T.O. Greenspiration Events: radioactive colonialism
Angela Bischoff
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Dec 8 18:58:44 EST 2013
T.O. Greenspiration Events
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“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
- Nelson Mandela, RIP
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EcoSanity
Best video and article compilations on: the climate emergency, COP 19 Climate Summit, geo-engineering, mass bee die-off, the great lakes, banks and markets, fracking, occupy, cars, limits to growth, ecocide, and much more.
http://www.ecosanity.org/
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Drug Reactions and the (In)Effectiveness of Antidepressants
16 min. video doc. Dr. Irving Kirsch says it’s a matter of money. “These companies are in business to make profits,” says Kirsch. “Anyone who’s not that severely depressed, you’re not seeing any clinically significant benefit at all. And when you get down to the level of moderate and mild depression… you’re seeing zero chemical benefit.”
http://globalnews.ca/news/482456/drug-reactions-the-effectiveness-of-antidepressants/
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Allan Gardens Christmas Flower Show
Open to the public daily, 10 am-5 pm., Dec 1 - Jan 12
Candlelit tours Dec 14-15, 21-22, 7 pm.
Free. Allan Gardens Conservatory, Sherbourne and Gerrard
416-392-7288.
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Human Right to Water - Stop Line 9 Letter Writing
Mon. Dec. 9, 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (near St. George and Bloor, at Bedford Rd)
Line 9 info and letter writing session. With Council of Canadians and Friends Peace and Social Concerns. December 10th is international human right day. We will deliver our letters to Queen's Park.
For more info: Lyn Adamson <lyn.adamson9 at gmail.com>
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Our City, Our Waterfront: High-Level Panel Discussion on Jets
Mon. Dec. 9, 7 p.m.
Metro-Hall, room 308 (King and John)
With the City Council vote on the dangerous jet plans looming on December 16, it’s time for some high-profile Torontonians to discuss this vital issue. None less than former Toronto mayor David Crombie and former chief planner Paul Bedford will give their take on Porter’s jet plans for our waterfront, joined by renowned architect Jack Diamond and Jane Fairburn, author of “Along the Shore: Rediscovering Toronto’s Waterfront Heritage”. Former mayor David Miller will also speak at the event.
http://www.nojetsto.ca/event/
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Demand Toronto Public Health Be Proactive
Mon. Dec. 9, 1 - 4 p.m.
Toronto City Hall (Queen and Bay), Meeting 26 (Special)
Community Members are worried that a uranium plant owned and operated by GE-Hitachi at 1025 Lansdowne Ave is not transparent in providing results of soil tests conducted by a "third party". Such results are being kept private. We asked to be added to the agenda and were refused. We are stepping up the pressure. Please make time to attend this meeting and request the Board accept the demands of the Community. and please contact your local Councillor, let them know how do you feel about it. Elections are coming up soon.
https://www.facebook.com/events/480211948766402/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
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Shameless Magazine Fundraising Gala
Mon. Dec. 9, 6 - 9 p.m.
Centre for Social Innovation, 720 Bathurst (at Bloor)
Silent auction, music by DJ Betti Forde, prizes, food and more to help support the volunteer-run magazine for teen girls and trans youth. Keynote speakers are NOW Magazine's Alice Klein and Susan G Cole. $20.
facebook.com/shamelessmag
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Trampoline Hall Mini-lectures
curated by Naomi Skwarna and hosted by Misha Glouberman
Mon. Dec. 9, 8 pm.
Garrison, 1197 Dundas W.
$5-$6.
trampolinehall.net
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CNSC Hearings for the GE-Hitachi Uranium plant in Toronto
Mon. to Wed. Dec. 9 – 11, day and night
Holiday Inn, Yorkdale, 3450 Dufferin Street, Toronto
Did you know there was a uranium processing plant at Lansdowne and Dupont that releases radioactive elements into the air and water? No levels of radiation are considered safe, and this plant does not belong in the middle of a dense residential neighourhood. Due to public pressure, the CNSC (Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, our federal regulatory body) has agreed to hold public hearings. 40 residents/citizens are scheduled to speak. Please attend and bear witness. All welcome!
http://ge-uraniumsecrettoronto.blogspot.ca/
http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/pdf/13-M48-Agenda-edocs4237514-e.pdf
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Mastering Google and Going Deeper: Web Research Skills for Activists and Independent Journalists
Tuesday Dec. 10, 6 - 9 p.m.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/event/9017480527
This workshop presents the skills and techniques that investigative journalists and private-eyes use to do deep digging research on the Internet. It shows people how to use google in ways most people are unaware of and how to access the wealth of information on the Internet that Google can't find. Jammed packed edge to edge, this session will be a chance for novice and expert researchers alike to pick up skills they can use everyday.
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Insurgence - New doc on Quebec's Maple Spring
Tues. Dec. 10, 6:15 p.m.
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West
Suggested donation $2-10
A Cinema Politica special screening of a film that puts you inside the explosive popular social movement that took place in Quebec in the Spring of 2012. INSURGENCEis a breath-taking always-in-motion example of "immersion cinema" -- a two hour experience that you surely won't forget. A collective interpretation of Quebec's Maple Spring, this super-charged doc will have you reaching for your red square and gas mask. With guest filmmakers in attendance.
cinemapolitica.org/bloor
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I Am Not a Stereotype - End Racial Profiling Now
Tuesday Dec. 10, 5 - 7 p.m.
Toronto City Hall - 100 Queen Street East (Committee Room 3)
Join human rights lawyers Geri Sanson and Michelle Mulgrave, Toronto Star Reporter Jim Rankin, Action for Neighbourhood Change, Breaking the Cycle and others to learn about racial profiling and what you can do about it. What's the latest with racial profiling cases? Have you been racially profiled? Find out what to do and who to call.
www.urbanalliance.ca / www.hrlsc.on.ca
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Learn to Fundraise
Tues. Dec. 10, 7 p.m.
Food Forward's Centre, 2 Homewood Avenue at Carlton. $19
Fundraising is a skill that most people need, but aren't the most comfortable at building. Successful fundraisers will share their experienceat this workshop, with lessons from fundraiser and non-profit leader Sabrina Bowman, and crowdfunding advice from Ayah Norris of Indiegogo.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1431820057031080/
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Finnish Coffe Bread workshop
Tues. Dec. 10, evening
West End Food Coop (Queen and Dufferin)
Learn how to make this traditional delicious cardamom-flavoured braided bread in time to enjoy it for the Holiday season.
http://westendfood.coop/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=273
If you want to take a Sauerkraut/Kimchee workshop, please email james at wesetendfood.coop to let me know and I will organise a time.
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Book launch - Living Ecological Justice: A Biblical Response to the Environmental Crisis
Tue, Dec. 10, 7 – 9 p.m.
Toronto School of Theology, 47 Queens Park Crescent E (2 blocks south of Museum subway station)
Cost: Free-will donation
A panel discussion and book launch with authors Stephen Scharper, Rev. Willard Metzger and Joy Kennedy. The evening will include a question and answer session and workshop activities. Refreshments will follow. Copies of Living Ecological Justice will be available for $10.
Hosted by Bloor Street United Church, Citizens for Public Justice, Green Awakening Network, and Trinity St.-Paul’s United Church
http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/living-ecological-justice-book-launch-tickets-6476749131?aff=es2&rank=1&sid=ce6e1151512e11e38f3812313913b211
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DIY Wednesdays: Natural Body Product Gift Making Lab
Wed. Dec. 11, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Karma Food Coop, 739 Palmerston Blvd.. $10
RSVP at the store or with manager at karmacoop.org.
Want to make gifts for your friends and family (and yourself!) but don't want to invest in costly ingredients and don't know where to start? Attend this lab designed to guide you through the process. We'll have everything needed to get you started, including the assistance of Tracey TieF, Certified Natural Health Practitioner and Registered Aromatherapy Health Practitioner. Make stimulating sea salt and sugar scrubs, massage and body oils, bath salts, face masks, infused oils, and mineral blushes. You decide at the workshop! All materials, take home items, packaging, handouts, and recipes will be available.
http://www.anarreshealth.ca/node/2484
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Bike Care and Maintenance workshop
Wed. Dec. 11, 6:30 p.m.
Community Bicycle Network shop, 761 Queen W.
This seminar will go over what to clean, lubricate and identify repairs. Discussions of bike fit, brakes, gears, drive train, and bearing adjustment, and general safety.
Register online or in person at CBN. info at communitybicyclenetwork.org 416 504 2918
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Radioactive Colonialism: Uranium and the Dispossession of Nehithaw Cree and Denesuline Peoples
An evening with honoured guest Kirstin Scansen!
Thursday December 12, 2013 7pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham Street (near Bloor and Bathurst)
7pm Carrie Lester, Idle No More Toronto: Introduction and recap of the GE-Hitachi hearings
7:30pm Kirstin Scansen, Committee for Future Generations
Scansen is a Treaty 6 graduate student in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria - and member of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band. She is a Nehithaw (Woods Cree) woman who actively engages with the land, language, and ceremonies of her Cree ancestors. Her research includes combatting colonialism by speaking truth to the environmental concerns of extractive industries, the intensification of neoliberal capitalism on Indigenous territory, and violence against Indigenous women in the modern Canadian colonial project. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTCqmQDzJyM
In recent years, Kirstin has become involved in work with the Committee for Future Generations (CFFG), a group of committed northern Saskatchewan residents opposed to a high-level nuclear waste repository in the north. Having recently won the Council of Canadians Activist of the Year award, along with the Idle No More founders, the Committee is also celebrating the recent Nuclear Waste Management Organizations announcement that removes the northern village of Pinehouse and English River First Nations as potential host communities for Canada’s high-level nuclear waste repository.
Kirstin is in Toronto to work with activists to shut down GE-Hitachi's 1025 Lansdowne Uranium Processing Plant which puts uranium into the air and sewer water in Toronto. It processes 53% of the uranium used in Canadian reactors.
https://www.facebook.com/events/703442419680577/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
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Animal Rights Academy
With Lobo Pasolini – social justice activist, writer, teacher and curator from Brazil
Thursday Dec. 12, 7:10 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.
100 St. George (Sidney Smith building), University of Toronto, room 2105
The first hour is the lecture, and the second hour an open discussion.
Free and open to the public. Animals are welcome provided they are relatively quiet.
An Animal Rights Academy lecture. Fall 2013
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Frequency Matters With Marcel Wolfe
Thursday Dec. 12, 7 pm.
Big Carrot, 348 Danforth
Lecture on electromagnetic polllution. Free.
416-466-2129.
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Angela Bischoff (that's me) talkin' nukes and Ontario's alternatives
on the Green Majority, CIUT, Toronto's only environmental radio program
Fri. Dec. 13, 11 a.m.
Listen online: http://www.ciut.fm/listen-now/
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Jaguar Chocolate Making Workshop
Friday, December 13, 6 p.m.
ChocoSol, 1131 St. Clair West
Join ChocoSol’s Founder, Michael Sacco, for a hands-on small group jaguar chocolate making workshop. Attendees will grind, mold, and temper jaguar chocolate, learn about the ingredient process, and enjoy a tasting and talk.
Jaguar cacao, ye li, patastle, pataxtle, theobromae bicoloris: these are some of the English, Chinanteco, Nahuatl, and Linnean names for a cacao seed that grows in the ancient forest gardens. Not only are the forest gardens habitat for fauna like the jaguar, they provide ways for indigenous communities to create safety belts of communal use around natural areas. This is beyond conservation, and is rooted in millennia of ecological and spiritual stewardship. Today, ChocoSol is proud to be part of a small cadre of chocolatiers, chefs, farmers, and artisans participating in the regeneration of the jaguar cacao, both through seedling planting and intercultural encounter, dialogue, and exchange, as well as through recipe development and intercultural learning.
$50 per person (cash please). A minimum of 5 people are needed. Maximum 10.
Attendees also have the opportunity to purchase jaguar chocolate at a reduced price.
To reserve your spot, please email info at chocosoltraders.com
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Cooking class - Healthful Holiday Fare
Fri. Dec. 13, evening
Studio 888/404, Ossington and Dupont
The first of a monthly series of classes for those that love to cook healthful food for themselves, friends and family taught from perspective of knowing your ingredients, a committed desired & intention that you have in mind, NOT through meal planning and recipes alone. This week: traditional Paella / veg version / seasonal salads / easy hors d'oeuvres / smoothies for busy elves / gluten free dessert / discussion, some hands on, recipes, glass of red wine!
$45 per person, $80 for 2
A few spaces left please call and inquire / reserve. Petra 416 732 8965
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Toronto Anarchist Fair
For anarchists, and those curious about anarchism.
Fri.-Sun. Dec. 13, 14, and 15
Ryerson Student Centre at 55 Gould Street (near Yonge and Dundas)
It has been a very long time since Anarchists and their friends and allies have assembled in Toronto to share our stories and ideas, connect our struggles, build our movements, and deepen our affinities. We feel it is vitally important that anarchist gatherings take place, and we are proposing an exciting new format! We seek to expand beyond the traditional bookfair model and are looking to incorporate a wider range of possibilities and events in addition to tabling and workshops which will still play a central role. Current plans and proposals include a bookfair, workshops, art installations and interventions, a really really free market, sports & games, actions, performances, films, assemblies, DIY skill-shares, and more. There is no limit to our collective potential and we welcome new additional proposals!
torontoanarchistfair at gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/466431183461312/
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Who's Afraid Of The Black Blocs? Anarchy In Action Around The World
Francis Dupuis-Deri book launch
Sat. Dec. 14, 6 pm. Free.
Another Story Book Shop, 315 Roncesvalles
info at btlbooks.com
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Rally at Lindsay Jail - Get on the Bus! - 24 hour Solidarity Fast
Sat. December 14, 11 a.m.
Christie Pits Park, bus pick up, returns at 4 p.m.
On September 17th , 2013, 191 migrant detainees began a hunger strike in Lindsay, Ontario’s Central East Correctional Centre This was the largest immigrant detainee hunger strike in Canadian history. Representing 600 or more people held by Canada immigration on a given day, and representing up to a hundred or more held on a long term basis, these men began fighting back. Demanding that they either be removed or released within 90 days of being detained, they inspired people on the outside to create the End Indefinite Immigration Detention Network. The detainees are also demanding an end to maximum security incarceration and an overhaul in the detention adjudication process. Join us on December 14th in Lindsay, ON to support these calls - buses depart from all over Ontario.
https://www.facebook.com/events/704517489572228/
http://endimmigrationdetention.com/
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Spiritfest in the City
Saturday, Dec. 14, 4 p.m. - midnight
1650 Avenue Road, 2nd floor, north of Lawrence
$10 - $20 sliding scale
A one-evening Community Art Feast in Toronto. Workshops, ceremony, performance. Come & join us for a joyful, participatory evening of the arts, dinner & community! Bring: Instruments, a dish to share at the potluck, a contribution to the altar (which you will get back at the end of the night!)
http://us6.campaign-archive2.com/?u=203050663b3e4cbf54a3bb989&id=601da5d244&e=8257bc2ff4
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Luxemburg, Lenin, Levi: Rethinking Revolutionary
Socialism Theory and Practice Series
Saturday, Dec 14, 7 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (near Bloor and Bathurst)
Speakers: John Riddell, editor of Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International. Paul Kellogg, author of The Only of Revolution is the Crowd: The Limits of Žižek's Leninism, International Journal of Zizek Studies. Final in a 3-part series of Coffee Houses organized by the Education Committee of the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly (GTWA).
http://beitzatoun.org/event/luxemburg-lenin-levi-rethinking-revolutionary/
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The Ethics Of The Faith: Right, Wrong And The God Of Abraham
Humanist Assoc talk
Sat. Dec. 14, 1:30 pm. Free.
OISE, Rm 4-414, 252 Bloor W
humanist.toronto.on.ca
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Getting Ready For Winter
Sat. Dec. 14, 1 p.m.
High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside
Family nature walk to learn how plants and birds survive winter. $2-$5.
highparknaturecentre.com.
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Winter Craft Fair at Dufferin Grove
Sun. Dec. 15, 11 am - 4 pm
Dufferin Grove skating shack
Local artisans' wonderful creations of all sorts (most less than $30), with live music, hot food and drinks, Skating with cheap skate rental!, campfires, cookies, you name it.
Ceramics, knitwear, natural ointments, so many different delights to help keep you and your loved ones cozy and beautiful and together inside and out. Please come! Buy local.
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Short-term Room Rentals
-200 sq ft rm available for short term rental arrangements for the month of Dec please see:
http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/sub/4223521082.html
-150 sq ft rm in same loft available for short term rental (similar arrangement as above) from Dec 18th to mid Jan different pricing/flexible
Please inquire 416.732.8965 * pei.czech at gmail.com
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NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing
http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/listings/
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