T.O. Greenspiration Events: Sisters in Spirit

[Angela Bischoff]

Toronto Greenspiration Events
- Pass this onto a friend! - angela
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Toronto Palestine Film Festival 2010
    
till Fri. Oct 8

We’re excited to announce that the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF) will be returning for its third year from October 2-8, 2010.

TPFF is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing vibrant Palestinian cinema to GTA audiences. Our mandate is to promote the richness of Palestinian Arab culture through cinema, music, and other forms of visual arts. TPFF was conceived in 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakb...a. 

For general inquiries about TPFF please visit www.tpff.ca or email us at info at tpff.ca.
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Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie

Playing at the Cumberland Four - Alliance Cinemas starting October 1st.

At 75 years old, David Suzuki shows no signs of slowing down. In this captivating documentary portrait, the passionate environmentalist's legacy lecture is entwined with candid interviews in which he reflects on his life and shares deeply personal stories, revealing a side previously unseen.
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Cooking from Scratch 2: Soups and Stews from Legumes and What's in your Fridge
Monday October 4, 6 to 8pm
Anarres Natural Health, College and Ossington

VEGAN!!! (Meat and dairy lovers can add their own at home!)
REGISTER: http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/874


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Sisters in Spirit - Walk for Justice
Organized by the Sisters and Brothers in Solidarity Coalition
 
Monday, October 4
Start: 5:00 pm at Queen’s Park (College Street and University Avenue)
End with candle light vigil: 7 - 9 pm at Allan Gardens (Gerrard Street and Jarvis Street)
 
Please bring a drum and a strip of white cloth for our walk.
  
On October 4, 2010, Sisters and Brothers in Solidarity is asking all Canadians to come together to honour our over *500 missing and murdered Indigenous women onTurtle Island (*We recognize that the number of missing and murdered Indigenous women is probably much higher). First Nations communities across Canada have been carrying the burden of this sadness for generations as they have walked this trail of grief. They are stepping out of the shadows and coming forward to tell the truth.
 
At the Walk for Justice, we will address the crisis and provide meaningful background information into the causes and solutions. For we have had enough and demand that Canadian society act with both compassion and justice – and include both men and women – to stop the violence.

Contact: Lisa Currier (Sisters and Brothers in Solidarity), 647-230-9850   l.currier at hotmail.com
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Studies in Propaganda presents:
Patriot Acts I & II and the Law of Forfeiture in the US are domestic threats.  
Here, it is "The Civil Remedies Act".
Monday, October 4, 6-8 pm
University of Toronto, St. George Campus - 80 St.George Street, LECTURE HALL 159  (College/St. George)
Free

For more info call 416-787-0592... Sydney White, Investigative Journalist, 

THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 
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STOPPING ROB FORD and the attack on public services 

Tues. Oct. 5,  7 - 8:30 pm
Bahen Centre, U of T, room 2175, 40 St George Street

Mayoral candidate Rob Ford threatens to impose a privatization agenda that would make ordinary people pay for the recession. Join a discussion on why he is leading in the polls and what we can do about it.

Speakers: 
David Kidd, CUPE activist
Carolyn Egan, International Socialists

Organized by the International Socialists  www.socialist.ca  416-972-6391
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A Vigil: For the lives lost due to homophobic bullying 

Wed. Oct. 6, 8 - 10 pm
corner of Church & Wellesley

We have lost so much in the recent weeks. Let us come together to honour these young lives and the lives and stories we never hear about, to take strength from the company of each other and to bring awareness to this serious issue of homophobic/transphobic bullying in the school system and beyond.

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Green Screens presents:

CRAPSHOOT: THE GAMBLE WITH OUR WASTES

Directed by Jeff McKay, 2003, 52 min.

Wednesday, October 6th at 7 PM 
At the National Film Board, 150 John St. 
Free

A hazardous mix of waste is flushed into the sewer every day. The billions of litres of water - combined with unknown quantities of chemicals, solvents, heavy metals, human waste and food - where does it all go? And what does it do to us?

Filmed in Italy, India, Sweden, the United States and Canada, this 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?

Following the screening there will be a discussion with Maureen Reilly.  Maureen, who is featured in the film, is a public advocate and the administrator of Sludge Watch – a listserve and advocacy service for communities struggling with contamination from wastewater, sludge and other industrial residuals.

Green Screens partners films from the NFB with experts and panellists selected by the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy.

NFB MEDIATHEQUE | 416-973-3012 | NFB.ca/mediatheque

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Spacing fall 2010 release party!

Wednesday, October 6 at 7:00pm
The Courthouse, 57 Adelaide St. E.

Come celebrate the release of the fall 2010 issue. Spacing's release parties are a great way to get together with only urbanists who care deeply about the future of Toronto's public spaces. 
COST: $10 for non-subscribers (includes new issue), $5 for subscribers (just tell us your name at the door)

Also, there will be a BIXI bike station located outside the Courthouse for anyone who wants to try out a bike or sign-up for a yearly membership. 
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=158876630806278 
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Pants-optional launch party

Join us to launch dandyhorse #5. - Toronto's Cycling Magazine

Thursday, October 7 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Parts and Labour (in The Shop), 1566 Queen Street West
Featuring music by DJ Triple-X and bike friendly door prizes
$6
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103605123034965 
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Film: Six Miles Deep
Canada 2009, 43 minutes
 
Fundraiser for Defenders of the Land
 
Thursday, October 07, 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St., Toronto
PWYC
 
On February 28, 2006, members of the Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the Haudenosaunee or People of the Longhouse) blockade a highway nearCaledonia, Ontario to prevent a housing development on land that falls within their traditional territories. 

The ensuing confrontation made national headlines for months. But less well known is the crucial role played by the clan mothers of the community – the traditional source of power in the Haudenosaunee Nation. With grace and honour, they rally the community on the Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve – the largest reserve in Canada with a populations of 20,000. It is the clan mothers who set the rules for conduct. And when the community's chiefs ask people to abandon the barricades, it is the clan mothers who over-rule them.

Six Miles Deep is an inspiring and compelling portrait of a group of women whose actions have led a cultural reawakening in their traditionally matriarchal community.

Filmmaker in attendance - discussion to follow.
Tasty refreshments (non-alcoholic) and snacks with oliveoil+za'atar dipping.
For more Info:  info at beitzatoun.org  647-726-9500
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Getting the Most Out of Your Brain - Increase Productivity, Creativity, & Happiness: Lecture

Thur. October 7, 6 pm - 7 pm
Centre for Social Innovation, 4th Floor, Think Tank, 215 Spadina Ave.
Free

Are you only using 10% of your brain? No. You’re likely using all of it; but on what? In our culture we expend way too much energy on useless, and even damaging, brain activity: worrying about the future, regretting the past, stressing out, being a scatter-brain, assuming the worst, etc. Your brain is where decisions are made, futures are planned, new ideas are generated, and happiness exists. Optimizing your brain is about developing strengths in each of these brain activities. By understanding principles about how the brain-mind work and by studying your own brain-mind you can begin to create a plan for change and essentially change your brain. This lecture will help you do that.

To reserve a spot email your RSVP 
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Floodlines Community and Resistance Tour
 
Thur. October 7, 6:30 p.m.
OISE, Room 2211 (Bloor and St. George)
Free

Floodlines (http://floodlines.org) is a new book by Jordan Flaherty, New Orleans based community organizer and journalist. In lieu of a standard book launch tour, several New Orleans organizers will be traveling throughout Canada and the US this fall.

The COMMUNITY AND RESISTANCE tour seeks to communicate about current struggles for justice and liberation, from nooses hung in the northern Louisiana town of Jena to women organizing inside prisons, from resistance to school privatization to post-Katrina community organizing and cultural resistance. The tour also seeks to connect communities of liberation, and to build relationships between grassroots activists and independent media.

This tour is for anyone interested in issues of health care, education, criminal justice, housing, or the ways in which systems of racism, patriarchy and other forms of oppression intersect with these struggles.

Sponsored by The Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) chapters at the University of Toronto and York University, Haymarket Books, PM Press, Left Turn Magazine, Community Futures Collective, and other radical and independent media projects from around the US.
 
Check out the tour website at communityandresistance.wordpress.com  www.opirguoft.org/
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CHILE: No Bicentenary on Stolen Mapuche Territory!
”The Chicago Conspiracy” Exclusive Screening in TO

Fri. Oct. 8 @ 8PM
Birge Carnegie Reading Room, 95 Charles Street West (University of Toronto @ Museum Station)
$10-20 Sliding Scale - but No One Turned Away!

200 Years of Genocide – Our People Continue Resisting... Freedom for All the Mapuche Political Prisoners on 60+ Day Hunger Strike & All Our Political Prisoners! NO ONE IS FREE UNTIL EVERY PERSON IS FREE!  The State and its Neo-liberal Agenda are the Real Conspirators!

See Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECfjBKmTg0Q

A Film based on the Anti-Capitalist Struggles in Chile since the Pinochet Dictatorship (the Student Movement, Community Organizing, & the Uprising of Mapuche Indigenous Sovereignty Movement) taking its name from the 25 Chilean economists from the Chicago School of Economics who assisted the making of the bloody regime in the implementation of Neo-liberal policies.

Speakers Directly from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, WCCC [Toronto] on the ongoing struggle of the Mapuche Nation in so-called southern Chile], the Toronto 19 Support Group, Live Music, and MUCH MORE...

For more info: www.nobicentenaryonmapucheterritory.wordpress.com
Or Email: wccc_98 at hotmail.com
Organized by: The Women’s Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto]
**A Fundraiser for the Toronto G20 Legal Defence Fund AND the Family Support Group of Mapuche Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike (Familiares de los Presos Politicos Mapuche en Huelga de Hambre)**
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Rebel Radio fundraising party! Pedal-powered radio, food and drink
Fri. Oct. 8, 9 p.m. - 1 a.m.
888 Dupont (at Ossington) #404, dial 1126

Support community radio projects in Indigenous communities resisting mining exploitation! Come dance to global hip-hop and planetary dance while eating yummy food and supporting a great cause! 

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=157878520903757 
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Coffeehouse: Queer Politics and Anti-Capitalism
 
Friday October 8, 7:00 PM
Reagal Beagle Pub, , 335 Bloor St West, Toronto.
 
Join the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly for a discussion about queer politics and social movements, the left and anti-capitalism. Stay for the drinks. 

We will have a few speakers to briefly introduce questions, comments and experiences in queer and/or left organizing, followed by discussion and dialogue about the role of queer politics in our movements. 

Speakers include: Alan Sears, Suzanne Mills, Anna Willats

We will meet in the back room of the pub. The Reagle Beagle is an accessible space.
 
Facebook event
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Toronto Socialist Action Presents Rebel Films

Petropolis: Aerial Perspective on the Alberta Tar Sands 
2009, 43 minutes. 

Friday, Oct. 8 - 7 p.m.

OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-212 (St. George Subway Station)
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested. 

This short, hallucinatory documentary by Greepeace, Canada, takes us on a helicopter flight over the vast area containing the world's second largest oil reserve that is being despoiled, possibly forever, to separate bitumen from sand. Also see “Watch Downstream”, 2009, 33 min.

Preceded by a brief introduction, and followed by a commentary and an open floor discussion period.
For more info: www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com or call 416 – 535-8779.
Toronto Socialist Action Presents Rebel Films
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Thanksgiving Potluck and IMAGINE Party 
on John Lennon’s 70th birthday

Sat. Oct. 9, 6pm potluck, 7 pm open stage
Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (near Bloor and St. George)

Bring discussion of climate issues to the Thanksgiving dinner table; what are we willing to do to give thanks for a livable earth? How can we lower our footprint?
A 350.org event, with local musicians.   

www.torontoclimatecampaign.org. 
For more info: 416-596-7328 PWYC
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Soupalicious!
Come sip, slurp & savour a medley of tasty soup creations!

Sat. Oct. 9, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m

Exhibition Place, Heritage Court
Soupalicious Toronto is a harvest celebration of the 2010 edible gardening season where Toronto restaurants and chefs will be creating soups featuring fresh, locally grown vegetables that showcase the multicultural flavours of Toronto.

With all-you-can-slurp soup stations and a variety of exhibitors, visitors can enjoy the soups and gather information as well as inspiration from a diverse selection of food and gardening presentations and activities

Visitors are encouraged to bring some veggies from their own harvest or to purchase some fresh vegetables from the on-site farmers' market to help support the Plant a Row • Grow a Row program, a veggie-growing and sharing initiative spearheaded by the Compost Council of Canada and the Garden Writers Association, with the support of local food banks.

Find out more: http://www.soupalicious.ca/index.htm
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Planet in Focus – Stories About Our Planet
 
International Environmental Film and Video Festival, Toronto - Oct. 13-17
 
http://www.planetinfocus.org/
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Keep the TTC Public!

 The Public Transit Coalition (PTC) has launched a major multimedia campaign with a very simple message: privatizing public transit will be a disaster for Toronto. This is in response to mayoral candidates who have mused about public-private partnerships and outsourcing for the TTC.
 
The campaign, titled "Keep TTC Public," includes a 30-second television ad, a website - KeepTTCPublic.ca, and a compelling video, narrated by Canadian actor Eric Peterson, that explores Toronto's transit history and details the problems with transit privatization in Melbourne, Aukland, London (England), and Vancouver.
 
Visit KeepTTCPublic.ca to learn more.

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Please contribute financially to the G8/20 legal defence fund.

http://g20.torontomobilize.org/
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