TO. Greenspirational Events: Galloway, no nukes, Wobblies
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Mar 29 23:35:02 EDT 2009
Toronto Greenspirational Events
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The Climate Crisis: What People Are Doing in Your Community
Feeling helpless in the face of the climate crisis? Want to make a
difference somehow? Or just want to know more? Come join us for an
evening of information and activity. Find out ways to become involved
and/or offer your ideas on what people can do.
Monday, March 30th, 7:30 – 9:30pm
OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies Education), 252 Bloor St. W. (St.
George subway station), 4th floor, room 414
Toronto West CRAG (Carbon Reduction Action Group) is holding a public
forum to invite discussion and to encourage individual and community
action on climate change.
We will begin with a showing of Al Gore’s NEW film, “New Thinking on
the Climate Crisis.” (25 minutes long) This will be followed by a
moderated group discussion and brief presentations by select
organizations, all making a difference somehow. At the end of the
evening, there will be time for break-out sessions for you to join
with the group of your choice to start taking action.
Who will be there:
Toronto West CRAG (Carbon Reduction Action Group), Green Neighbours
21, Green Together, KAIROS, LEAF (Local Enhancement and Appreciation
of Forest), Live Green (City of Toronto), Local Food Plus ... and you!
Contact Information: torontowestcrag at gmail.com
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Resisting War: From Gaza to Kandahar
A Public Lecture With George Galloway - banned from Canada!
Promote the Defend Free Speech website: www.defendfreespeech.ca.
This site is the clearinghouse for all update about the campaign and
includes documents from the legal challenge, breaking news, ticket
information, and action items.
Monday, March 30, 7 PM
Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen Street East
$15 Adult/ $10 Students, Youth & Seniors
Tickets available at Canadian Peace Alliance, Toronto Women's
Bookstore, and at Ryerson Students Union
British MP George Galloway recently led a massive aid caravan to
Gaza, following Israel's 22-day war. Starting in London, England, the
caravan drove over 10,000 km through eight countries in Europe and
North Africa, before passing through the Rafah border crossing in
Egypt on March 10, 2009. The caravan stretched more than two
kilometers and was comprised of over 300 volunteers in 100 vehicles
including five ambulances, a fire truck and a boat. Over $1.1 million
in aid was delivered to the people of Gaza. While Galloway has been
banned by the Harper gov't, the show will go on!
More info: www.acp-cpa.ca/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22274.htm
http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/british-mp-barred/#clip153185
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpbbKCWGfPg
On March 19, Canada’s Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason
Kenney banned British MP George Galloway from entering Canada.
Galloway is scheduled to speak in four cities during a pan-Canadian
speaking tour from March 30 to April 2.
Go to http://www.defendfreespeech.ca/home.htm for information about
what you can do.
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STUDIES IN PROPAGANDA- Lecture Series
THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO – SPRING 2009
Sydney White, Investigative Journalist – Monday’s from 6pm to 8pm at
U of T
100 St. George Street, Room 2118, 2nd Floor, Sidney Smith Building
(west side just south of Harbord Street)
For more info, contact Sydney White 416-787-0592
Upcoming lectures::
March 23, 2009: Citizen Lab Rat: Contaminated food, chem trails,
vaccines, HAARP and EMF’s. “Staying’ Alive” on a chemical planet.
Mar. 30th: Bail outs and bonuses for the bankers – debts for the
people: an analysis.
Apr. 6th Beyond Reason to Belief: Myths vs astronomy, archaeology
and ancient history.
Apr. 13th: Easter Monday – No Lecture
Apr. 20th: Mind Control: from corporate “education, media, and psych
drugs up to trauma-based”.
Apr. 27th: Surveillance and the police state: The North American
union and the privatization of public infrastructure.
May 4th: War and urban renewal, from Hiroshima and Dresden to
Baghdad; general butler was right: “War is a Racket”
May 11th Saving the planet with environmental economics; stopping BIG
OIL from buying up their opposition.
May 18th Victoria Day – No Lecture
May 25th: Bio-Ethics and depopulation: The attack on natural
medicine by BIG PHARMA; “no intervention” rules by the “experts”
June 1st: The intimidation of dissent and the law of forfeiture.
Methods of censorship and the dangers of journalism.
June 8th: A history of terrorism, a strategy, not an enemy. The
Orwellian world of corporate government.
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We choose renewable energy, not nuclear!
We’ve got 2 months to encourage Energy Minister Smitherman’s
constituents to tell him to choose a 100% renewable energy path
rather than more expensive and risky nuclear reactors.
Can you help get the message out? There are several ways you can plug
into this urgent campaign:
- The Ontario Clean Air Alliance is hosting a volunteer orientation on:
Tues. Mar. 31st, 6 - 7:30 p.m. at 519 Church St. Community Centre.
Come learn more about the issue and how you can participate. We’re
doing door canvassing, leaflet blitzes, forums, theatre, and more -
and we need you!
- Please sign the online petition for a Nuclear Cost Responsibility
Act: http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/petition.php
- Send a brief letter to Energy Minister Smitherman:
gsmitherman.mpp at liberal.ola.org
Thanks for your help and support…
- angela at cleanairalliance.org
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Hope to see you at our next Council of Canadians meeting!
Tues. March 31st, 7:00 PM
City Hall, 100 Queen St. West (at Bay St)
2nd floor, Community Room #3
The meeting will provide an overview of various campaigns and
specific initiatives the Council will be involved in over the coming
months.
Could you please let me now if you will be able to attend.
Russ Townshend <torontochapter at gmail.com>
Council of Canadians -- Toronto Chapter
210 - 116 Spadina Avenue
Ph: (416) 979.5554 | 1.800.208.7156
Fax:(416) 979.8972
Visit www.canadians.org for the latest news and action alerts.
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"Get there while you can."
Three Wobblies for the first time in three decades!
This triple-header radical concert is going to send the Neo-Cons
scuttling back to the Bow River so fast their britches are gonna be
smokin'.
Friday April 3. From 8 pm - midnight. Doors open at 7 pm.
at the Steelworker's Hall (25 Cecil ST. in Toronto)
Tickets $20 sliding scale to $10.
LCBO. Additional surprise guest artists will play accompaniment.
If a liberal walks by the Steelworker's Hall on April 3rd, 2009 their
tiny shriveled little nuclear heart is gonna suffer an instant
thrombosis.
If a Knee-Dipper stumbles into this Wobbly den by mistake they're
gonna have a flashback to their mis-spent youth and go running naked
down Spadina Avenue searching for Emma Goldman's last hide-out.
But if some gen-you-wine non-sectarian radicals show up then they're
gonna have a foot-stomping, shit-kickin', beer-swillin', good time.
Featuring:
Anne Feeney, IWW singer from the U.S.
Utah Phillips called her the "best labour singer in North America."
Dr. Joey Only, IWW from Vancouver.
The best young punk-folk-country-outrageous Wobbly out there. He
recently drove across Canada and planted hundreds of white crosses on
the lawns of the riding offices of the major Conservative MPs to
represent the number of folks whose lives were saved by the Safe
Injection Site in Vancouver. (The Conservatives were trying to close
the place.) He planted those 850 crosses on the front walk of
Parliament and then sang his songs.
And Smokey Dymny from Toronto and points west. He's played picket
lines, anti-poverty events, environmental and peace rallies from
Newfoundland to Vancouver Island for 30 years now. He was arrested
after some of those shows. (He sings better, now) Seriously folks, he
was just trying to arrest Brian Mulroney. 3 times. Has at least 100
original songs.
This is the only gig in North America with three Wobblies playing at
once!
We will have unannounced local back-up musicians dropping out of
their other gigs early that night just to play along with us.
Questions? Contact: Smokey Dymny 416-534-2066 <smokeydymny at rogers.com>
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Canada and NATO out of Afghanistan!
Worldwide demonstrations during the NATO Summit
Demonstrate on April 4, 2009
TORONTO RALLY & MARCH
Saturday, April 4 at 1:00pm
Yonge-Dundas Square
TTC: Dundas
Organized by the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will mark its 60th
anniversary on April 4 and 5, 2009. At the same time, demonstrations
will take place all over the world calling for an end to NATO's war
in Afghanistan. The Canadian Peace Alliance and the Collectif Échec à
la guerre are calling for pan-Canadian demonstrations on April 4 to
demand an end to the NATO-led occupation that has already killed
thousands of Afghan civilians and threatens to bring war to the
entire region.
After more than seven years of occupation, there is still no end in
sight to the killing in Afghanistan. Following the advice of US
General David Petraeus, the new Obama administration has agreed to an
Iraq-style "surge" in Afghanistan. The plan is to send an additional
30,000 US troops. The US also wants to buy the support of Afghan
militias by arming and paying them to fight on the side of the NATO
occupation forces. There is widespread fear that such a move will
increase tensions between ethnic groups and further destabilize the
country.
In addition, the war in Afghanistan has already expanded into
Pakistan, with an increase in US-led strikes in the border areas. The
spread of war threatens to create massive social and political
instability in a nuclear-armed nation.
NATO is a relic of the Cold War. It has tried to reinvent itself in
the years since, and has now become a military alliance that
aggressively pursues the interests of its member countries,
principally the United States, in areas far beyond the North
Atlantic. In doing so, NATO is creating and stoking conflict. The
proposed expansion of NATO membership to the Ukraine and Georgia, and
NATO support for a "Missile Defense" plan in Eastern Europe, are
fuelling a new arms race‹and increasing the danger that Canada will
be involved in other NATO conflicts.
Even more worrying, NATO maintains its policy of pre-emptive first-
strike using nuclear weapons, a policy that encourages nuclear
proliferation, and heightens the prospect of nuclear war.
NATO members account for at least 75 per cent of global military
expenditures, allocating $1 trillion a year to military spending. In
Canada, both Liberal and Conservative governments have invoked "our
NATO commitment" in Afghanistan as justification for skyrocketing
military expenses, now earmarked at $490 billion over the next 20
years. Canada‹like other NATO members including the United Kingdom,
Germany, France, and Italy‹continues to support NATO's war in
Afghanistan against the people's will. On March 13, 2008‹just three
weeks before a NATO Summit‹Parliament voted to extend Canada's
mission in Afghanistan to July 2011. Polls showed that 58 per cent of
Canadians opposed the extension.
Real security and prosperity will only be possible in Afghanistan
when Western governments end their support for NATO's war. NATO
members must be accountable to their own populations, and not to NATO
generals.
Join us on April 4 to demand the withdrawal of Canadian troops from
Afghanistan, and an end to NATO's war.
Canadian Peace Alliance: http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/April42009.html
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The Toronto Coalition to Stop the War is Toronto's city-wide anti-war
coalition, comprised of more than 70 labour, faith and community
organizations, and a member of the Canadian Peace Alliance.
www.nowar.ca stopthewar at sympatico.ca 416-795-5863
Please donate! Send a cheque or money order payable to TCSW Canada to:
TCSW, 427 Bloor St W, Box 13, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1X7
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