Greenspiration News & Events: Feminist Resistance

[Angela Bischoff - OCAA]



 

2021 Right Livelihood Laureates

The Right Livelihood Award recognizes the actions of brave visionaries. It has been called the "alternative Nobel prize". One of the 4 Laureates this year is Canada's amazing Freya Huson of Wet'suwet'en Nation, a hereditary chief, longtime advocate for Indigenous sovereignty, and leader in the fight to stop Coastal GasLink and a coordinator of the Unist'ot'en camp. 

Another of the 4 is Vladimir Slivyak, a russian anti-nuclear activist. 

https://rightlivelihood.org/2021-announcement/        

 

Wet'suwet'en Strong

Under ‘Anuc niwh’it’en (Wet’suwet’en law) all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en have unanimously opposed all pipeline proposals and have not provided free, prior, and informed consent to Coastal Gaslink/ TransCanada to do work on Wet’suwet’en lands.

https://www.yintahaccess.com/ 

 

Canada’s Irreconciliables

15 years ago, a group of Indigenous land defenders envisioned how direct action, backed by non-Indigenous support, could transform Canada. Now it’s close to happening.

https://breachmedia.ca/canadas-irreconciliables/

 

‘Blah, blah, blah’: Greta Thunberg lambasts leaders over climate crisis

>From The Guardian: Carbon emissions are on track to rise by 16% by 2030, rather than fall by half, which is the cut needed to keep global heating under 1.5C. “Build back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah blah blah. Net zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah,” she said in a speech to the Youth4Climate summit in Milan. “This is all we hear from our so-called leaders. Words that sound great but so far have not led to action. Our hopes and ambitions drown in their empty promises.” 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/28/blah-greta-thunberg-leaders-climate-crisis-co2-emissions 

 

All Good Things Start Local: Reclaiming Canadian Democracy 

We're building grassroots teams of volunteers across Canada to push for local electoral reform. But we need your help.

https://fundrazr.com/UnlockDemocracy 

 

All Party Consent for Ring of Fire Mining Shows Tragic Decline in Ontario Political Cultures

For our political leaders to support creating roads in the James Bay Lowlands that would threaten to wreck our province’s refrigerator, when much of the world faces wildfires and drought, is criminal stupidity. The lands of the Hudson Bay Lowlands - which contain as much water as the entire Great Lakes - are so critical today because they are one of the last large areas of the planet that have not been altered by human industrialized machinations since the end of the Pleistocene.

https://www.sierraclub.ca/en/ontario-chapter/2021-09-28/all-party-consent-ring-fire-mining-shows-tragic-decline-ontario-political 

 

To Save the World

More than 300 (and growing week by week) video interviews by Peace Academic and Scholar Metta Spencer with brilliant minds.

https://www.youtube.com/c/tosavetheworld

 

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Nuclear Weapons:  A Public Health Issue

Mon. Oct. 4, noon - 1 p.m. 

Jointly provided by the Massachusetts Medical Society, its Committee on Environmental & Occupational Health, and its Committee on Global Health, and Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility.

https://www.massmed.org/nuclear-weapons-flyer/ 

 

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Royal Bank of Canada Day of Action: Launch & Training Event 

Mon. Oct. 4, 7 p.m. ET

Organizing call with speakers and trainings in preparation for the global day of action on October 29th when people around the world are planning a day of action against the biggest funders of climate chaos. In Canada, that means Canada’s biggest fossil bank, RBC, needs to feel the pressure from coast to coast to coast. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpde2rrjkrHND3ltGImqHyB9fRrCe9CLzW 

 

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Introduction to Drawdown

Mon. Oct. 4, 10 p.m. ET

An introduction to the basic concepts of Drawdown, a solution-based approach to climate action. Peer reviewed international research shows that it is possible to actually “draw down" our greenhouse gases. These solutions to our climate crisis exist right now - we just need to implement them on an individual, community, national, and global level. 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-drawdown-climate-solutions-tickets-172938091487 

 

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Rally to demand End to For-Profit Long-Term Care in Ontario

Mon. Oct. 4, noon in cities across Ontario

Click here for a full list of protests: https://cupe.on.ca/event/ltcrallies/ 

In Toronto, rally at Queens Park 

As the Ontario Legislature opens on October 4, let’s set the message for the next session. No more broken promises. No more substandard care. 

Hosted by CUPE Ontario.

https://www.facebook.com/ontariohealth

 

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National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Mon. Oct. 4, 3 p.m. ET

Join us in honouring our sisters with guest speaker, Candace Brunette-Debassige. Candace Brunette-Debassige is a Mushkego Cree iskwew scholar originally from Peetabeck Treaty 9 Territory. Her research centers on advancing the liberatory needs of Indigenous Peoples in Euro-Western colonial educational spaces. 

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcudemgqDkqHNAoHMHapKa1ZmvY5ju9pBzS

 

Check out the final report of the inquiry, Reclaiming our Power & Place: 

https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/

 

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Nowhere to Hide: 10 Steps for Common Survival

Mon. Oct. 4, 9:30 p.m. ET

Please join us for St. Thomas More College’s Annual Peace Studies Lecture with the Hon. Douglas Roche, O.C., in a wide-ranging discussion about some the greatest dangers faced by humankind and how we can work together to fashion a future free from existential threats, fear and suffering. The former parliamentarian and diplomat and prodigious activist and author will offer 10 topics of conversation, each of which presents an imminent danger to the world including the crises of climate change, the coronavirus and nuclear weapons, as well as the present chaos in global policy-making. Roche will also speak about the human rights of migrants and his hopes for the U.N. Security Council in dealing with global problems. 

https://stmcollege.ca/store/event/nowhere-to-hide-10-steps-for-common-survival/

 

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Launch of the West Coast Climate Action Network 

Tues. Oct. 5, 7 pm PT

Join us as we work to promote and support the work of climate action groups all across BC, and to urge more rapid and urgent climate action, while also working to centre Indigenous and other under-represented voices. The climate justice movement is rapidly growing, and the need for collaboration and solidarity has never been greater. #WeCanDoMoreTogether #WeCanJustTransition

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/launch-of-the-west-coast-climate-action-network-tickets-178236328657 

 

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Climate Finance 101: Pensions, Investments, Banks, and Indigenous Rights

Tues. Oct. 5, 7 - 9 p.m. ET

Learn where and how your pension, investment, and banking money is being spent, too often in violation of the principles of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent. Hosted by Climate Pledge Collective

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/climate-finance-101-pensions-investments-banks-and-indigenous-rights-tickets-172171348137 

 

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Does the government have the right to deceive the public? Roundtable discussion

Tues. Oct 5, 3 p.m. ET

What does the murder of activist Mariano Abarca in Chiapas, México say about Canadian government accountability? With support from Mexican and Canadian organizations, the family of environmental defender Mariano Abarca, who was murdered in 2009, is seeking an investigation into the Canadian Embassy in Mexico. They believe that the Embassy’s unconditional lobbying in support of a Canadian mining company put Mariano’s life in greater danger in the lead up to his murder. This roundtable will discuss Canadian practice when it comes to embassies abroad and conflicts over Canadian mining operations, asking whether Mariano’s case is the pattern or an exception. Organized by Mining Watch Canada 

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_onB8gOJ6Sr-Oyw83mODXZQ

 

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The Return: Life After ISIS - presented by Human Rights Watch 

Oct. 5 - 12

The Return: Life After ISIS is a unique portrait of a group of Western women who pledged their lives to ISIS, but now want to return home to restart their lives. While facing hostile journalists and governments who have left them de-facto stateless, the women confront their truths and try to heal from their trauma in a locked camp in northeast Syria, with the help of Kurdish women’s rights activists. The film will be available for free viewing on the Hot Docs digital platform from October 5-12. Join the live Q and A on Oct. 5.

https://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=160923~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&epguid=8533b035-0c76-4133-bf01-9b9878c87b37& 

 

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Training: Secrets of a Successful Organizer

Tuesdays 8 - 10 p.m. ET

Oct. 5 - Beating apathy

Oct. 12 - Assembling Your Dream Team

Oct. 19 - Turning an Issue into a Campaign

https://labornotes.org/october-secrets-series 

 

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Nuclear Power and Climate Change: Can Small Modular Reactors Deliver?

Wed. Oct. 6, 3:30 p.m. ET

Join this discussion on nuclear energy and small modular reactors (SMRs), with a focus on their status in Canada, and the climate vulnerability of nuclear plants. The presentations will draw upon the 2021 World Nuclear Industry Status Report.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/nuclear-power-and-climate-change-can-small-modular-reactors-deliver-tickets-178961287027   

 

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Struggle for Climate Justice: Post Election Tasks & Perspectives

Wed. Oct. 6, 9 p.m. ET

During the federal election in Canada, it was startling how major political parties were able to continue to ignore the climate crisis that is all around us. Party platforms and the debates barely gave lip-service to the climate disaster and the immediate action required to restore the delicate balance with mother earth. Meanwhile, movements across Canada continue to confront resource extraction projects, demand divestment from oil and gas corporations, and organize in defense of the rights of Indigenous peoples. And the divide between the status-quo environmental policies of the government of Canada and the people of Canada is growing. Join Climate Convergence and climate justice organizers across Canada as we discuss building the climate justice movement and how we move forward together to create the better, just, and sustainable world. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1oFxXLnmRN2T1QJLAoTVqQ 

More info: climateconvergence.ca 

 

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War Abolisher Awards

Wed. Oct. 6, 8 a.m. ET

Please join us for the presentation and acceptance of the first annual War Abolisher Awards. The event is open to the public and will include presentations of three awards, a musical performance by Ron Korb, and three breakout rooms in which participants can meet and talk with the award recipients. 

https://actionnetwork.org/events/first-annual-war-abolisher-awards  

 

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Pipelines Around the World

Wed. Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m. ET

The topic theme is the role of petroleum in ongoing tensions and rivalries between the United States, Russia and China. The US, world’s hegemon for thirty years, aims to contain the rise of Russia and China. Petroleum politics are part of the story, e.g. Nord Stream 2 and Xinjiang. Facing a hostile America, China and Russia have formed a strategic partnership, with both countries investing heavily in pipelines. Since 9/11, Western countries have launched military interventions and imposed sanctions on one petroleum country after another, even China and Russia. None has been successful. Why does Canada support these actions? With John Foster, retired petroleum engineer and author of “Oil & World Politics”

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7ABWfNKbSlGInfFtfCFm9w 

https://thecic.org/event/cic-edmonton-cic-nipissing-pipeline-politics-around-the-world/

 

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Feminist Resistance: Militarism and Climate Change 

Wed. Oct. 6, 10 a.m. ET 

The recent IPCC report has made the world strikingly aware that the current rate of climate change is a ‘code red for humanity’. Yet, the role of the military as the world’s single greatest emitter in use of fossil fuels is sorely overlooked in traditional environment discussions. How can we raise awareness about this connection and address the role of militarism as a root cause of climate change? What are the connections between climate action, feminism, and peace? As we begin the road to COP26, join WILPF members from Germany, Sweden, Norway, Canada and Zimbabwe as they discuss the situation in their region and share how they are mobilising feminist values to campaign for an end to militarism and towards climate justice, from the grassroots to the international level. Organized by the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF).

https://bit.ly/3luyESp

 

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New nuclear and what's at stake for wildlife

Thur. Oct. 7, 2 p.m. ET

New nuclear power plants will cause irreparable loss to biodiversity and harm and destroy wild places and the creatures who live there. Wildlife protection helped defeat the proposed new nuclear power plant in Wales. Can the same tactic work to stop other new reactor projects that threaten similar damage? And are renewables any less harmful?

https://gmdcnd.com/wildlife/ 

 

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Choice is Under Attack! Women Resist from Texas to Toronto to New Brunswick

Thur. Oct. 7, 7 p.m. ET

With speakers Lisa Luinenberg, Socialist Action – USA, Rubina Chowdury, Rape Crisis Center worker in Toronto, Robbie Mahood, family doctor and Morgentaler Clinic pioneer, and Joyce Arthur, executive director of Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, speaking from Vancouver.

https://youtu.be/9r5mII8CA-A 

 

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Afghanistan: 20 years of war, occupation and resistance

Thur. Oct. 7, 7 p.m. ET

October 7 will mark the 20-year anniversary of the start of the US-led bombing campaign of Afghanistan, which led to two decades of war and occupation. In recent weeks, the US and its allies were driven out of Afghanistan in an unprecedented defeat for US imperialism. Join Spring socialists for a panel discussion, as we assess the impact of the war, including Canada's 13-year mission, and nearly two decades of anti-war organizing in Canada and internationally.

Email info at springmag.ca for Zoom registration link.

 

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MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) and Indigenous Rights 

Fri. Oct. 8, noon ET

Former Grand Chief Sheila North will speak on missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada and how Indigenous and non-Indigenous leaders can advance the political will to address racism and the issues around violence against Indigenous people. Organized by the Canadian International Council.

https://thecic.org/event/cic-young-professionals-network-in-conversation-with-sheila-north/ 

 

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A Good War - Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency with Seth Klein

Fri. Oct. 8, 7 p.m. ET

Climate Emergency Unit director of strategy Seth Klein presents his new inspirational book with lessons from the past for how Canada mobilized for a common cause in a time of crisis. To register email Mark at mmerlino at prpl.ca

 

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http://theenergymix.com/    

 

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https://www.democracynow.org/  

 

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