Greenspiration News & Events: Fight to Win

Mon Jan 6 17:24:50 UTC 2025

Let 2025 be a year of courage and compassion. - angela

INTERNATIONAL

Seven quiet breakthroughs for climate and nature in 2024 you might have missed

Global temperatures rose and extreme weather ramped up, but there were also some significant breakthroughs for the climate this year.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241216-seven-quiet-breakthroughs-for-climate-and-nature-in-2024-you-might-have-missed

The top 10 hottest years on record have happened in the last 10 years, including 2024

“This is climate breakdown, in real time... In 2025, countries must put the world on a safer path by dramatically slashing emissions and supporting the transition to a renewable future. It is essential, and it is possible.” - Guterres

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/30/world-endures-decade-of-deadly-heat-as-2024-caps-hottest-years-on-record-un-antonio-guterres

Jimmy Carter: Nuclear Commemorations

In 1952, as a young U.S. Nuclear Navy officer and nuclear chemist, Carter was sent to Chalk River, Ontario, to help deal with the aftermath of the first known reactor disaster in world history. As US president, in 1977 Carter halted commercial nuclear waste reprocessing in the U.S. which chilled the technology globally. Carter was also famous for installing solar panels on the White House, and wearing a sweater to promote energy conservation.

https://beyondnuclear.org/jimmy-carter-1924-2024-nuke-watchdog-commemorations/

How Trump Transforms Democracy to Dictatorship: A Warning America Can’t Afford to Ignore

Trump’s proven plan to crush opposition, corrupt government, and rewrite the rules in his and his billionaire buddies’ favor

https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-trump-transforms-democracy-to-715

AI goes nuclear

Big tech is turning to old reactors (and planning new ones) to power the energy-hungry data centers that artificial intelligence systems need. But both the government and the tech bros are largely ignoring the known and significant downsides of nuclear power—including high costs, long construction times, accidents, nuclear weapons proliferation risks, and environmental contamination from uranium mining and radioactive waste disposal.

https://thebulletin.org/2024/12/ai-goes-nuclear/

The chemical weapon accusations against the general killed in Moscow

Ukraine says 4,800 uses of chemical weapons by Russia have been documented since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, and more than 2,000 people hospitalised.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/17/the-chemical-weapon-accusations-against-the-general-killed-in-moscow  

Solar/Batteries Displace 312 Nuclear Plants in 2 Years' Time in the US

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/24/2293612/-Solar-Batteries-Displace-312-Nuclear-Plants-in-2-Years-Time

Jacob Collier & Aurora - A Rock Somewhere X The Seed 

Beautiful 6 min. music video sponsored by Greenpeace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N-fqm2YLAU

CANADA

Job One for 2025: Protecting Canada from US Oligarchs

They’ve long targeted our sovereignty. The next federal election has them salivating.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/12/30/Protecting-Canada-US-Oligarchs/

Climate misinformation is exploding — and Canadian politicians are spreading it

Eco-arsonists, mandatory bug diets and global warming denialism are now talking points for Canadian politicians. What’s behind the explosion of climate misinformation — and how can we combat it?

https://thenarwhal.ca/canada-policitians-climate-misinformation/

The carbon tax needs fixing, not axing — Canada needs a progressive carbon tax

https://theconversation.com/the-carbon-tax-needs-fixing-not-axing-canada-needs-a-progressive-carbon-tax-244017

Spending Money Recklessly - SMRs in Canada - with Gordon Edwards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHkas9TE0ho&list=PLRUK7BHZUVfrHCxuJyBeO0IgjjeqBwseY&index=1 

Support Global Ocean Sanctuaries - Greenpeace petition

Canada must act urgently to ratify the Treaty to secure 30x30 (30% of the oceans protected by sanctuaries by 2030) and a brighter future for our blue planet.

https://act.greenpeace.ca/en-ca/create-global-ocean-sanctuaries

Sh*tty Canadian Heritage Minutes - Jordan Peterson | The Goose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=GxZ5wkugDDo

First Nation in Ontario challenging selection of underground nuclear waste site in court

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/ontario-first-nation-challenging-selection-of-underground-nuclear-waste-site-in-court/

Tell the Ontario Liberals, NDP and Greens to put proportional representation in their campaign platforms!

https://secure.fairvote.ca/en/proportionalrepresentationontario

TORONTO

The brigade of volunteers delivering hope by bike

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article-the-brigade-of-volunteers-delivering-hope-by-bike/  

Seeking Roommate for Apartment at Oakwood and Vaughan, Toronto

Retired mediator and peace and climate activist seeks roommate for 2 bedroom flat. Large furnished room, shared kitchen and bath, lots of light. I have a cat. Let's talk and find interests in common!  

lyn.adamson9 at gmail.com

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EVENTS

Fighting to Win: Social Struggles, Containment, and Effective Resistance

12-week course starting Jan. 6

Mondays 6 - 8 p.m. ET 

Carrot Common (Chester subway station, on the Danforth, Toronto

Join the 12-week course on Social Struggles, Containment, and Effective resistance with former OCAP organizer John Clarke, with support from the Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuDMMUpNAyQ1LDKLT-YY2mVO5grjMiCEKeEZkO9oYW7AAVkw/viewform 

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Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities 

Tues. Jan. 7, 11 a.m. ET

With Veronica Davis, Director Transportation for Houston, Co-Founder, Black Women Bike

Transportation planning has often had destructive consequences for underserved communities. During this webinar, Veronica will explain why centering people in transportation decisions requires a great shift in how transit planners and engineers are trained, how they communicate, the types of data they collect, and how they work as professional teams. She’ll define what “equity” means for a transportation project and how it can create something safer, better, and more useful for all people.

Veronica will conclude with a call to action to transit planners and engineers to reconnect with and help shape communities based on principles of justice and equity.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4AcRVvPXTdyDZJiVRToETg#/registration  

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Making Liveable Communities an Election Issue

Wed. Jan. 8, 7 p.m. ET

A spring Ontario provincial election is likely. Now is the time to make sure the housing crisis and the destructive provincial sprawl policies are top of mind. Join our special Town Hall meeting to find out how we can make liveable communities

an election issue. Opening remarks by David Crombie, former Toronto Mayor and Federal Cabinet Minister. Hosted by Alliance for a Liveable Ontario. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_28eLse0NQOeOAIdsHD2uZQ#/registration

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Common Ground 

Film screening about Industrial Farming Complex & regenerative solutions to heal our precious soil

Fri. Jan. 10, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. ET

58 Cecil St, Toronto (near Spadina and College)

Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system, revealing how unjust practices forged our current farm system. The film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative "regenerative" models of agriculture to balance the climate crisis. Presented by Compost Toronto.

https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/common-ground-film  

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-M4Hq0MKFA

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De-Growth versus Production & Consumption Under Late Capitalism

with Marxist Economist Michael Roberts

Sun. Jan. 12, 2 pm ET

Marxism has an undeserved reputation for urging more and more production of things to overcome poverty in the necessities of life. But is the production of 'more and more' really the answer to scarcity, or should our aim be to produce 'better' rather than 'more'? We need to ask:  to what end should productivity increase, for whom, at what cost, requiring what level of exploitation, and measured by what criteria? And how could the goal of useful production be realized, democratically and equitably, on a world scale -- and before it is too late for nature and humanity? Hosted by Socialist Action.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83789650921?pwd=2BeIxkRPqlNDGmhicK7IVYPoHdbDJI.1

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The Scientists Who Alerted us to the Dangers of Radiation

Canadian book launch and webinar with authors: Dr. Ian Fairlie and Cindy Folkers 

Thur. Jan. 16, noon - 1 p.m. ET

This book reveals that the harmful effects of radiation exposure – especially from the nuclear sector and especially to children – are more pervasive and worse than thought. These have been known for decades but suppressed by politically-motivated censorship and overt disparagement/persecution. Anyone who ever wondered about radiation or its close relative, radioactivity, should read the book and attend this webinar. It’s timely because the feds and several provincial governments are pushing hard for more public exposures to radiation via nuclear power. It explains radiation in easy-to-grasp language which clarifies its dangers and risks. Both authors will present on the webinar.

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XxiHwXW4S_evHMrJSzmVlA

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