TO events: fims, peace, carbon trading, cameras, action

[angela bischoff]

Greens Screens is back with a screening of:
Crapshoots – The Gamble With Our Wastes

Mon. January 21 at 7 pm. Filmed in Italy, India, Sweden, the United States
and Canada, Jeff McKay’s bold documentary questions whether the sewer is
actually compounding our waste problems. While scientists warn of links
between sewage practices and potential health risks, activists, engineers
and concerned citizens challenge our fundamental attitudes to waste. Does
our need to dispose of waste take precedence over public safety? What are
the alternatives?

Join us for this FREE screening followed by a panel discussion coordinated
by the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy.

NFB MEDIATHEQUE
150 JOHN ST (AT RICHMOND ST W, OSGOODE SUBWAY STATION)
TORONTO ON
416-973-3012
<http://www.nfb.ca/mediatheque>www.nfb.ca/mediatheque

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MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY FORUM. PEACEBUILDING: ALTERNATIVES TO WAR

January 21, 2008, 7:00 PM
Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave., 1 bl. n. of St. George Stn. (at Bedford).

Speakers:    Joel Klassen, Christian Peacemaker Teams
Cathy Crowe, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, Housing Not War
Lyn Adamson, Nonviolent Peaceforce,
Lyn Adamson and Rob Acheson, Canadian Department of Peace Initiative,
Bruna Nota, Conscience Canada
Naba Hamid, Voice of Women

Host:             Quaker Peace and Social Action Committee (Free/donation)

Information: 416.596.7328

Websites:    
<https://email.fh-krems.ac.at/owa/redir.aspx?URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.cpt.org%2f>www.cpt.org;
<https://email.fh-krems.ac.at/owa/redir.aspx?URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.tdrc.net%2f>www.tdrc.net;
<https://email.fh-krems.ac.at/owa/redir.aspx?URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.npcanada.org%2f>www.NPCanada.org;
<https://email.fh-krems.ac.at/owa/redir.aspx?URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.departmentofpeace.ca%2f>www.departmentofpeace.ca;
<https://email.fh-krems.ac.at/owa/redir.aspx?URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.consciencecanada.org%2f>www.consciencecanada.org;
www.voiceofwomen.org

Joel Klassen will present the work of Christian Peacemaker Teams. He just
returned from 3 years in Colombia and is working on aboriginal justice
issues here in Canada. Lyn Adamson will present examples of nonviolent
peacebuilding in conflict zones, and describe training programs for peace
teams.  She will also speak with Rob Acheson on the initiative in Canada
to start a department of peace.  Naba Hamid, an Iraqi woman speaking for
Voice of Women for Peace, will speak on peacebuilding possibilities for
Iraq. These talks will be illustrated with slides. Cathy Crowe will speak
about the TDRC‚s „Housing not War‰ campaign.  And we will view Conscience
Canada‚s newly released DVD.

Please visit TDRC;s website to sign up in support of the Housing Not War
campaign

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Carbon Trading or Carbon Cheating?
In a rare visit to Toronto by Larry Lohmann, co-founding member of the
Durban Group for climate justice, the Indigenous Environment Network, the
Environmental Justice Organizing Initiative and OPIRG present a debate on
carbon trading and carbon offsets.

Tues. January 22, 2008
7:00 pm
Koffler Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto
569 Spadina Ave, just north of College on the northeast quadrant of the
circle
INFO: Corvin Russell, 416.788.7216; website:
<http://www.bettermail.ca/bm/www.ienearth.org>www.ienearth.org

Carbon trading was the regime forced on the rest of the world by the
Clinton administration and its chief climate negotiator, Al Gore, as the
price for US participation in the Kyoto Protocol -- US participation that
never happened. Recently, the Financial Times and other mainstream media
outlets have documented how widespread and pervasive gaming of the carbon
trading system is. Campaigners from the Durban Group and other groups
based in the global south and Indigenous communities have shown how this
market-based "solution" inflicts a heavy cost in human rights, health, and
well-being on Indigenous people and the global poor.

Can carbon trading and offsets work? Are there such things as good carbon
offsets? What are the alternatives?  Join us for a lively debate between
Larry Lohmann and How-Sen Chong.

Larry Lohmann: The editor of Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on
Climate Change, Privatisation and Power, an exhaustively-documented new
book critiquing "carbon trading". Mr. Lohmann, a founding member of the
Durban Group, will share experiences of the failures of carbon trading in
Europe, India, Brazil, Uganda and elsewhere.

How-Sen Chong: Founder of CarbonZero Offsets, one of Canada's leading
offset firms, which is widely used by ENGOs, businesses, and political
parties to offset their carbon emissions. CarbonZero exclusively funds new
renewable energy programs within Canada and does not use tree offsets or
any offsets involving land under land claims.

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CAMERAS IN PUBLIC SPACES  ~  Campaign Meeting:
Wednesday, January 23rd

The number of police closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras
on Toronto's streets continues to multiply, notwithstanding that
the police insist this is just a "pilot project," and notwithstanding
that they don't work to promote safer communities.  There has
been neither meaningful public consultation nor fiscal accoun-
tability; the cameras that were put up on Yonge Street "temporarily"
for Caribana have still not come down!  Further cameras were just
installed in the east side of the downtown, and the TTC is adding
cameras all over its property, including on all vehicles.  The Toronto
Public Space Committee strongly objects to this reactionary, knee-
jerk (not to mention undemocratic) approach to policing that invades
privacy, costs millions of dollars, and does not work!

We will be holding a Cameras in Public Spaces campaign meeting
in January to plan our next steps.

Wednesday, January 23, 6:30 p.m.
Metro Hall (King & John, nearest subway is St. Andrew)
Room 309

For more information or to join the Cameras mailing list, send an e-mail
to stephen at publicspace.ca.

http://www.publicspace.ca/cameras/

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A Little Bit of So Much Truth (Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad)
Film followed by Q&A with award-winning documentary filmmaker Jill Freidberg
Thursday, January 31, 2008
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm 
The Koffler Institute, Room 108
569 Spadina Ave.
INFO:<http://www.bettermail.ca/ct/319/44462/1943057/369334077d598096d12f228313257def>http://www.corrugate.org/corrugate/corrugated_films

When the people of Oaxaca decided they'd had enough of bad government,
they didn't take their story to the media...they TOOK the media.

In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising
exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. It started off as a
teachers' strike but it led to a lot more. And what made history was the
people's use of the media.

A 90-minute documentary, "A Little Bit of So Much Truth" captures the
unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of
schoolteachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers,
farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their
own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their
grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.

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Private Despair to Public Action!

What will it take for this culture to stop killing the planet? What would
happen if we listened to such feelings of despair? What is that different
strategy?

Derrick Jensen in Toronto
Friday, Feb. 1, 7 p.m.
Church of the Holy Trinity
(just west of Eaton Centre)
Admission $10 or pay what you can

Activist, small farmer, philosopher and teacher Derrick Jensen is the
author of Endgame, a Language Older than Words and The Culture of Make
Believe. He packs auditoriums and conferences.
Read an article by him called Beyond Hope
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/170/

Sponsored by:
Environmental Justice Organizing Initiative
Phoenix Community Works Foundation
Sustainability Network
For more info: DP2PAToronto at gmail.com

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Nominations for the Green Toronto Awards are now open! Exciting
developments for the Awards in 2008, as the ceremony will be held on
Friday, April 25 in conjunction with the Green Living Show. To make it the
best awards ever, we need oodles of nominations, so if there’s anyone who
deserves credit (and $5,000) for their efforts in making Toronto a greener
place to live, nominate them today.

www.toronto.ca/greentorontoawards




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