T.O. Greenspiration Events: No More Fukushimas
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Mon Jul 30 00:20:13 EDT 2012
Toronto Greenspiration Events
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First Peoples Cinema: 1500 Nations, One Tradition Retrospective
with speakers, films, exhibitions and special events
running until August 11 at TIFF Bell Lightbox (King and John St.)
http://tiff.net/1500nations
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Emergency Rally - No Line 9! No Tar Sands in Ontario!
Mon. July 30, noon
7378 Yonge St, Thornhill
Calling all allies! Late on Friday afternoon, the National Energy Board approved the reversal Enbridges Line 9, opening Ontario and Quebec to a flood of toxic tar sands. We are rallying at the Minister of Ethical Oil Peter Kent’s office to say enough is enough! Respect Indigenous Rights! No Tar Sands in Ontario!
Both Six Nations and Aamjiwnaang First Nation have told the NEB that there has been no meaningful consultation from Enbridge regarding the potential impacts of reversing Line 9 for their communities. Enbridge and the Government of Canada are required to both consult and accommodate these concerns. This has not happened.
Earlier this month, Enbridge was found effectively criminally negligent in the 2010 Kalamazoo tar sands spill in Michigan, as they blatantly ignored safety concerns of aging pipelines for 5 years leading up to the spill. Line 9 is the Canadian extension of the same pipeline. Yet the NEB approves Line 9 blindly, following a pattern of rubber stamp’s on tar sands projects in Canada.
We demand intellect over ideology! We demand clean water over Enbridge profits!
https://www.facebook.com/events/137102129764372/
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Contested Futures: Tar Sands and Environmental Justice
Reports on front-line resistance, discussion, and the search for answers
Monday, July 30, 7 p.m.
OISE, Rm. 5150, 252 Bloor St. W.
Panelists:
-- Raul Burbano Common Frontiers, and Bryan Dale, Toronto Chapter Council of Canadians, reporting back from Rio+20 and the People’s Summit, Brazil.
– Ron Plain, Environmental Policy Analyst anti-pollution and activist from Aamjiwnaang environment group near Sarnia.
– John Henhawk, Six Nations of the Grand River activist and land defender.
Convenor: Eva Portello, Toronto Bolivia Solidarity
Environmental Justice is a global issue. The People’s Summit laid down a challenge to the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, which once again displayed government and corporate indifference to environmental needs. Environmental Justice is an issue in Canada. The tar sands in Alberta threaten water, land and human rights. Now tar sands oil may be coming to Sarnia, Ontario. Environmental Justice is an issue in Ontario, Six Nations activists, land defenders and allies are facing injunctions for their protection of environment and honouring of the Treaties.
We will have lots of time for discussion and strategizing, as we grapple with the key question: “What can we do?” The stakes are high for Ontario and humanity. All welcome.
Endorsers: International Solidarity Committee of the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly * Science for Peace * Toronto Chapter, Council of Canadians * Toronto Bolivia Solidarity (OPIRG-Toronto action group) Center for Social Justice * Common Frontiers * Greenspiration * Indigenous Environmental Network * OPIRG-Toronto
For more info contact: torontoboliviasolidarity @gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/events/331162193635182/
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Community Meeting: Sterling Rd. and Dundas St. W. Intersection Modifications
Monday July 30, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
St. Helen's Church (1680 Dundas Street West - East of Lansdowne Ave.)
City of Toronto Transportation Services and local Councilor Bailão are holding a community meeting to collect public input on modifications to the Sterling and Dundas West intersection near the West Toronto Railpath. This is the location where cyclist Jenna Morrison was killed by a large truck last year. Transportation Services has made several recommendations to improve the intersection for pedestrians and cyclists. For more details on the recommendations and the community meeting, or instructions to submit your input, visit the Junction Triangle websiteor download the community meeting notice.
http://www.junctiontriangle.ca/node/1601
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Mega Quarry Town Hall
with Parkdale-High Park MP Peggy Nash
Monday July 30, 6:30 - 8:30pm
The Sorauren Park Fieldhouse (50 Wabash Avenue)
Light refreshments will be provided
The town hall will feature guest speakers Donna Tranquada, Carl Cosack (North Dufferin Agricultual and Community Society), and Sandi Wong (Artists against the Mega Quarry).
At 2400 acres, the Melancthon Mega Quarry will be the largest quarry in Ontario and the second largest in North America. If approved, the Mega Quarry will cause immediate harm to natural inhabitants and destroy prime farmland, and may adversely affect the drinking water of over a million Ontarians. Join us and learn more about the Mega Quarry and what you can do to stop it!
http://www.peggynash.ndp.ca/post/peggy-to-host-mega-quarry-town-hall
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The Clean Bin Project
- outdoor film screening
Tuesday, July 31, 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 7:30 p.m.)
The Pavilions at Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview Avenue
[not TTC bus accessible on week days. Call 416-596-7670 to find out about shuttle to Broadview Station]
Suggested donation: $10
Note: Be sure to bring a sweater or blanket and cash for refreshments. We’ll provide the chairs!
Partners Jen and Grant go head-to-head in a battle to see who can swear off consumerism and produce the least amount of garbage in a year. Their light-hearted competition is set against a darker examination of waste in North American society, and the duo struggles to find meaning in their minuscule influence on the large-scale impacts of our “throw-away society.” Featuring interviews with renowned environmental artist Chris Jordan and marine pollution expert Captain Charles Moore, The Clean Bin Projectpresents the serious topic of waste reduction with optimism, humour and inspiration for individual action.
Film Nights in the Valley screenings are in partnership with Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival.
More info: Evergreen Brick Works
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Green Your Business - Creating Your Natural Cosmetic Business
Tuesday, July 31, 10 am - 4 pm with lunch included
Anarres, 792A Dovercourt Road
Learn how to make your business as efficient, natural AND environmentally friendly and sustainable as possible for you. Learn about labelling, shelf life, regulatory environment, restricted ingredients, pricing and much more.
Find out more and register here: http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/1455
Limit 6 participants.
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No More Fukushimas Peace Walk
Join Buddhist nuns on their walk around Lake Ontario calling for a nuclear free future.
Wed. Aug. 1, 6 p.m. veggie potluck, 7:30 p.m. talk
Friends House, 60 Lowther (St. George subway)
Free, all welcome.
Lake Ontario is sacred to the First Nation people of US and Canada and yet it is being highly contaminated by 13 nuclear reactors on Canadian side and 4 reactors on US side (and the U.S. government wants to build two more). Native people have disproportionately high cancer rates due to higher exposure from nuclear radiation from nuclear waste dumping and uranium mining on Native lands. We walk together in love and solidarity for a nuclear free future. A more just, sustainable, and compassionate world built on respect for all living beings and for the earth that sustains us is possible now more than ever. Please join us to help make it a reality.
For more info: angela at cleanairalliance.org
http://www.graftonpeacepagoda.org/no-more-fukushimas-peace-walk-july-11-aug-11-2012/
https://www.facebook.com/peacewalk.2012
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Waterlife
Wednesday, August 1, 4 p.m.
NFB Mediatheque, 150 John Street
Free!
Waterlife follows the epic cascade of the Great Lakes from Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, telling the story of the last huge supply of fresh water on Earth. Filled with fascinating characters and stunning imagery, Waterlife is a cinematic poem about the beauty of water and the dangers of taking it for granted. Narrated by Gord Downie, lead vocalist of The Tragically Hip and Waterkeeper’s Trustee of Lake Ontario. Featuring music by Sam Roberts, Sufjan Stevens, Sigur Ros, Robbie Robertson and Brian Eno.
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Continental Day of Action Against Canadian Mega Extractions of Resources
To highlight the exploitive and counter-productive practices of Canada’s extractive industry including oil, gas, mining of precious metals and energy resources.
Wed. Aug. 1, noon – 2 p.m.
Queens Park (south side)
Close to 60 organizations representing impacted communities, labour, students, NGOs, solidarity groups, and environmental organizations in 30 cities across the Americas will conduct coordinated actions. The aim of this campaign is to raise public awareness about the destructive impacts of Canada’s extractive industry on indigenous and framing communities both globally and here in Canada. In Toronto the event will held with street theatre and interactive actions.
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Join the Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity, United Black Students at Ryerson, and Partnering Organizations on Emancipation Day 2012 present
No One But Ourselves Can Free Our Minds and Bodies
Wed., August 1 @ 6:00 p.m.
63 Gould Street, Thomas Lounge, Oakham House (1st Floor) (close to the Ryerson Student Centre)
(on the corner of Church St. and Gould St., 1 block north of Dundas St. / 2 blocks east of Yonge St.)
Featuring performances by Progressive Artists, and featuring a Panel Discussion with Speakers:
- Dr. Melanie Newton, historian & professor at the University of Toronto, “Contributions of enslaved womyn and men, Haiti, and abolitionists to Emancipation"
- Abena Agbetu (Murphy Browne), journalist and community activist, “Wrestling with the effects of Enslavement and the call for Reparations”
- Helio Sousa, Capoeira Angola teacher, “Enslavement and Resistance In Brazil”
- Henry Gomez, CARIBANA Chairperson and educator, "Connection between Emancipation and Carinval Arts/Festivals"
Free (donations gladly accepted!)
Light refreshments and T-shirts will be on sale!
For further information: Email: network4panafrikansolidarity at gmail.com
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Adventures in Slumberland
Wed.s - Sun.s through till Aug. 26th
11:15 a.m., 12:15 p.m., 1:15 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. (weather permitting)
Lagoon Theatre, Centre Island
$10 or paywhatyouthink
Prepare to be amazed as the delightful and bizarre dream world of a little boy named Nemo is brought to life before you. This family show is an adaptation of Little Nemo in Slumberland, a weekly comic created by Winsor McCay from 1905-1912, still regarded as one of the greatest comic strips of all time. With puppetry, circus, masks & music Frolick Theatre invites people of all ages to get away to Centre Island this summer.
http://www.frolick.ca/
https://www.facebook.com/events/257102567727673/permalink/261845163920080/
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Open Roofs Festival presents:
Film: Hysteria
Band: Eucalyptus
Food: ESE - Mexican/Latino
Thur. Aug. 2, 7:30 p.m.
At the Amsterdam Brewery, 21 Bathurst
Hysteria is a lighthearted romantic comedy from director Tanya Wexler, based on the surprising truth of how Dr. Mortimer Granville came up with the world’s first electro-mechanical vibrator.
http://openrooffestival.com/events/
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Toronto Laneway Bike Tour
Sun. Aug. 5, 11 am
Meet at the NW corner Gore Vale and Queen
Free
Bike tour of laneways in Trinity-Bellwoods, Little Italy and Queen West.
For more info: info at graemeparry.com
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SHARED APARTMENT available in August or for Sept 1
I am looking for someone to share my beautiful apartment. If you or anyone you know might be interested please give me a call or send an email (or pass this note along).
Room available in sunny three bedroom apartment near Eglinton West subway station. Located on the 2nd floor of a quiet house, on a corner lot with large windows on three sides, good cross ventilation, new hardwood floors, and separate entrance. Living/dining room, plus eat-in kitchen, and comfortable bath with recliner tub. Furnished. High speed internet provided, parking available. $600/mo, inclusive. To share with self-employed mediator/trainer and activist. Female preferred.
Contact: 416-731-6605, or by email to:lyn.adamson9 at gmail.com. Thank you!
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Student Applications Open for School for Social Entrepreneurs-Ontario’s Inaugural Fellowship Program – Apply now
We are looking for 20 energetic, driven, and passionate individuals who have a great idea for a social venture. All applicants must be at least 18 years of age before the start of the program.
Read more: http://socialinnovation.ca/community/buzz/apply-now-student-applications-open-for-school-for-social-entrepreneurs-ontario%E2%80%99s-ina
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Healing the Mind: A Discussion Course on Self Esteem and Self Empowerment
A Toronto Free'scool course - FREE 16 week (2 hours, 1 day a week)
This is the facebook group for a course that implements discussion on the theories and philosophies that create a happy, healthy, empowered and complete individual. It is intended to serve as a guide for each individual to work their way through these issues in order to achieve self-esteem
https://www.facebook.com/healingthemind.toronto
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Camp Sis Women/Trans Music Festival and Retreat
Aug. 17 - 19
2 hours north of Toronto
Workshops, yoga, round robin performances, indigenous hand drumming, slam poetry, song workshops.
Fun fun fun hear women's music - be in live jams , sing guitar bass keyboards, mandolins, ukulele , sing , dance
https://www.facebook.com/events/359238084125901/permalink/391601157556260/
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Occupy Toronto Contact info & coverage:
Occupy Toronto Market Exchange, occupyto.org
Facebook site, www.facebook.com/OccupyToronto
Twitter, @occupytoronto
Rabble, rabble.ca/issues/occupy
General Inquiries, OccupyTO at gmail.com
Volunteer Inquiries, OccupyTOvolunteers at gmail.com
Postal Address, Occupy Toronto, 69 Yonge St., PO Box 17076, Toronto, ON, M5E1Y2
Online banking donations, Alternasavings – Danforth Branch, account #5028427
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