T.O. Greenspiration Events: Stories about our Planet

Tue Oct 12 09:45:31 EDT 2010

Toronto Greenspiration Events
- Pass this onto a friend! - angela
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Homeless Memorial

Tues. Oct. 12, noon
Church of the Holy Trinity, behind Eaton's Centre, off Bay St.

Please come out to support the groups who now collaborate on the monthly Homeless Memorial as they remember and honour those who have die homeless. There is a free lunch too!
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THIS IS WHAT A DEMONSTRATION LOOKS LIKE!

Tuesday, October 12 at 5pm
Starting at 55 Gould Street (Ryerson Student Centre)

On October 8th, a Justice of the Peace ruled that Alex Hundert, a community organizer facing politically motivated G20 related "conspiracy" charges, had violated his "no-public demonstration" bail condition for participating in panel discussions at two university events. He was arrested on the evening of September 17th in front of his father's house after speaking on a panel at Ryerson University and has been in jail ever since. Based on the ruling on Oct 8, the Crown is now seeking to revoke Alex’s bail entirely and keep him behind bars.

Alex is one of many community organizers and activists facing "conspiracy" charges for effectively voicing their opposition to the G20 agenda of exploitation and exclusion. Police have threatened many of these organizers with arrest for speaking at events or to the media. This targeting of organizers is intended to weaken our growing and thriving social and environmental justice movement, to isolate effective and vocal community activists, and to criminalize dissent against the violent policies of the G20 that perpetuate environmental degradation, militarization, labour exploitation, and theft of Indigenous lands that wreaks misery for the world’s majority. While the panic surrounding the G20 protests has pushed forward the criminalization of resistance, we also continue to witness the criminalization and intensification of repressive state practices against immigrants and refugees, Indigenous people, queer and trans folks, and communities living in poverty.

The ruling that a public panel is somehow a public demonstration sets a dangerous precedent and is an attack on us all. This is why we must challenge it and its' potential to silence not only G20 organizers, but all communities in struggle.

We will not be silenced or intimidated. Show your support and solidarity with Alex and all those facing G20 related charges on Tuesday at 5pm at 55 Gould Street, as we show the police and the attorney general what a PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION really looks like!

www.g20.torontomobilize.org
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Unheard Voices

A new film by Mike Yam, co-produced with the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee.
Film Launch - fundraiser for TDRC. 
'Unheard Voices' follows the footsteps and voices of seven homeless men and women who have spent years on the 'streets' of Toronto. It is a powerful expose of a system gone terribly wrong. The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion.

Tues. Oct. 12, 6:30 p.m.
Ryerson Student Centre,, Room SCC 115, 55 Gould St., Toronto

co-sponsored by CESAR and the Ryerson Students Union

Pay what you can.
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Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle /Hands off Venezuela, the National Council of Latin American and Caribbean Women in Canada and OPIRG-Toronto
Present The CD launch of the audio documentary:

The Latin American Revolution
Written by Asad Ismi 
Produced by Kristin Schwartz

Tuesday October 12, 7pm
Koffler House, Room 108, 569 Spadina Avenue (on east side -- two blocks north of College St., Nearest subway--Spadina), U of T

Join us to celebrate the remarkable progressive achievements of the Latin American people and the radio documentary that has brought this story to an audience of 30 million people in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. This four-part audio documentary reveals the remarkable process of progressive social change taking place in Latin America. Featuring voices of Latin American activists interviewed at the 2009 World Social Forum held in Belem, Brazil.

SPEAKERS:
Aura Suarez, Deputy Consul General of Venezuela
Jorge Soberon, Consul General of Cuba
Brenda Wall, Ontario Public Service Employees Union
MC: Dr. Maria Paez Victor
Traditional opening by Nahnimid Anungo Kwe, Mi’kmaw grandmother
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Toronto Mayoral Candidates Debate

Tuesday, October 12, 7 – 9pm
St. Paul's Anglican Church, Cody Hall, 227 Bloor Street East

Candidates:
Rob Ford
Joe Pantalone
Rocco Rossi
George Smitherman

Moderator: Steve Paikin, Anchor and Senior Editor, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO

Presented by the Greater Yorkville Residents Association, Yonge Bloor Business Association and Toronto Midtown Business Association.
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Planet in Focus – Stories About Our Planet

International Environmental Film and Video Festival, Toronto - Oct. 13-17
Planet in Focus: International Environmental Film & Video Festival is Canada’s largest and longest running environmental media arts film festival, showcasing outstanding, artistic and compelling films and videos covering a broad range of environmental themes by Canadian and international filmmakers in a wide variety of formats.

This year, our Festival takes place October 13-17, 2010 across the City of Toronto. We will be screening 100+ films related to social justice, energy, health, water, food, species conservation – the most pressing issues facing our planet, and the most innovative solutions.

http://www.planetinfocus.org/
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Malalai Joya Speaking Tour 2010 - The TRUTH about CANADA's mission in AFGHANISTAN
Former Afghan MP Malalai Joya has been described as "the bravest woman in Afghanistan." In April, Joya was named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. A former Afghan MP, Joya has been leading the struggle inside Afghanistan to end the NATO-led war and occupation.

Please join us to hear Joya speak on the truth about Canada's mission and why NATO can't bring peace to Afghanistan. 

Wednesday, October 13, Doors open 6:30 p.m. | Talk begins 7:00 p.m.
Trinity-St. Paul's United Church, 427 Bloor Street West | TTC: Spadina
Admission: Adult - $10, Student, youth, senior - $5, Unwaged - pay what you can 
More info

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Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals
How Drugs Companies Plan to Profit from Female Sexual Dysfunction

A discussion with aware-winning author Ray Moynihan.
His new book exposes Big Pharma's current attempt to turn difficulties into dysfunctions.

Thur. October 14 at 6 p.m. (starts 6:30 p.m.)
Faculty Club University of Toronto, 41 Willcocks St.

http://www.dmpibooks.com/book/sex-lies-and-pharmaceuticals 
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Beautiful Destruction 

Alberta Tar Sands Aerial Photographs in the New Millennium by Louis Helbig

Thursday 14, October at 8pm

Toronto Camera Club, 587 Mount Pleasant Road

Ottawa-based artist and aerial photographer Louis Helbig will discuss different aspects of this project ranging from the creative to the politics. Canada is America's biggest supplier of oil, most of which now comes from the tar sands. Largely out of sight and therefore out of mind, Louis has discovered that approaching the issue from an aesthetic perspective allows viewers to relate to and identify with the issue in an open-minded and imaginative way.

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.

http://www.louishelbig.com/

http://www.torontocameraclub.com/content/view/108/288/

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All Candidates' meeting on local environmental issues in the North Toronto community

We have invited all City Council candidates in Wards 16 (Eglinton-Lawrence), 22 (St. Paul's), and 26 (Don Valley West-Leaside) to participate in the event.

Thursday, October 14th, 7 - 9 p.m.
North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, 200 Eglinton Ave West

This is a public event. The event is free of charge and everyone is welcome to attend.

Visit our website at http://torontogreen.ca or call us at 416-781-7663 for more information!
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Water Rally at Queen's Park!

Thursday, October 14 2010, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Meet on the front grounds of Queen's Park

Earthroots, Council of Canadians, and STORM (Save the Oak Ridges Moraine) Coalition are organizing a water rally to urge our government to better manage, conserve, and protect our water resources.  Keynote speakers will include renowned activist Maude Barlow.

The rally will be centered around water conservation in general, but will focus on the Oak Ridges Moraine to highlight some of the problems we are facing in Ontario.  Different municipalities are seeing water shortages, there are issues of contamination that continue to come to light, and there is growing unrest about how water is being mismanaged in our province.  We need to send a message to the government that they must be much more transparent in their management of our public water resources, and much tougher with how they give out permits to industry and other large water users.

The provincial election is just over a year from now; platforms are coming together and promises are being made.  And with the municipal elections approaching as well, the time for our voice to be heard is now.  Get involved!  We need you to show your support for water conservation in Ontario.

http://earthroots.org/index.php/component/option,com_events/Itemid,101/agid,50/day,14/month,10/task,view_detail/year,2010/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135339173180912
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Water on the Table” premiere & post-screening discussion with Maude Barlow and Liz Marshall

Thur. October 14, 7pm

Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park

On the heels of last month’s victorious vote by the United Nations General Assembly to recognize the human right to water and sanitation, Planet in Focus is pleased to announce the highly-anticipated theatrical screening of Water On The Table. This remarkable feature-length documentary screening from award-winning Canadian Director Liz Marshall is part of the 11th annual Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival.  The film follows tireless water advocate Maude Barlow, National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, as she works to have water declared a human right, during her term as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the U.N. General Assembly. 

This will be the first Toronto speaking engagement for Maude Barlow since the historic UN Right to Water was passed.

Visit planetinfocus.org for tickets and more information.

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The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce an important lecture by Professor Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center

How Labour is (Part of) the Problem in Building the Left

Friday October 15, 1:30 p.m.
Room 240, 725 Spadina Avenue, Toronto.

A leading scholar and political activist, Frances Fox Piven was recently president of the American Sociological Association and is former Vice-President of the American Political Science Association. Her most recent book is Keeping Down the Black Vote (2009). Other books include Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America (2006), The War at Home: The Domestic Causes and Consequences of Bush's Militarism (2004), Why Americans Still Don't Vote (2000), Breaking of the American Social Compact (1997) and Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (updated edition, 1993).

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Rap for Freedom

Fri. 15 October at 7 pm
University of Toronto Graduate Students' Union, 16 Bancroft Ave

This is a chance to show your outrage at police brutality and the systems of oppression that it backs up, a chance to show solidarity for the fight against these oppressions, and a chance to hear empowering spoken and musical truths in the company of others who care.

This is an all ages event, with a 19+ section

Pay What You Can, Suggested Donation $10-$15

**New tshirts, patches and buttons will be on sale**

Featuring:
Broadcast Zero:
http://www.myspace.com/broadcastzero
Brutal Youth:
http://www.myspace.com/pattyolantern
Abstract Random:
http://www.myspace.com/abstractrandom3
Testament:
http://www.myspace.com/testtheirlogik

All proceeds will be donated to the G20 Legal Defence Fund.

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Toronto Socialist Action Presents Rebel Films

Blood Coltan 
2008, French, with English sub-titles, 51 minutes

Friday, Oct. 15 - 7 p.m.

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

The West’s demand for Coltan, used in mobile phones and computers, is funding the killings in Congo. Under the close watch of rebel militias, children as young as ten work the mines hunting for this black gold. Meet the powerful warlords who enslave local populations and the European businessmen who continue importing Coltan, in defiance of the UN. Guest speaker will be a member of a local Boycott Coltan campaign.

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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4th Annual YIMBY Festival

Sat. October 16
Registration 9:00 am-11:00 am
Public Event: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Gladstone Hotel, 2nd Floor
1214 Queen St. W., Toronto
$25 Table Registration

The Gladstone Hotel with the help of Ryerson University is presenting the 4th Annual YIMBY Festival – a family friendly event. The YIMBY (Yes, In My Backyard) Festival provides a social space for your community group to gather and exchange ideas and strategies, as well as to celebrate the achievements of your organizations in an atmosphere focused on listening, learning and engaging. The one-day event invites groups to turn the table on policy makers while also educating the general public, councilors, MP’s and MPP’s about the issues that face your community.

Participation is easy: 1) Pre-register your group’s name, contact and a brief description of your group’s mission; 2) Attend the one-hour pre-event meeting on Oct. 5th at 7pm on the 2nd floor at the Gladstone Hotel; 3) Attend the event

To pre-register and for more info email YIMBY 
For more info on the event webpage click here 
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Making My Issues Count: Women and the Toronto Municipal Election

The Ethno-Racial People with Disabilities Coalition of Ontario & the Toronto Women’s City Alliance are hosting a discussion for women with disAbilities to talk about the upcoming election and what it means for you. Join us for a discussion about how you can have your voice heard; ways to get involved; share concerns and ideas for change.

Saturday, October 16th, 2:00 – 5:00pm
Centre for Independent Living Toronto, Boardroom, 365 Bloor Street East, Suite 902 é

RSVP: info at twca.ca<mailto:info at twca.ca> or 647-235-8575
Space is limited, so please register to reserve your spot!

Attendant care available on request – please indicate when you RSVP
TTC tokens provided to participants
Light refreshments will be served
*We regret that childcare is not available due to space restrictions
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4th Annual From The Ground Up Lecture and Sunday Supper

Provocative Ideas from New York Times best-selling author RAJ PATEL

Lecture
Sunday October 17 from 2:30 - 4 pm
Northrop Frye Hall, Room 003, 73 Queen's Park Crescent, Victoria University
$12 / $10 for students

Sunday Supper
Hosted by Chef Jamie Kennedy 
Sunday October 17 from 5 - 7:30 pm
Gardiner Museum Terrace Room
Regular Price: $200 per ticket  (or $150 each for 3 or more tickets)

To purchase tickets to either the lecture or supper, call 416.586.8080 or click here

This year's lecture features the award-winning writer, activist and academic, Raj Patel. Best known for his New York Times bestseller, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, Patel has worked for the World Bank, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations, and is now an outspoken critic of all three.

Recent arguments suggest that local food, with its reliance on small-truck transport from producer to market, produces more carbon dioxide emissions than much of the food shipped huge distances. For the 2010 From the Ground Up lecture presented by Robert Rose Inc., Mr. Patel will offer a passionate defense that local food is the preferable alternative. Once the true (and often hidden) costs of global food production are accounted for, it becomes clear that local food has far fewer economic, social and environmental negative impacts.

Following the lecture, Raj Patel will welcome guests to Sunday Supper at the Gardiner. Chef Jamie Kennedy will offer a delicious three-course meal that celebrates the fall harvest and pays tribute to the tradition of Sunday supper, the comforting ritual that brings family and friends together to celebrate connections around delicious home-cooked food.

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Solidarity Action! NO to Tar Sands Oil in BC Waters

Sunday, October 17 · 3 pm - 4:30 pm
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St. (College/Spadina)

The tar sands oil companies are trying to make Vancouver Harbour their crude oil shipping port. Join with people of BC in saying No Tanks!

Clayton Thomas-Muller, Anti Tar Sands Campaigner will speak, and Rex Weyler, co-founder of Greenpeace will speak live stream from the BC Rally. Our action will be in solidarity with the NO Tanks action flotilla rally in the Vancouver Harbor at the same time.

Contact torontocodepink at yahoo.ca, or call 647 341 6733 to sponsor or get involved. Volunteers needed to help poster, and to usher on the day.
Facebook invite:  http://bit.ly/d2lD9O 

Event sponsored by Code Pink Canada, Indigenous Environmental Network, Greenpeace, Concil of Canadians, Rabble, Science for Peace, Indigenous Environmental Network
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Planet in Focus – International Environmental Film and Video Festival – presents…

The 4th Revolution – Energy Autonomy

86 min., Germany

Sun. Oct. 17, 1:15 p.m.
Royal Ontario Museum (Avenue Road and Bloor, Toronto)

Toronto Premiere – Director in attendance

After the “agrarian revolution,” the “industrial revolution” and the “digital revolution,” energy autonomy will be the fourth revolution, shifting power relations by democratizing power generation. Such is the persuasive argument of The 4th Revolution. Examining proponents and opponents of getting off the fossil and nuclear powered grid, the film highlights how changing to renewable sources is not only necessary but also possible. With discussions and examples from Mali to Denmark, the film moves the energy debate beyond CO2 emissions, and calls for the borderless democratization of energy generation. The energy turn is not a technological issue, but an ideological one based on power relations and ownership structures: whoever owns the power, controls the power.

http://planetinfocus.bside.com/2010/films/the4threvolution_carlafechner_planetinfocus2010

Planet in Focus Environmental Film and Video Festival runs Oct. 13 – 17 in Toronto. Check out the incredible program: http://www.planetinfocus.org/
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Bolivia in Transition 

Part 2 of a 3 part discussion group

Extractive Industries and Bolivia's Internal Challenges
Introduction: Sonja Killoran McKibbin

Organized by Toronto Bolivia Solidarity and the Centre for Social Justice

Sunday 17 October, 2pm

Centre for Social Justice, 489 College Street

Everyone welcome, no registration or admission fee

Here are two suggested background readings

Achtenberg - The lessons of Potosi
http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2010/09/bolivia-lessons-of-potosi.html

Fuentes - Between mother earth and an extraction economy
http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2010/05/bolivia-between-mother-earth-and.html 

For more information:
torontoboliviasolidarity at gmail.com
Facebook: Toronto Bolivia Solidarity

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Toronto Cannot AfFORD

http://www.torontocannotafford.com/
A message from Rob Ford
6 min. video, parody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KGCTWUsH8Q

Rob Ford's Compassion for the Homeless
30 second video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YZQ4oQjxgc&feature=related

Rob Ford on Cycling
30 second video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nySs1cEq5rs&feature=related
"I can't support bike lanes. ... What I compare bikes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten. And every year we have dozens of people that get hit by cars or trucks. Well, no wonder. Roads are built for buses, cars and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for 'em when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day." 
Rob Ford, candidate for mayor of Toronto 
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Election 2010 – Where Candidates Stand on Cycling Issues

Our analysis of incumbents and candidates is now online - http://bikeunion.to/news/2010/10/05/election-2010-where-candidates-stand-cycling-issues 

Follow this link to read our bike friendly summary of the Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation election survey, and see our compilation of the voting record of incumbents. The Toronto Cyclists Union has identified a list of candidates who possess the potential to best understand and support the needs of cyclists in Toronto. This list was compiled solely based on candidates who completed the TCAT election survey. 

The purpose of this list, and the voting record of incumbents, is to provide you, our membership, with a summary of bike friendly candidates. This summary is meant to act as a launching point for further research on the ward level elections. The Toronto Cyclists Union encourages you to take a closer look at these candidates and to spend a few hours volunteering on the campaign of the candidate you choose!

Further details about TCAT’s survey can be found here. http://torontocat.ca/main/election_surveys
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Candidates Graded in Environmental Report Card
by the Toronto Environmental Network

http://torontoenvironment.org/voteto/reportcard
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Where Do Council Candidates Stand on Public Transit? 

 www.KeepTTCPublic.ca

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BIXI Toronto Lunch & Learns

Let Bixi come to you!  Bixi Toronto is the new bikeshare coming to Toronto IF 1000 people purchase a one year subscription by Nov. 30, 2011.  To inform people about the program, and answer any questions, the Bixi Toronto team is holding lunchtime informational sessions across the downtown core.  
During these events, the Bixi Toronto team explains how Bixi works and its historical success as well as the details involved in getting Bixi to Toronto.  They then open up for questions.  Presentations are held at an indoor location within the host organization and last about 30 minutes.  Afterwards, participants are invited to head outside to visit the Bixi demo station set up nearby.  This gives participants a chance to see the station first-hand and try out a Bixi bicycle themselves. 

Contact Erica Duque at 416-392-1288 or eduque at toronto.ca to schedule a presentation!

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Marketing 101 for Local and Green Businesses 

WHEN: Tuesday, October 12th, 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Marketing 101 for Holistic Practitioners
WHEN: Sunday, October 24th, 10:00am - 6:30pm

Marketing 101 for Holistic Practitioners
WHEN: Monday , October 25th, 10:00am - 6:30pm

Marketing 101 for Local and Green Businesses
WHEN: Tuesday, November 2nd, 10:00am - 6:30pm

The Radical Business Intensive
WHEN: November 18-21
For more info and locations and how to register go to . . .
http://marketingforhippies.com/events/
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Anarres Natural Health CONTEST Make The World Fairer and Win A Movie Pass! 

I have several passes to Bag It! http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/893 and I am offering them to the winner(s) of this contest. You'll get an entry for every action you take to help end slavery and child exploitation in the chocolate industry.

http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/897

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