bike video; psych exhibit; war teach-in; eco films

[angela bischoff]

500 cyclists turned out on Sept. 23 to call for a bike lane on Bloor
dubbed TaketheTooker.
Check out the "Bells on Bloor" video by Tino online:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT3ICAdfh3s>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT3ICAdfh3s

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Viva ! La Velorution !        - Jii  

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Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Touring Exhibit and Documentary
now showing until October 14th, 2007 at 558 Yonge Street
daily, 10 a.m - 10 p.m. Free.

The exhibit features 14 documentaries with statements from scores of
health professionals, academics, legal and human rights experts, and
victims of psychiatric brutalities ranging from electroshock and
involuntary commitment to political torture, psychosurgery and the
devastating effects of psychotropic drugs. Accompanying each documentary
are dozens of displays chronicling mental health barbarity spanning
hundreds of years right up to present day. Included are sections on the
destructive psychiatric influence on our youth, with 17 million children
worldwide taking psychiatric drugs, including prescribed cocaine-like
stimulants, and psychiatry's infiltration of Hollywood and the creative
industries, resulting in a staggering loss of talent in many artistic
fields, including Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland.

The state-of-the-art exhibit documents that psychiatry is an industry
driven entirely by profit, and provides practical guidance for lawmakers,
doctors, human rights advocates and private citizens to take action in
their own sphere to bring psychiatry under the law, and to help protect
themselves and others from the abuses rampant in the mental health field.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights is an international psychiatric
watchdog group co-founded in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Dr.
Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, to investigate and expose
psychiatric violations of human rights.

The Toronto exhibit is sponsored by the Citizen's Commission on Human
Rights Canadian National Chapter. CCHR Canada can be reached at
416-971-8555 or by email at
<mailto:info at cchrcanada.org>info at cchrcanada.org

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Canada in Afghanistan
A city-wide teach-in about war and occupation

Join the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War for a city-wide teach-in to
discuss what's really happening in Afghanistan, and how we can build a
movement to stop the war.

T E A C H - I N
Saturday, October 13
12:00pm to 5:00pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
252 Bloor Street West, Room 4422
(TTC: St. George)

Registration starts at 11:30am.
Cost: $5 to $10 (or pay what you can)

Sessions:
12pm to 1:15pm: Life under occupation - are things getting better?
1:30pm to 2:45pm: What is Canada's role in Afghanistan?
3pm to 4:15pm: What happens if troops leave?
4:30pm to 5pm: How can we build a movement for peace?

Featuring:
* Eyewitness reports by student activists at York University who spent
several months
in Afghanistan this summer
* Extensive video footage of their trip, including interviews with Afghan
students,
workers and anti-occupation activists
* Anti-war resources and reading materials
* Break-away discussion groups

To register, please e-mail your name, e-mail and phone number to:
stopthewar at sympatico.ca

Toronto Coalition to Stop the War

TCSW is Toronto's city-wide anti-war coalition,
comprised of more than fifty labour, faith and community organizations,
and a member of the Canadian Peace Alliance.
www.nowar.ca  stopthewar at sympatico.ca  416-795-5863

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Caravan/Prague Film Screening at the Brunswick Theatre
Sunday, October 21 2007, 5:00pm - 7:00pm

296 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, ON
<file://www.brunswicktheatre.ca>www.brunswicktheatre.ca
Tel: 1-647-282-3627

Event details and youtube trailer:
<http://activistmagazine.com/event=271>http://activistmagazine.com/event=271

A bicycle caravan -- with the theme, "Money or Life" -- travels 500 miles
across Europe to join protests in Prague against the International
Monetary Fund and World Bank. The goal is to create a mobile utopian
community which will be a living counter-example to the values of these
powerful financial institutions. The landscape is beautiful, and bicycles
possess their own poetry. But it's not always easy functioning without
money. The authorities have their own ideas about policing the
intersection of utopia and everyday life. And then there's the matter of
shutting down the IMF/World Bank meeting!

Caravan/Prague, a feature-length documentary, is a first-hand account of
this journey to the historic 2000 Prague protests. Filmmaker Zack
Winestine rode the entire trip with the caravan, filming from his bicycle
as events unfolded. He recounts his hopes, fears, and questions, conveying
the experience of participating in a community trying to bring about
change that is both visionary and concrete.

Zack Winestine has directed short films, documentaries, and music videos.
His first feature film, "States of Control", played at film festivals
worldwide and received both domestic and international distribution. He
has also worked for many years as a Director of Photography on independent
features, music videos (for groups such as the B-52's, ZZ Top, Harry
Connick Jr., and Public Enemy), and documentaries. A formative early
experience was his work as assistant to the Director of Photography on
Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining".

Stills and a trailer for the film can be found at
<file://www.caravanprague.com>www.caravanprague.com.

Chris Davenport
Editor, The ACTivist magazine
editor at activistmagazine.com

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Planet in Focus is Canada’s most acclaimed International Environmental
Film and Video festival. Our annual film fest showcases compelling
documentaries, animation, dramatic features, shorts, and experimental
works that celebrate, question, and establish varied ways of viewing the
state of our world.

The 8th Annual Festival will take place October 24-28, 2007. Check out the
program here: http://www.planetinfocus.org/

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Toronto premiere of Toxic Trespass documentary
Friday, October 26, 7 p.m
Royal Cinema, 608 College St, west of Bathurst St.

Toxic Trespass, a compelling new film on children's health and the
environment, will be shown as part of the Planet in Focus Film Festival.
This documentary is a co-production of If You Love Our Children
Productions and the National Film Board of Canada, with the support of
Women’s Healthy Environments Network (WHEN). It 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. The DVD and a companion resource guide, Taking
Action on Children's Health and the Environment, will be available for
sale from WHEN in the near future.

Tickets $10 ($8 for students/seniors)
<http://www.planetinfocus.org/festival/toxic-tresspass>http://www.planetinfocus.org/festival/toxic-tresspass 
<http://www.womenshealthyenvironments.ca>www.womenshealthyenvironments.ca 


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