Greenspiration News & Events: Not One Seat!

[Angela Bischoff - OCAA]



 

Move Forward

4 min. music video written and performed by Cassie Norton for the Ontario Clean Air Alliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JvRzvl-o-Q 

 

Against Russian Imperialism

By Russian Socialist Movement & Sotsialnyi Rukh  

https://lefteast.org/against-russian-imperialism/

 

Russia's genocide handbook

The evidence of atrocity and of intent mounts

https://snyder.substack.com/p/russias-genocide-handbook?s=r 

 

Hromadske Int.

English twitter-feed of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, by Afghan-Ukrainian Mustafa Nayyem, a journalist who sparked the Euromaidan student resistance.

https://twitter.com/hromadske?s=21

 

Ukrainian Independent Newspapers

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/

https://kyivindependent.com/ 

 

Project Save the World

Watch or listen to one or more (currently 438) discussions on all things ecological and peaceful. Experts from around the world are interviewed by Dr. Metta Spencer.

https://tosavetheworld.ca 

 

Expand Democratic Fairness and Lower the Voting Age to 16 - Petition

https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/lower-the-voting-age-to-16-and-increase-democratic-fairness  

 

Voting Systems and Climate Action: The Evidence

Fair Vote Canada's new report lays out one key piece of the answer: proportional representation. Countries with PR deliver more ambitious, sustained climate action.

https://www.fairvote.ca/climate/   

 

IESO coverup of positive gas phase-out findings revealed 

Thanks to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request filed by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA), we now know that the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) supressed findings that we could phase-out gas power AND lower emissions and bills! Send a message to ON politicians here.

https://www.cleanairalliance.org/ieso-coverup-of-positive-gas-phase-out-findings-revealed/ 

 

Toronto Community Enviro Days are back!  

Community Environment Days help reduce the amount of reusable or recyclable waste going to landfill and allow for safe disposal of household hazardous waste. Community Environment Day events will run from April through July. 

https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/recycling-organics-garbage/community-environment-days/

 

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Ontario Election - June 2, 2022

 

Not One Seat!

A grassroots movement to ensure that Doug Ford wins #NotOneSeat in Toronto.

https://www.notoneseat.ca/

https://medium.com/@djdynamicnc/our-plan-to-stop-doug-ford-d21e653a5b3

 

Election 2022: The SCAN! Toolkit

Let’s get active in this election.  Keep climate on the table. Here are seven things you can do. Sponsored by SCAN! (Seniors for Climate Action Now!)

https://seniorsforclimateactionnow.org/election-2022-toolkit/

 

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Events

 

Human Health and the Climate Emergency 

Tues. Apr. 26, 8 p.m. ET

Dr. Samantha Green will discuss why the climate emergency is the single biggest threat to human health. Climate change is already harming Canadians’ health, causing increases in extreme weather events, cases of heat stroke, cardiorespiratory issues, and Lyme disease from ticks that can now survive in our warmer climate. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclf-2upj0uHNYeQqv_-yM9HYStZyewmjgb  

 

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The Language of Trees

Tues. Apr. 26, 2 - 3 p.m. ET

“The Language of Trees” will feature a conversation between Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of "Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit", and Kathleen Dean Moore, author of "Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World". The event will foster a dialogue around the language of trees: how they communicate with one another, and how their futures are shaped by the language with which humans describe them.

https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UBj-uNdnQJCzn0RCWrKfeA  

 

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Waging Peace for Ukraine and Meeting Refugee Needs

Tuesday April 26, 8 - 9:30 a.m. ET

Join this training to learn tools and tactics to amplify on and offline action, put pressure on key decision-makers, meet refugee needs and build community with other anti-war and refugee support activists. Offered in English, with simultaneous interpretation in Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, French and Spanish.

https://socialmovementtechnologies.org/waging-peace-for-ukraine-and-meeting-refugee-needs/   

 

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Worker and Union Solidarity with China: Why and How?

Tues. Apr. 26, 7 p.m. ET

Solidarity exchanges between trade unions in China, Canada and US were put on hold by COVID. At the same time economic and geo-political conflicts between nations have created new challenges to workers and unions. This webinar explores the value of worker-to-worker relationships despite those conflicts — indeed, made more important in a climate of anti-Asian racism and protectionism.

https://uvic.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tzFGtdItTBSl1O5YnOOfSA  

 

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Why we must take control of Artificial Intelligence

Tues. April 26, 1 – 2 p.m. ET

John Anderson will examine the importance of the regulation of AI and new forms of automation both as they effect jobs in the workplace, privacy and use and abuse for monitoring people in and out of the workplace and use in cybersecurity and control.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/why-we-must-take-control-of-artificial-intelligence-tickets-323524880627   

 

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University Rosedale Election Climate Debate 

Tues. April 26, 5 - 7 p.m. ET

The Centre for Social Innovation will host the first 2022 climate debate with University - Rosedale candidates. This will be a hybrid event; you can join us online or come into CSI Annex (720 Bathurst St, Toronto) to watch in person. With participants: Dr. Dianne Saxe - Green Party; Andrea Barrack - Liberal Party; Jessica Bell- New Democratic Party; Moderator: Tonya Surman, CEO

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/climate-debate-tickets-319040738437 

 

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Not One Seat Volunteer Orientation

Wed. Apr 27, 7 p.m. ET

Learn about the various ways you can plug in to the Not One Seat campaign to deny Doug Ford another term as Premier.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkcuGvqj8jGtSjBcC9iU9NS5qpyF52wIeu 

www.NotOneSeat.ca  

 

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Goodbye sole purpose: The Biden administration’s emerging nuclear policy and budget

Wed. Apr. 27, 2 p.m. ET

Join Adam Mount and Lynn Rusten in conversation with Monica Montgomery to discuss the future of nuclear policy and modernization. Together, we’ll dive into topics like sole purpose, the recently released defense budget, the Biden nuclear posture review, ally management in the wake of the Ukraine War and more.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LGeTSUriRQqh4DKAXQZtQg  

 

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Geothermal Energy Forum

Wed. Apr. 27, noon - 1:30 p.m. ET

Geothermal space conditioning (i.e. Ground Source Heating and Cooling) has long been known to be the most energy efficient way to heat and cool our building stock as stated by the US EPA as far back as 1992. Geothermal technology in use for decades has achieved millions of successful installations in all types of buildings from single family homes to MURBs, and from commercial to institutional buildings worldwide. Geothermal technology has also been embedded in both the Canadian Standards (i.e. CSA 448) and in the Ontario Building Code.   

https://ontario-sea.org/event-4771686  

 

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The Water Table: Ontario's Webinar on Water

Wed. Apr. 27, 6:30 p.m. ET

Given cumulative assaults on regional forests and wetlands as well as the deterioration in local water quality and aquatic and amphibian species, a valid question arises: Is Ontario’s current system of land use planning protecting our waters? Join us for presentations, followed by Q&A, from three respected advocates for water: Krystal-Anne Roussel of the Canadian Environmental Law Association; Kevin Thomason of the Grand River Environmental Network; and Ryan Bowie of the Chiefs of Ontario.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tRe8UnwrQEW4RPYtvvBFDA 

 

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Celebrate International Workers’ Day

Thur. April 28, 7 p.m. ET

36th annual Socialist Action evening of speakers, music and poetry.

https://youtu.be/8kMJ5Wiielc  

 

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Understand Net-Zero Pledges

Thur. Apr. 28, 12:30 p.m. ET

Companies, cities, and nations alike are stating their Net-Zero pledges at an increasing rate. Which of them holds water? And how might we identify true progress when we see it? Join CSI Designer Amer Jandali in a conversation with Net-Zero Tracker, a platform that's mapping out global Net-Zero pledges, to demystify this critical, yet often overused climate target.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/how-to-20-understand-net-zero-pledges-tickets-323521059197   

 

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International & North American Launch of 21st Century Common Security Report

Thur. Apr. 28, 2 p.m. ET

In late April 2022, on the 40th anniversary of the Palme Commission’s Common Security report which played a major role in ending the Cold War, the Olaf Palme Foundation, the International Peace Bureau, and the International Trade Union Confederation will issue their 21st Century Common Security Report. Coming amidst the disastrous Ukraine War and break down of the Post-Cold War order, the many dangers of the climate emergency and inequalities, the report provides a critique and a roadmap for building common security, based on the reality that security cannot be achieved against a nation’s rival, but only with it.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vt3XCr2bToSpgIxlN5Pemg 

 

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Hot Docs 2022

>From April 28 - May 8, we're bringing 226 films from across the globe to Toronto cinemas and into your living room on Hot Docs at Home.

https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/hot-docs-festival 

 

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Nuclear Dangers in Ukraine - Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg in Discussion

Fri. Apr. 29, 3 p.m. ET 

World-renowned, lifelong social justice activists and two of the most prominent experts on the geopolitics of the Ukrainian-Russian war and the threat or use of nuclear weapons will discuss the risk and threat of escalation during this most dangerous time. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctce-uqzotG9YgpMQ5i0XjxO3Ggf653yUp  

 

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Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Facilities in the Great Lakes Basin 

Fri. Apr. 29, 11:30 a.m. ET

The Great Lakes Water Quality Board (WQB) of the International Joint Commission (IJC) is hosting a public webinar to provide information and answer questions about the board's recent report: Decommissioning of Nuclear Power Facilities in the Great Lakes Basin. The report is available at: https://www.ijc.org/en/wqb/nuclear-decommissioning-great-lakes   A summary video is available at: https://vimeo.com/696591994/adbc6431a6  

Great Lakes Water Quality Board members will provide an overview of the report's findings and recommendations + Q & A.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bYSR5QnoRRiJ7u8PIHEG0Q 

 

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Resurgence; Our Connection to These Waters & Winter Island Exhibition

Sat. Apr. 30, 2 - 8 p.m. ET

Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island

Celebrate Indigenous presence on Toronto Island. Performers: Layla Black, Aysanabee, Leed Reed...And Winter Island Exhibition. 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/resurgence-our-connection-to-these-waters-winter-island-exhibition-tickets-317977157237   

 

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The 37th Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts 

May 1 - 31

Artists in this year’s Mayworks Festival celebrate networks of care, exploring how working people extend care to each other through generations, how this care is forged in resistance and how it is shaped and remembered through story. Mayworks Festival showcases seven new works and the world premiere of a new play. Events will take place in person across the Toronto as well as online.

http://www.mayworks.ca  

 

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May Day - Ontario-Wide Day of Action for a Workers First Agenda

Sun. May 1

May 1, or May Day, is the traditional workers’ holiday, a day that working people celebrate the gains they have won over the years and commit to fighting for a better future for everyone. It is also just one month before the June 2 ON provincial election. The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) is organizing a province-wide day of action for a workers-first agenda. More than 20 Ontario towns are hosting events:

https://ofl.ca/may-1-local-actions/ 

In Toronto, meet at Queen's Park 2 - 4 p.m. ET  

https://ofl.ca/event/may-1-toronto/

 

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Toronto Marathon Running 3.5 for 1.5 Degrees of Peace

Sun. May 1, 7:45 a.m. - noon

We’re in a race for time with multiple existential threats to our planet. Mark Shapland is running this marathon as a fundraiser for the Film 1.5 Degrees of Peace. Find out more and support his efforts.

https://www.1point5degreesofpeace.com/events  

 

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https://www.democracynow.org/    

 

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