)
- An end to racial profiling and targeting of people of color and youth
- Affordable decent housing, healthy food, prescriptions, childcare, transit
- An end to environmental racism in our community and a stop to the Line 9 pipeline
- Status for all, and an end to immigrations raids and deportations
- Free education and health care, safe working conditions and benefits for all
- End tax cuts benefiting the rich: higher tax rates for the rich and corporations
JFAAP.wordpress.com
janefinchactionagainstpoverty at gmail.com
Organized by Jane Finch Action Against Poverty and Allies
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The Green Majority
This week’s show features the founder of the sustainable living blog "Green Moxie” Nikki Fotheringham.
Toronto's Environmental Radio Show
Weekly, Fridays, 11 - noon EST
CIUT 89.5FM
Listen live or catch the podcasts
http://greenmajority.ca/
Here’s the link to my clip last week talking’ nukes: http://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/421-measuring-success/
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Songs of Peace and Protest
Sat. Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m.
Trinity St Paul’s, 427 Bloor W. (west of Spadina)
Featuring evalyn parry, James Gordon, Len Wallace, Faith Nolan and more
tickets $15
trinitystpauls.ca
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Visioning the Future with Toronto 350.org
Sat. October 18, 1 - 6 p.m.
location to be announced
Join us for Toronto350.org's first vision and values seminar for the upcoming 2015 year. This is a great way to get more involved with the group, as we'll be launching new campaigns, and creating strategic plans for our existing campaigns.Through a series of breakout workshops and "assemblies" we you will set operational goals for 2015. Together, we will plan out the path for achieving strategic objectives on the road to a better, greener future.
https://www.facebook.com/events/703842516336492/
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Repair Café
Saturday, October 18, 12 – 4 p.m.
Toronto Public Library – Cedarbrae Branch in Scarborough (near Lawrence Ave East and Markham Road), Program Room, 1st Floor, 545 Markham Road
Bring your broken computers and electronics, small appliances and furniture, clothes, jewellery, books, gardening tools and bikes - volunteer fixers will try to fix them!
http://www.repaircafetoronto.ca/
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Poetry Politics Revolution
Sat. Oct. 18, 4 - 6 p.m.
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (near Bloor and Bathurst)
Free all ages
Join us for radical political poetry with Kaushalya Bannerji, Cheran, and Himani Bannerji.
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Health Action Assembly & Annual Conference
Ontario Health Coalition's annual information sharing, strategy-setting meeting.
Assembly on Saturday, October 18 (10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
Conference on Sunday, October 19 (9 a.m. - 1 p.m.)
St. Stephen's Community House in Kensington Market, 91 Bellevue Ave.
www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca
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Seed Saving Workshop
Sun. Oct. 19, 1 - 4 p.m.
Evergreen Brick Works 550 Bayview
Get tips and techniques for harvesting, packaging and storing seeds and learn why saving seeds is important to saving genetic diversity. $30.
pre-register evergreen.ca.
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Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy
Sat. Oct. 25 9:30 - 5 p.m., Sun. Oct. 26, 10 - 5:30 p.m.
Bartley Place, 160 Bartley Dr., North York
A weekend workshop in the Work that Reconnects, designed to help us in this time of planetary emergency and the resulting overwhelm and despair that many of us feel. You will come away with a sense of the bigger picture and a context for action.
http://www.thelivingcentre.com/cms/the-work-that-reconnects-how-to-face-the-mess-we-re-in-not-go-crazy
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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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