Greenspiration News & Events: Talk Climate To Me
Angela Bischoff - OCAA
angela at cleanairalliance.org
Sun Jan 23 22:41:53 EST 2022
Talk Climate To Me
Do you want to learn more about the climate crisis in an accessible, supportive and non-judgy environment? If so, join Talk Climate to Me (TCTM) this February: a fun, free, virtual, climate education experience for women in Canada, powered by Project Neutral. TCTM is packed with the most engaging climate knowledge. Take it with your family, friends, or colleagues.
https://talkclimatetome.ca/take-the-course
Ditch Plans for Carbon Capture Tax Credit, 400+ Climate Scientists, Academics Urge Freeland
https://www.theenergymix.com/2022/01/21/ditch-plans-for-carbon-capture-tax-credit-400-climate-scientists-academics-urge-freeland/
Call on Trudeau Government to De-Escalate Crisis Between NATO And Russia over Ukraine, No More Weapons and Soldiers To Eastern Europe!
Organized by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, World Beyond War, Just Peace Advocates & dozens of peace & justice groups, activists and academics across the country!
Read our public statement to Prime Minister Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Joly here: https://www.foreignpolicy.ca/ukraine
Sign the petition here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ukraineconflict
Please share on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ForeignPoli_C/status/1483608127790534662
Four Senior Nuclear Officials Say Nuclear Is Not A Climate Change Solution
https://below2c.org/2022/01/four-senior-officials-say-nuclear-is-not-a-climate-change-solution/
Holding in the deep: what Canada wants to do with its decades-old pileup of nuclear waste
Canada plans to store spent nuclear fuel deep, deep underground near the Great Lakes. That is, if an industry group can find a community willing to play host.
https://thenarwhal.ca/nuclear-waste-ignace-bruce/
New Radioactive Waste Plan Poses ‘Millennia of Risk’ for Ottawa River Communities
Canada’s nuclear regulator is about to hold wholly-inadequate hearings on building a controversial 60-foot-high mound for one million cubic metres of radioactive and hazardous wastes, with the potential to leak for millennia into the Ottawa River—a drinking water source for millions of Canadians in Ottawa, Gatineau, Montreal, and other downstream communities
https://www.theenergymix.com/2022/01/16/new-radioactive-waste-plan-poses-millennia-of-risk-for-ottawa-river-communities/
Demand that the federal government take immediate steps to ban thermal coal exports through Canadian ports no later than 2023.
https://act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/97809/action/1
What would it look like to actually defund the police?
https://breachmedia.ca/halifaxs-ambitious-blueprint-for-defunding-police/
Berlin is planning a car-free area larger than Manhattan - the largest car-free area in a city anywhere in the world.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90711961/berlin-is-planning-a-car-free-area-larger-than-manhattan
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Last of the Right Whales
Sun. - Wed. Jan. 23 – 26
Last of the Right Whales, directed by acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Nadine Pequeneza, follows a passionate group of people - from a crab fisher to a marine biologist - all fighting to save the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
Playing at select theatres across Canada: https://lastoftherightwhales.com/screenings/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxFcNF1Wj5Q
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Unlock Democracy presents Duff Conacher from Democracy Watch
Mon. Jan. 24, 7 p.m. ET
Voices from the Movement is a free online series featuring activists, advocates and community leaders who are collectively trying to reboot our democracy's operating system, to be more inclusive, responsive and meaningful.
https://www.unlockdemocracy.ca/voices_from_the_movement
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Meet the Big 5: How the Military-Industrial Complex Controls Politics
Mon. Jan. 24, 7 - 8 pm ET
(*The US Military Industrial Complex has a huge influence in Canada!)
We talk a lot about the military-industrial complex, but what exactly is it, who makes it up, and why are they so important? A new coalition groups opposing their local war companies has joined together to form the War Industry Resisters Network, focused on corporate control over US foreign policy. The political influence of several weapons manufacturers has made these companies extravagantly wealthy, all while the US has wasted trillions of dollars on military adventurism and destroyed large parts of the Middle East and Central Asia, killing at least hundreds of thousands and displacing tens of millions.
https://masspeaceaction.org/event/meet-the-big-5-how-the-military-industrial-complex-controls-politics/
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Prospects for Peace in Korea in 2022
Mon. Jan. 24, 8 - 9 pm ET
Organized by Massachusetts Peace Action
Peace on the Korean Peninsula has long been a cherished wish of the Korean people for seven decades after the Korean armistice agreement. Since the breakdown of the Hanoi summit in February 2019, peace talks between the U.S. and North Korea remain at a stalemate. In March 2022, South Korea will hold a presidential election. Will the door of peace on the Korean Peninsula be reopened? Join us to hear the insights of two experts on the prospects for peace on the Korean Peninsula in 2022.
https://masspeaceaction.org/event/prospects-for-peace-in-korea-in-2022/
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Nuclear Colonialism in the Age of the Ban Treaty: from New Mexico to Marshall Islands and across the Pacific
Tues. Jan. 25, 1 p.m. ET
The Affected Communities Working Group of the Nuclear Ban Treaty Collaborative will host a discussion marking the one year anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (ban treaty). This free on-line seminar seeks to tell the truth through the lived experience of those most affected by the nuclear fuel trajectory and activate our collective work toward disarmament. Speakers and artists of affected communities and allies will weave together the history of nuclear colonialism from uranium mining, nuclear testing, production and use — to the deadly waste that will be with us for generations to come.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpfu2prz0vH9B3AXJ9wUg6l3j1BAWr1Nop
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Contingency Base Canada: War-Making Infrastructures & Military Grow-Ops
Tues. Jan. 25, 3 – 5 p.m. ET
Unpacking Canada as a "contingency base" for settler colonialism, liberal war-making, military violence, and capitalism past and present.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/contingency-base-canada-war-making-infrastructures-and-military-grow-ops-tickets-239748723887
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Launch of Reform Gravel Mining Coalition
Tues. Jan. 25, 7 pm ET
The newly formed Reform Gravel Mining Coalition will announce something big that will protect the existing natural landscape from uncontrolled gravel mining and empower communities across Ontario. We have an ambitious, yet realistic plan to challenge all of this. Hosted by The Wilderness Committee, Environmental Defence, Council of Canadians and Water Watchers.
https://www.reformgravelmining.ca/official-launch
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Children & Parks / Nature & Cities
Tues. January 25, 11 a.m. ET
With Cecilia Vaca Jones, Executive Director, Bernard van Leer Foundation, Netherlands; Sarah Milligan-Toffler, President and CEO, Children and Nature Network, USA; and Tim Gill is an independent scholar, writer and consultant on childhood, and a global advocate for children’s play and mobility, based in the UK. Hosted by 8-80 Cities.
https://bit.ly/3sPUHZb
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Myths vs. Facts on 5G
Tues. Jan. 25, 11:30 a.m. ET
Scientists often speaking outside their professional field routinely misunderstand and confuse the physics with the biological impacts of wireless radiation exposure. What they say about the safety of wireless radiation is wrong. And we have the science to prove it. Join EHT founder Dr. Devra Davis and Physics Professor Paul Ben Ishai of Ariel University at this Facebook Live event to discuss the myths vs. facts on the science of wireless radiation.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LsH6_NelS2OjaNTbohFmBQ
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On Gendered and Legalized Islamophobia: Law, Justice, and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada
Tues. Jan. 25, 6:30 p.m. ET
Natasha Bakht is a Full Professor of law at the University of Ottawa and the Shirley Greenberg Chair for Women and the Legal Profession (2020-2022), author of In Your Face analyzes niqab bans in Canada while also drawing on interviews with niqab-wearing women to reveal their complex identities and multiple motivations. Virtual – to access, click here at the appropriate date/time.
https://www.facebook.com/NoorCulturalCentre/live
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>From Adversaries to Friends: Combating Antisemitism on Campus
Tues. Jan. 25, 7 p.m. ET
We will be joined by Elizabeth Moore, current anti-hate educator and former Heritage Front member, and Andy Lulka, former Queen’s Hillel student and current social justice educator. They will discuss their individual experiences fighting antisemitism on campus, their journeys into becoming social justice educators, and how their friendship came to be.
https://hillelontario.org/queens/panel-discussion/
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Home is where the heart of GHG savings is
Wed. Jan. 26, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET
Canada has 2.85 billion square metres of inefficient buildings that make up 13% of our national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Transitioning the buildings off of fossil fuels will require ambitious energy retrofits on an unprecedented scale. A 10-year, phased-in program for thermally retrofitting and electrifying 60% of Canada’s homes would reduce GHG emissions by 45% and, at current rates, annual fuel and electricity costs by $12.7 billion annually. For commercial buildings stock, the combination of thermal retrofits and conversions to heat pumps will enable energy costs to drop by a third ($7.3 billion), and GHG emissions to drop by 50%, or 22 Mt CO2e. This session details the public investments and policy measures needed to decarbonize this sector on our ambitious timeline.
https://www.corporateknights.com/earth-index/
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Deep Diversity: Fireside Chat with Clayton Thomas-Müller
Wed. Jan. 26, noon ET
Clayton Thomas-Müller, best-selling author on Indigenous rights and environmental & economic justice, will join Shakil Choudhury, award-winning educator and author of Deep Diversity, in exploring how we can centre justice in our equity and inclusion efforts, shifting the playing field in our teams, organizations and sectors.
https://animaleadership.com/cafe/
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Suppressing Dissent: Alberta Allan Inquiry, Bill 307, Fairy Creek Protest
Wed. Jan. 26, 12:30 p.m. ET
The focus of this seminar will be on recent moves by some Canadian governments to suppress dissent, particularly around environmental issues, including the Allan Inquiry in Alberta, Bill 307 (Election Financing) in Ontario, and police responses to the Fairy Creek protests in BC.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/suppressing-dissent-alberta-allan-inquiry-bill-307-fairy-creek-protest-tickets-242439060757
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Coasts, Rivers and Communities - Creative Solutions for Changing Times
Wed. Jan. 26, 10:30 am PT
Water is the essence of life. Rivers are the arteries of life. Coasts are the gateway to the oceans. All three ecosystems are threatened by the climate crisis. We will share how communities are developing new solutions to mitigate risks by working with nature with innovative solutions in British Columbia, Lake Winnipeg and on the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk in the UK.
https://shoutout.wix.com/so/95Nv69bKH#/main
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Environmental Racism: A story of Colonization and Ecocide
Wed. Jan. 26, 7 pm ET
We will hear from the frontlines, centred on environmental racism, the impacts of colonization and how it connects with ecocide, and the mass destruction of nature. With panelists Chrissy Issacs (Grassy Narrows First Nation, long-time activist for mercury justice): Chief Roland Willson (West Moberly First Nation, strong advocate against Site C); and Bianca Mugyeni (author, activist, Director of the Canadian Institute for Foreign Policy).
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdefzSKf9ib9c-prRldjMlAvrC59C_dsXZBNcVUUwrHd5vHfw/viewform
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Uranium - The Deadliest Shape Shifter - with Dr. Gordon Edwards
Thur. Jan. 27, 7 pm CT Central Time, 8 pm ET
Learn the good, the bad and the ugly about uranium. Edwards believes that, when nuclear technology is demystified, ordinary people presented with facts about the dangers and costs will be able to decide what is best for themselves and their progeny. Most of our decision-makers are misled on the nature of these challenges.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83055280771?pwd=MC80OG5EdTFKQVdjREZBdzFMbVpqdz09
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Posing as Canadian: Big Foreign Oil's Capture of Canada's Energy and Climate Policy
Thur. Jan. 27 ,7:30 pm ET
With Gordon Laxer, political economist and Professor Emeritus at University of Alberta. Published by the Council of Canadians and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Laxer's report reveals how foreign fossil fuel interests influence Canadian governments.
www.gordonlaxer.com
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwuceGhrDkpHdJeX36ACBvUFKB-8UtyPirF
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Fracking the Peace - Film and Discussion
Thur. Jan. 27, 7 pm PT
Fracking the Peace profiles community members living in Northeastern B.C. as they recount how fracking has impacted their lives. The majestic Peace River region, in Treaty 8 territory, is scarred by more than 25,000 fracking wells. The video paints a picture of how fracking in B.C. has skyrocketed at the expense of the health and safety of watersheds, livelihoods, communities, and rich agricultural landscapes. Created by filmmaker Desiree Wallace in partnership with Stand.earth.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1560957684277381
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Histories of Violence: Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Sexuality
Thur. Jan. 27, 6:30 p.m. ET
Sunera Thobani is Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. In her book, Professor Thobani examines how Islam is foundational to the formation of Western identity and politics at critical points in its history, including the Crusades, the Reconquista of al-Andalus, the colonial period and the war on terror. The book unpacks conventional as well as unconventional orthodoxies to open up new spaces in how we think about sexual and racial identity in the West, and the crucial role that Islam has had and continues to have in its development. Virtual – to access, click here at the appropriate date/time:
https://www.facebook.com/NoorCulturalCentre/live
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How design can help to create climate-resilient communities
Thur. Jan 27, 6 - 8 pm ET
Learn how to use design methods to help increase the resiliency of local communities in the face of climate change.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-design-can-help-to-create-climate-resilient-communities-tickets-242417827247
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A Conversation with Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chief Dtsa H’yal and Land Defender Sabina Dennis
Thur. Jan. 27, 7 pm PT
Join us for a conversation with Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Dtsa H’yal Adam Gagnon, and Land Defender Sabina Dennis to find out what’s really going down on Wet’suwet’en territory. Email us at pwsin.wk at gmail.com or send us a Facebook DM to get a link for the live-stream. https://www.facebook.com/events/330251125637871
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2022 ReFrame Film Festival
The Earth Sustains Us
Thur. Jan. 27 - Thur. Feb. 3
The Earth Sustains Us is a selection of 5 short Canadian films about cultivating and caring for the earth. The program includes: Mnoomin: The Gift of the Creator, The Hands That Feed Us, Walking with Plants, Conserving Catchacoma, Toxic Neighbour
https://watch.eventive.org/reframe2022/play/61d66c8c1700fa005b43703b/61c1e1d1fa151e00448dfa57
*Highly recommended: Toxic Neighbour https://reframe2022.eventive.org/films/toxic-neighbour-61c1e673ab8f2e004ea9fac5
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Islamophobia Across Borders: Anti-Muslim Racism in Canada and the United States
Sat. Jan. 29, 2:30 pm ET
This panel will analyze continuities, contrasts, and collaborations in anti-Muslim racism between Canada and the US. It will also explore relationships of solidarity being built across borders, and between different struggles for anti-racist and anti-colonial justice.
Virtual – to access, click here at the appropriate date/time.
https://www.facebook.com/NoorCulturalCentre/live
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A History of Western Regine Change in Syria
Sst. Jan. 29. 9 - 10:30 a.m. ET
With journalist Vanessa Beeley. Organized by the Peace Alliance Winnipeg and Regina Peace Council.
https://bit.ly/3Ah5JbB
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Ink Not Blood: Poets against war and militarism
Sun. Jan. 30, 7 p.m. ET
Please join us for what is sure to be a delightful evening of anti-war poetry and discussion featuring former Toronto Poet Laureate and Parliamentary Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke, and prolific author and poet Gary Geddes.
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_COrKl-myTdC4f117zuOO6w
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