T.O. Greenspiration Events: Local we grow...
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Mon Feb 20 17:30:24 EST 2012
Toronto Greenspiration Events
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Seeds - A Play about Monsanto vs Percy Schmeiser
Produced by Crow's Theatre (Toronto) and Porte Parole (Montreal)
February 18 to March 10
Young Centre for the Performing Arts (Distillery District)
Think you know what's on your plate? Think again. Centering on the four-year legal showdown between biotech giant Monsanto Inc. and Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser, SEEDS leads us through a high-voltage labyrinth of political maneuvering, patent wars, cash-fuelled science and the global domination of the planet's seed supply. A bold new documentary play by award-winning Annabel Soutar and director Chris Abraham.
Call 416-866-8666 or visit www.crowstheatre.com Use Promo Code "Organic" to get 25% all regular priced tickets!
"Seeds is great journalism, and even better theatre." The Gazette
http://www.crowstheatre.com/production/current-plays/seeds-2/
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Pink Ribbons - In T.O. Theatres Now
Pink Ribbons, Inc. looks at the pervasive impact of breast cancer fundraising. Every year, millions of dollars are raised, but where does all the money go, and what is actually achieved? The film offers a completely different take on the pink ribbon “success” story that has overtaken North America, with insight from leading doctors, activists and social critics, as well as women diagnosed with breast cancer.
View the trailer at www.nfb.ca/pink
Bonus: Family Day is FREE at TIFF Theatres (King and John) - Pink Ribbons is playing at 9:15 for FREE!
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Eco Friendly Apt - High Park area Needed March 1st
http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/hou/2855698396.html
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Pack the Court! End "Secret Trials"! Support Mohammad Mahjoub!
Mon./Tues. Feb 20 - 21, 9:30am - 4:00pm
Federal Court, 180 Queen Street, 6th floor, Toronto
http://www.peoplescommission.org/en/mahjoub/
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/662
http://www.facebook.com/events/242809372471603/ (please share!)
No One Is Illegal - Toronto has joined the Justice for Mahjoub Campaign and will be focusing our fight against security certificates in Toronto by supporting Muhammad Mahjoub as he fights to get his security certificate quashed.
Mohammad Zeki Mahjoub was arrested under a "security certificate" in June 2000, over 11 years ago. Under this “security certificate” Mohammad Mahjoub has spent the last 11 years without any charges being laid against him or having access to the "evidence" against him. For over 11 years, Mr. Mahjoub has remained either in jail or on draconian bail conditions without going through a trial or being found guilty. For 11 years, Mr. Mahjoub has lived with the threat of deportation to death or violence looming over his head without access to justice. Security Certificates can only be used against non-citizens, who are given lesser rights to justice, simply on the basis of citizenship.
*Please also view and sign this general statement on and against security certificates: www.harkatstatement.com*
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Tell TTC Commissioners: Don't fire TTC Manager Gary Webster for doing his job!
For the second time in less than a month, 5 TTC commissioners are trying to silence TTC staff to stop them from doing their jobs: giving expert opinions on transit expansion, which happens to contradict the Mayor's call for subways. This time, it appears they are threatening to fire Gary Webster, TTC Chief General Manager.
TTC commissioners Crisanti, Di Giorgio, Kelly, Minnan-Wong, and Palacio have all signed a petition to hold a special TTC meeting on Tuesday February 21 at 2:00pm, closed to the public until 3:00pm. Speak out: Expert staff should not be fired for opposing the Mayor's plans!
1. Attend Tuesday's meeting to show councillors that you want them to focus on building rapid transit, not politics. If you want to speak, register by email togso at ttc.ca or call 416-393-3698.
2. Call or email the commissioners to tell them that firing expert TTC staff will not help our city get moving on Rapid Transit.
• Councillor Di Giorgio - councillor_digiorgio at toronto.ca, 416-392-4066
• Councillor Crisanti - councillor_crisanti at toronto.ca, 416-392-0205
• Councillor Palacio - councillor_palacio at toronto.ca, 416-392-7011
• Councillor Minnan-Wong - councillor_minnan-wong at toronto.ca, 416-397-9256
• Councillor Kelly - councillor_kelly at toronto.ca, 416-392-4047
https://www.facebook.com/events/144777992310344/
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The Economics of Happiness - free screening and discussion
Tues. Feb. 21, 6:30 p.m.
Annette Branch Library, 145 Annette St.
Sponsored by Green13
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Stop the Cuts meetings
Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood Meeting
Tuesday, February 21st, 6:30pm
@ Sistering (962 Bloor St West)
Trinity-Spadina Neighbourhood Meeting
Wednesday, February 22nd, 6:30pm
@ OISE (252 Bloor Street W) - 5th floor common area (signs will be posted)
www.tostopthecuts.com (on the Events calendar)
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Trucks & Bikes on Toronto Streets
Wednesday, February 22 @ 7:00 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. (Just across from Bathurst Subway Stn)
Truck Side Guards and Why Canada Needs them NOW. Join Olivia Chow and many others advocating for safety of cyclists from trucks on Toronto streets. Hear from friends and family of loved ones who have perished at the wheel of their bikes in collisions with trucks. Many of the deaths (and serious injuries in other cases) could have been averted with the installation of truck side guards. Come out and discover how we can make it happen! To learn more.
https://www.facebook.com/events/166366453466798/
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Mad like Tesla on Transition Toronto
Where are today's visionary inventors to see us through environmental and resource disaster?
Wed. February 22, 7pm to 9pm
Wallberg Memorial Building, 200 College, Room 116
It is with great pleasure that Post Carbon Toronto and Transition Toronto host an evening with Tyler Hamilton. Award studded journalist, author, adjunct professor, Corporate Knights magazine editor-in-chief, and contributor to MIT's Technology Review. And as if this wasn't enough he writes a must read blog for anyone interested in the latest breaking news in the clean tech sector.http://www.cleanbreak.ca/ The back jacket of his recent book succinctly sums up the situation facing us all. "Climate change. Runaway resource depletion. Life smothering pollution." For the last six years at the Toronto Star Tyler has researched and written about many of the very fine minds that are dedicating their lives and talents to developing solutions to these problems. Somehow he even found time to write a highly engaging book about some of the more interesting and inspirational inventors he met along the way titled 'Mad like Tesla'. So if you're looking for a little break from hearing about the problems, and itching for a night dedicated to some solutions - this is the night for you!
http://transitiontoronto.ning.com/events/event/show?id=4627225%3AEvent%3A28368&xgi=1hPnSAE8awtPYV&xg_source=msg_invite_event
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How Local We Grow
Explore New Ideas in Urban Agriculture and Dream up Ideas for Linking Our City's Green Spaces
Wednesday February 22
Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie St.)
When kids today don't know that french fries come from potatoes and that potatoes grow underground we know something is wrong. Author and food policy analyst Wayne Roberts and urban food researcher and activist Lauren Baker will talk about Toronto's ever growing local food movement. Join Ward 21 urban agriculture groups and have fun with your neighbours recreating a neighbourhood where we can be connected to the food we eat.
Treats, coffee, tea and beer. Bring friends, neighbours and families from across Toronto
For more information, please contact my office by calling 416-392-0208 or visiting www.joemihevc.com
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Economic Inequality: What Do We Do?
Wednesday February 22, 7 pm - 9 pm
Eastminster United Church Auditorium, 310 Danforth Avenue (one block west of Chester subway station)
You are invited to the second in a series of public forums on the subject of economic inequality. We hope to build on the discussion at the first meeting to help create an agenda with broad public appeal. Be part of this important discussion to plan ways to achieve a more equal society.
Speakers: Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and Armine Yalnizyan, Senior Economist, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
This event is wheelchair accessible
Free - donations welcome
Our web site is www.economicinequality.ca
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The 10th annual Homelessness Marathon
February 22-23, 5 pm-7 am EST
Tune in to the Marathon on various campus-community radio stations across the country or listen live via webcast.
http://ckut.ca/homeless/
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Canning Workshop
Wed. Feb. 22, 6 - 9 p.m. (reg. at 5:45)
At Foodshare offices, 90 Croatia Street (near Dufferin and Bloor)
Learn to preserve the harvest with expert canners James and Heather, both expert canners with many years of experience. They will lead you through a delicious recipe and an in-depth discussion about canning and preserving. This will be a great way to learn new skills or brush up old ones. We will be canning delicious apple cranberry sauce using fruit from one of our local farmers. You will learn about the theory and practice of preserving, gain hands-on experience using a hot water bath canner, and leave with some jars of delicious preserves.
The total cost for the workshop is $45 for West End Food Co-op members or $50 for non-members (which includes the cost of a lifetime membership). http://westendfood.coop/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=141
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Learn Successful Use of Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Strategies
Thursday Feb. 23, 7 - 9 p.m.
Toronto First Unitarian Congregation, 175 St Clair Ave West (at Avenue Rd)
In the 1930’s, Gandhi led the people of India in a creative and effective strategy of refusing to cooperate with British rule. In the 1960’s, with discipline and training, black college students adapted Gandhi’s methods to desegregate Nashville lunch counters and stores. How can we, the 99%, apply their strategies to today’s struggle for equity?
This event is one of a series. FREE All welcome.
Sponsored by: Occupy First Unitarian Congregation and Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice
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Free Seed Seminar
Thurs Feb 23, 7-8:30pm
Big Carrot, 2nd floor, next to Book City, Danforth near Chester station
Maria Kasstan and Zora Ignjatovic present a free seminar discussing the when, why, and how of seeds. Topics discussed will include the reasons why we need to save the diversity of seeds and species for our own food security. Feel free to bring seeds to donate to the Occupy Gardens movement.
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Eroding Democracy & Sovereignty: Corporate Trade, Investment, Free Trade Agreements & Resource Extraction in the Americas
Thur. Feb. 23, 7:00pm
Ryerson University, 78 Victoria, Room POD 250
Public forum featuring Manuel Pérez Rocha, Institute for Policy Studies in Washington and Professor Anna Zallik, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University.
More information: pedro_cabezas at yahoo.ca
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Lotions, Potions & Creams II
Thursday, February 23, 10:00am to 4:00pm
Anarres Natural Health, 792A Dovercourt Rd 1.5 blocks N of Bloor
Come learn to make new, customized lotions, for yourself, your family, and your clients. We'll use simple, natural, vegan ingredients like vegetable waxes and flower waters. You'll chose enhancing ingredients like essential oils, cocoa butter, shea butter, argan, tamanu, evening primrose, rosehip and calendula oil to meet individual skin needs.
Register: http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/1300
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Beyond Dangerous Climate Change: the void between rhetoric and reality in reducing GHG emissions
Fri. Feb. 24, 7 p.m.
Friends' House, 60 Lowther (St. George subway)
Free/PWYC
What we say we need to do, what is actually happening, and what is really involved in achieving the rhetoric. Based on the work of Kevin Anderson; presentation by George Morrison. Be part of this critical discussion.
Sponsored by Toronto Climate Campaign and the Peace and Social Action Committee of Toronto Friends Meeting (Quakers) www.torontoclimatecampaign.org
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The Road Taken - film screening
Fri. Feb. 24, 7 p.mm.
35 St. George Street, Room 248 (Galbraith Building - 1 block north of College Street or 5 blocks south of Bloor Street West)
The Road Taken takes a nostalgic ride through history to present the experiences of Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways from the early 1900s through the 1960s.
Panel Discussion: Challenging racism and sexism in the workplace & labour movement with: June Veecock, Elbert Joseph, and Kalmplex and more.
We will focus on issues that deal with the material realities of the community and open a space for dialogue and commitment to year-long and ongoing organizing, mobilizing and education around the subjects raised in the films and the panel discussions. We will use this gathering to reach out to Toronto's Pan Afrikan community with the goal of advancing a more progressive political agenda for the material and socio-economic emancipation of all Afrikan peoples.
Free public event - donations will be accepted. We look forward to seeing you at the Afrikan Liberation Month Film Series!
https://www.facebook.com/events/284652981588187/
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Portrait of Resistance: The Art & Activism of Carole Condé + Karl Beveridge
by Director Roz Owen & Editor Jim Miller
Friday, February 24th, 5pm at Tiff Bell Lightbox (King and John)
Condé & Beveridge's exhibition SCENE OTHERWISE shows at the TORONTO FREE GALLERY until Feb 26th.
For the film see— http://www.portraitofresistance.net/
For the show see—http://www.facebook.com/events/226963777382097/
For Condé & Beveridge website see— http://www.web.net/~condebev/
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Brainwashing, Forced Treatment and Biological Psychiatry: The Legacy of Dr.Ewen Cameron
with Don Weitz
Friday, February 24, 7-8:30pm
OISE, 252 Bloor W, Room 2227
Antipsychiatry activist Don Weitz critically discusses the brainwashing experiments of the late Canadian psychiatrist D. Ewen Cameron in Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute in the 1950s and 1960s. The Canadian government (not the CIA) was the chief funder of these unethical experiments that permanently damaged many patients - most were women. Cameron's legacy is the dominance of biological psychiatry today.
Sponsored by Alumni for a Free U of T.
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Social Enterprise Soiree: a Benefit to Build a Tree Nursery in Ethiopia
Fri. Feb. 24, 7 - 9 p.m.
792A Dovercourt Road
RSVP please! Anarres Natural Health <anarreshealth at gmail.com>
Cost: Suggested pledge $10-100
Raise funds for a tree nursery in Ethiopia! Yummy treats to sample and learn about from African black soap, to shea, coconut and cocoa butter, cypress and frankincense essential oils and so many more! Belly Dancing! DJs! Hot chocolate! Demos and Samples! In honour of African Heritage Month and in support of Anarres' Campaign to Support a Tree Nursery Project in Ethiopia through Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR)
https://www.facebook.com/events/223351724424938/
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Made-in-Toronto Film Festival Presents a program in celebration of Black History Month
Prom Night in Mississippi – films and concert
Fri. Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m.
Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina Ave.
- 6:15 - 7:00 PM - FREE Special Pre-Event Discussion open to all Toronto Area High-School students and teachers with Prom Night In Mississippi Director Paul Saltzman. If you want to register your class please send an email to info at mintff.org or phone (416) 707-1077 for further details.
- 7:30 PM - CONCERT in Celebration of BLACK HISTORY MONTH. Canadian Jazz Vocal Legend JACKIE RICHARDSON, Vocalist/Actor STERLING JARVIS accompanied on piano by MINT Musical Director STEVE HUNTER
- 8:45 PM - SHORT FILM - WANGARI MAATHAI - Green Belt Movement Founder (1940-2011) Presented by the GreenHeroes Campaign
- 8:50 PM - FEATURE FILM - PROM NIGHT IN MISSISSIPPI (90 min)
- 10:20 PM - POST-FILM DISCUSSION Moving Beyond Prejudice facilitated by PAUL SALTZMAN and PATRICIA AQUINO
Students/Seniors: $12 in advance | $13 at door , Adults: $13 in advance | $15 at the door
www.mintff.org
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Palestine & the Great Games: @ the Periphery & in the Centre
Friday, February 24 @ 7:00 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. (Just across from Bathurst Subway Stn)
In this wide ranging and far reaching examination of the role of Palestine in the Great Games, the metaphor for grand geopolitical strategy involving nations and peoples first introduced by Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his book, The Grand Chessboard, author and journalist Eric Walberg paints a broad canvas putting Palestine both at the centre and the periphery of 100 years of modern and postmodern colonialism. Drawn from his most recent book, Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Game, Walberg shows how Palestine, despite its helplessness, is in a sense the most powerful player in the Great Games and its fate holds the key to the endgame. To learn more.
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Toxic Trespass - Film Screening
Friday, February 24, 6 - 8:30 pm
Centre for Social Innovation 215 Spadina Ave. Suite 120 (1st floor), Wheelchair accessible, PWYC (Pay What You Can)
In this film, intrepid filmmaker Barri Cohen launches an investigation into the effects of the chemical soup around us. She starts with her 10-year-old daughter, whose blood carries carcinogens like benzene and the long-banned DDT. Then, Cohen heads out to Windsor and Sarnia: Canadian toxic hotspots, with startling clusters of deadly diseases. The filmmaker journeys into toxic nightmares all too common in industrialized countries. She meets passionate activists working for positive change, along with doctors and scientists who see evidence of links between environmental pollution and health problems. And she learns how quickly barriers can go up sometimes, when authorities are questioned about the connection between toxins and serious health problems. This film is essential viewing for anyone concerned about the effects of pollutants on our – and our children’s – very DNA.
Sponsored by Women's Healthy Environment Network.
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Teach-In - The Geopolitics of War and Sanctions Against Iran
Another World is Possible. But Is Another War Probable?
Saturday February 25, 10:45 am – 5 pm
Sidney Smith Hall - Room 2102, 100 St. George St, U of T
$10 donation or Pay What You Can (PWYC)
Keynote: Sara Flounders works on the threats facing the world. Her article on the silence surrounding the exemption of military greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol was the winner of Project Censored top 25 articles for 2009-2010 news stories. Co-Chair of the International Action Center
Panelists
Iran: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi (U of T), Victoria Tahmasebi (U of T), Shadi Chaleshtoori (York U)
Canada: Yves Engler (author)
Israel and Russia: Yakov Rabkin (U of Montreal)
Global networks of power: Robert Latham (York U)
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/330758890300134/
For more info: http://bit.ly/xeTcGA Sponsored by Science for Peace (www.scienceforpeace.ca)
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From Occupy to the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement - A Discussion on Organizing
Sat. Feb. 25, 5:30 p.m.
OPSEU Office, 31 Wellesley St. East (across from Wellesley subway station)
A roundtable discussion featuring speakers from a variety of experiences talking about different forms of organizing and the lessons we can take and apply here in Toronto.
Presenters: The Occupy Toronto movement (Magdalena Diaz), The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (Lucho Granados Ceja), Popular Education Collective in Chile (Camila Uribe Rosales), Trade unionism in Colombia (Rangel Ramos), Trade unionism in Canada (TBD)
More information: granados.ceja at gmail.com
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Gandhi: The Power to Change the World
Sat. February 25, 1 pm - 3:30 pm
CSI, 215 Spadina Avenue
New Acropolis Toronto welcomes guest lecturer Parth Doshi for a seminar that explores Mahatma Gandhi, an ordinary man who constantly applied his basic ideals of truth, love and service to transform himself into one of the greatest spiritual leaders of the 20th century… read more
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OHC Emergency Assembly re: Drummond's Proposed Health Care Cuts
Saturday, Feb. 25, 11 a.m. - 3 pm
The Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square (Behind the Eaton Centre)
FREE
Major Health Care Cutbacks Are Coming: As you know, Toronto banker Don Drummond's report on restructuring (and cutting) public services, including health care, was released yesterday. The report contains 362 recommendations, 105 of them focused on health care. The Ontario Health Coalition is holding a Webinar (briefing by internet) to share a full briefing, provide analysis and answer questions about the proposed cuts and Drummond's recommendations this upcoming Saturday, February 18th. We are also calling an Emergency Assembly to pull together all the local coalitions, key member groups and activists to share a briefing and plan the fight-back campaign to save health care services across Ontario the following Saturday, February 25th. Please spread the word and join in. These are urgent meetings.
To register please call 416-441-2502 or email us at ohc at sympatico.ca.
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The Applied Positive Psychology Program
Sat. February 25 and 26, 9 am - 5:30 pm
CSI, 215 Spadina Avenue
The Applied Positive Psychology Program (APPP) is a comprehensive, systematic, and progressive certification course offered through HEG that is founded on evidence based happiness enhancement strategies. The field of positive psychology is a movement away from just diagnosing and treating what is wrong with people and societies, and towards identifying and building what is right... read more
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Conjuring New Lifeways with Ancient Wisdom and Emerging Science
Sun. Feb. 26, 2 - 5 p.m.
720 Bathurst Street
In the spirit of Sankofa (the Adrinka symbol meaning “go back and fetch it”) this workshop will explore how emerging science not only validates ancient global wisdoms but also suggests a new/old paradigm that can inform our work for social change, healthier relationships and individual wellbeing. Issues discussed have implications for activism, art-making and decolonization work.
Pay What You Can – If You Can (suggested donation $25 but no one will be turned away)
Fully wheelchair accessible. Everyone welcome.
To register or for more information email: amadahy at rogers.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/262348927169487/
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The League of Revolutionary Black Workers
with Norman Otis Richmond and Ritch Whyman
Sunday, February 26, 6 - 9 pm
76 Pauline Avenue, Toronto (2 blocks west of Dufferin Station, north of Bloor)
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers emerged during a wildcat strike in 1968 and went on to launch local organizations like the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, to challenge racism and exploitation in workplaces across America. As new movement challenge austerity and oppression, join us and special guest Norman Otis Richmond for a discussion about the radical history of black workers in the late 1960s.
Suggested donation: $10 to $20 or pay what you can. All proceeds to support Socialist Worker newspaper.
For more information call: 416-516-7859 or email prfrache at sympatico.ca.
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