T.O. Greenspiration Events: Autogeddon
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun May 13 18:24:42 EDT 2012
Toronto Greenspiration Events
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To all women!
For every woman who gave up her figure for her family, the last piece of pie for her child (or husband), peace and quiet for pieces of lego imbedded painfully somewhere in her foot; for every mother who put herself last every time a child needed to come first, gave up sleep for sleepless or sick child, sleeping in on the weekend for a child who needed a ride to work; for every person who has been birth, loved, nurtured and launched by a loving mother, today is the day to say thank you. So, to my dear mother, my sister and sister-in-law, my soon-to-be-a-mother daughter-in-law, my niece, my friends and female family members - today is a day to celebrate who you are. Don't take any sh*t from anybody! Happy Mother's Day! - Suzanne Elston
Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870
"Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!.... We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/howejwriting/a/mothers_day.htm
Why we should celebrate the real origins of Mother's Day
http://rabble.ca/news/2012/05/why-we-should-celebrate-real-origins-mothers-day
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Natural Contraceptive (FemCap, Contragel) and Mother and Baby Care Workshops
will be carried on by Shannon Kennedy, Women & Children's Health Promoter.
Contact her at WomenChildrenOutreach at gmail.com
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Veggies and Herbs - Fresh, Locally Grown, Organic
Receive a weekly share of fresh, locally grown, organic vegetables for the price of six lattes a week from Cultivate Toronto
http://cultivatetoronto.com/
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DIY Natural Cleaning Party and training
Monday, May 14, 6:30 to 8:30pm
Anarres Natural Health, 792 A Dovercourt Road
Free for Sage Fair Volunteers. Prospective volunteers are welcome to contact me to discuss the opportunity.
Contact: anarreshealth at gmail.com
In this special DIY natural cleaning party, you’ll learn how to teach others to make common cleaning products quickly and easily. You’ll sign up for at least one 2-hour shift at the Anarres/WHEN DIY Natural Cleaning Mini-workshop booth at the upcoming SAGE Fair. Don’t worry, you’ll have a partner or 2, plus get free admission.
The Do-It-Yourself Green Cleaning Workshop is a fun and easy way to learn about chemicals in cleaning products and the illnesses these can cause, and make products that are safe to use, and inexpensive! As a participant, you'll go home with your very own set of easy-to-make cleaning products (plus recipes) that have been tested for effectiveness and are good for your health and the environment!
More info: http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/1006
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Big Boys Gone Bananas
90 min. documentary, Sweden
Mon. May 14 – Fri. May 18
Bloor Cinema (Bloor east of Bathurst)
Fredrik Gertten’s documentary Bananas!, chronicling a lawsuit against controversial food giant Dole, was set to premiere at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. Dole responded with an aggressive media and public relations campaign to quash the film’s release and discredit the reputation of the filmmakers. The filmmaking team behind Bananas! refused to be bullied, filing a counter-suit and launching their own media strategy. Their point was that no one suing them had even seen the film! A true documentarian, Gertten picks up his camera again to capture his fight for free speech. Big Boys Gone Bananas! is an in-depth case study of an independent filmmaker’s David and Goliath battle with a corporate machine whose financial and political influence must be exposed.
http://bloorcinema.com/movies/Big-Boys-Gone-Bananas/?is_archive=0#Cinemon_MovieDescription
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Starting up Social Innovation
Mon. May 14, 5 pm - 8 pm
CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst St.
What is the single most important action that Canadians and the Canadian government could take to support social innovation and social enterprise in Canada? Special guests Tim Draimin (Social Innovation Generation), Tonya Surman (Centre for Social Innovation), Assaf Weisz (Venture Deli) and Anne Jamieson (Toronto Enterprise Fund) are going to convince you that they know the answer. But just don't take their word for it! Maybe you have an idea or two of your own...
http://socialinnovation.ca/event/starting-up-social-innovation
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Cross-Province Town Hall Meetings: Actions Launched to Protect Local Access to Health Care, Across Ontario
Real Alternatives to the New Austerity Agenda - 19th Annual Free Public Forum
Monday, May 14th, 1 to 3 pm
Toronto City Hall, Council Chamber, 100 Queen Street West @ Nathan Phillips Square
With:
- Jim Stanford, straight-talking economist, educator, author of Economics for Everyone, founder of the Progressive Economics Forum, commentator for CBC – TV’s “The Bottom Line”, columnist for The Globe and Mail
- John Sewell, former Mayor of Toronto, founder of Citizens for Local Democracy, advocate for public accountability in government, spokesperson for the new citizens’ group Economic Inequality http://www.economicinequality.ca
- Natalie Mehra, public health care advocate, Director of the Ontario Health Coalition, Recipient of the 2012 Alexander Gorlick Humanitarian Award
The Ontario budget for health care is harsher than even the most radical advocates for cutbacks predicted. After years of tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest, the Ontario government is trying to resolve its deficit on the backs of the sick and the elderly. There are alternatives. All residents who are concerned about protecting local access to care are asked to come out and join the discussion, share your experiences and ideas and help to forge the fight-back campaign to save our local health services.
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From Protest to Resistance: West Germany’s Red Army Faction in the 1970s and 1980s
Monday, 14 May, 6 - 8 pm
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Rm 5230
The Red Army Faction was one of the best known, and most vilified, urban guerilla organizations of the Cold War period. Emerging from West Germany’s radical student movement in the 1960s, the RAF bombed U.S. military bases and police stations, carried out kidnappings and bank robberies, and assassinated financial, military, and government targets. Their last attack in 1993 actually demolished a new prison before it could be opened, doing almost $100 million in damage and postponing its operation by four years. The RAF was never fully defeated, but rather opted to unilaterally de-escalate and then disband following the changes in the global balance of power in the 1990s. Join us on May 14 for a discussion with K. Kersplebedeb about the history of the RAF and other West German guerilla groups, the ongoing repression targeting former guerillas, and why this is relevant to radicals today.
Organized by PRAC and the RSM. Sponsored by Toronto Anarchist Black Cross, Upping the Anti
Pay what you can. For more information about the RAF: www.germanguerilla.com
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Great Lakes Need Great Friends - with Maude Barlow and more
Tuesday, May 15, 7 p.m.
The Argonaut Rowing Club, 1225 Lake Shore Blvd. West 9 (near Jaimeson)
Free admission! Donations welcome.
Speakers:
– Mark Mattson, Lake Ontario Waterkeepers
– Kevin McMahon, Director of Waterlife
– Chiefs of Ontario
– Maude Barlow, The Council of Canadians
Join Maude Barlow and other guests to celebrate the Great Lakes – a common heritage that belong to the Earth, other species and future generations as well as our own. Hear how we can collectively protect them from private interests and government complacency and restore more democratic control over them.
For more info: 1-800-387-7177, www.canadians.org/greatlakes or inquiries at canadians.org
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Healthy Food, Healthy Living: Strengthening Local Food Connections in Healthcare
Free Public Panel Discussion and Webinar
Tuesday May 15th, 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Toronto City Hall, Committee Room 2 (Queen and Bay)
Please join Food Forward, Sustain Ontario, and Farm to Cafeteria Canada for a panel discussion about local food success stories in Toronto healthcare facilities. Join our inspirational panel of speakers in a conversation about how their innovative healthcare food initiatives and experiences have brought more fresh, local and sustainable food to healthcare facilities across Toronto. With panelists:
- Heather Fletcher – Food Services Manager, St. Michael’s Hospital
- Elena Hall – Green Team Member/Seed to Feed Organizer, Princess Margaret Hospital
- Franco Naccarato – Program Manager, Broader Public Sector Investment Fund
- Panel moderation by Hayley Lapalme - Project & Workshop Coordinator at My Sustainable Canada
This event is open to all. For more info: darcy at pushfoodforward.com or 416-459-9975
FREE but donations to Food Forward will be accepted at the door.
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LET THEM STAY!
Celebrate International Day for Conscientious Objection by calling on the government to rescind Operational Bulletin 202
Dear supporters of U.S. war resisters in Canada, You haven't heard from us at the War Resisters Support Campaign recently, but the resisters are still here, living lives of uncertainty, though also filled with the joys of daily living and working. Our work continues. We need your help!
Tuesday, May 15 is the International Day for Conscientious Objection. This is the day we have chosen to revitalize the impact of our campaign, and to press for the elimination of Immigration Minister Kenney's Operational Bulletin 202. This bulletin, which asks immigration officers to refer the cases of all American war resisters to their superior officers, has effectively stopped the progress of resisters to resident's status in Canada, even when the courts have ruled in their favour. We need you, and anyone else you can recruit to help, to email Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and your MP on May 15. At this link http://resisters.ca , you can do this in one step! It will also go to the relevant Opposition Leaders and critics. You may edit and personalize the letter if you wish.
Thanks so much for your help on this day, and for all of the work you have done for war resisters.
War Resisters Support Campaign www.resisters.ca <http://www.resisters.ca/>
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Mapping TOenviro - Where we are, where we need to go with TEA (Toronto Environmental Alliance)
Wed. May 16, 7 p.m.
Revival, 783 College St.
Free
It's been almost a year and a half since the current council was sworn into office, and in that time significant changes have happened on the environmental front. Important environmental programs and services were under unprecedented threat. But thanks to the work of our team, TEA members, and our allies, we succeeded in stopping proposed cuts to those programs and services in January. Then, we witnessed a historic transit victory that will bring efficient, rapid transit to Toronto sooner rather than later. None of this would have been possible without the work and support of Torontonians like you.
It's important to reflect on what this success means for us as community organizers and advocates for the environment, and to begin planning how to move beyond defending what we have toward building something better.
torontoenvironment.org/mappingTOenviro
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Cultivate T.O.
Cultivate Toronto, formerly Young Urban Farmers CSA, is ready to kickoff the 2012 season and we’re looking forward to working with YOU!
Wednesday, May 16, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Centre for Social Innovation Annex – Ground Floor (720 Bathurst Street)
CultivateTO is a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), transforming backyards in the Wychwood, Riverdale and Dovercourt areas into vegetable gardens. We are helping neighbourhoods come together and learn more about sustainable urban farming and local, organic produce. Come see what plans we have in store for the 2012 growing season and meet other supporters!
www.cultivatetoronto.com (formerly Young Urban Farmers CSA)
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Your Antidote to Stress & Anxiety: Eating Foods that Balance
Wed. May 16, 6 pm - 9 pm
CSI Annex, Meeting Room #4, 720 Bathurst St.
Are you having trouble falling or staying asleep? Do you wake up tired? Are you feeling overwhelmed by your life and responsibilities? When stress accumulates, your body's mechanisms for protection and recovery are drained and many problems can develop. In this workshop, nutritionist Kate Leinweber will help you understand how to balance your blood sugar and hormone levels and deal with adrenal fatigue through the food choices you make…
http://socialinnovation.ca/event/your-antidote-stress-anxiety-eating-foods-that-balance
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Google Analytics 101: Find Out What’s Really Happening With Your Website/Social Media/E-mail
Wed/ May 16, 6 pm - 8 pm
CSI Annex, Meeting Room #1, 720 Bathurst St.
Google Analytics is a free tool that tells you how visitors are using your website, responding to your social media or reading the emails you send them. This is a workshop for non-technical people interested in improving their web communications. Anyone who has a website, blog, email newsletter, or social media campaign that they suspect could be better designed, better written or could get more visitors should attend…
http://socialinnovation.ca/event/google-analytics-101-find-out-whats-really-happening-with-your-websitesocial-mediaemail
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Reflections on Toronto's Fiscal Health and the Decade Ahead: A Discussion with the City Manager
With Joseph P. Pennachetti, Toronto City Manager
Wednesday, May 16, 4 - 6 p.m.
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs, U of T, 1 Devonshire Place
In 2011, the City of Toronto initiated a service review and multi-year budgeting process to achieve long term fiscal sustainability. Toronto City Manager, Joe Pennachetti, will discuss the various transformational changes taken over the last year to stabilize the City's fiscal position, and future strategic directions the City can take to build an economically vibrant and inclusive Toronto.
Seating is limited for this event. Registration is required. http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3479899473
For additional information, please contact André Côté at: andre.cote at utoronto.ca or call 416-978-2168
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Pandemic Theatre and Happy Trails Production Co. proudly present:
AUTOGEDDON
May 17th – 27th, 8 p.m.
Dancemakers Centre for Creation, The Distillery District, 55 Mill Street, The Cannery, Bldg. 58, Studio 313
May 17th – 20th, 8 p.m. $15 Advanced | $20 Door PWYC Sunday
May 22nd – 27th, 8 p.m. $20 Advanced | $25 Door
Advanced Tickets: http://pandemictheatre.eventbrite.ca
Written by Heathcote Williams in 1991, this neo-apocalyptic sci-fi poem critically examines the modern world’s obsession with the automobile, and serves as the basis for a darkly comedic experiment that arrives at the logical conclusion of a fatally motorized society. Framed from the point of view of an alien visitor quietly observing the strange behaviour of Earth’s inhabitants as it tries to decipher whom the dominant species is – man, or machine – Williams’ cynical prognosis for the planet’s future holds as much relevance today as it did over two decades ago.
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The History and Future of Boulevard Trees
Thursday, May 17, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
North York Civic Center, 5100 Yonge St.,
Free
Join us on a trip back through time, to a day and age when boulevard trees were nothing but an idea. Explore the deep rooted reasons why we need trees in our cities and what we need to be able to plant them properly. Learn where, who and why trees were first planted in cities and the challenges of planting them today.
Accessible entrance, reserved accessible parking, Green P Public Parking, TTC accessible. Public transit: subway to North York Centre Station.
http://www.yourleaf.org/event/2012-05-17/history-and-future-boulevard-trees
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The French Elections, Austerity and the European Left
Thursday, May 17, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Centre for Social Justice, 720 Bathurst (CSI building - south of Bloor), second floor, Toronto.
Since 1789 if not earlier, France has been a harbinger for radical politics in Europe, and the most recent elections are more grist for the mill. Join us for these talks and discussion on the French elections. With:
* A GTWA member and Socialist Project supporter who is a keen observer of, and frequent writer on, French politics and the Left.
* Greg Albo, Professor of Political Economy, York University, Centre for Social Justice.
Cosponsors: Centre for Social Justice, Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly Internal Education and Political Development Committee, Socialist Project | https://www.facebook.com/events/292889667464105/
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Never again - Genocide and human nature
Thur. May 17, 7 p.m.
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (Bathurst subway)
$5 suggested
Just returned from his latest trip to Rwanda, Gerald Caplan shares the painful and human lessons learned after a dozen years of being immersed in the Rwandan genocide and other genocides.
http://beitzatoun.org/cms/events/view/12-05-17/Never_again_Genocide_and_human_nature.aspx
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Asset Based Community Development (II): Tools and Techniques for Toronto NGOs and Changemakers
Thur. May 17, 1 pm - 4:30 pm
Centre for Social Innovation Spadina, Alterna Savings Room (Level 4), 215 Spadina
$45
Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) provides a framework for facilitating the bubbling-up of positive change from within communities themselves. If you are a Toronto change-maker interested in knowing the “how-to”s of the ABCD method, this session is for you. Featuring case commentary by local ABCD pioneer East Scarborough Storefront, learn the ABCD steps you can take to steward true community ownership, collaboration, resilience and resourcefulness.
http://socialinnovation.ca/event/asset-based-community-development-ii-tools-techniques-for-toronto-changemakers events at goodpartners.ca
Phone: 647.712.1477
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Fisheries Act: Proposed changes and environmental implications
Thur. May 17, noon - 1 p.m.
This is a virtual issue briefing, to participate you simply need a telephone and access to a computer capable of displaying a .pdf document.
Join us for a free issue briefing with special guest speaker Mark Mattson, president and founder of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper. Mr. Mattson will speak to the impact of the sweeping amendments proposed to the Fisheries Act in Canada in a budget implementation bill (Bill C-38: http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&DocId=5524772) being considered by Parliament. Join expert Mark Mattson for a discussion about these potential changes, the impact they will have on fisheries and watershed across the Great Lakes and beyond, and what these changes may mean for the environmental community.
You must register for this event in order to receive the call-in information and presentation materials.
Reserve your spot now by replying to this email, or sending an email to Lauren Cheal atlcheal at glu.org.
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Migrant Agricultural Workers' Human Rights and Health Conference
May 17 & May 18
Ramada Plaza Toronto, 300 Jarvis Street
The Industrial Accident Victim's group of Ontario (IAVGO), Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS) and Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW) invite you to participate in the Migrant Agricultural Workers' Human Rights and Health Conference taking place May 17th and 18th in Toronto. Participants will have an opportunity examine various areas of law as well as healthcare issues relevant to migrant workers. The conference aims to provide aplatform to exchange ideas and updates on law reform work as well as formulate strategies that will increase the capacity of workers to improve their rights and protections. While the targeted audience is community health clinics, community legal clinics, members of the private bar, organizers and activists, the conference is open to anyone who is interested in developing and implementing strategies to improve the working and living conditions of migrant workers in Ontario.
For more info: dinuccim at lao.on.ca or Mary DiNucci at 416-924-6477.
For more see: http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/21257670365/migrant-agricultural-workers-human-rights-and-health
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Toronto Socialist Action Presents - Rebel Films
A River of Waste
92 minutes, 2010
Fri. May 18, 7 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-212 (St. George Subway Station)
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested.
This documentary exposes a huge health and environmental scandal in the modern industrial system of meat and poultry production. In the U.S., the meat and poultry industry is dominated by dangerous uses of arsenic, antibiotics, growth hormones and by the dumping of massive amounts of sewage in fragile waterways and environments. The film documents the catastrophic impact on the environment and public health.Tom Baker, a former Ontario government food safety veterinarian, will lead off the discussion, looking at similarities and differences in the system in Canada compared to that in the USA.
www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com or call 416 – 535-8779.
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LAL will be celebrating their 4th LP release
Friday, May 18th
The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W (at Ossington)
LAL is a band, but not only a band - they are a music making magical mushroom, the visible flowering part of a much larger organism, connected with very fine but infinitely resilient roots. They are the flowering fruit of a complex network of microscopic filaments, these roots also belonging and are connected to other firms and organizations; incisive and relentless activists, ethical community based businesses and performance companies. They are a huge, justice-hungry organism. A world-wide team of individuals, groups, organizations, companies, firms, NGOs, businesses, researchers, activists, philosophers and artists. Those who are determined to give a shit. The music of LAL is made by poet, lyricist, activist, singer and Bengali-rooted tough-guy Rosina Kazi and her life partner, producer, sound designer, philosopher, aphorismist and Barbados-born king of chill, Nicholas Murray, joined by bassist and walking guru Uganda-born Ian De Souza.
www.lalforest.com
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Toronto Stop the Cuts One Year anniversary: A celebration to smash austerity
Saturday, May 19, Movie @ 5:00 p.m, Party @ 7:00 p.m.
1482 Bathurst Street, 4th Floor (CUPE 4400 ) (just north of St. Clair) (St. Clair W Subway station)
PWYC - suggested donation $5
Toronto Stop the Cuts will host its first ever social, meet other like minded people event. On Saturday May 19, 2012 join us for a movie (TBA), food, laughter, drinks and funky music (good to dance to!!)
*All ages event *Wheelchair accessible *Childcare/games provided
*Drinks and snacks available (for sale) - alcoholic and non-alcoholic
More info at www.torontostopthecuts.com
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Sydney White speaks on Fukushima
Sat. May 19, 7 p.m.
Conspiracy Culture store, 1696 Queen W. (near Ronces)
Rsvp as space is limited: 416 916 1696
I will be speaking on Fukushima. I will be exposing the lies about this event. The media is not telling you the truth about how to help yourself under the nuclear contamination. When I was at the UN in the late 50's, at 18 years of age, they gave us ingredients, a recipe that would prevent the cesium and strontium from entering our bones. Also I will be disclosing "all the accidents" that we do not know about.
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Toronto International Circus Festival
It's FREE!
May long weekend - May 19, 20 & 21
Harbourfront Centre
http://www.tocircusfestival.com/
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