Greenspiration News & Events: Climate voting

Mon Jan 27 23:09:27 UTC 2025

INTERNATIONAL

Zero-Carbon Weekly Climate Newsletter

https://mailchi.mp/nationalobserver/hxig87ndfv-6685305 

Trump Departs Paris Accord, Bans New Wind Permits in Day 1 Executive Orders

Round up of all the enviro crimes Rump moved forward with on day 1

https://www.theenergymix.com/breaking-trump-departs-paris-accord-bans-new-wind-permits-in-day-1-executive-orders/ 

California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy

The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours of electricity with renewables alone.

https://grist.org/energy/california-just-debunked-a-big-myth-about-renewable-energy/ 

Heil Tesla

The world’s richest man @elonmusk is promoting the far right. Don’t buy a Tesla

https://x.com/ByDonkeys/status/1882379625554178266 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl_RNDMSA 

Atomic Cover-up 

The most important footage of atomic bombing of Japan was buried by the USA -- for decades. 27 min. 2023 film

https://www.pbs.org/video/atomic-cover-up-xmpc9h/ 

CANADA

NDP MP Angus calls for investigation into Elon Musk over potential election interference

MP says Musk has the power to 'easily impact our electoral integrity'

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/musk-angus-trudeau-poilievre-1.7439975

Indigenous group vows to stop nuclear waste shipments unless new deal struck

https://www.ctvnews.ca/london/article/indigenous-group-vows-to-stop-nuclear-waste-shipments-unless-new-deal-struck/ 

Amazon is quitting Quebec to ‘shock and awe’ workers worldwide

The corporate giant feared a ‘breakthrough’ after Quebec workers unionized and were set to secure the first collective agreement in the world

https://breachmedia.ca/amazon-quitting-quebec-shock-and-awe-workers-worldwide/ 

Demand a strong, loophole-free Emissions Cap on oil and has that protects lives, curbs pollution, and combats climate change

https://cape.ca/action/protect-our-health-from-oil-and-gas-pollution/ 

Turn Debt Into Hope

In June the G7 will meet in Alberta. The interfaith community is inviting people to sign their call to cancel debts, care for creation, and end poverty and inequality. Read more and sign here:

https://www.kairoscanada.org/jubilee-2025-canada/petition-turn-debt-into-hope 

ELECTIONS

Canadians for Climate Action 

A group of Liberal Party supporters have started a campaign called Canadians for Climate Action calling on all Liberal leadership candidates like Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney to commit to strong climate policies. If you’re a party member, or if you’re willing or interested in becoming one, this is an opportunity to make sure climate is a big part of the leadership race. Deadline: Jan. 27.

https://canadiansforclimate.ca/ 

Cooperate for Canada

Canadians urgently need a unified, progressive choice in the next federal election. To make this happen, the progressive parties must adopt a cooperative approach — rather than competing with each other.

https://cooperateforcanada.ca/

Pledge to unite your vote behind a single "Unity Candidate", identified by Not One Seat as best positioned to defeat Ford's PCs in your Toronto riding.

https://www.notoneseat.ca/unitethevote

Unrigged

6 Episodes on TVO

Campaign strategist and community organizer Dave Meslin guides viewers through the quagmire of modern democracy to explore its most pervasive barriers and blind spots. Along the way, he sheds light on simple, creative and tested solutions to help remedy a broken democracy.

https://www.tvo.org/programs/unrigged 

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EVENTS

Fascism - What it is and How to fight it

Mon. Jan. 27, 8:30 p.m.ET

Featuring leading Socialist Action-USA Chicago-based comrade John Pottinger. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87372714280 

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Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a Reflection on Liberation 80 Years Later

Mon. Jan. 27, 1 p.m. ET

January 27th marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, and for this reason the date was chosen for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. But what exactly happened on January 27, 1945? Was liberation the happy ending we think it was? In this webinar Sheryl Ochayon, Project Director at Yad Vashem, will use testimonies, photographs, and other primary sources to tell the story of liberation as it really was, for the survivors and the liberators.

https://info.echoesandreflections.org/ihrd-auschwitz-80-years  

Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.

Exhibit at Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

Till Sept. 1, 2025

https://www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/exhibitions/auschwitz-not-long-ago-not-far-away 

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Climate Change: What Can Be Done? & Opportunities for Large-Scale Action

Tues. Jan. 28, 7 p.m. ET

Our primary focus of this event is to create awareness of the urgent need for action, opportunities for large-scale climate action and how collaboration can help implement this action.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/climate-change-what-can-be-done-opportunities-for-large-scale-action-tickets-1070049188929  

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock

Tues. Jan. 28, 10 a.m. ET

Watch the Clock unveil an announcement. 

https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/

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LA Burning: Capitalism, Climate Change, and Resistance

Tues. Jan. 28, 4 p.m. ET

A combustible combination of capitalist development, climate change, and neoliberal policies transformed normal patterns of wind and fire into an inferno that has laid waste to whole sections of LA. This human made disaster has had devastating impacts particularly on the city’s multiracial working class. Join this Spectre Live event to discuss the roots of the killer fires, collective solidarity amidst it, and what must be done to prevent future climate catastrophes.

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/haymarketbooks/1548173

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What Environmental Nonprofits Need to Know About AI Policy-Making in Canada

Tues. Jan. 28, 1 - 2 p.m. ET

Are you thinking about AI and how it affects your work? Concerned about the impact of AI on climate change? Want to get a handle on how policy making might affect you -- or how you might shape it?Canadian non-profits need to get involved in advocacy relating to artificial intelligence policy. It’s complex and fast-moving. With Katie Gibson.

https://www.sustainabilitynetwork.ca/events/a-conversation-with-katie-gibson 

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Highway 413: Costing the Future

Wed. Jan. 29, 6 - 8 p.m. ET

Join Terra Elysium Foundation for an engaging virtual workshop exploring the proposed Highway 413 and its significant impacts. Together, we’ll analyze its environmental consequences, current policies, address key questions around urban development, and discuss practical solutions for sustainable transportation in Ontario.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/highway-413-costing-the-future-workshop-tickets-1100169359169

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What’s Next for Canada’s Emissions Cap: Delivering for Health and Climate in a Shifting Political Landscape 

Wed. Jan. 29, 7 p.m. ET 

As political dynamics shift and the urgency of the climate crisis intensifies, the pressure is on to secure strong and fair rules to curb oil and gas pollution. CAPE (Canadian Assoc. of Physicians for the Environment) will be joined by experts to talk about the health benefits of a strong cap and lay out the political dynamics for this vitally important climate measure. 

https://act.cape.ca/whats_next_for_canadas_emissions_cap 

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Sue Big Oil 101

Wed. Jan. 29, 9 p.m. ET 

Join us for an overview of the Sue Big Oil campaign and how holding fossil fuel companies accountable for the harm they cause BC communities is one of the most powerful things we can do to fight climate change. Find out how you can make a difference.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HkR61k-wRiC65bGhYsJsiw#/registration

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Nuclear Waste Info Night

Wed. Jan. 29, 5:30 - 8 p.m. ET

8 Cumberland St. Thunderbay

The nuclear industry plans to transport 35,000 loads of radioactive nuclear waste into NW Ontario in the heart of Treaty #3, to bury and abandon it. Come chat with regional activists, learn more.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=579498631584036&id=100085717121496

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Bad River: Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Toronto: Thur. Jan. 30, 6:30 p.m. ET https://harthouse.ca/events/bad-river 

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, U of Toronto

Montreal: Sat. Feb 1, 1 pm, College Ahuntsic http://badrivermontreal.eventbrite.com  

Bad River is a new documentary film which chronicles the Wisconsin-based Bad River Band and its ongoing fight for sovereignty, a story which unfolds in a groundbreaking way through a series of shocking revelations, devastating losses, and a powerful legacy of defiance and resilience which includes a David vs. Goliath battle to save Lake Superior, the largest freshwater resource in America. As Eldred Corbine, a Bad River Tribal Elder declares: “We gotta protect it… die for it, if we have to.”

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Climate Voting Records

Sat. Feb. 1, 6 p.m. ET

Launch of a new website that will tell the public how Toronto's mayor and city councillors are voting on climate issues. The City has a target of reducing emissions by 65% below 1990 levels by 2030 - and we are struggling to even meet the 2025 target of 45% below 1990 levels. The City is writing a new 5 year climate action plan that will come to City Council in June, 2025. We need councillors to know that their constituents want to see meaningful reductions in emissions, and that we want them to vote in favour of the bold new measures we will need the city to take to achieve our goal.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/climate-voting-records-toronto-website-launch-party-information-session-tickets-1130107775779 

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