T.O. Greenspiration Events: Happy V-day
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Feb 13 22:32:23 EST 2011
Toronto Greenspiration Events
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Public Displays of Affection: A Valentine's Cabaret
Bitter singles, mushy romantics, and everyone in between is invited to a Valentine's Day themed cabaret in support of the G20 Legal Defense Fund. We have over 20 acts of song, dance, and of course comedy! Dressing up is encouraged, as is hooting, hollering, and drinking and eating delicious treats! Don't break our hearts! Come!
Monday, February 14th of course! 8 pm
Bread & Circus Theatre Bar, 299 Augusta (Kensington Market)
Sliding scale $10-20. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
Join us on the dreaded day of Valentine's for an evening of song, dance, and comedy. Bitter singles, mushy romantics, and everyone in between will find something that teases and tickles! We have an amazing line up of saucy numbers that are bound to entertain.
Dressing up is encouraged (think top hats, corsets, gloves, or whatever your fancy!) and rowdy behaviour even more so... There will be plenty of booze, delicious treats, and dark corners to ensure a good time!
This is a fundraising event, with proceeds going to the G20 legal defense fund. More info: http://g20legaldefencefund.wordpress.com/
Thanks! And Happy Valentine's Day! Let's show our community we care!!!
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=194679857211514
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Valentines Day on Bay Street
Send a message to the CEO’s and millionaires who sit on the Board of Directors of U.S. Steel
Mon. Feb. 14, starting at noon
King and Bay
Supporters of the locked out Steelworkers in Hamilton will come to the country’s financial centre to whisper (not-so-sweetly) about the attack on pensions and good jobs by corporate Canada. For more information call Abdul Samad 416 414-0893
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Valentine’s Day for Dwight Duncan
We’d like Dwight Duncan to hear from people from around Ontario this Valentine’s Day as he prepares his last budget before the election. We want him to hear that it is time to ‘Put Food in the Budget’ and immediately increase by $100 a month the social assistance received by every adult in Ontario.
The campaign has designed two choices of Valentines, with a common message for the back of each one. Download them at www.putfoodinthebudget.ca Or you can be traditional and create your own Valentine, with a variation of the Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, and here are some examples:
St Valentine says….no roses, no chocolate
Just money for good food, in my pocket ….. OR …..
Roses are red, Violets are blue
We don’t have enough money to eat, You know what you need to do ….. OR …..
Roses are red, Violets are blue
I’m tired of soup and canned food, What are you going to do?
There are several ways you can use the Valentine
· Print them off and have people sign them and give them back to you and then mail them all at once to Dwight Duncan at 7 Queen’s Park Crescent, 7th floor, Toronto, ON, M7A 1Y7;
· OR people can mail them in themselves,
· OR people can email them by clicking the link on the website to download their choice of valentine, and attaching it to an email.
· OR you can take the Valentines to your local MPP’s office, and ask your MPP to bring them to Dwight Duncan’s office, or give them to Dwight Duncan during Question Period!
· OR if you have a Liberal MPP in your riding you can take the Valentines and tape them to their constituency office window
You can combine any of these actions with a demonstration at the office of your local MPP, or if you are in Toronto you can join us when we deliver a giant Valentines with all the valentines we have collected to Dwight Duncan. Contact Susan Bender at sbender at srchc.com or 416-461-1925 ext 353 for details.
At our Put Food in the Budget strategy day on January 28th people asked us to try and co-ordinate activities to happen in the same day in communities across Ontario. This can be a first pilot to try that out.
If you will be participating in your community please let me know what you are planning on doing. If you need any help – email me at mbalkwill at iasc.on.ca or call me at 416 806 2401.
Mike Balkwill
Provincial Co-ordinator (SPNO)
Put Food in the Budget Campaign
416 806 2401
www.putfoodinthebudget.ca
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February 14 National Day of Action
Toronto’s 6th Annual Rally & March for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
Monday, February 14 @ 5 pm
Police HQ, 40 College St at Bay
March to the Coroner’s Office, 26 Grenville St.
Gathering with food at The Meeting Place following rally & march (6:30-8pm); a bus will be available to transport participants from the Coroner’s Office to the gathering. TTC tokens will be available for those attending by public transit
To endorse or support the rally in any way, please email: nomoresilenceorg at gmail.com
According to research conducted under the Native Women Association of Canada’s (NWAC) Sisters in Spirit project, over 580 Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing, most of them over the last 30 years. Despite the clear evidence that this is an ongoing issue, the federal government decided in Fall of 2010 to end funding to Sisters in Spirit. In a move to detract attention from this cut, Rona Ambrose (Federal Minister for Status of Women) announced a $10 million fund to be put primarily towards creating a central RCMP missing person centre. It is evident that few of those in power have a genuine interest in ending the violence against Indigenous women. On February 14th, we come together in solidarity with the women who started this vigil in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, and with the marches and rallies that will be taking place across this land. We stand in defense of our lives and to demonstrate against the complicity of the state in the ongoing genocide of Indigenous women and the impunity of state institutions and actors (police, RCMP, coroners’ offices, the courts, and an indifferent federal government) that prevents justice for all Indigenous Peoples.
This event is organized by No More Silence, part of an inter/national network to support the work being done by activists, academics, researchers, agencies and communities to stop the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women.
Besides the Toronto rally, marches and other events will take place in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, London (Ontario), and Ottawa.
Endorsed by: Sistering, The Women and Gender Studies Institute (University of Toronto), No One is Illegal Toronto, Indigenous Education Network (University of Toronto), Canadian Chiapanecas Justice for Women, Parkdale Activity and Recreation Centre (PARC), Springtide Resources Inc. Ending Violence Against Women, Anduhyaun Shelter,
To add your name to this list of endorsers, email:
nomoresilenceorg at gmail.com
Visit us online:
http://nomoresilence-nomoresilence.blogspot.com/
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SWAP event
Monday, February 14 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
University of Toronto - OISE Room: 3rd Floor, 252 Bloor Street West
Free, All welcome. Please bring at least one bag full of items to swap.
The original Toronto SWAP! Brought to you by Regenesis Toronto:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9495129943
A swap is meant to escape the monetary system, however many for-profit companies view it as a money-making opportunity. Our swap events are always FREE! However you are more than welcome to make a monetary donation in support of our continued work to put on free swap events.
Clothes
Books
Accessories (Jewellery, Handbags, etc.)
Small electronics
Kitchen utensils and equipment
CDs, DVDs, Audiobooks
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148151358573916
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=176115842424750
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=172190356157984
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177531322285168
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"Change We Knead Now! Baked Goods not Bailouts Tour!" with Keith McHenry
Monday, February 14, 6 – 9 p.m.
Founder's Assembly Hall, York University, 4700Keele Street
Free event. No RSVP required.
Food Not Bombs started in 1980 when eight college aged activists dressed as generals and started holding bake sales pretending to buy a bomber. Thirty years later Food Not Bombs organized a two month long vigil outside the White House baking bread in a solar oven to build popular support for a conversion from a carbon based war economy to a sustainable solar future.
Now taking that same message around the world, Keith will demonstrate how to prepare solar baked goods and give a presentation about the history, principles and Food Not Bombs global campaign for the change we knead now! Tax payers have spent trillions to bail out the banks and fund wars for corporate domination, now it's time to bail out our communities!
Facebook event
For more info:
Food Not Bombs: http://www.foodnotbombs.net/
Toronto's Food Not Bombs: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5494892948
Presented by Toronto's Food Not Bombs & OPIRG-York.
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The Vaccine-Autism Link Controversy: a science journalism case study
with Brian Deer, investigative journalist with The Sunday Times
Panel discussion moderated by Daily Planet host Jay Ingram featuring
Penny Park, executive director of Science Media Centre Canada
Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, UHN staff respirologist and a deputy editor of theCanadian Medical Association Journal
Dr. Miriam Shuchman, chair of the Research Ethics Board at Women's College Hospital
Tuesday, February 15, 6:30 p.m., Reception 8:00 p.m.
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave. (U of T, St. George Subway)
$15
Brian Deer spent seven years investigating research that linked the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine with autism, originally published in 1998 in the British medical journal the Lancet. In a series of articles for The Sunday Times of London and in a British Channel 4 documentary, he exposed the research's key finding as a sham. His investigation ultimately resulted in the British Medical Journal denouncing the research as fraudulent in January 2011.
On February 15, we welcome Brian Deer to Toronto to speak about lessons learned during his investigation. Following his presentation, Brian will join a panel discussion with Penny Park, director of Science Media Centre Canada; Dr. Matthew Stanbrook, a University Health Network (UHN) staff respirologist and a deputy editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal; and Dr. Miriam Shuchman, chair of the Research Ethics Board at Women's College Hospital. The discussion will be moderated by the host of Discovery's Daily Planet, Jay Ingram.
Presented by the Canadian Journalism Foundation
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Get on the Mic! Public Speaking 101 (Tools for Change workshop)
Tuesday, February 15, 6 – 8:30 p.m.
Public speaking can be intimidating and difficult, especially when you’re talking about radical social change and inspiring people to action. Come learn some tips that will help you build your confidence and get you on that mic or megaphone!
TOOLS for CHANGE is a series of skills-sharing and skills-building workshops designed to help you gain the tools for doing research, education, and action for social and ecological justice. This series is collaboratively organized by the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (www.opirgtoronto.org) and Earthroots (www.earthroots.org).
*To register for workshops, please write to .tools.change at gmail.com
Most workshops take place in downtown Toronto. Transportation subsidies are available for workshop participants. All venues are wheelchair accessible.
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Water Exports: Threat or Distraction?
Tuesday, February 15, 7 – 8 p.m.
Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park
Cost: $18
Opinions are sharply divided: some say selling to our thirsty southern neighbours is inevitable, so we should set our own terms: others contend that even a trickle will open a floodgate of issues.
Moderater: Adele Hurley, Director, Water Issues Program, The Munk School of Global Studies.
Panelists: Marcel Boyer, Bell Canada Emeritus Professor of Economics, Université de Montréal; Owen Saunders, Professor of Law, University of Calgary; Ralph Pentland, Acting Chairman of the Canadian Water Issues Council.
More information.
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The Rule of Law, Development and Human Rights in Haiti: One Year after the Earthquake
Tuesday, February 15, 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place
Speaker: Danielle Saada (Former Head of Justice Section with the UN in Haiti)
Moderator: Pascal Paradis (Executive Director of LWBC)
Co-sponsored by Munk School of Global Affairs, Faculty of Law
Register online at: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=10245
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Organizing to Win: Social Change Through Citizen Ecological Activism
with Liz Benneian, President, Oakvillgreen Conservation Association
Wednesday, February 16, 5-6:30pm
155 College Street, Room 106 (Health Sciences Building, U of T)
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There's Lead in your Lipstick
Author's Night with Gillian Deacon, award-winning broadcaster, bestselling author and Canada's own environmental advocate.
Wed. Feb. 16th, 7:00pm
Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Ave., 4th Floor (between Dundas & Queen)
Book signing to follow.
Sponsored by Women’s Health Environment Network www.womenshealthyenvironments.ca
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Robert Hunter Memorial Lecture
with Lauryn Drainie, Climate Fellow, Climate Action Network Canada
TOPIC: Public Apathy, Funded Denial & Political Cowardice: What’s a climate activist to do?
Wednesday, February 16, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm
41 Willcocks Street, Second Floor, Faculty Club, University of Toronto
You're invited to join the Centre for Environment for the Robert Hunter Memorial Lecture, dedicated to the memory of Robert Hunter.
In addition to the lecture, the winners of the Robert Hunter Scholarships will be recognized. Robert Hunter was a Canadian environmentalist, journalist, author and co-founder of Greenpeace. He was named one of the ten eco-heroes of the 20th century by Time magazine. He was a husband, father, writer, broadcaster, and speaker on the issues of the environment and climate change. He won a Governor General's Award for his 1991 book 'Occupied Canada'.
The Robert Hunter Scholarship was created, with financial assistance from CHUM Ltd., in memory of Bob Hunter, Ecology Specialist Reporter at CITY TV in Toronto. It is awarded to outstanding undergraduate students enrolled in the Centre for Environment's environmental programs.
http://learn.environment.utoronto.ca/events/robert-hunter-annual-memorial-lecture-2011.aspx
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Complete Streets webinar
State of the Practice in Complete Streets
Wed Feb 16, 3-4 pm
The Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) is hosting a webinar on the latest in U.S. Complete Streets policy and implementation.
http://www.apbp.org/event/feb-11_webinar
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Sounds Like A Revolution
Wednesday, Feb 16 / 6:30pm
Hart House Library / 7 Hart House Circle, U of T
Free
Sounds Like a Revolution is a feature documentary about the new wave of protest music sweeping across America. www.soundslikearevolution.com
Sponsored by Hart House DocFest
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Cancún Climate Talks: Deceiving people but not the environment
Wednesday, February 16, 7 – 9 p.m.
Room 177, University College, 15 King's College Circle
In the wake of data indicating climate change effects that exceed the worst-case predictions of the IPCC, it is crucial to know of the persistent deceptive practices and procrastination by the people in positions of most responsibility.
Talk by two eyewitnesses to the December climate negotiations:
Jacqueline Medalye, PhD Candidate at York University at the department of Political Science.
Allan Lissner, independent documentary photographer, journalist, painter, and graphic designer.
The event is organized by Science for Peace. Contact: sfp at physics.utoronto.ca, 416-978-3606
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Pakistan Between War and Water: A discussion on feminism and empowerment
Please join us for a panel discussion featuring Amina Jamal, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ryerson University, and Shama Dossa, PhD Candidate
Thur. February 17th, 6 p.m.
South Dining Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, University of Toronto
The study of Pakistan is too often restricted to the war and water repeated in the mainstream media -- a story of religious extremism, imperialist bombing, internal strife and natural disaster. Pakistan is more than a strategic piece in geopolitics, though, it is a country of over 170 million, with several nations, languages, and cultures. It is a country characterized by patriarchy and class domination, and by people's resistance to oppression. Through this panel series we seek to move beyond superficial analyses and examine closely the economic, political, social and cultural
history of Pakistan. Join us as two scholars of Pakistan discuss their perspectives on feminism and empowerment.
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The Clean Train Coalition is holding a demonstration - join us!
Fri. Feb. 18, 8:30 a.m.
Metrolinx Headquarters, 20 Bay Street (walk south from Union Station)
Metrolinx says that electric trains are superior but….
McGuinty Liberals are planning to buy more diesels!
Despite the proven superiority of electric trains, the McGuinty Liberals are pushing ahead with plans to buy diesels for a rail link to Pearson Airport - plans to be approved by Metrolinx on February 18th. We will be there demonstrating our opposition to more diesels, and calling on the Province to build it right as electric from the start.
Visit cleantrain.ca, get more information and get on the campaign email list.
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The Case Against Barrick Gold and Mega-mining in Argentina
Friday, February 18, 6:30 p.m.
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street
Speakers: Pino Solanas (member of Argentina's Congress, social activist, movie maker) and Antonio Gomez (prosecutor at the Federal Court of Appeals).
Pino and Antonio will talk about the dire consequences of mega-mining in Argentina and social, legal and political alternatives to address it. A segment of the last Pino Solanas' movie “Tierra Sublevada – Oro Impuro” will be shown.
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Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune
Documentary of the legendary folk-singer (Kenneth Bowser, USA 2011)
97 min. (PG)
Feb. 18-24
Bloor Cinema
506 Bloor St. West (just West of Bathurst)
Toronto, ON M5S 1Y3
http://bloorcinema.com/
“A warts-and-all portrait of a singer and his celebrity, Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune is an overdue look at the 60s folk movement's anti-Dylan -- a songwriter who almost singlehandedly launched the pop-musical protest against the Vietnam War, but whose early death had the tragic cast of a 19th-century ballad. Briskly constructed and rich in Ochs' music and period notables, Kenneth Bowser's film will be a must for the artist's fans, but its fresh take on an overexamined decade should also appeal to Kennedy-era completists. Like any singer-songwriter defined by the Greenwich Village-based folk scene of the early '60s, Ochs could not -- and still cannot -- escape the shadow of Bob Dylan. Indeed, it's the contrast with Dylan (the one essential figure missing from the film) that best defines Ochs himself: Whereas Dylan was the songwriter-as-poet, Ochs was the troubadour/journalist, delivering metaphor-free reports on current events.”—John Anderson, Variety.
TORONTO PREMIERE!
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Your Food, Your Choice: The Promise of Organic
Saturday, February 19, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
University of Toronto Conference Centre, 89 Chestnut St.
Price: $65 ($85 after Feb. 5); COG members $55 ($65 after Feb. 5), Rates for seniors, students and unwaged
Organic lunch included!
Presented by Canadian Organic Growers in association with The Big Carrot.
Imagine a country choosing to prioritize its citizens' happiness over traditional economic measures. Imagine health and environment taking a front row seat. Bhutan is doing just that. This remote South Asian country is choosing to value "Gross National Happiness" above conventional economics as it deals with the dominate influences of todays’ world. This philosophy will be their guiding principle over their nation's development, which includes certifying the entire country's agricultural system organic. Vandana Shiva says "Bhutan, which looks idealistic, is actually being realistic about what you need for a sustainable society." Imagine the impact if we followed suit? Join us to learn how the promise of organic is making a difference to our health and how we live and eat.
Keynote speaker is Silver Donald Cameron, one of the few observers to Bhutan's transition to an entirely organic agricultural system. Panels include Moms Against GMOs, Natural vs Organic, Whistleblowers, EnviroPig, Is Walmart Compatible with Organic?, Hidden GMOs, Make Heritage Seeds Work for You, The Wonder Years: Bread and Beer, Sludge on our Farms, The Future of Agriculture, Organic Beauty Products, and more.
Info and registration: www.cogtoronto.org or 416-466-4420
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Translating our Faith into Action: Making a Difference for the Environment
A Half-Day Multi-Faith Retreat
Sunday Feb 20, 2 - 5 pm
@ Church of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor St. W at Avenue Rd (Near St George, Bay, & Museum Subway Stations)
Please join us for a multi-faith Retreat to explore the key spiritual resources that equip and inspire us to protect the environment, and to learn how we might translate those resources into effective action in the public sphere.
2pm-3:15pm: Multi-faith Dialogue on Protecting the Environment: Key Spiritual Resources
In the first segment, Bishop Linda Nicholls, Shaikh Habeeb Alli, Rabbi Roy Tanenbaum will assist us in exploring the ecological-spiritual resources from Judaism, Islam, and Christianity that support faith communities to protect the environment.
3:30-5pm: Applied Spirituality & Taking Action
In our second segment, we will be joined by Keith Stewart, a contributor to the Green Budget Coalition, who will assist us in examining how we as members of faith communities can translate these spiritual resources into effective action on climate change and environmental degradation in the public sphere.
Co-sponsored by the Diocesan Environmental Working Group of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto, the Canadian Council of Imams, the Green Awakening Network and the OIKOS Network at the Faculty of Social Work of the University of Calgary.
For more information & to register: ldrainie at climateactionnetwork.ca, http://www.ucalgary.ca/oikos/Retreat/Toronto
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Honouring Death
Join me in honouring the life and death of Tooker Gomberg on the 7th anniversary of his passing.
Bring your own stories of death, dying and grief.
We will light candles, share sorrows, laugh, cry, and eat!
Mon. Feb. 21, 7 p.m.
Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (St. George subway)
Free, all welcome.
For more info: Angela, greenspi at web.ca
www.greenspiration.org
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