T.O. Greenspiration Events: G.E.'s Uranium Secret on Lansdowne
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Nov 11 22:15:47 EST 2012
T.O. Greenspiration Events
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Close the School of the Assassins: Vigil and Conference at Fort Benning, Georgia, USA - Nov. 15 - 19
Disapprove of state sponsored torture and massacres? Get on the bus! 12 spots left!
All ages. $200 plus $50 spending money covers transportation, motel, conference and food.
Contact ASAP <dwyerandsheila at gmail.com>
More info: http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/1531
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URGENT: the Jarvis Bike Lanes could be removed as early as Monday
The decision to remove the Lanes was made without consultation and against the will of the community. Join the Jarvis Emergency Taskforce (JET) in planning a creative, non-violent response when the scrubbers come to remove the lanes. Let's send a strong message to City Council that the only arbitrary removal of a bike lane in North America is wrong! Follow JET at @JarvisTaskForce. For free TXT updates send the word JARVIS to 393939. Email: JarvisTaskforce at gmail.comSpeak up for Separated Bike Lanes in the Harbord Gap
and ...
Please plan to attend the public meeting to discuss separated bike lanes on Harbord, organized by the Harbord Village Residents Association, on Monday, Nov.12, 7-9pm, Kensington Gardens, 45 Brunswick.
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Chasing Ice
Nov. 9 – Nov. 15 (4 showings daily)
TIFF Bell Lightbox (King and John St.)
Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of climate change. Using time-lapse cameras, his videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.
http://www.chasingice.com/
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Rendez-Vous With Madness - Film Festival
Nov. 9 - 17
http://www.rendezvouswithmadness.com/index.php/program/
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The Centre for Women's Studies in Education, in coordination with our Women's Human Rights Education Institute presents:
Vandana Shiva - Ecological Feminism & Earth Democracy: Occupying Life/The Seed
Monday November 12, 7pm
OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor St W (St. George subway station)
Wheelchair accessible
Free, donations welcome
This is the inaugural event of the new “Friends of CWSE”, a community of supporters of the many projects of the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/514921248537964/?fref=ts
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Wars for Gold, Oil and Drugs.
Our jobless children created by the banking dictatorship are "The Expendables" in corporate massacres
with Sydney White, Investigative Journalist, Studies in Propaganda, FREE University of Toronto
Monday, November 12 from 6-8pm
80 St. George Street, Room 158
Free - all welcome
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David R. Boyd
Author of: The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment (UBC Press, 2011)
and The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canada's Constitution (UBC Press, 2012)
Mon. November 12
11:30am – 12:30 pm Light lunch
12:30pm – 1:30 pm Lecture and Q&A
1:30pm – 2:00 pm Book signing
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place, U of T
Copies of both books will be available for sale
Event is free of charge but space is limited. Please register to ed.munk at utoronto.ca
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Why should I care about the unprecedented melting of Arctic summer ice in 2012?
Tues. Nov. 13, 6:30 p.m.
Runnymede Public Library, 2178Bloor St. W.
It's not just that the sea-ice is covering a smaller area of ocean in summer, it is also thinning rapidly. The sea-ice volume is now down to just one- fifth of what it was in 1979; since 1979, 80 per cent of the ice volume has been lost. Why should we care? What can we as citizens do?
Please join us to view 1. excepts from the documentary Extreme Ice 2.TED talk by James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change and 3. a September talk by Paul Beckwith, now writing his PH.D. thesis on abrupt climate change. Join us in a public reading of transcript from Hansard (from September 26 '12) as MPs Megan Leslie (environment critic) and Dennis Bevington (Western Arctic) call for anemergency debate in Parliament on the implications of this unprecedented melting. http://www.climatefast.ca/blog/request-emergency-debate-refused-speaker
http://green13toronto.org/content/why-should-i-care-about-unprecedented-melting-arctic-summer-ice-2012-take-part-vital
Presented by Green 13
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Canadian History through the Stories of Activists
Toronto Book Launch and Talk
Tuesday November 13, 7 pm
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) room 5250
Join author and activist Scott Neigh for a talk and book signing as he launches two new books published by Fernwood Publishing. Hear about some of the many struggles that have shaped the Canada of today, and talk about new ways of relating to the past as we struggle for a transformed tomorrow. Scott will be joined by Frank Showler, who has been active in anti-war and social justice movements in Toronto since the late 1930s and whose words (along with his late wife Isabel's) are at the heart of Chapter 1 of *Resisting the State*. He will also be joined by Don Weitz, a pillar of anti-psychiatry organizing in Ontario in the last several decades and the activist whose words are at the heart of Chapter 5 in *Resisting the State*. And, finally, Josephine Grey, a long-time anti-poverty activist with Low Income Families Together and other groups, whose words are the core of Chapter 6 of *Resisting the State*, will also be saying a few words. All three will speak briefly about their experiences and about the importance of paying attention to history for movements today.
To learn more about the books and the project of which they are a part, and to read and hear excerpts from the interviews around which the books are organized, visit http://talkingradical.ca/.
This event is sponsored by OPIRG Toronto and Fernwood Publishing.
https://www.facebook.com/events/454340501274521/permalink/459178804124024/
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The fight for women's liberation and the backlash against women's rights
Toronto IS (International Socialists) District Mtng.
Tues Nov 13 @ 6pm
OISE, 252 Bloor St W (St George subway), Rm 2289
This week's district meeting will focus on the fight for women's liberation and the backlash against women's rights, and:
- short report on organizing in the pro-choice movement
- discussion of the so-called 'men's rights' movement at U of T campus-Are men oppressed? What are the roots of the 'men's rights' movement?
See Jesse Mclaren's article in the latest SW, with some of the comments from detractors, for a flavour of what men's rights is all about:
http://socialistworkercanada.com/2012/11/07/why-mens-rights-groups-are-wrong/#comments
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The Dilemma of Controlling Cultural Eutrophication? (Overfertilisation of freshwaters with nutrients).
with DAVID SCHINDLER, Killam Memorial Professor of Ecology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta
Wed. Nov. 14, 4:10 p.m.
Rm. 128, Mining Building, 170 College Street
Presented by School of the Environment, U of T
http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/Events/The%20Dilemma%20of%20Controlling%20Cultural%20Eutrophication.aspx
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Consultation opportunities on draft plastic bag ban bylaw
Members of the public will have the opportunity to make a deputation about the specifics of the new bylaw at the November 14 meeting of the City's Public Works and Infrastructure Committee
http://wx.toronto.ca/inter/it/newsrel.nsf/7017df2f20edbe2885256619004e428e/d6c03aa78c24823185257a8d006cbc16?OpenDocument
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Save the School House Shelter
Defend the Downtown East!
Wed. Nov. 14, 9 am
Moss Park (Queen and Sherbourne)
*Free Breakfast, Rally and March
In June, the City of Toronto's 'Community Development and Recreation Committee', including local councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, voted to close down the School House on George St, a 55 bed men's harm reduction shelter. On Wednesday, November 14th the issue of the School House Shelter will be brought back to City Hall for a final report on how the money that should be spent keeping the shelter open, will instead be re-shuffled in the system. In the mean-time, all shelters remain overcrowded, harm reduction programming is scarce, the Provincial cut to Community Start-Up will throw more people on to the streets, and winter is about to set in.
The closing of the School House is a gateway for the re-development and gentrification of the entire Downtown East. On George St alone, politicians and slumlords have let buildings that should have been converted to affordable housing long ago, instead sit empty and catch fire. They talk about 'cleaning up the neighborhood' but instead of building housing, keeping shelters open, and providing more and better services, they cut services, reduce shelter beds, and blame the poor. They talk about 'mixed income' neighborhoods, and yet no one looks at mixing up Rosedale, only the Downtown East is the target.
We can not let this shelter be closed, and we will not let poor people be pushed and priced out of the Downtown East. OCAP has said from the beginning that we will not simply watch the School House be cleared or sit empty while people die on the streets. We have brought our community together to fight for this space, and on November 14th we are not backing down.
Get involved, join OCAP and the Downtown East Committee: 416-925-6939 / ocap at tao.ca / www.ocap.ca
Twitter: @OCAPtoronto #SaveSchoolHouse
http://www.facebook.com/events/289020987881979/?context=create
Fact Sheet on the School House Shelter: http://www.ocap.ca/node/1020
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Stop Racial Profiling! – Stop Racist Policing!
Wed. Nov. 14, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Toronto Police Headquarters, 40 College (at Yonge)
Join us as we speak out against the continued racial profiling and racist policing directed at affected communities here in Toronto. Our struggles to be free from racist police harassment and unconstitutional violations of our rights has resulted in many studies and much talk, but in the neighbourhoods, nothing has changed – police still harass, intimidate, illegally search, arrest, and brutalize the people, and especially Black and racialized youth. The Toronto Police Services Board's words have proved empty and hollow, and the "new way of doing business" looks exactly like the old one. From TAVIS to Form 208 cards, the security they talk about doesn’t mean safety for us. It’s time to find real solutions to neighbourhood problems!
No more illegal detentions and searches! Stop racial profiling and racist policing!
Event endorsed by: Justice IS NOT Colour-Blind Campaign, Law Union of Ontario, Rights Watch Network, Network for Pan-African Solidarity, Nation of Islam (Toronto), the office of Jagmeet Singh, and OPIRG York. To endorse this event or for more information please contact: speakoutnovember14 at gmail.com
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Toxic Trespass: An Award-Winning Documentary Film on Childrens' Health and the Environment
Wed. Nov. 14, 6:30 p.m.
Hart House, U of T
Present at the screening will be: Writer/Director Barri Cohen, Executive Producer Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg, MES, PhD, and Public Health Educator, Soy-Yan Seto, PhD
Toxic Trespass investigates the growing evidence that we are conducting a large-scale toxicological experiment on our children, and explores what some scientists, doctors, activists and others are doing about it. 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.
Here, everyone seems to know children who have suffered respiratory illnesses, leukemia, brain tumours and other illnesses. And on the Native reserve of Aamjiwnaang, ringed by Sarnia's "chemical valley," the film reveals a startling birth rate problem that officials just can't ignore. Cohen 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 when anyone tries to even ask questions about the connection betweeen toxins and serious health problems. Perhaps most appalling - and funny, in their own twisted way - are the roadblocks Cohen encounters when she tries to get information from federal officials. One tells her his department is "planning to discuss the plans."
This moving documentary is empowering and leavened with wry humour. Carried by Cohen's passion for truth and her disarming openness, it is essential viewing for anyone concerned about the effects of pollutants on our - and our children's - very DNA. Toxic Trespass is accompanied by a comprehensive guidebook for educators, activists and concerned citizens, produced by the Women's Healthy Environment Network.
For information on the film and resource guide: http://www.toxictrespass.com
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Book Launch: "Share: Delicious Dishes from FoodShare and Friends"
by Adrienne De Francesco with Marion Kane. Forward by Frances Moore Lappé.
Wednesday, November 14, 6 pm - 8 pm
FoodShare, 90 Croatia Street (entrance is at the corner of Brock Avenue and Brock Crescent, just below Bloor St. West).
Free
Explore FoodShare’s Field to Table Community Food Hub and its fresh produce warehouse. Sample a bounty of diverse delicious dishes from the book, meet the authors, contributors and the whole FoodShare community. Discover interactive displays in multi-faceted program areas representing “every link in the Food Chain,” including fresh produce sourcing and sales, community cooking, community gardening and urban agriculture, student nutrition and hands-on food education from JK-Grade 12.
For more information see: http://www.foodshare.net/share/ and http://www.btlbooks.com/book/share
Contact: info at foodshare.net, info at btlbooks.com
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Protest China's Take Over of Canada's Nexen
Wednesday, November 14, 10 am - noon
151 Yonge Street
Join Students for a Free Tibet and Toronto Tibetan community as we continue to protest against the deal between Canadian oil giant Nexen and China National Offshore Oil Company. The Tibetan-Canadian community and its allies are protesting against this deal because CNOOC, China's state-owned offshore oil corporation, has been known to fund forced resettlement of Tibetan nomads off their ancestral land. Many Tibetans who have been setting themselves on fire in protest against the repressive Chinese government's rule come from these nomadic communities. Tibet continues to be under clamp down as the self-immolation protest continues to escalate. Just last week, 7 Tibetans including teenagers set themselves on fire in protest raising the number to nearly 70. The Canadian government cannot be adding more fuel to the fire that is already burning inside Tibet through this deal.
If you cannot make it to the protest, here is a petition you can sign. https://secure3.convio.net/sft/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=895
Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/432072646852011/
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Raising the Workers' Flag - book launch
Wed. Nov. 14, 6 p.m.
Ben McNally Bookstore, 366 Bay St.
Meet author Stephen L. Endicott, get a book signed, enjoy protest folk songs and consider what we can learn from inspirational workers' resistance efforts in the 1930's...
During the Great Depression, the conflicting interests of capital and labour became clearer than ever before. Radical Canadian workers, encouraged by the Red International of Labour Unions, responded by building the Workers' Unity League -- an organization that greatly advanced the cause of unions in Canada, and boasted 40,000 members at its height. In Raising the Workers' Flag, the first full-length study of this robust group, Stephen L. Endicott brings its passionate efforts to light in memorable detail.
Raising the Workers' Flag is based on newly available or previously untapped sources, including documents from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Security Service and the Communist Party's archives. Using these impressive finds, Endicott gives an intimate sense of the raging debates of the labour movement of the 1930s. A gripping account of the League's dreams and daring, Raising the Workers' Flag enlivens some of the most dramatic struggles of Canadian labour history.
https://www.facebook.com/events/365205096898236/
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G.E.'s Uranium Secret - West End Toronto
Did you know there was a uranium processing factory in the heart of Toronto? You're invited to a community meeting to learn more
Thur. Nov, 15, 7 p.m.
1900 Davenport-Perth Community Center (near Lansdowne and Davenport)
All welcome. Free.
Tentative and growing speakers list:
- Amanda Lickers on Health Impacts
- Angela Bischoff, OCAA as moderator
- Parents from the Prince of Wales School Community Peterborough
- Legal Counsel from the Canadian Environmental Law Association
- Parents from the Junction Triangle
The game plan:
5:30-6 pm Meet outside GE for a group meet and greet and location identification (1025 Lansdowne)
6:30 pm Walk from GE to 1900 Davenport (on the walk people can talk and get to know each other - we're in this together)
7 pm Forum at 1900 Davenport
8:45-9:15 pm March back to GE, do "toxic tour"
10:00-11:00pm for the hardcore, meet at the Coffee Time at Lansdowne and Dupont to discuss strategy and further action
VIDEO LINK to a Mini-documentary on this issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt5H25V9cAI&feature=plcp
GE's West-End Secret - NOW piece http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=189189
Stop G.E.'s West End Uranium Factory Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/370015163080483/
https://www.facebook.com/events/397186077021585/
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New Strategies for Dealing with Global Problems
With Ron Craig, Prof of Communication & Design, Ryerson University.
Thur. Nov. 15, 7 – 9 p.m.
University College, 15 Kings College Circle, U of Toronto, Rm. 144
All welcome. No charge.
Co-Sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace, and Voice of Women for Peace.
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7th Annual Reel Awareness Film Festival
Thursday, November 15 – Sunday, November 18
Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton Street
PWYC at the door (suggested donation $5)
Amnesty International Toronto celebrates its 7th annual Reel Awareness Film Festival with four days of some of the best human rights documentary and feature films shown around the world. The 2012 program features compelling films, guest speakers, panel discussions, the opportunity to take action on a variety of human rights issues. Many of the films will be followed by Q&A with filmmakers, community activists, and human rights experts. Amnesty International will also be on-hand to provide further information about the issues raised by the films, as well as to provide opportunities to take action on these issues.
For more info on the festival, films and schedule call 416 363 9933 ext 333 or www.aito.ca/reelawareness
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/events/419255601444807/
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Rebuilding Bridges opening concert and alternative media fundraiser
Thursday November 15, Doors at 9 PM
Bike Pirates, 1292 Bloor Street West
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/425473674183054/
Performances by: Test Their Logik, Lee Reed + more!
This event is a fundraiser for the Toronto Media co-op and the York University Free Press.
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ReBuilding Bridges Conference
A conference of conversations & discussions about our political work.
Friday November 16 - 18, Sydney Smith Hall, U of T
Rebuilding Bridges is a convergence of community organizers, educators, radicals and activists from across different social movements, intent on engaging in conversations and discussions about our political work. We are in a time of intense uprising, social unrest and student strikes, but our movements remain fragmented and our campaigns mostly one-dimensional. How have our movements lost out on valuable cross-movement collaborations in the past? What can we learn from each other? Though we may employ different tactics or prioritize certain issues, we all envision and work towards dismantling a system built on exploitation, colonialism and oppression, and building a better, more just world. Let’s start speaking and sharing with each other!
With OPIRG Toronto + OPIRG York
http://rebuildingbridgesto.wordpress.com/schedule/
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What Really Works in Creating Affordable Housing?
An Affordable Living Alternative for Seniors
Friday, November 16, noon - 2 p.m.
115 The Esplanade (OWN Housing Co-op), Buzzer # 101 - Meeting Room on First Floor
With speaker Elizabeth Power, President, Abbeyfield Houses Society of Canada. Abbeyfield is known for creating warm caring family-style homes that provide a balance between privacy and companionship, security and independence. Join us to learn how Abbeyfield builds and runs its homes.
Please bring a “Brown Bag” lunch. Refreshments provided.
Seating is limited - Reserve your seat by calling: (416) 214-1518
A Voice for Older and Midlife Women Learning and Working Together, Sponsored by the OWN Housing Committee
www.olderwomensnetwork.org
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Education for Activists Conference - 'Controversies and Principles in the Struggle'
5th Annual Toronto Socialist Action Trotsky School
OISE, 252 Bloor St. W., Room 2-214 (St. George Subway Station)
Friday, November 16
- 7 p.m. The Nature of Capitalism - profit squeeze, overproduction, periodic crises, eco-destruction, and war.
Speaker: Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action – USA; member, National Administrative Committee of the United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC) and coordinator for The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Saturday, November 17
- 10 a.m. Can Social Democracy Be Reformed?
Speaker: Yasin Kaya, member Youth for Socialist Action and Socialist Action-Canada, PhD. candidate at York University.
- 1 p.m. Origins of Zionism, and Why Israel is a Major Obstacle to Social Justice.
Speaker: Barry Weisleder, Federal Secretary, Socialist Action/Ligue pour l'Action socialiste; co-editor, Socialist Action newspaper.
- 4 p.m. The Rise and Fall of Maoism
Speaker: Jeff Mackler, National Secretary, Socialist Action - USA
- 6 p.m. Social event at a nearby pub
Registration: $10 for the weekend, $4 per session (or pay what you can)
For more information, visit: www.socialistaction.ca
e-mail: barryaw at rogers.com or call: 416 – 535-8779
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Instruments for Peace
Fundraising event to support music schools in rural communities of El Salvador
Friday November 16, Doors open at 7:00pm.
Steel Workers Hall, 25 Cecil Street.
Admission is $10.00. A cash bar and Salvadorean traditional cuisine will be available.
Casa Maiz and the Salvadorean Canadian Association are pleased to invite our community to a benefit concert to support music schools in rural communities in El Salvador featuring El Salvador based musical bandProyeccion Activa. Proyeccion Activa is a cultural project dedicated to document the historic memory of the Lower Lempa region in El Salvador, to create space for training young musicians in different musical disciplines and to foster a culture of peace in the region. Voces Poeticas, a Toronto based musical ensemble dedicated to promoting Hispanic heritage through music, dance and poetry will also perform at this event.
El Salvador, a country that has suffered from chronic violence for more than fifty years as a result of military dictatorships, civil war and failed democracies, is considered by United Nations one of the most violent countries in the world. With growing levels of inequality and few opportunities for social and economic development, young people in the country are easy prey for gangs, organized crime and a state security system with crude mechanisms of crime prevention. Within this context, community initiatives such as Proyeccion Activa not only accomplish their goal of promoting the cultural development of the country, but provide much needed radical alternatives for youth who often face a reality of violence and impunity.
For more information and to reserve tickets please call 647-787-5737
Friday November 16th at the Steel Workers Hall, 25 Cecil Street. Doors open at 7:00pm. Admission is $10.00. A cash bar and Salvadorean traditional cuisine will be available.
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The Tar Sands Come to Ontario - No Line 9!
Resistance, Education, and Alternatives
Sat. Nov. 17, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sidney Smith Hall, University of Toronto Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St., between College and Harbord
Lunch provided, building is accessible
A day of discussion and organizing for action to stop tar sands piplines in Ontario. Join us for workshops, a panel discussion and a people's assembly. Special guests will include Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians), Art Sterritt (BC Coastal First Nations, Executive Director), Wes Elliott (Haudenosaunee land defender), and Vanessa Gray (Aamjiwnaang First Nation) as well as resource people on labour and environmental justice issues.
WHAT IS LINE 9? First Nations' defence of their lands is spearheading resistance across Canada to the tar sands menace. In Ontario, this threat is posed by the corporation, Enbridge, with their proposed Line 9 pipeline which could soon be pumping corrosive and toxic tar sands across the province of Ontario. Line 9 cuts through Toronto, north of Finch. Tar sands in Line 9 would violate indigenous land rights, menace natural environments, violate indigenous land rights, and threaten our communities across the province. And exploitation of Canada's tar sands escalates global warming, posing a deadly threat to all the world's peoples.
Get involved! More info: boliviaclimatejustice at gmail. com.
https://www.facebook.com/events/505545582789129/
http://rabble.ca/news/2012/09/enbridge-line-9-other-other-pipeline
In conjunction with OPIRG’s Rebuilding Bridges conference
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Campaign Planning Workshop
Saturday, November 17, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
This workshop will help you plan and execute a winning campaign plan to help you achieve your goals. Learn the basic components of a campaign, as well as how to choose strategic goals, strategies, and tactics.
http://www.toolsforchange.net/2012/08/27/campaign-planning-workshop-1pm-5pm-nov-17-2012/
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Calling all supporters of a sustainable future for Haiti:
Quebec Square Dance and Silent Auction
featuring members of Reveillons
Sat. Nov. 17, 7 p.m.
Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt Road (north of Bloor)
No experience necessary. If contra and square dancing is out of your comfort zone. fear not. Its easy, anyone can enjoy it and it feels right. Like appropriate technology it’s aligned with our tradition but not present in our lives. In solidarity with the people who we encourage to adopt new technologies to save their way of life, take that step into the unknown, and… embrace change!
For more info, tickets ($10 or 2/$15) or to donate to the silent auction, or for child care options, please call: 416 769 6379
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Cold Weather Cycling Workshop
Sat. Nov. 17, 2 – 4 p.m.
Lillian H. Smith library, 239 College Street, Room B/C
Join Cycle Toronto for this interactive Street Smarts Workshop, with a focus on riding safely in cold, rain and snow. You’ll gain knowledge on dressing for the weather, safe riding techniques, and maintaining your bicycle. We’ll also cover the many reasons to ride, address the obstacles to riding, review rules of the road and route selection, and give you all the knowledge you need to get out there!
Please register in advance, by phone or email: Stanley Teo, Lillian H. Smith Library, steo at ciclsp.ca, 647-404-8857
This is a free event thanks to generous support from the Law Foundation of Ontario.
http://cycleto.ca/event/2012/10/17/cold-weather-cycling-workshop-lillian-h-smith-library
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GTWA Coffeehouse: Unpacking Solidarity
Sat. Nov 17,
Regal Beagle Pub, 335 Bloor west, near St. George station
On November 17, we will return to our old stomping grounds of the Regal Beagle to have an open-ended discussion of the meaning of solidarity in general, within the context of a discussion of the Solidarity Platform, a living document, ratified as GTWA policy in early 2012. What do we mean when we say "solidarity"? Is solidarity, something one can possess in a passive sense? Or is it something on the level of practice - solidarity being a verb, not a noun? Can solidarity be fostered, or is it an organic and spontaneous phenomenon? Or is it a bit of both? How have anti-capitalitsts used demand and platforms in the past? What distinctions have anti-capitalist traditions had over the use of platforms and demands in the "year of living dangerously", 2011 into 2012, where popular uprisings occured from Wall Street to Tahir Square, from South Asia to Wisconsin, from Quebec to Chile?
https://www.facebook.com/events/364059630352449/
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Permaculture Living Convergence 2012
Sat/Sun. Nov. 17-18
Children’s Peace Theatre, 305 Dawes Road (north of Danforth)
The Permaculture Living Convergence is a two day gathering engaging participants in fun, hands on / interactive workshops, performances and activities aimed at promoting sustainable lifestyles and building resilient communities.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151212781994661&set=o.151803471496399&type=1&theater
https://www.facebook.com/events/228318987293491/
https://www.facebook.com/TPPGTA
http://www.tppgta.com/about-us.html
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Ontario Health Coalition Assembly and Conference
Protecting Health Care In the Face of Austerity
Nov 17 - Nov 18
Music Room, Hart House, University of Toronto
The Health Action Assembly (November 17) is the OHC’s annual organizing meeting which will include briefings on Charting the Electoral Landscape, Key issues & strategies of the political parties, Opportunities and challenges under a minority government, Charting our Progress on the Key Issues as well as caucus meetings and the approval of the OHC’s Action Plan for the coming year.
The Conference (November 18) will be on the theme “From Tax Loopholes to the 1%: Funding Health Care in the Public Interest” and includes a keynote speech by Dr. Michael Rachlis of Doctors for Fair Taxation, a presentation by economist Hugh Mackenzie on “Closing the Loopholes: The Employer Health Tax” and a session on “Funding Implications of P3s, long-term care reform, home care reform, hospital funding changes, other key reforms”. The Closing Plenary features Neil Brooks, professor of tax law and policy at Osgoode Hall Law School, co-author of The Trouble with Billionaires.
www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca
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EcoFair 2012 at the Barns
Sunday, November 18, 1-4 pm
Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie Street (2 blocks south of St. Clair Ave. West)
The Fair is FREE and everyone is welcome!
Come celebrate progress towards a greener and healthier future and help promote greener living in our community at the EcoFair – a free event for the whole family! The Eco Fair at Wychwood Barns is an event that informs and inspires people to make sustainable choices in their homes, while also highlighting some of the wonderful green initiatives under way in our community. Last year, over 400 people attended to learn about activities and achievements in our neighbourhood and in our city, to explore new ideas, and to share green tips and tricks. This year's 4th EcoFair features exhibits from vendors and green community groups, an eco-book swap, a silent auction, eco kids’ activities, live music, refreshments and much more!
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Green Walk
Sunday November 18, 1 – 3 pm
Meeting place: Northwest corner of Broadview Ave and Gerrard St, in front of the library
Distance: Approximately 5km
Terrain: Stairs, paved pathways and city sidewalks
Join us on a walking tour from Riverdale Park to Evergreen Brick Works as we weave together your stories of the Don Valley. Cynthia Webb of Bridgepoint Health Foundation will join us to share the story of the redevelopment of the hospital. Be part of the first conversations for the new Lower Don Greenway project, and discover how we can transform the Lower Don Valley into an innovative green space like no other—showcasing Toronto's distinctive ravine system through arresting gateways, new and improved access points and amenities and enhanced pedestrian trails and bridges. Share with us your favourite stories and places in the Lower Don and we'll share with you why we love it too. Remember, wear good walking shoes and dress for the weather!
If you have questions about the walk contact John Wilson at johnwilson338 at gmail.com.
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The Art of Politics and the Personal - Looking at the Paintings of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Sun. Nov. 18, 4
OISE, 252 Bloor, U of T, Room 7192 (St. George subway)
Introduced by Brian Donnelly – Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design, Sheridan College
Revolutionaries and socialists often yearn for an authentic, political art that can resist and even stand outside such a monstrous, mimetic, commodity culture. The Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo are often called on to fill that need. Modern painters from the early 20th Century, they explored the new forms and imagery possible in painting, working in styles from surrealism to socialist realism, creating small autobiographical works for themselves and giant murals done for the wealthiest patrons in the world. Their work is rich, warm, and rewarding to look at, but it also suggests many contradictions and questions. This talk will look at some of the methods by which art is discussed from a Marxist perspective, beginning with "Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art," signed by Andre Breton and Diego Rivera (and involving considerable input from Leon Trotsky).
https://www.facebook.com/events/222455324551732/
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Forest Hill Walk Club
Sun. Nov. 18, 9:45 a.m., and every Sunday
http://www.meetup.com/ForestHillWalkClub/
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No Casino in Toronto! Stand Up For Your City!
We're emailing to ask you to take action today to help stop a casino in Toronto. No Casino Toronto(www.nocasinotoronto.com) has launched and is asking people to email their Councillors and ask them to vote against the proposed mega casino in Toronto. A mega casino would be detrimental to the economy and social fabric of Toronto.
http://togethertoronto.ca/campaigns/no-casino
This fall, Toronto City Councillors will be debating allowing a mega casino to be built within the City of Toronto and casino lobbyists have their eyes on Toronto’s waterfront, especially Exhibition Place. Mega Casinos make poor economic sense and would have a devastating impact on local restaurants, bars, hotels and theatres. A mega casino would additionally have serious negative social impacts, including increased problem gambling, bankruptcies, crime, traffic gridlock and parking problems. We’ve got stand up for our city and act to stop a mega casino from being built in Toronto. Visit www.nocasinotoronto.com for more information.
Please sign the petition and urge City Councillors to vote NO to a mega casino in Toronto.
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