T.O. Greenspiration Events: Nukes in the spotlight
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Mar 27 19:47:27 EDT 2011
Toronto Greenspiration Events
Join me on Wed. night as we learn more about the nuclear crisis in Japan, what's happening on the nuclear front in
Ontario, AND have fun. - angela
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Can Finance Be Responsible? Social Justice, Sustainability and The Tar Sands
Monday, March 28 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Bahen Centre Room 1170, 40 St. George Street
Join the conversation as a diverse panel featuring the best minds in finance and environmental justice answer questions about the roles and responsibilities of
financial institutions in light of disastrous projects like the Alberta Tar Sands.
On the panel:
Clayton Thomas-Muller (Environmental and Social Justice Activist)
John Maiorano (U of T Responsible Investing Committee)
Laurence Loubières (Jantzi-Sustainalitics)
Sandra Odendahl (Corporate Environmental Affairs, RBC)
Maryam Adrangi (Student and Environmental Justice Activist)
In the audience: YOU!
Brought to you by: UTSU Sustainability Commission, UTERN, ENSU, Science for Peace, EJ Toronto, U of T Responsible Investing Committee, The Green
Majority (CIUT 89.5 FM)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197672173598009
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World Tour - Toronto's Book Launch with Kevin Annett
UNREPENTANT: Disrobing the Emperor
Monday March 28, 5 - 8 p.m.
Light refreshments at 5:00 p.m. plus 'passing the hat' for Kevin.
Oakham House Room G, Ryerson University, 63 Gould Street (east of Yonge, north of Dundas).
Kevin will be reading excerpts from his two books, Unrepentent: Disrobing the Emperor and Hidden No Longer: Genocide in Canada, Past and Present.
Hosted by Ryerson's C.A.W. Sam Gindin Chair
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Heritage Tree: Preserving our Natural Roots
with Edith George, former director of the Weston Historical Society and Advisor to the Ontario Urban Forest Council. We'll learn how we designate heritage trees and how we identify a tree's historical and cultural significance.
Monday, March 28, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, 200 Eglinton Ave W
Price: $10 (sliding scale)
For more info contact us at outreach at torontogreen.ca or 416-781-7663
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Vigil in solidarity with the 'Las Pavas Community', 123 farming families in Colombia
Monday, March 28, 12 noon
at the Colombian Consulate, 1 Dundas St. (at Yonge St. - Yonge-Dundas station)
Christian Peacemaker Teams Colombia has asked for North Americans and Europeans to hold vigils on Monday, March 28, 2011, to be in solidarity with the 123
families of the 'Las Pavas Community' - in the township of Buenos Aires, El Peñón municipal jurisdiction, Bolivar department, Colombia.
These families are planning to return on Monday, March 28, 2011 to a piece of land that they previously farmed for food. They were forcibly removed from this
land by riot police about two years ago so that the land could be used by a disputed absentee landlord to grow palm trees for export of palm oil to be used for biofuel and cosmetics. CPT Colombia has accompanied this community since that time. CPT Colombia was also one of the sponsors of a successful campaign to have 'the Body Shops' corporation stop buying palm oil for its cosmetics from the Daabon Corporation whose subsidiary has taken this land. A more complete history can be read at the links below.
As Stewart Vriesinga, of CPT Colombia noted, "we want the Colombian authorities to know that the world is watching how they will respond to people trying to
feed themselves instead of watching their land be used for an exported product."
We plan to deliver a letter - to the Colombian Consul in Toronto.
Some history, by Eloy Garcia, CPT Colombia - http://tinyurl.com/6zdznjr
Urgent Action - sending email letters to Colombian President and three other government officials: http://tinyurl.com/6blpgfu
About CPT Colombia: http://tinyurl.com/5sd6ett
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Tools for Change presents:
Grassroots Fundraising
Tuesday, March 29, 6:30-8:30 pm
with Jessica Bell
Fundraising is a key ingredient to winning campaigns and building powerful social movements. Yet, asking for money is often the task that we loathe and
ignore. The purpose of this workshop is to help you develop skills to confidently ask for support and develop a grassroots fundraising plan so your group can
thrive.
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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Community Townhall: Protect Public Housing
Tues. 29 March · 6:00 - 9:00 pm
St. Lawrence Recreation Centre (Youth Lounge upstairs), 230 the Esplanade
We are facing a housing crisis in Toronto. It is impossible to find quality and affordable housing in this city. Waiting lists for subsidies in public housing are at
a appalling 15-21 years. Rents have skyrocketed and continue to rise. Working class people sometimes have to choose between paying their rent and putting
food on the table. Our housing is regularly left in a state in disrepair, with the Toronto Community Housing Cor...poration (TCHC) being over 300 million
dollars behind in maintenance. This is direct result of the massive cuts to the funding of public housing by Federal and Provincial governments.
Meanwhile, the corrupt TCHC bosses have no problems carrying these cuts through while lavishly spending on spas, cruises and parties, as well as giving out
un-tendered contracts to their buddies. Furthermore, the recent scandal has opened up the TCHC to attacks by the right wing.
Rob Ford’s “Solution” is to sell off our public housing to his friends on Bay Street. The future of our homes and communities are to lie in the hands of big
business profiteers.This will mean more run-down units, cuts to subsidies, evictions and layoffs of maintenance staff so that the rich can make another buck.
Since many of our homes are on valuable downtown lands, new owners will likely consider building condo projects which would be more profitable to them.
We must ensure that our families and children have access to affordable and quality housing. We know the money is there because both Conservative and
Liberal governments have no problem handing billions to big business and banks through tax breaks and bailouts. We demand the funding for affordable and
quality housing for all. Furthermore, tenants should democratically control all of the TCHC. We cannot compromise on the future of our communities.
Smash the Rob Ford Agenda of corporate ownership of our communities! Out with the corrupt TCHC Bosses! For Tenants Control of Housing!
Co-Organized by: Esplanade Community Group, Toronto Young New Democrats
For more info: esplanadegroup at gmail.com 647-204-5312 (Farshad)
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Nuclear in the Spotlight
A chance to express hope for Japan and a green future…
With the Ontario Clean Air Alliance
Wed. March 30, 7:30 p.m.
Annex Live, 296 Brunswick (at Bloor), Toronto
With performances by Mike Ford, Meghan Morrison, Richard Underhill, Michael Louis Johnson, the Raging Grannies, and more.
Special guest speaker Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear will address the current situation in Japan.
Yes! to renewable energy
No! to nuclear and coal
Please join us at this FUNdraising event. Proceeds to go to Japan relief efforts as well as to OCAA.
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192323914141758
Tickets: http://nuclearspotlight.eventbrite.com/
Items and gift certificates for the silent auction have been donated by: The Big Carrot, Mountain Equipment Coop, The Bike Joint, La Palette,
Downward Dog, Scollard Acupuncture Clinic, Herschel Photography and Art, Bill Michelson Photography, and more... Thank you!
For more info: angela at cleanairalliance.org, 416 926 1907 x 246
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Crude Awakening: Oil Crisis
Wed. March 30, 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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Tools for Change presents:
Theory and Practice of Photojournalism
Wednesday, March 30, 6:30-8:30pm
with Jon Elmer
Photographs influence and transform politics. They transcend language barriers, reveal hidden realities, and test the boundaries
of what is "appropriate." Behind every influential photograph is someone holding a camera. How can we ensure that our photographs are useful to movements
for social justice? Learn how to get started and what to expect, how to navigate conflict journalism, political minefields, creativity and its handcuffs.
Discussion and workshop with Jon Elmer, independent photojournalist who has lived abroad since 2003 covering the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He is a
regular contributor to Al Jazeera English, and his work has appeared in Le Monde diplomatique, The Journal of Palestine Studies and The
Progressive, among others. He has covered war and liberation movements throughout the Middle East, including Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon.
http://jonelmer.ca
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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I'm Dangerous With Love
Wed. Mar. 30, 6:30 p.m.
Bloor Cinema (Bloor/Bathurst)
$10
After the film there will be a Q and A with Dimitri.
I'm Dangerous with Love is about addiction and rehabilitation, activism and shamanism. Dimitri Mugianis who starts out as the heavily addicted front man for
the band Leisure Class ends his long drug and alcohol addiction with an experimental treatment that uses the hallucinogen ibogaine. African shamans have used
ibogaine in their rituals for centuries. In the U.S. it is a Schedule 1 controlled substance but is is not designated in Canada. No longer a drug user, Dimitri takes
addicts through the same detox that he ways saved his life.
More info: torontoharmreduction at yahoo.ca, 647 222 4420
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Climate Change and Global Risk Governance following Cancun
Wednesday, March 30, 4:10 pm - 6:00 pm
Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, University of Toronto, Room 1072
This is a free event. All are welcome.
SPEAKER: Steven Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Mississauga
http://learn.environment.utoronto.ca/events/seminar-climate-change-and-global-risk-governance-following-cancun.aspx
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Any Wimmins Blues Night
Part of International Womens Month - FUNDRAISER FOR Six Nations Women's Retreat @ Camp Sis
Thursday, March 31st, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord Street, 416-922-8744
Admission: $7.00 (sliding scale)
Enjoy snacks and refreshment and fill your soul with blues at the TWB!
Featuring: *Doreen Silversmith, *Pamela Levi8, *Shandra Spears,* Rosary Spence,*Faith Nolan, *Rachel Melas,* Connie Nowe, *Nicole Tanguay,*Janet Reno
Camp SiS was founded by the Toronto Women of Colour Collective 17 years ago. It remains community owned and open to all women.
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Open pit quarry proposed for several thousand acres of prime farm land just north of Shelbourne.
It's potentially far worse than the Site 41 proposal. The massive open pit mine is being proposed for the middle of the Melancthon potato country. The formal
application for this attack on Ontario by a Boston hedge fund has now been made giving opponents only 40 days to examine a stack three feet high of reports and
provide a coherent opposition. Come to this public meeting to see what is being considered and how you can help protect the Province.
Thur. March 31, 6 to 8 PM
181 Bay Street, # 4700, Toronto.
Come in the Wellington Street door on the south side a little west of Yonge Street and take the elevator to the 47th floor. Bring your best thinking.
Some of the elements of the proposal include:
Up to 150 large ore trucks per hour entering and leaving the site 24 hours per day.
Tearing up over 1700 acres of potato country as a start. The company has purchased over 8000 acres.
Managing” forever 600,000 000 litres of water per day with no proposed treatment facility to take out the blasting chemicals and no trust fund to pay for dealing with the water when the limestone revenues have disappeared.
Digging 200 feet below the water table.
For more information on this visit the CAUSE website http://www.citizensalliance.ca/
Please RSVP to Carol Ellis at 416-360-2094 or cellis at northwatercapital.com and feel free to pass this meeting invitation on to any other interested parties.
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RAISE THE RATES, RESTORE THE SPECIAL DIET: March on the McGuinty Government
Fri. April 1, 12 noon - 3:00 pm
Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto
March on the McGuinty Government
RAISE WELFARE AND DISABILITY RATES, RESTORE THE SPECIAL DIET!
It has been 16 long years since Mike Harris cut welfare and froze disability. McGuinty's Liberals have been in power for half that time and done nothing to
deal with poverty. In fact people are worse off today. It would take a 55% increase to bring benefits to pre-Harris levels. If benefit levels were restored to the
same level of spending power as they had in 1994, a single person on Ontario Works would now be receiving $904 a month instead of the miserable $593 now
being issued.
Now as the economy continues to slump and the need is greater than ever, this Government is destroying the vital Special Diet Allowance that has enabled
people to survive. The new system they have proposed will provide benefits for fewer conditions and applicants will have to release medical information and
face other intrusive measures designed to prevent access to the benefit. Within the Liberals’ own statement about this measure, they refer to the fact that ‘many
will not be eligible’, and this is a move to ‘respect taxpayers’. The new Special Diet comes in to affect on April 1st, 2011 and all those who are not eligible
under the new program will be cut off by July 31st.
With no intention of dealing with the crisis of poverty they have created, the Liberals are setting up an 18 month long review of the welfare system to divert
us from taking action to challenge them. We don't need a review to tell us we're hungry. What we need is decent income and a 55% increase in the rates now!
UNITED WE EAT, DIVIDED WE STARVE! March on the McGuinty Government April 1st!
For More information contact the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) (416) 925-6939 / ocap at tao.ca
Watch the 2 minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guk9jOXeUco
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Rebel Films presents:
Gasland
2010, 107 minutes.
Friday, April 1 - 7 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-212 (St. George Subway Station)
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested.
This American documentary was written and directed by Josh Fox. The film focuses on communities in the United States impacted by natural gas drilling and,
specifically, a stimulation method known as hydraulic fracturing, which poisons soil and water. Toronto SA exec. member and OPSEU activist Julius Arscott will lead off a discussion.
Presented by Toronto Socialist Action: www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com or call 416 – 535-8779.
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Environmental Justice Toronto presents:
No to CETA - CETA and the Tar Sands Teach-in
What is CETA? What does it mean for the Tar Sands? Why should we resist?
Friday, April 1st, 3 - 6pm Panel discussion, followed by discussion and snacks.
OISE Room 2211 (At Bedford and Bloor, St. George Subway Station)
CETA is the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement--a free trade deal between Canada and the European Union. This trade deal will allow for water, land, and oil to be exploited. Who bears the brunt of this resource exploitation? What does this mean for environmental justice? What does this mean for trade justice? What do we do about it?
Speakers:
Clayton Thomas Mueller: Tar Sands Campaigner, Indigenous Environmental Network
Stuart Trew: Trade Campaigner, Council of Canadians
TBA: UK Tar Sands Group
Want some background info on CETA:
UK Tar Sands Group information on CETA Council of Canadians CETA Trade Justice Network Comic on CETA
For more information: ej.action at gmail.com ejtoronto.wordpress.com
Sponsors: Environmental Justice Toronto, Indigenous Environmental Network, Council of Canadians, UK Tar Sands Group, OPIRG-Toronto, OPIRG-York
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Critically Assessing Conservation: Reflections from the Field
Seminar and scholarship award presentation, jointly presented by the Centre for Environment and the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada.
Fri. April 1, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
U of T, ES, Rm. 1050
Speaker: Dr. Zinta Zommers, Wildlife Conservation Research Group, University of Oxford
Abstract: Using data from 16 villages and four communities of chimpanzees in Budongo Forest Uganda, the talk will examine recent controversies in conservation such as population growth around protected areas and the role of the researcher. What lessons can we learn and where does the next generation of conservationists need to go?
Speaker Biography: Zinta Zommers was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, where she recently received a PhD in Zoology. Zinta is now based at the Wildlife Conservation Research Group at the University of Oxford.
http://cfeandjgi2011.eventbrite.com/
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The Wealth Gap: Poverty or Justice
With special guest presenter: Cathy Crowe
Also: The Poverty Game
Saturday April 2, 9:00 am-Noon
St. James United Church, Etobicoke, 400 Burnhamthorpe Road (East of Hwy #427 on south side) Ample parking in rear or #50 Burnhamthorpe bus from Kipling Subway Station
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Tools for Change presents:
Media Strategy 101
Saturday April 2, 10am – 4pm
with Justin Podur and David Sone
Campaigns interact, influence, and are influenced by the media. This workshop will provide participants with the skills to develop a media
strategy, write compelling press releases, give great interviews, and develop frames and messages that are in line with their goals.
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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G20 Rally - Calling for a public inquiry
Sat. April 2, 3 - 4 p.m.
Yonge-Dundas Square
WE "THE PEOPLE" DEMAND JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY - WE DEMAND A PUBLIC INQUIRY!
This is a Peaceful Rally, everyone bring your cameras, and make personalized SIGNS if you can, the more creative the better!!!!!!!
We're handing out information pamphlets to the general public, and we'll have a petition to get signatures to demand a full public inquiry into G20. We need to inform the general public of the facts and encourage them to stand up for the rights of all people.
TO BE CLEAR WE WILL NOT BE TAKING OVER INTERSECTIONS , OR INTERRUPTING TRAFFIC. WE WILL WORK WITH THE PUBLIC!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=209164975764494
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Pachamama Alliance Awakening the Dreamer Symposium
With Harvey Weisfeld and Bob Eisenberger
Saturday, April 2, 9:30 - 5:30
at the Living Institute, 208 Parliament St in Cabbagetown.
Bring a friend. There is no charge but please RSVP to jim at livinginstitute.org, 416 515 0404.
Join us to explore a new global vision built on Sustainability, Spiritual Fulfillment and Social Justice. And come together with conscious, aware people who care about what’s happening in the world, our community and with our families. We’ll look at our biggest challenges and opportunities today:
The state of our industrial world and the thinking that got us where we are today
A new dream—new ideas about what really matters—leading to deep connection and surprising solutions
You will leave feeling a renewed sense of energy and hope for the work ahead
http://awakeningthedreamer.org/
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Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation (a project of the Clean Air Partnership) presents:
2011 Complete Streets Forum
- of interest to anyone interested in or involved with urban planning and design; transportation engineering; public health, accessibility, and safety; transit, pedestrian, and cycling infrastructure; and municipal government and public policy.
April 28 and 29, 2011
Hart House, University of Toronto
Learn from leading experts about innovative and creative solutions for designing and implementing Complete Streets - safe, inviting streets for everyone including cyclists, pedestrians, public transit users and motorists
You can learn about the speakers/program and register online at www.torontocat.ca/completestreetsforum2011.
Early-bird pricing is in effect for one more week (until April 1); we offer reduced rates for non-profits, students, and seniors. ING Direct is also making a limited number of student scholarships available - contact networkorange at ingdirect.ca to learn more.
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