TO. Greenspiration Events: climate actions and more
angela bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Mon Dec 7 23:44:23 EST 2009
Toronto Greenspiration Events
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The End of the Line
The Passionate Eye
Imagine an ocean without fish or meals without seafood. Sundance Film
Festival favourite investigates the impact our global love affair with
seafood is having on oceans and fish stocks worldwide. Click here our
in-depth web feature.
Monday December 7 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC News Network
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G8/G20 Day of Action Planning Meeting
Tuesday December 8th, 6:30 pm
Ryerson University, 285 Victoria Street, Victoria building 206, between
Gould and Dundas, on the east side of the street.
The G8 and G20 are coming!
On June 25-27th, 2010 the leaders of the eight most powerful countries in
the world (the G8) will be meeting in Huntsville Ontario to make decisions
that will affect all of us. They’ll be discussing how to manage the
economy, and the environment. That same week, they will join with other
leaders in the G20 meetings that appear to be headed for Toronto. They’ll
be having discussions about the forces that affect our lives – jobs,
immigration, security, poverty, health, land, dignity and education.
These leaders do not represent us. Nor do we expect that they make the
decisions that we need for a more just, more sustainable world. We need
something better.
During the summit, we’re calling for actions to confront and to disrupt
the illusion of polite agreements and photo opportunities that do little
to stem the climate crisis and increasing poverty and repression. We’re
calling for our communities to come together in Toronto to express our
visions for the worlds we want.
Contact email: community.mobilize at resist.ca
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Canada's First 9/11 Rendition to Torture
An Evening to mark International Human Rights Day, With Benamar Benatta
Special Guests: Marina Nemat and Nicole Chrolavicius
Wednesday, December 9, 7:15 pm
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street, Toronto (one block south of College
Street, half way between Spadina and St George.)
Free
Benamar Benatta was the subject of Canada's first post-9/11 rendition to
torture when he was illegally handed over to U.S. authorities with the
false, dangerously inflammatory description that he was connected with the
events of the previous day. He spent the next five years detained under
conditions that the United Nations concluded constituted torture.
Marina Nemat is a renowned author whose memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, is a
widely acclaimed account of her years spent, from the age of 16, as a
prisoner arrested on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and
tortured in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.
Nicole Chrolavicius is a human rights lawyer who represents Mr. Benatta.
Presented by Amnesty International, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Stop
Canadian Involvement in Torture, and Toronto Action for Social Change;
Endorsed by The Centre for Integrated Anti-Racism Studies (OISE)
For more information: tasc at web.ca, (416) 651-5800,
www.benamarbenatta.com, www.marinanemat.com
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Food Inc.
Wed. Dec. 9, 7 p.m. (Doors at 6:30)
$10
Revue Cinema - on Roncesvalles
The West End Food Cooperative would like to invite you to a fun and
informative film night at Roncesvalles Revue Cinema!
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone magazine advocates: "Don't take another
bite till you see Food, Inc., an essential, indelible documentary."
Variety magazine states: "Food, Inc. does for the supermarket what 'Jaws'
did for the beach."
The movie will be followed by a discussion about community bonds with
co-op founder John Richmond. WEFC will explain how our co-op is part of
the sustainable solution to an undemocratic food system.
For more info: www.westendfood.coop, or email melissa at westendfood.coop.
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What’s Up With Street Health? And What Does It Mean to You?
- Loss of Staff - workers stressed out, many have left or are on sick leave
- Union Busting - 18 months and still no first contract for workers,
management is trying to break the union
- Loss of Services - Hep C program and ID services if Gaetan is evicted
- Evicting Gaetan - now they want to get rid of Gaetan Heroux – by moving
him to Scarborough
Tell and Listen at this Public Meeting
Wednesday December 9th, 6-8 p.m.
John Innes Community Centre (northwest corner of Queen and Sherbourne
Streets)
Speakers include:
John Andras, Chair, Recession Relief Coalition and Senior Vice President,
Research Capital
Cathy Crowe, Street Nurse, Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
Zoe Dodd, Community Worker, former Street Health Hepatitis C Worker
Kelly O’Sullivan, Labour and Community Organizer, President, CUPE Local 4308
Bob Rose, West End Toronto/Drop In Advocate
Sarah Vance, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
Gaetan Heroux - find out what’s happening to this much-loved worker/activist
Sponsored by Friends of Street Health (an ad hoc coalition of former staff
and other allies who are fighting for a return of
Street Health’s integrity and former reputation as a progressive
organization)
Refreshments Will Be Served
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Bhopal Action at the Amnesty International Write-a-Thon
Thur. Dec. 10
1992 Yonge St. 3rd floor (1 1/2 blocks north of Davisville)
Come on over any time between 11 am and 8 pm. There will be a short talk
on Bhopal at 7pm.
You don't need to be an Amnesty member to do this!
Sponsored by: the Amnesty International Business & Human Rights group with
Students for Bhopal
Information: business at aito.ca
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FUNDRAISING DINNER FOR WAR RESISTERS
Thur. Dec. 10TH, 6:30 PM
At the Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave, near ST. George and Bloor
FOOD! ENTERTAINMENT! FRIENDSHIP!
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY – HONOUR THE RIGHT OF CONSCIENTIOUS
OBJECTION TO WAR
With Vocalist Evalyn Parry
For more info and tickets: peaceworks at primus.ca
$50 or sliding scale donation
Cosponsored by PSAC and CONSCIENCE CANADA
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You are cordially invited to a reception to commemorate: International
Human Rights Day
Canadian Human Rights: At Home and Abroad
Special Speaker: Patrick Case LL.B., LL.M, Director of Human Rights and
Equity, University of Guelph
Thursday, December 10, 2009, 6-8 pm
215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 120 (South of Dundas St. and Spadina Ave.)
Please RSVP: Yumei Lin, yumei at urbanalliance.ca, 416-703-6607 x 5
Or Sabrina Iga, sabrinaiga at narcc.ca, 416-979-3909
This is a Free Event with refreshments sponsored by Labour Community Services
Sponsors: Urban Alliance on Race Relations, The National Anti-Racism
Council of Canada
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- Toronto Socialist Action Public Forum Presents -
Will Copenhagen make a difference?
Friday, December 11 7 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-212
(at the St. George Subway Station)
Everyone is welcome. $3 donation is requested.
World leaders gather for the climate change conference in Denmark, after
ten years of market-based 'solutions' set out in Kyoto have failed
miserably to effect real reductions in carbon emissions. Will it take a
social revolution to make the energy revolution needed to stop our planet
from burning?
speakers:
Judith Deutsch, president of Science for Peace
John Valleau, member, Science for Peace; professor (retired), University
of Toronto.
Q & A, and discussion period will follow the presentation.
For more information, visit the SA web site at:
www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com or call 416-535-8779
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Canada has inaugurated a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The
TRC is tasked with the responsibility of providing a comprehensive history
of the legacy of Indian Residential Schools in Canada, through the stories
of all those who have been affected by the schools.
The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Chairperson of the TRC, will
deliver a lecture entitled:
They Came for the Children
Friday, December 11, 2009 at 5:00 p.m
in the Bennett Lecture Hall, downstairs in the Faculty of Law, at Flavelle
House (78 Queens Park).
The Honourable Frank Iacobucci will introduce Justice Sinclair. Justice
Sinclair's address will be approximately 45 minutes with time for
questions to follow.
If you are not able to attend in person, the University will make the
event available via a webcast
(http://www.law.utoronto.ca/conferences/sinclair.html) starting at 5:00
and the event will be archived on the Faculty website:
http://www.law.utoronto.ca/index.asp
Registration is free, but you must register to attend. To register, send
an email with "TRC" in the subject line to: conferences.law at utoronto.ca
If you are interested in more information about the TRC, their website is:
http://www.trc-cvr.ca/index_e.html
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Annual Holiday Appeal for Class War Prisoners
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Free All Class-War Prisoners!
Come to a Fundraising Event! This is not charity- it’s a duty and an act
of solidarity with those in prison. Their fight is our fight!
Friday, December 11, 7 PM
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St. Toronto ON
$5 for advanced tickets, $8 at the door!
Speeches, music, food and refreshments. Includes a special presentation on
“State Repression and Class-Struggle Defense in Capitalist Canada”.
All proceeds from the Holiday Appeal will go to the Class-War Prisoners
Stipend Fund.
Sponsored by the Partisan Defense Committee
www.partisandefense.org
pdctoronto at bellnet.ca
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Collapse
It's happened to every great civilization
Royal Theatre
Fri. Dec. 11 - 15 - 7 and 9 p.m.
http://www.collapsemovie.com/COLLAPSEMOVIE/
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Climate Justice Hotflash!
Like the Canadian government and its blatant obstruction of negotiation
progress, WE HAVE NO SHAME!
Super Saturday, Dec. 12, will be the peak of a ‘4-day’ weekend of planned
activities around the world (rallies, vigils, protests) and
ECOSANITY SEEKS AS MANY FUN AND FEARLESS, TORONTO-BASED VOLUNTEERS AS ARE
WILLING WHO DON’T MIND ‘FLAUNTING IT’ A LITTLE FOR THE CAMERA AND For
Climate Justice
THE PLAN SO FAR, 11AM - 2PM, Sat. Dec. 12
Video & pics of 3 short performances (hot flashes) at 3 close locations (1
in, 2 out). Males and females don red bras, red bottoms of any kind
(undies, skirts, boxers, shorts, pants, whatever), black sunglasses, and
either red or green Santa hats (tbd) while marching/
dancing/singing/chanting (tbd) with placards and props (CLIMATE EMERGENCY,
CLIMATE ACTION NOW, bandaged Earth globe on a stretcher, more).
Read more: http://ecosanity.org/blogsanity/?p=747
Rsvp: info at ecoSanity.org
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PLANET FIRST - PEOPLE FIRST!
Seal the deal at Copenhagen
INDOOR RALLY
presented by TORONTO CLIMATE CAMPAIGN and STUDENTS AGAINST
CLIMATE CHANGE
Join us for the live feed from Copenhagen, speakers, music, video and more...
Saturday, December 12, 3:00pm
Earth Sciences Auditorium
University of Toronto
33 Willcocks Street
The Copenhagen Climate Talks are the world's last chance to secure an
emissions reductions agreement that will replace the Kyoto Protocol before
it expires. There is a growing consensus among scientists that we have as
little as ten years to stop and reverse the global growth in greenhouse
gas emissions before 'runaway' climate change becomes uncontrollable. That
means the international talks being held in Copenhagen in December 2009
could be our last chance to avert a global catastrophe of unimaginable
proportions—perhaps the most important international meeting ever held. We
feel therefore that there is an overwhelming need to demonstrate a global
will for urgent and effective action at this time.
CALL TO ACTION:
• We demand that world leaders take the urgent and resolute action that is
needed to prevent the catastrophic destabilization of global climate, so
that the entire world can move as rapidly as possible to a stronger
emissions reductions treaty which is both equitable and effective in
minimizing dangerous climate change. In Canada, the Harper government has
failed to act on global warming and has blocked progress at previous
climate meetings. The Canadian Government must take a stand against global
warming at home and abroad.
• We demand that the long-industrialized countries that have emitted most
greenhouse gases currently in the atmosphere take responsibility for
climate change mitigation by immediately reducing their own emissions as
well as investing in a clean energy revolution in the developing world.
• We demand that the government increase support for renewable energy,
energy efficiency and good green jobs.
• Developed countries must take their fair share of the responsibility to
pay for the adaptive measures that have to be taken, especially by
low-emitting countries with limited economic resources. Climate change
will hit the poorest first and hardest. All who have the economic means to
act, must therefore urgently and decisively do so.
• Sign and promote the KYOTOplus petition (www.kyotoplus.ca) and join the
campaign to ensure the Kyoto Protocol is strengthened and extended at the
U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
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Candlelight Vigil
Sponsored by Toronto for Climate Action
Sat. Dec. 12, 7 p.m.
Queen’s Park
During the Copenhagen (COP15) Climate talks, join thousands of
Torontonians & vigils around the world to urge our leader to take BOLD
ACTION against climate change!
As a developed country, Canada is NOT doing its part to reduce GHG
emissions. Canada has become one of the world's top ten producers of
greenhouse gases.
Canadians want a Leader that will bring us to a new Green Economy; a
leader that sets 'ambitious' targets, not 'modest' ones.
LET US ACT AS ONE.
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TTC Fare Hike? Hell NO!
Make Transit Affordable!
Public Action Against the Transit Fare Hikes
Saturday, December 12th, 1pm
Toronto City Hall (Queen and Bay)
Transit is a necessity and it is basic right. Not only should this fare
hike not go through, but transit should be federally funded and affordable
for everyone.
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP)
ocap at tao.ca / 416-925-6939, www.ocap.ca
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Do you want Toronto to have a great transit system?
TTC Riders is a new organization created to give a voice to the interests
and concerns of hundreds of thousands of Torontonians who use public
transit. We seek to ensure that our pubic transit provides good,
dependable service and is accessible and affordable for everyone in our
communities.
Drivers have the Canadian Automobile Association, homeowners have
organizations in many parts of the city, and even cyclists have formed an
effective lobby group. Transit riders also deserve to be well represented
when decisions are being made about fares, service delivery, or transit
priorities.
UNFAIR FARE HIKES!
On November 17th, the Toronto Transit Commission voted for an 11% increase
in fares, tokens, and the Metropass. That means fares and tokens will go
up by 25 cents, and the Metropass by $12 starting in January. Would anyone
at City Hall recommend an 11% increase on property tax in one year? Never!
No other major transit system in North America expects its riders to pay
for over 70% of the system's cost.
We are calling on the TTC, the City and the Provincial Government to
commit to fair funding for the transit system Torontonians need. You can
send a message to the TTC, the Premier, and the Mayor's office right now
-- by clicking here at http://www.ttcriders.ca
Or you can get involved, and join ttcriders.ca as it starts to build an
organization to represent transit riders, advocate for better service, and
work for a greener future for greater Toronto.
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Greenpeace occupies Parliament roofs to shout “Climate inaction costs lives”
On the opening day of pivotal climate change negotiations in Copenhagen,
19 Greenpeace activists have occupied roofs on the Parliament Buildings to
highlight the failure of Prime Minister Harper and Opposition Leader
Ignatieff to help end the growing loss of human lives from the
ever-worsening climate crisis.
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/recent/occupy_parliaments_roofs
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