TO. Greenspiration Events
Bischoff Angela
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Sep 27 23:41:19 EDT 2009
TO. Greenspiration Events
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Join us for a Press Conference to be held at Queen’s Park with message:
Respect the Treaties, Respect the Earth!
Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation will be arriving in Toronto on
Monday, after walking the 1800km from Grassy Narrows traditional
territory. They have joined up with members of other communities
including Beuasoliel First Nation. Communities across Ontario are
being ignored and their Treaty Rights disrespected by the Ontario
government. Joined by a network of concerned citizen’s calling on
Premier McGuinty to respect and uphold the Treaties. The walk is on
its way to Ottawa to deliver Treaty 3 to Parliament.
WHO: Grassy Narrows First Nation Youth and Walkers
WHERE: Queen’s Park
WHEN: Monday, September 28, 2009, 10am till 12pm
For more information: Chrissy Swain 519-732-4135
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History of Globalization (in minutes)
Monday, September 28, 2009
9:15am – 4:15pm
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street (Spadina/College), Toronto
Registration fee: $40 includes lunch
Unwaged/Low-waged: Pay what you can.
Join us for HOG, a popular education activity about the history and
effects of neoliberal globalization. HOG is a companion activity to
the ever-popular WHORM – World History of Racism in
Minutes. Played by 40 to 100 participants on a large map of the
world, participants are divided into regional groups and prepare
scenarios showing what is happening in their parts of the world
at different times, from 1490 to today.
Register today!
Call (416) 537-6532 x. 2204 or email alarsen at laboureducation.org
For more information and other upcoming courses, visit
www.laboureducation.org
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Planned pandemics and new vaccines: Is this a created crisis?
The reluctant guinea pigs and how to opt out.
with Sydney White, Investigative Journalist
Monday September 28th, 6 - 8 p.m.
University of Toronto, St. George Campus, Sandford Fleming Building,
Room 1101
STUDIES IN PROPAGANDA
FREE Lecture Series
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO – FALL 2009
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Recession Relief Coalition presents:
Soup Line Rally
Free meal for all
Wed. Sept. 30, noon
outside Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's office at 150 King St W (just
East of University Ave.)
The unemployed and impoverished have been hit hard by the recession.
We need to stand up and fight hard for jobs, social assistance, lower
student tuition, social services, E.I. and housing. Demand
significant action to alleviate the human suffering that this
recession is causing.
There will be a FREE LUNCH and SPEAKERS from The Recession Relief
Coalition, Good Jobs for All, The Canadian Federation of Students,
The Colour of Poverty and The Homeless Response Alliance.
http://www.recession-relief-coalition.org/
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Making Municipal Voting Matter
Thursday, October 1, 9 am to Noon
89 Chestnut Street, Toronto, Ontario MAP
RSVP for this event: http://www.facebook.com/l/2617e;tinyurl.com/lgcywd
Elections in Toronto are not meeting our expectations. Voter turn-out
is surprisingly low. New faces on City Council are uncommon. And
perhaps most importantly, our City Council does not reflect the
evolving demographic of Toronto’s population. What are options for
renewal?
Join other community organizations and individuals in a discussion
about the changes we need to make municipal elections matter in Toronto.
RSVP for this event: http://www.facebook.com/l/2617e;tinyurl.com/lgcywd
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CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF NONVIOLENCE AND GANDHI’S BIRTHDAY
Join us for the launch of
PEACEWORKS
Thur. Oct. 1st – 6:30 pm
Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave., Toronto
Special Guests: Murray Thomson of Ottawa
And Eve Goldberg, musician
Presentation: Gandhi’s last message
Dinner: delicious Indian meal
Donation: $50/$20 or pwyc
RSVP: peaceworks at primus.ca, or 416-596-7328 by Sept 28th
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M.U.C.K Film Festival
Movies of Uncommon Knowledge
Oct. 1 - 4
at the Royal Theatre on College
Activist movies about issues that touch all of our diverse lives.
The selected movies all share a common perspective—a cinematic
counter-culture that presents us with a choice between a comfortable
ignorance or a increasingly painful reality, challenging us to “muck
up” our beliefs about our everyday world, rekindling the potential
for social change, fostering meaningful dialog within our own
community that radiates out to the broader world.
http://www.muckfilmfestival.com/
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Kick-off of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence
Shine a light for peace and nonviolence! Help us celebrate the
International Day of Nonviolence (October 2nd, Gandhi's birthday) and
the kick-off of the World March for Peace and Nonviolence. Bring a
cellphone, flashlight or bike light and help us form a human symbol
of nonviolence. With performances by Autorickshaw, the Panwar Indian
Choir, drummers and speakers on peace and nonviolence.
Join us in calling for an end to nuclear weapons, wars, all forms of
violence, planting the seed of a new, nonviolent consciousness.
Friday October 2nd, 6 pm to 8:30 pm
Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto City Hall (100 Queen St. West)
Free -- everyone is welcome!
Organized by World March Canada and World Without Wars. The World
March for Peace and Nonviolence is a global trek that will take a
Base Team of travelers from Wellington, New Zealand on October 2nd,
2009, to Punta de Vacas, Argentina, on January 2nd, 2010. Along the
way hundreds of thousands of people will join the marchers and
organize thousands of events. The stated aims of the March include
the abolition of nuclear weapons, withdrawal of invading troops from
occupied territories worldwide, and the renunciation by governments
of the use of war as a means to resolve conflict.
Info: info at worldmarch.ca / www.worldmarch.ca / www.theworldmarch.org
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Solidarity. Resistance. Change.
Organizing Working Class Communities.
Public forum featuring: Steve Williams
Co-Director of the California based group "People Organized to win
Employment Rights" http://www.peopleorganized.org and co-authour of
the book "Towards Land, Work and Power"
7pm, Friday October 2, 2009
Ryerson Student Centre
55 Gould Street
Room 115
Directions: http://www.oakhamhouse.com/pages/directions.php
Co-sponsored by Socialist Project and Centre for Social Justice.
Endorsed by Black Action Defence Committee (BADC), No One Is Illegal
(NOII) and Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) |
Click here for PDF poster for event http://www.socialistproject.ca/
events/e826.pdf
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Building the Future We Want: Finding Opportunity in Adversity
Friday, October 2, 2009
9:00 am to 4:00 pm
New College, University of Toronto
$50.00 (includes lunch and refreshments)
The Symposium will bring together a broad range of individuals and
organizations to explore the ways in which the current economic and
social crisis may provide opportunities to rethink how government,
the non-profit sector and business can renew our social safety net
for the 21st century.
Panels:
Ending Poverty
Social Infrastructure
Good Jobs
Social Security and Economic Stabilizers
Register online at www.socialplanningtoronto.org/symposium .
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- Toronto Socialist Action Presents -
Rebel Films
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-212
at the St. George Subway Station. Everyone welcome. $4 donation
requested.
Friday, October 2 - 7 p.m. Che – part 1 134 minutes, 2009. This
widely acclaimed film by Steven Soderbergh, shows how Ernesto 'Che'
Guevara (Benicio Del Toro) and a force of Cuban exiles led by Fidel
Castro mobilize an army and, together with other social movements,
overthrow the regime of U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and
launch the first socialist revolution in the Americas. Following the
screening there will be a commentary by Jorge Soberon, Cuban Consul
General in Toronto.
Each of the films in this series will be preceded by a brief
introduction, and will be followed by a commentary, and an open floor
discussion period.
Please visit the SA web site for a complete listing of the Friday
night series:
www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com
or call 416 - 535-8779.
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CLIMATE ACTION CAMP
Training Activists to Stop Climate Change
Politicians talk about climate change, but do nothing. Tired of all
the hot air? Now you can do something!
Register for a Greenpeace Climate Action Camp and learn how peaceful
civil disobedience can make Canada a climate leader.
Toronto: October 2-4
To register online and for more information:
www.greenpeace.ca/en/action-camp
For more information, contact:
Angela Woodcock
angela.woodcock at greenpeace.org
t: 416-597-8408 X 3048 or 416 824 4183
At the Climate Action Camps, experienced trainers will give workshops
on climate change, peaceful civil disobedience, environmental
justice, art and activism, action planning, and getting the message
out to the media.
Suggested donation for the weekend is $20 - $50 (including meals) but
no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
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The Age of Stupid
Sat. October 3: Public premiere at the M.U.C.K. Film Festival
(www.muckfilmfestival.com)
at the Royal Cinema on College Street.
The Age of Stupid is a documentary-drama-animation hybrid from
Director Fanny Armstrong and Producer John Battseck starring Pete
Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055.
As he watches “archive” footage from 2008, he asks “Why didn’t we
stop climate change when we had the chance?”
“Anything but a good-guys-versus-the-bad guys polemic. It is angry,
but nuanced, despairing but strangely motivating.” ~~ New Statesman
For a trailer, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZjsJdokC0s
KAIROS is a co-sponsor of the Canadian screening of this film.
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Nuit Blanche on 2 wheels
"From Dusk 'til Dawn - Cycling through Creativity at Toronto's
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche"
Sat. October 3, 2009 6:55 pm to sunrise
For one sleepless night experience the city transformed by close to
500 artists for Toronto's fourth annual sunset to sunrise celebration
of contemporary art. Discover art in galleries, museums and
unexpected places. From churches and grocery stores to chimney stacks
and bus stations, choose from 130 projects and chart your own path.
We will do our best to hit up every installation, stopping for
beverages along the way!
Please have a helmet, your reflectors and whistles/bells ready.
Contact jules at pixeldreams.com for more information!
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PUBLIC FORUM ON HOUSING
Presented by The Older Women’s Network (OWN) and
The Centre for Women’s Studies in Education at OISE, University of
Toronto
SHOVEL READY IS NOT THE WHOLE STORY:
Options and Priorities for Affordable Housing in the GTA
Sunday, October 4, 1:30 to 5 pm
OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor Street West (St. George Subway)
Panel Members: Heather McGregor, Chief Executive Officer, YWCA Toronto
Angela Robertson, Executive Director, Sistering - A Woman’s Place
Michael Shapcott, Director, Affordable Housing & Social Innovation,
Wellesley Institute
The Older Women’s Network (OWN) “A Voice for Mid-Life and Older
Women” is a “not for profit” organization incorporated in 1988. In
1997 OWN was instrumental in building a 142 unit Housing Co-op in the
St. Lawrence Market area of Toronto. http://www.olderwomensnetwork.org
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Simply People: Celebrating Our Lives & Identities
Annual disability pride celebration in Toronto
Mon. October 5th, 4 - 7 p.m. - rain or shine
Nathan Phillips Square, Queen St. and Bay
Free
On stage, performers will include: Comedian Andre Arruda, Limitless
Productions (inclusive dance performance), Country Music Singer
Christina Doyle, Humorist Libby Thaw, Rapper Romeo, Writer Carol Krause,
etc. There will be various display tables by organizations/groups and
an experiential learning workshop.
This event is brought to you by Canada-Wide Accessibility for Post-
Secondary Students (CANWAPSS) and friends of CANWAPSS, including
LinkUp Employment Services, Abilities Arts Festival, VoicePrint, Easter
Seals Canada (Access 2 Entertainment) and diversityworX.
ASL interpretation, attendant care and transcription services will be
available onsite.
For more information about this event, please e-mail the organizers at
info at disabilitypride.ca or visit www.disabilitypride.ca
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Bicycle Helmet Legislation and Licensing Referred to TO. City Staff
After hours of debate at the Public Works and Infrastructure
Committee on Sep 14th, councillors opted to refer both the helmets
and licensing motions to staff for further study. More information
here. Read TCAT's deputation here.
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