T.O. Greenspiration Events: Activism in Action

Mon Mar 14 00:29:46 EDT 2011

Toronto Greenspiration Events

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CUPE Ontario presents:

Stephanie Bloomingdale, the Secretary-Treasurer of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO

Mon. Mar. 14, 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Toronto Sheraton Centre, located at 123 Queen Street West

Come hear from Stephanie Bloomingdale discuss the recent, galvanizing events in her home state of Wisconsin.  Stephanie, who herself spent weeks sleeping on the floor of the Winsconsin State legislature, is part of a mass mobilization of people across the US who are saying enough to the attack on public services and public workers.  Their movement has inspired a nation, gaining support for working people and public services across the US.

We draw inspiration from the hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites who have been standing up to an extreme right-wing Governor, who, with the backing of billionaire ideologues, is gutting public services and stripping away the hard-won rights of working people.   In Toronto, as we see libraries closed, tenants lose their elected representatives, vital public services threatened with privatization and contracting out and bus routes cancelled, we know we too need to stand up.

Our opportunity is now. Together, we can begin to push back the attacks of millionaires like Rob Ford, on the way to building a better Toronto.
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George Galloway Speaks on revolution in the Arab world

Monday, March 14, Doors open: 6:15 p.m., Event begins: 7:00 p.m.
Trinity-St. Paul's Centre, 427 Bloor Street West, TTC: Spadina 
Tickets: $10 and up - or pay what you can

In the first few weeks of 2011, revolutions have swept across the Arab world, toppling dictators in Tunisia and Egypt, and threatening to topple one in Libya. Uprisings are also underway in Bahrain, Yemen, and elsewhere, as people all across the region - including in Saudi Arabia - stand up against tyranny and oppression.

Please join us for this special event to hear long-time anti-war and Palestine solidarity campaigner George Galloway talk about the current situation in the Arab world, and what we can do in Canada to support the Arab peoples' struggle for liberation. A discussion period will follow Mr. Galloway's speech.

Organized by the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War
http://www.nowar.ca/ | info at nowar.ca | 416-795-5863 facebook: http://on.fb.me/g4CodJ

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Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America

Free film screening and discussion in the lead up to Earth Hour

Monday, March 14, 6:30 pm   
Annette Branch Public Library 145 Annette St.

Hosted by Green 13, Sponsored by Annette Branch Library
This award-winning American film Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America is a timely, solutions-oriented look at one of America’s, and Canada's,  most pressing environmental challenges: energy.

American filmmaker Jeff Barrie offers hope as he turns the camera on himself and asks, “How can I make a difference?” In his journey Barrie explores the source of their electricity and the problems caused by energy production including mountain top removal, childhood asthma and global warming. Along the way he encounters individuals, businesses, organizations, and communities who are leading the way, using energy conservation, efficiency and renewable, green power all while saving money and the environment.

This often amusing and always inspiring story shows, “You can easily make a difference and here’s how!” 

green13toronto.org
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Demo Against Police Brutality

Tuesday, March 15 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm
51 Division - Front and Parliament St.

March 15th is the International Day Against Police Brutality. A day to bring awareness to the violence, torture, intimidation and harassment by our governments' Police Forces. We, the people, the victims and the survivors will come together to raise our voices to show that we will not stay silent!

One week last summer the police turned the whole City into a prison. But in poor neighbourhoods, it’s the G20 everyday. Communities are under attack by the Police because they are poor, homeless, racialized, First Nations and immigrants. We are further abused when we fight back. Our communities are under attack because the police exist to maintain a social order in this country that protects the government, the banks, and the rich while criminalizing the rest. Despite the trillions of dollars stolen, embezzled and extorted by banks and finance companies that led to this recession, the police are not in the habit of kicking down doors on Bay St. But they are kicking down doors, ticketing, arresting, beating and killing people in poor communities.

OCAP and other community organizations invite everyone to come out and show support for victims of Police violence.

No more Police brutality! No more impunity!

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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre  in association with OutSpoke Productions presents:

SPIN

Created and performed by Evalyn Parry
Starring The Bicycle

Mar 15 – 27
Previews March 15, Opens March 16
Shows Thurs - Sun, 8pm
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street, Box Office 416-975-8555
Tickets also available online at totix.ca

Through a series of songs played live on a vintage bicycle, SPIN recounts a theatrical cycle of stories about women, cycling and liberation. Inspired by the incredible true tale of Annie Londonderry, the first woman to ride around the world on a bicycle in 1894, SPIN blends theatre, music and technology in a unique tribute to the bicycle as muse, musical instrument and instrument of social change. 

Suspended in a mechanic’s stand on stage, a vintage bicycle is “played” live by percussionist Brad Hart and sound artist and musician Anna Friz. SPIN takes you on sonic historical tour from the first woman to ride around the world to Igor Kenk, Toronto’s most notorious bicycle thief. Funny, political, engaging and thought-provoking: SPIN is a springtime elegy to Toronto’s favourite mode of transportation.

For more information on Evalyn Parry visit evalynparry.com

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The Dangers of Climate Change and the Legacy of Hope

Tuesday, March 15, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place

Speaker: Henry Shue (Merton College, Oxford, England; Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies; DPIR Senior Research Fellow, Emeritus [active], Merton College)
Sponsored by University of Toronto, Co-sponsored by Centre for Ethics
Register online at: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=9977

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Culture & Anti-Imperialism: Trish Salah, Larissa Lai and David Bateman

Tues. 15 March · 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
The Ossington (61 Ossington Ave.)

Join AvantGarden for an evening celebrating, in the words of Edward Said, "delinquents, poets, outcasts, and the like". Three tough, sexy, savvy features, no tear gas.
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Film, Faith and the Environment presents:

Earth: A Biography

Wed. March 16, 7 p.m.
At St. George-the-Martyr Anglican Church, 197 John St. (located just north of Queen St. W. at McCaul)

Free. Earth friendly food and discussion following each night’s film

Sponsored by The Green Witness Community
For more info: Stephen at 416-231-3060, stephen at saintmatts.ca

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The Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE) and Resources for Feminist Research (RFR) present the launch of:

Becoming Feminists - An anthology of how we became feminist

Wed. March 16, 5:30—7:30pm
CWSE, 252 Bloor St W, Second floor, Room 2-225

cwse at utoronto.ca for details

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Post 2012 Climate Politics: What the UN and Canadian Electorate have in Common
with: Joanna Dafoe, Canadian Tracker, Adopt a Negotiator 

Wednesday, March 16, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm
41 Willcocks Street, 2nd Floor, Faculty Club , University of Toronto

You're invited to join the Centre for Environment for the Douglas Pimlott Memorial Lecture, dedicated to the memory of Douglas Pimlott.
There is no registration or fee. All are welcome! 

http://learn.environment.utoronto.ca/events/douglas-pimlott-annual-memorial-lecture-2011.aspx
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Activism in Action - Practical Skills for Effective Social Change

Develop effective strategies to create social change in this series of evening workshops (register for 6 or 12 sessions)
First Session: Thursday Mar. 17, 6:30-9:30pm   

At Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (St. George stop on TTC)

Activist 10 Commandments - with Angela Bischoff
For more info and to get the complete list of Thursday sessions contact: Lyn C- 416-731-6605 or H - 416-596-7328 or Email peaceworks at primus.ca

or Petra (outreach) C - 416-732-8965 Email Pei.czech at gmail.com

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Mastering Google and Going Deeper:
Web research skills for activists and independent journalists
with Tim Groves

Thursday, March 17, 6:30-9pm
@ OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education), Room 5150 (252 Bloor Street West)

This workshop presents the skills and techniques that investigative journalists and private-eyes use to do deep-digging research on the Internet. Your will learn how to use Google innovatively and how to access the wealth of online information that Google can’t find. Jam packed from edge to edge, this session will be a chance for novice and expert researchers alike to pick up skills they can use everyday.

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. For full schedule of trainings, visit: www.opirgtoronto.org/training
*Register Now!* To register for workshops, please write to tools.change at gmail.com.

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BUDGET 2011: Warfare or welfare?

Thursday, March 17, 7pm
Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood Centre, 1900 Davenport Road (w. of Symington)

The 2011 budget threatens to cut more funding from social services, in order to pay for fighter jets and the endless war in Afghanistan. New fighter jets are estimated to cost $30 billion, which could provide $1000 to every person in Canada, or cover the entire annual federal health care budget. Meanwhile there is growing poverty and hunger in our community and across the country. Join a community forum to discuss what the budget priorities could be.

Speakers: Sid Lacombe--Canadian Peace Alliance and Jen Danch--The Stop Community Food Centre

Sponsored by: Bread&Bricks Social Justice Group and Davenport Neighbours for Peace

For more information, call 416-657-8345.
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WOMEN, RESISTANCE and REVOLUTION activist conference

Saturday, March 19 · 11:30am - 2:30pm
O.I.S.E. room 4414, 252 Bloor St West (St. George Subway), Toronto, ON

A one-day conference on the struggle for women's liberation

11:30am: registration
12-1:15pm: The origins of women’s oppression and why it persists
1:30-2:45pm: Women, Islamophobia and revolution in the Middle East
3-4:30pm: The new sexism and how we fight back today

$10 or pwyc. 

Organized by the UofT International Socialists
international.socialists at utoronto.ca 416-972-6391 www.socialist.ca
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POOR PEOPLES' ASSEMBLY

Saturday, March 19th , 2:00PM
Davenport Perth Neighborhood Centre: 1900 Davenport Rd.
*Free Meal
*On-Site Childcare
*Spanish and Somali Translation

In various cities over the next few weeks poor people and their allies will be holding local assemblies to plan a real fight back to challenge the Liberal Government, restore the Special Diet and win an increase in welfare and disability rates. We are inviting people facing poverty in this Province, community and labour organizations to come to the assembly and help build the fight against poverty in Ontario.

If your organization would like to send delegates to the Toronto Assembly, or organize an assembly in your area, please contact us at:
raisetheratescampaign at gmail.com / 416-925-6939

Come out - have your voice heard!

Presented by: Bread and Bricks Social Justice Group, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), CUPE Ontario and more....

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Free Movie Screening sponsored by the NDP York South-Weston NDP Electoral District Assoc.

Poor No More

Saturday – March 19 – 2 PM
Council Chamber – York Civic Centre – 2700 Eglinton Ave. W

Followed by Panel Discussion with producers and director
We all know about them, we all see them, many of us are them. The working poor. The people who have jobs, who work as hard as they can, but
they never seem to get ahead of the rent, of childcare, of paying off debts, and for whom time off sick can get them in trouble, or possibly even fired.

'POOR NO MORE' shows that this is no accident. Relentless lobbying of government by big business has stripped Canadians of hard-fought gains. Minimum-wage employees work for businesses whose profits are in the billions, while companies happily stash their money in tax havens, away from nasty Canadian taxes. The poor are meanwhile stuck in a cycle of poverty, a cycle the government shows no interest in breaking.
Paul Ferreira, Ontario New Democratic Party (ONDP) candidate for York South–Weston, and Mike Sullivan, federal New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for YorkSouth–Weston, are pleased to present a FREE screening of this important and timely documentary.

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The Legend of Pale Male - documentary screening

Saturday, March 19 · 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesavalles Ave

Presented by High Park Initiatives, a registered charitable organization, in support of the High Park Nature Centre

This is the true account of one of the most surprising and remarkable love stories in the history of New York. It begins in 1993, when a young man from Belgium looking to change his life has an unexpected encounter in Central Park. He meets a hawk. Not just any hawk, but a wild Redtail, a fierce predator that has... not lived in the City for almost a hundred years. Compelled to follow this extraordinary creature, he buys a video camera and sets out to track the hawk. Little does he know that the journey will take him almost twenty years and lead him down many trails of life, death, birth, hope, and redemption. 

Affectionately known to New Yorkers as Pale Male, the hawk becomes a magnificent obsession and a metaphor for triumph against all odds. His nest, perched on a posh 5th Avenue co-op, starts out as a novel curiosity to a handful of avid birdwatchers but becomes an international tourist destination - a place of pilgrimage.

Then, on a December afternoon without warning, in the space of half an hour, the building dismantles Pale Male's beloved nest. In a wingbeat, media from around the world assemble on 5th Avenue to cover the unprecedented protest. Gathering behind Pale Male is an army of birdwatchers, movie stars, poets, children, dogs, and late night comedy show hosts. What unfolds next, as they say, could only happen in New York.

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Healthy Water Healthy Cities
Toronto Chapter 2nd Annual Water Forum 

Sunday, March 20, 10:00am to 4:30pm (Doors open at 9:30am)
Metro Hall, 55 John Street, Room 308/309
Topics Include:
- The Great Lakes as a Commons
- U.N. Right to Water and Sanitation
- Drinking Water Successes
- Sewage in Lake Ontario
- The Threat of CETA
Speakers Include:
- Robert Lovelace, Ardoch Algonquin First Nation; Queen's University
- Anil Naidoo, Blue Planet Project, Council of Canadians
- Stuart Trew, National Trade Campaigner, Council of Canadians
- Archana Rampure, CUPE
- Robert Fleming, Waterloo Watch; Canadians Opposed to Fluoridation/ Canadiens Opposés à la Fluoration (COF-COF)
- Karen Buck, Citizens for a Safe Environment; Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant Neighbourhood Liaison Committee
- Lino Grima, Centre for the Environment, University of Toronto

We’d appreciate it if you could RSVP to: torontochapter at gmail.com
Extra Details: The meeting will start at 10am. We recommend you bring your own lunch. The closest TTC stop is St. Andrew, and you can take the King Streetcar west to John Street, or it would be a 10-minute walk. There is Green P parking available on John St, south of Wellington.
Free! Everyone is welcome.
Contact us at: torontochapter at gmail.com  http://councilofcanadianstoronto.blogspot.com  www.canadians.org
Join us in active citizenry. Get involved and make a difference.

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Haiti and Food Sovereignty
A story of Pigs and Rice: How Haitians Were Robbed of Their Own Food Supply
Sun. March 20, 2:00 - 4:00 pm
OISE, Room 5150, 252 Bloor Street West

...No Registration. Everyone welcome.

Melanie Newton, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, University of Toronto,
Field: Atlantic world, slavery, gender, class and race relations in the 18th and 19th century Caribbean.
Prof. Newton will give an introduction after which we will break up into small discussion groups.

In an effort to extend and deepen our understanding of the ways in which the Global North profits from the exploitation of the Global South, Toronto Bolivia Solidarity has organized a series of study sessions exploring the oppression created by extractive industries, and how local resistance movements engage these challenges.

The third of these five "Extracting Profits" (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183679908319270) study sessions will focus on Haiti and Food Sovereignty.

In the mid-20th century, Haitian pigs and rice served as staples in a functioning Haitian agricultural system and economy; however, an imperialist occupation of Haiti beginning in the 1980s left the state impoverished, the agriculture devastated, and the people vulnerable to crisis—a crisis that has become all too real in the aftermath of a series of coups, last January's devastating earthquake, and the recent cholera outbreak and flooding. Haiti’s unique historical situation, and culturally significant experience of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism, alongside democratic revolution and revolt, presents both challenges to, and creative possibility for, solidarity with the Bolivian movement.

The objective of this study session is to gain perspective on the common struggles and paths of resistance faced by the Haitian and Bolivian people, as well as the possibilities for solidarity with ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance of the People of the Americas) for political and economic regional security and sustainable change.

For more info contact torontoboliviasolidarity at gmail.com

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Spring Healing Arts Fair

Sunday, March 20 · 12:00pm - 5:00pm
'The Inner Garden' - 401 Richmond Street, suite #384

Join our holistic health-market! Over 15 practitioners and vendors will introduce you to a variety of quality alternative, traditional, holistic, natural, and transformative ways to approach your healing and health. Have you always wanted to try acupuncture, reiki, or shiatsu~? Now's your chance to get a sample (20minute) treatment of a variety of modalities, at a fraction of what the practitioners normally charge. 

The intention of this event is to connect people who are interested in holistic health with an assortment of tools, services, and inspirations to plant seeds for health and vitality!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149986781727640 
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“Backroom” Deal Leaves Suburbs Without Any New Provincially Funded Transit

The proposed compromise transit plan, developed behind the closed doors of Mayor Ford and Premier McGuinty’s offices, will deliver half the transit promised in Metrolinx’s so called 5 in 10 plan, for the same $8.7 Billion cost, unfairly leaving the suburbs out.

http://torontoenvironment.org/newsroom/media/transit030711?utm_source=Council+Watch&utm_campaign=c935f30e24-Mar8_CW_Transit_map3_08_2011&utm_medium=email

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