<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006ba1">T.O. </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00a238">Greenspiration</font> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#9900a2">Events</font></b></span><br></font></div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Pass this onto a friend. -a<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#db5600"><b>Close the School of the Assassins: Vigil and Conference at Fort Benning, Georgia, USA - Nov. 15 - 19</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Disapprove of state sponsored torture and massacres? Get on the bus! 12 spots left! </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">All ages. $200 plus $50 spending money covers transportation, motel, conference and food. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Contact ASAP <<a href="mailto:dwyerandsheila@gmail.com">dwyerandsheila@gmail.com</a>><br>More info: http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/1531</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#a2008e"><b>URGENT: the Jarvis Bike Lanes could be removed as early as Monday</b></font><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">The decision to remove the Lanes was made without consultation and against the will of the community. Join the Jarvis Emergency Taskforce (JET) in planning a creative, non-violent response when the scrubbers come to remove the lanes. </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; ">Let's send a strong message to City Council that the only arbitrary removal of a bike lane in North America is wrong! </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Follow JET at @JarvisTaskForce. For free TXT updates send the word JARVIS to 393939. Email: <a href="mailto:JarvisTaskforce@gmail.comSpeak">JarvisTaskforce@gmail.comSpeak</a> up for Separated Bike Lanes in the Harbord Gap<br><br>and ...<br><br>Please plan to attend the public meeting to discuss separated bike lanes on Harbord, organized by the Harbord Village Residents Association, on Monday, Nov.12, 7-9pm, Kensington Gardens, 45 Brunswick.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">---------------------------------------</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">---------------------------------------</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><br></span></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#0050cd"><b>Chasing Ice</b></font><br><br>Nov. 9 – Nov. 15 (4 showings daily)<br>TIFF Bell Lightbox (King and John St.)<br><br>Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of climate change. Using time-lapse cameras, his videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.<br><br><a href="http://www.chasingice.com/">http://www.chasingice.com/</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#cd00cd"><b>Rendez-Vous With Madness - Film Festival</b></font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Nov. 9 - 17<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.rendezvouswithmadness.com/index.php/program/">http://www.rendezvouswithmadness.com/index.php/program/</a><br><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">The Centre for Women's Studies in Education, in coordination with our Women's Human Rights Education Institute presents:<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#0078cc"><b>Vandana Shiva - Ecological Feminism & Earth Democracy: Occupying Life/The Seed<br></b></font> <br>Monday November 12, 7pm<br>OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor St W (St. George subway station)<br>Wheelchair accessible<br>Free, donations welcome<br> <br>This is the inaugural event of the new “Friends of CWSE”, a community of supporters of the many projects of the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education.<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/514921248537964/?fref=ts">http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/514921248537964/?fref=ts</a><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#009e00"><b>Wars for Gold, Oil and Drugs. </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Our jobless children created by the banking dictatorship are "The Expendables" in corporate massacres<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">with Sydney White, Investigative Journalist, Studies in Propaganda, FREE University of Toronto<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Monday, November 12 from 6-8pm <br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">80 St. George Street, Room 158<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Free - all welcome<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#ab000f"><b>David R. Boyd</b></font><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ab0015">Author of: The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment (UBC Press, 2011)<br>and The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canada's Constitution</font> (UBC Press, 2012)<br> <br>Mon. November 12<br>11:30am – 12:30 pm Light lunch<br>12:30pm – 1:30 pm Lecture and Q&A<br>1:30pm – 2:00 pm Book signing<br> <br>Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place, U of T<br>Copies of both books will be available for sale <br>Event is free of charge but space is limited. Please register to <a href="mailto:ed.munk@utoronto.ca">ed.munk@utoronto.ca</a><br> <br>---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#78009d"><b>Why should I care about the unprecedented melting of Arctic summer ice in 2012? <br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Tues. Nov. 13, 6:30 p.m.<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Runnymede Public Library, 2178Bloor St. W.<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">It's not just that the sea-ice is covering a smaller area of ocean in summer, it is also thinning rapidly. The sea-ice volume is now down to just one- fifth of what it was in 1979; since 1979, 80 per cent of the ice volume has been lost. Why should we care? What can we as citizens do?<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Please join us to view 1. excepts from the documentary Extreme Ice 2.TED talk by James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change and 3. a September talk by Paul Beckwith, now writing his PH.D. thesis on abrupt climate change. Join us in a public reading of transcript from Hansard (from September 26 '12) as MPs Megan Leslie (environment critic) and Dennis Bevington (Western Arctic) call for anemergency debate in Parliament on the implications of this unprecedented melting. <a href="http://www.climatefast.ca/blog/request-emergency-debate-refused-speaker">http://www.climatefast.ca/blog/request-emergency-debate-refused-speaker</a><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://green13toronto.org/content/why-should-i-care-about-unprecedented-melting-arctic-summer-ice-2012-take-part-vital">http://green13toronto.org/content/why-should-i-care-about-unprecedented-melting-arctic-summer-ice-2012-take-part-vital</a><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Presented by Green 13<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#5a009e"><b>Canadian History through the Stories of Activists</b></font><br>Toronto Book Launch and Talk<br><br>Tuesday November 13, 7 pm<br>Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) room 5250<br><br>Join author and activist Scott Neigh for a talk and book signing as he launches two new books published by Fernwood Publishing. Hear about some of the many struggles that have shaped the Canada of today, and talk about new ways of relating to the past as we struggle for a transformed tomorrow. Scott will be joined by Frank Showler, who has been active in anti-war and social justice movements in Toronto since the late 1930s and whose words (along with his late wife Isabel's) are at the heart of Chapter 1 of *Resisting the State*. He will also be joined by Don Weitz, a pillar of anti-psychiatry organizing in Ontario in the last several decades and the activist whose words are at the heart of Chapter 5 in *Resisting the State*. And, finally, Josephine Grey, a long-time anti-poverty activist with Low Income Families Together and other groups, whose words are the core of Chapter 6 of *Resisting the State*, will also be saying a few words. All three will speak briefly about their experiences and about the importance of paying attention to history for movements today.<br><br>To learn more about the books and the project of which they are a part, and to read and hear excerpts from the interviews around which the books are organized, visit <a href="http://talkingradical.ca/">http://talkingradical.ca/</a>.<br>This event is sponsored by OPIRG Toronto and Fernwood Publishing.<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/454340501274521/permalink/459178804124024/">https://www.facebook.com/events/454340501274521/permalink/459178804124024/</a><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#008b9b"><b>The fight for women's liberation and the backlash against women's rights<br></b></font>Toronto IS (International Socialists) District Mtng.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Tues Nov 13 @ 6pm<br>OISE, 252 Bloor St W (St George subway), Rm 2289<br><br>This week's district meeting will focus on the fight for women's liberation and the backlash against women's rights, and:<br>- short report on organizing in the pro-choice movement </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">- discussion of the so-called 'men's rights' movement at U of T campus-Are men oppressed? What are the roots of the 'men's rights' movement? </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>See Jesse Mclaren's article in the latest SW, with some of the comments from detractors, for a flavour of what men's rights is all about:<br><a href="http://socialistworkercanada.com/2012/11/07/why-mens-rights-groups-are-wrong/#comments">http://socialistworkercanada.com/2012/11/07/why-mens-rights-groups-are-wrong/#comments</a><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">The Dilemma of Controlling Cultural Eutrophication? (Overfertilisation of freshwaters with nutrients).<br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#009e14"><b>with DAVID SCHINDLER</b></font>, Killam Memorial Professor of Ecology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>Wed. Nov. 14, 4:10 p.m.<br>Rm. 128, Mining Building, 170 College Street<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Presented by School of the Environment, U of T </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/Events/The%20Dilemma%20of%20Controlling%20Cultural%20Eutrophication.aspx">http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/Events/The%20Dilemma%20of%20Controlling%20Cultural%20Eutrophication.aspx</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#c84900"><b>Consultation opportunities on draft plastic bag ban bylaw</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>Members of the public will have the opportunity to make a deputation about the specifics of the new bylaw at the November 14 meeting of the City's Public Works and Infrastructure Committee</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br><a href="http://wx.toronto.ca/inter/it/newsrel.nsf/7017df2f20edbe2885256619004e428e/d6c03aa78c24823185257a8d006cbc16?OpenDocument">http://wx.toronto.ca/inter/it/newsrel.nsf/7017df2f20edbe2885256619004e428e/d6c03aa78c24823185257a8d006cbc16?OpenDocument</a><br><br>---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------</font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#ad00bb"><b>Save the School House Shelter</b></font><br>Defend the Downtown East!<br><br>Wed. Nov. 14, 9 am<br>Moss Park (Queen and Sherbourne)<br>*Free Breakfast, Rally and March<br><br>In June, the City of Toronto's 'Community Development and Recreation Committee', including local councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, voted to close down the School House on George St, a 55 bed men's harm reduction shelter. On Wednesday, November 14th the issue of the School House Shelter will be brought back to City Hall for a final report on how the money that should be spent keeping the shelter open, will instead be re-shuffled in the system. In the mean-time, all shelters remain overcrowded, harm reduction programming is scarce, the Provincial cut to Community Start-Up will throw more people on to the streets, and winter is about to set in.<br><br>The closing of the School House is a gateway for the re-development and gentrification of the entire Downtown East. On George St alone, politicians and slumlords have let buildings that should have been converted to affordable housing long ago, instead sit empty and catch fire. They talk about 'cleaning up the neighborhood' but instead of building housing, keeping shelters open, and providing more and better services, they cut services, reduce shelter beds, and blame the poor. They talk about 'mixed income' neighborhoods, and yet no one looks at mixing up Rosedale, only the Downtown East is the target.<br><br>We can not let this shelter be closed, and we will not let poor people be pushed and priced out of the Downtown East. OCAP has said from the beginning that we will not simply watch the School House be cleared or sit empty while people die on the streets. We have brought our community together to fight for this space, and on November 14th we are not backing down.<br><br>Get involved, join OCAP and the Downtown East Committee: 416-925-6939 / <a href="mailto:ocap@tao.ca">ocap@tao.ca</a> / <a href="http://www.ocap.ca">www.ocap.ca</a><br>Twitter: @OCAPtoronto #SaveSchoolHouse<br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/289020987881979/?context=create">http://www.facebook.com/events/289020987881979/?context=create</a><br>Fact Sheet on the School House Shelter: http://www.ocap.ca/node/1020<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#0086ba"><b>Stop Racial Profiling! – Stop Racist Policing!<br></b></font><br>Wed. Nov. 14, 12:30 - 1:30 pm<br>Toronto Police Headquarters, 40 College (at Yonge)<br><br>Join us as we speak out against the continued racial profiling and racist policing directed at affected communities here in Toronto. Our struggles to be free from racist police harassment and unconstitutional violations of our rights has resulted in many studies and much talk, but in the neighbourhoods, nothing has changed – police still harass, intimidate, illegally search, arrest, and brutalize the people, and especially Black and racialized youth. The Toronto Police Services Board's words have proved empty and hollow, and the "new way of doing business" looks exactly like the old one. From TAVIS to Form 208 cards, the security they talk about doesn’t mean safety for us. It’s time to find real solutions to neighbourhood problems! <br><br>No more illegal detentions and searches! Stop racial profiling and racist policing! <br><br>Event endorsed by: Justice IS NOT Colour-Blind Campaign, Law Union of Ontario, Rights Watch Network, Network for Pan-African Solidarity, Nation of Islam (Toronto), the office of Jagmeet Singh, and OPIRG York. To endorse this event or for more information please contact: <a href="mailto:speakoutnovember14@gmail.com">speakoutnovember14@gmail.com</a><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#00bb26"><b>Toxic Trespass: An Award-Winning Documentary Film on Childrens' Health and the Environment<br></b></font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Wed. Nov. 14, 6:30 p.m.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Hart House, U of T</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Present at the screening will be: Writer/Director Barri Cohen, Executive Producer Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg, MES, PhD, and Public Health Educator, Soy-Yan Seto, PhD</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>Toxic Trespass investigates the growing evidence that we are conducting a large-scale toxicological experiment on our children, and explores what some scientists, doctors, activists and others are doing about it. Intrepid filmmaker Barri Cohen launches an investigation into the effects of the chemical soup around us. She starts with her 10-year-old daughter, whose blood carries carcinogens like benzene and the long-banned DDT. Then, Cohen heads out to Windsor and Sarnia: Canadian toxic hotspots, with startling clusters of deadly diseases.<br><br>Here, everyone seems to know children who have suffered respiratory illnesses, leukemia, brain tumours and other illnesses. And on the Native reserve of Aamjiwnaang, ringed by Sarnia's "chemical valley," the film reveals a startling birth rate problem that officials just can't ignore. Cohen journeys into toxic nightmares all too common in industrialized countries. She meets passionate activists working for positive change, along with doctors and scientists who see evidence of links between environmental pollution and health problems. And she learns how quickly barriers can go up when anyone tries to even ask questions about the connection betweeen toxins and serious health problems. Perhaps most appalling - and funny, in their own twisted way - are the roadblocks Cohen encounters when she tries to get information from federal officials. One tells her his department is "planning to discuss the plans."<br><br>This moving documentary is empowering and leavened with wry humour. Carried by Cohen's passion for truth and her disarming openness, it is essential viewing for anyone concerned about the effects of pollutants on our - and our children's - very DNA. Toxic Trespass is accompanied by a comprehensive guidebook for educators, activists and concerned citizens, produced by the Women's Healthy Environment Network.<br><br>For information on the film and resource guide: <a href="http://www.toxictrespass.com">http://www.toxictrespass.com</a><br> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------</font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#c94100"><b>Book Launch: "Share: Delicious Dishes from FoodShare and Friends" </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">by Adrienne De Francesco with Marion Kane. Forward by Frances Moore Lappé. <br> <br>Wednesday, November 14, 6 pm - 8 pm<br>FoodShare, 90 Croatia Street (entrance is at the corner of Brock Avenue and Brock Crescent, just below Bloor St. West). <br>Free<br><br>Explore FoodShare’s Field to Table Community Food Hub and its fresh produce warehouse. Sample a bounty of diverse delicious dishes from the book, meet the authors, contributors and the whole FoodShare community. Discover interactive displays in multi-faceted program areas representing “every link in the Food Chain,” including fresh produce sourcing and sales, community cooking, community gardening and urban agriculture, student nutrition and hands-on food education from JK-Grade 12. <br><br>For more information see: <a href="http://www.foodshare.net/share/">http://www.foodshare.net/share/</a> and <a href="http://www.btlbooks.com/book/share">http://www.btlbooks.com/book/share</a><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Contact: <a href="mailto:info@foodshare.net">info@foodshare.net</a>, <a href="mailto:info@btlbooks.com">info@btlbooks.com</a><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#b100bb"><b>Protest China's Take Over of Canada's Nexen<br></b></font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Wednesday, November 14, 10 am - noon<br>151 Yonge Street <br><br>Join Students for a Free Tibet and Toronto Tibetan community as we continue to protest against the deal between Canadian oil giant Nexen and China National Offshore Oil Company. The Tibetan-Canadian community and its allies are protesting against this deal because CNOOC, China's state-owned offshore oil corporation, has been known to fund forced resettlement of Tibetan nomads off their ancestral land. Many Tibetans who have been setting themselves on fire in protest against the repressive Chinese government's rule come from these nomadic communities. Tibet continues to be under clamp down as the self-immolation protest continues to escalate. Just last week, 7 Tibetans including teenagers set themselves on fire in protest raising the number to nearly 70. The Canadian government cannot be adding more fuel to the fire that is already burning inside Tibet through this deal. <br><br>If you cannot make it to the protest, here is a petition you can sign. <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/sft/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=895">https://secure3.convio.net/sft/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=895</a> <br>Event: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/432072646852011/">https://www.facebook.com/events/432072646852011/</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------</font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#0069ba"><b>Raising the Workers' Flag - book launch</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Wed. Nov. 14, 6 p.m.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Ben McNally Bookstore, 366 Bay St. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Meet author Stephen L. Endicott, get a book signed, enjoy protest folk songs and consider what we can learn from inspirational workers' resistance efforts in the 1930's...<br><br>During the Great Depression, the conflicting interests of capital and labour became clearer than ever before. Radical Canadian workers, encouraged by the Red International of Labour Unions, responded by building the Workers' Unity League -- an organization that greatly advanced the cause of unions in Canada, and boasted 40,000 members at its height. In Raising the Workers' Flag, the first full-length study of this robust group, Stephen L. Endicott brings its passionate efforts to light in memorable detail.<br><br>Raising the Workers' Flag is based on newly available or previously untapped sources, including documents from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Security Service and the Communist Party's archives. Using these impressive finds, Endicott gives an intimate sense of the raging debates of the labour movement of the 1930s. A gripping account of the League's dreams and daring, Raising the Workers' Flag enlivens some of the most dramatic struggles of Canadian labour history.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/365205096898236/">https://www.facebook.com/events/365205096898236/</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------</font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div></div></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#009517"><b>G.E.'s Uranium Secret - West End Toronto</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Did you know there was a uranium processing factory in the heart of Toronto? You're invited to a community meeting to learn more<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Thur. Nov, 15, 7 p.m.<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">1900 Davenport-Perth Community Center (near Lansdowne and Davenport)<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">All welcome. Free.<br><br>Tentative and growing speakers list:<br>- Amanda Lickers on Health Impacts<br>- Angela Bischoff, OCAA as moderator<br>- Parents from the Prince of Wales School Community Peterborough<br>- Legal Counsel from the Canadian Environmental Law Association<br>- Parents from the Junction Triangle<br><br>The game plan:<br>5:30-6 pm Meet outside GE for a group meet and greet and location identification (1025 Lansdowne)<br>6:30 pm Walk from GE to 1900 Davenport (on the walk people can talk and get to know each other - we're in this together)<br>7 pm Forum at 1900 Davenport<br>8:45-9:15 pm March back to GE, do "toxic tour"<br>10:00-11:00pm for the hardcore, meet at the Coffee Time at Lansdowne and Dupont to discuss strategy and further action<br><br>VIDEO LINK to a Mini-documentary on this issue: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt5H25V9cAI&feature=plcp">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt5H25V9cAI&feature=plcp</a><br>GE's West-End Secret - NOW piece http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=189189<br>Stop G.E.'s West End Uranium Factory Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/370015163080483/<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/397186077021585/">https://www.facebook.com/events/397186077021585/</a><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#9e4400"><b>New Strategies for Dealing with Global Problems</b></font><br>With Ron Craig, Prof of Communication & Design, Ryerson University.<br> <br>Thur. Nov. 15, 7 – 9 p.m.<br>University College, 15 Kings College Circle, U of Toronto, Rm. 144<br>All welcome. No charge.<br> <br>Co-Sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace, and Voice of Women for Peace.<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#432795"><b>7th Annual Reel Awareness Film Festival</b></font><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Thursday, November 15 – Sunday, November 18</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton Street</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">PWYC at the door (suggested donation $5)</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>Amnesty International Toronto celebrates its 7th annual Reel Awareness Film Festival with four days of some of the best human rights documentary and feature films shown around the world. The 2012 program features compelling films, guest speakers, panel discussions, the opportunity to take action on a variety of human rights issues.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Many of the films will be followed by Q&A with filmmakers, community activists, and human rights experts. Amnesty International will also be on-hand to provide further information about the issues raised by the films, as well as to provide opportunities to take action on these issues.</span><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">For more info on the festival, films and schedule call 416 363 9933 ext 333 or </span><a href="http://www.aito.ca/reelawareness" style="font-size: 13px; ">www.aito.ca/reelawareness</a><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Facebook - </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/419255601444807/" style="font-size: 13px; ">https://www.facebook.com/events/419255601444807/</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br><div>---------------------------------------</div></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#8e0094"><b>Rebuilding Bridges opening concert and alternative media fundraiser</b></font><br><br>Thursday November 15, Doors at 9 PM<br>Bike Pirates, 1292 Bloor Street West<br><br>Facebook event: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/425473674183054/">http://www.facebook.com/events/425473674183054/</a><br>Performances by: Test Their Logik, Lee Reed + more!<br>This event is a fundraiser for the Toronto Media co-op and the York University Free Press. <br><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#214c94"><b>ReBuilding Bridges Conference</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">A conference of conversations & discussions about our political work. <br><br>Friday November 16 - 18, Sydney Smith Hall, U of T<br><br>Rebuilding Bridges is a convergence of community organizers, educators, radicals and activists from across different social movements, intent on engaging in conversations and discussions about our political work. We are in a time of intense uprising, social unrest and student strikes, but our movements remain fragmented and our campaigns mostly one-dimensional. How have our movements lost out on valuable cross-movement collaborations in the past? What can we learn from each other? Though we may employ different tactics or prioritize certain issues, we all envision and work towards dismantling a system built on exploitation, colonialism and oppression, and building a better, more just world. Let’s start speaking and sharing with each other!<br><br>With OPIRG Toronto + OPIRG York </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://rebuildingbridgesto.wordpress.com/schedule/">http://rebuildingbridgesto.wordpress.com/schedule/</a> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#009525"><b>What Really Works in Creating Affordable Housing?<br>An Affordable Living Alternative for Seniors</b></font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Friday, November 16, noon - 2 p.m.<br>115 The Esplanade (OWN Housing Co-op), Buzzer # 101 - Meeting Room on First Floor<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>With speaker Elizabeth Power, President, Abbeyfield Houses Society of Canada. Abbeyfield is known for creating warm caring family-style homes that provide a balance between privacy and companionship, security and independence. Join us to learn how Abbeyfield builds and runs its homes.<br><br>Please bring a “Brown Bag” lunch. Refreshments provided. <br>Seating is limited - Reserve your seat by calling: (416) 214-1518<br>A Voice for Older and Midlife Women Learning and Working Together, Sponsored by the OWN Housing Committee<br><a href="http://www.olderwomensnetwork.org">www.olderwomensnetwork.org</a> <br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#a20013"><b>Education for Activists Conference - 'Controversies and Principles in the Struggle'<br></b></font>5th Annual Toronto Socialist Action Trotsky School<br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">OISE, 252 Bloor St. W., Room 2-214 (St. George Subway Station)<br><br>Friday, November 16<br>- 7 p.m. The Nature of Capitalism - profit squeeze, overproduction, periodic crises, eco-destruction, and war. <br>Speaker: Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action – USA; member, National Administrative Committee of the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC) and coordinator for The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal.<br><br>Saturday, November 17<br>- 10 a.m. Can Social Democracy Be Reformed?<br>Speaker: Yasin Kaya, member Youth for Socialist Action and Socialist Action-Canada, PhD. candidate at York University.<br>- 1 p.m. Origins of Zionism, and Why Israel is a Major Obstacle to Social Justice.<br>Speaker: Barry Weisleder, Federal Secretary, Socialist Action/Ligue pour l'Action socialiste; co-editor, Socialist Action newspaper.<br>- 4 p.m. The Rise and Fall of Maoism<br>Speaker: Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action - USA<br>- 6 p.m. Social event at a nearby pub<br><br>Registration: $10 for the weekend, $4 per session (or pay what you can)<br>For more information, visit: <a href="http://www.socialistaction.ca">www.socialistaction.ca</a> <br>e-mail: barryaw@rogers.com or call: 416 – 535-8779 <br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">------------<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------<br></span></font></div></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#319434"><b>Instruments for Peace</b></font><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Fundraising event to support music schools</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">in rural communities of El Salvador </span><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Friday November 16, </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; ">Doors open at 7:00pm.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; "> </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Steel Workers Hall, 25 Cecil Street. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Admission is $10.00. A cash bar and Salvadorean traditional cuisine will be available.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>Casa Maiz and the Salvadorean Canadian Association are pleased to invite our community to a benefit concert to support music schools in rural communities in El Salvador featuring El Salvador based musical bandProyeccion Activa.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Proyeccion Activa is a cultural project dedicated to document the historic memory of the Lower Lempa region in El Salvador, to create space for training young musicians in different musical disciplines and to foster a culture of peace in the region. Voces Poeticas, a Toronto based musical ensemble dedicated to promoting Hispanic heritage through music, dance and poetry will also perform at this event. </span><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">El Salvador, a country that has suffered from chronic violence for more than fifty years as a result of military dictatorships, civil war and failed democracies, is considered by United Nations one of the most violent countries in the world. With growing levels of inequality and few opportunities for social and economic development, young people in the country are easy prey for gangs, organized crime and a state security system with crude mechanisms of crime prevention.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Within this context, community initiatives such as Proyeccion Activa not only accomplish their goal of promoting the cultural development of the country, but provide much needed radical alternatives for youth who often face a reality of violence and impunity.</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br>For more information and to reserve tickets please call 647-787-5737</span></font></div><div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Friday November 16th at the Steel Workers Hall, 25 Cecil Street. Doors open at 7:00pm. Admission is $10.00. A cash bar and Salvadorean traditional cuisine will be available.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------</span><br></font><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------</font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#730095"><b>The Tar Sands Come to Ontario - No Line 9!<br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#730095">Resistance, Education, and Alternatives</font></b><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>Sat. Nov. 17, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.<br>Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St., between College and Harbord<br>Lunch provided, building is accessible<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">A day of discussion and organizing for action to stop tar sands piplines in Ontario. Join us for workshops, a panel discussion and a people's assembly. Special guests will include Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians), Art Sterritt (BC Coastal First Nations, Executive Director), Wes Elliott (Haudenosaunee land defender), and Vanessa Gray (Aamjiwnaang First Nation) as well as resource people on labour and environmental justice issues.<br><br>WHAT IS LINE 9? First Nations' defence of their lands is spearheading resistance across Canada to the tar sands menace. In Ontario, this threat is posed by the corporation, Enbridge, with their proposed Line 9 pipeline which could soon be pumping corrosive and toxic tar sands across the province of Ontario. Line 9 cuts through Toronto, north of Finch. Tar sands in Line 9 would violate indigenous land rights, menace natural environments, violate indigenous land rights, and threaten our communities across the province. And exploitation of Canada's tar sands escalates global warming, posing a deadly threat to all the world's peoples.<br><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Get involved! More info: boliviaclimatejustice@gmail. com.<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/505545582789129/">https://www.facebook.com/events/505545582789129/</a><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://rabble.ca/news/2012/09/enbridge-line-9-other-other-pipeline">http://rabble.ca/news/2012/09/enbridge-line-9-other-other-pipeline</a><br></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">In conjunction with OPIRG’s Rebuilding Bridges conference<br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#007393"><b>Campaign Planning Workshop</b></font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> <br>Saturday, November 17, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br>This workshop will help you plan and execute a winning campaign plan to help you achieve your goals. Learn the basic components of a campaign, as well as how to choose strategic goals, strategies, and tactics. <br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.toolsforchange.net/2012/08/27/campaign-planning-workshop-1pm-5pm-nov-17-2012/">http://www.toolsforchange.net/2012/08/27/campaign-planning-workshop-1pm-5pm-nov-17-2012/</a><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" color="#00950e">Calling all supporters of a sustainable future for Haiti:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#00950e"><b>Quebec Square Dance and Silent Auction</b></font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">featuring members of Reveillons<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Sat. Nov. 17, 7 p.m.<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt Road (north of Bloor)<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">No experience necessary. If contra and square dancing is out of your comfort zone. fear not. Its easy, anyone can enjoy it and it feels right. Like appropriate technology it’s aligned with our tradition but not present in our lives. In solidarity with the people who we encourage to adopt new technologies to save their way of life, take that step into the unknown, and… embrace change!<br><br>For more info, tickets ($10 or 2/$15) or to donate to the silent auction, or for child care options, please call: 416 769 6379 <br><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#9f4000"><b>Cold Weather Cycling Workshop<br></b></font><br>Sat. Nov. 17, 2 – 4 p.m.<br>Lillian H. Smith library, 239 College Street, Room B/C<br> <br>Join Cycle Toronto for this interactive Street Smarts Workshop, with a focus on riding safely in cold, rain and snow. You’ll gain knowledge on dressing for the weather, safe riding techniques, and maintaining your bicycle. We’ll also cover the many reasons to ride, address the obstacles to riding, review rules of the road and route selection, and give you all the knowledge you need to get out there!<br><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Please register in advance, by phone or email: Stanley Teo, Lillian H. Smith Library, <a href="mailto:steo@ciclsp.ca">steo@ciclsp.ca</a>, 647-404-8857<br>This is a free event thanks to generous support from the Law Foundation of Ontario. <br><br><a href="http://cycleto.ca/event/2012/10/17/cold-weather-cycling-workshop-lillian-h-smith-library">http://cycleto.ca/event/2012/10/17/cold-weather-cycling-workshop-lillian-h-smith-library</a><br> <br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#800095"><b>GTWA Coffeehouse: Unpacking Solidarity</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Sat. Nov 17, <br>Regal Beagle Pub, 335 Bloor west, near St. George station<br><br>On November 17, we will return to our old stomping grounds of the Regal Beagle to have an open-ended discussion of the meaning of solidarity in general, within the context of a discussion of the Solidarity Platform, a living document, ratified as GTWA policy in early 2012. What do we mean when we say "solidarity"? Is solidarity, something one can possess in a passive sense? Or is it something on the level of practice - solidarity being a verb, not a noun? Can solidarity be fostered, or is it an organic and spontaneous phenomenon? Or is it a bit of both? How have anti-capitalitsts used demand and platforms in the past? What distinctions have anti-capitalist traditions had over the use of platforms and demands in the "year of living dangerously", 2011 into 2012, where popular uprisings occured from Wall Street to Tahir Square, from South Asia to Wisconsin, from Quebec to Chile?<br><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/364059630352449/">https://www.facebook.com/events/364059630352449/</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#00953a"><b>Permaculture Living Convergence 2012<br></b></font> <br>Sat/Sun. Nov. 17-18<br>Children’s Peace Theatre, 305 Dawes Road (north of Danforth)<br><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">The Permaculture Living Convergence is a two day gathering engaging participants in fun, hands on / interactive workshops, performances and activities aimed at promoting sustainable lifestyles and building resilient communities. <br><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151212781994661&set=o.151803471496399&type=1&theater">https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151212781994661&set=o.151803471496399&type=1&theater</a><br>https://www.facebook.com/events/228318987293491/<br>https://www.facebook.com/TPPGTA<br>http://www.tppgta.com/about-us.html<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#006594"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#006594"><b>Ontario Health Coalition Assembly and Conference<br>Protecting Health Care In the Face of Austerity </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Nov 17 - Nov 18</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Music Room, Hart House, University of Toronto<br><br>The Health Action Assembly (November 17) is the OHC’s annual organizing meeting which will include briefings on Charting the Electoral Landscape, Key issues & strategies of the political parties, Opportunities and challenges under a minority government, Charting our Progress on the Key Issues as well as caucus meetings and the approval of the OHC’s Action Plan for the coming year.<br><br>The Conference (November 18) will be on the theme “From Tax Loopholes to the 1%: Funding Health Care in the Public Interest” and includes a keynote speech by Dr. Michael Rachlis of Doctors for Fair Taxation, a presentation by economist Hugh Mackenzie on “Closing the Loopholes: The Employer Health Tax” and a session on “Funding Implications of P3s, long-term care reform, home care reform, hospital funding changes, other key reforms”. The Closing Plenary features Neil Brooks, professor of tax law and policy at Osgoode Hall Law School, co-author of The Trouble with Billionaires.<br><br><a href="http://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca">www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca</a><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#9e430f"><b>EcoFair 2012 at the Barns<br></b></font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Sunday, November 18, 1-4 pm<br>Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street (2 blocks south of St. Clair Ave. West)<br>The Fair is FREE and everyone is welcome!<br> <br>Come celebrate progress towards a greener and healthier future and help promote greener living in our community at the EcoFair – a free event for the whole family! The Eco Fair at Wychwood Barns is an event that informs and inspires people to make sustainable choices in their homes, while also highlighting some of the wonderful green initiatives under way in our community. Last year, over 400 people attended to learn about activities and achievements in our neighbourhood and in our city, to explore new ideas, and to share green tips and tricks. This year's 4th EcoFair features exhibits from vendors and green community groups, an eco-book swap, a silent auction, eco kids’ activities, live music, refreshments and much more!<br><br>---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#009521"><b>Green Walk</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Sunday November 18, 1 – 3 pm<br>Meeting place: Northwest corner of Broadview Ave and Gerrard St, in front of the library<br>Distance: Approximately 5km<br>Terrain: Stairs, paved pathways and city sidewalks<br><br>Join us on a walking tour from Riverdale Park to Evergreen Brick Works as we weave together your stories of the Don Valley. Cynthia Webb of Bridgepoint Health Foundation will join us to share the story of the redevelopment of the hospital. Be part of the first conversations for the new Lower Don Greenway project, and discover how we can transform the Lower Don Valley into an innovative green space like no other—showcasing Toronto's distinctive ravine system through arresting gateways, new and improved access points and amenities and enhanced pedestrian trails and bridges. Share with us your favourite stories and places in the Lower Don and we'll share with you why we love it too. Remember, wear good walking shoes and dress for the weather!</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">If you have questions about the walk contact John Wilson at <a href="mailto:johnwilson338@gmail.com">johnwilson338@gmail.com</a>.<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#a2007b"><b>The Art of Politics and the Personal - Looking at the Paintings of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera<br></b></font><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Sun. Nov. 18, 4 </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">OISE, 252 Bloor, U of T, Room 7192 (St. George subway)<br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Introduced by Brian Donnelly – Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design, Sheridan College<br><br>Revolutionaries and socialists often yearn for an authentic, political art that can resist and even stand outside such a monstrous, mimetic, commodity culture. The Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo are often called on to fill that need. Modern painters from the early 20th Century, they explored the new forms and imagery possible in painting, working in styles from surrealism to socialist realism, creating small autobiographical works for themselves and giant murals done for the wealthiest patrons in the world. Their work is rich, warm, and rewarding to look at, but it also suggests many contradictions and questions. This talk will look at some of the methods by which art is discussed from a Marxist perspective, beginning with "Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art," signed by Andre Breton and Diego Rivera (and involving considerable input from Leon Trotsky). <br><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/222455324551732/">https://www.facebook.com/events/222455324551732/</a> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------<br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">---------------------------------------</font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#200195"><b>Forest Hill Walk Club</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Sun. Nov. 18, 9:45 a.m., and every Sunday</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www">http://www</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">.meetup.com/ForestHillWalkClub/</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------<br></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">---------------------------------------</span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><div style="font-size: 13px; "><br></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5" color="#009467"><b>No Casino in Toronto! Stand Up For Your City!<br></b></font><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">We're emailing to ask you to take action today to help stop a casino in Toronto. No Casino Toronto(</span><a href="http://www.nocasinotoronto.com/" style="font-size: 13px; ">www.nocasinotoronto.com</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">) has launched and is asking people to email their Councillors and ask them to vote against the proposed mega casino in Toronto. A mega casino would be detrimental to the economy and social fabric of Toronto.</span><br><br><a href="http://togethertoronto.ca/campaigns/no-casino" style="font-size: 13px; ">http://togethertoronto.ca/campaigns/no-casino</a><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">This fall, Toronto City Councillors will be debating allowing a mega casino to be built within the City of Toronto and casino lobbyists have their eyes on Toronto’s waterfront, especially Exhibition Place.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Mega Casinos make poor economic sense and would have a devastating impact on local restaurants, bars, hotels and theatres. A mega casino would additionally have serious negative social impacts, including increased problem gambling, bankruptcies, crime, traffic gridlock and parking problems.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">We’ve got stand up for our city and act to stop a mega casino from being built in Toronto. 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