T.O. Greenspiration Events: Talk to your Neighbour

Sun Mar 15 22:58:27 EDT 2015

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Six Things Protesters Need to Know about Bill C-51
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/03/11/C-51-Six-Things-To-Know/

And sign Amnesty International’s petition against Bill C-51
http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1770&ea.campaign.id=36151&ea.url.id=371429&forwarded=true

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I never realized how dumb our cities are until I saw what a smart one looks like
http://www.upworthy.com/i-never-realized-how-dumb-our-cities-are-until-i-saw-what-a-smart-one-looks-like?c=ufb1

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India’s Daughter
The rape that shocked the world and sparked riots and protests all over India. Grieving parents AND one of the rapists tell the story of the night a young woman was brutally gang raped and murdered. The short and inspiring life of Jyoti Singh sheds light on the tragic problem of systemic violence against women in India.
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/Shows/The+Passionate+Eye/ID/2657845142/

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Sex and the Sisterhood - CBC Ideas
There was a time when the word "impotent" rarely appeared in psychological literature.  Today, ads for Viagra and erectile dysfunction are everywhere.  Four decades ago, women rallied against pornography. Today, porn can be viewed on a cellphone by 10 year-olds.  Feminist and sexologist, Leonore Tiefer on why she opposes Viagra for women. 54 min. podcast
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/sex-and-the-sisterhood-1.2978532

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dandyhorse - Toronto on 2 wheels - Bring on Spring!
http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=4e6d2244218bb8912470c0395&id=deae945a75&e=32f6731ec3

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Merchants of Doubt
Mon. and Tues. March 16 and 17, 6:30 p.m., Wed. and Thur. March 18 and 19, 9 p.m.
Bloor Hot Docs (Bloor and Bathurst)
Inspired by the acclaimed book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, Merchants of Doubt takes audiences on a satirically illuminating ride into the heart of conjuring American spin. Filmmaker Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) lifts the curtain on the secretive group of highly charismatic, silver-tongued pundits-for-hire who stake claims contrary to scientific consensus. Presenting themselves in the media as experts, they are paid by corporations, think tanks and other special interests to cast doubt and delay governmental action on everything from cigarettes to pharmaceuticals and, most recently, climate change. Kenner examines the birth of the doubt industry, how it has succeeded for decades, and why we need to fight back.
http://bit.ly/1AU66Aw

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Weekly CUPE 3902 Solidarity Picket with OPIRG-Toronto
Monday, March 16, noon
Meet at entrance to Robarts Library (look for the big OPIRG solidarity banner)
Are you an undergraduate students who supports the strike or wants to learn more about the issues underlying this current labour battle? If so, join OPIRG-Toronto for our strike solidarity pickets!  For as along as the strike continues, we are meeting weekly on Mondays near the entrance to Robarts Library to join our comrades from CUPE 3902 on the picket lines! We will walk as a contingent to whichever picket line needs the most support. 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1015531488474236/1015799865114065/

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Divas and Divos Against Deportation - a Fundraiser for The Figueroa Family
Mon. March 16, 7 p.m.
Magic Oven Keele 347 Keele
Benefit by music theatre performers in support of Jose Figueroa, who is facing deportation for being a non-violent student activist in El Salvador in the 1980s. Pwyc.
https://www.facebook.com/events/643158405789196

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Can We Draw A Line in the Tar Sands?
Tue Mar 17, 1 – 3 p.m.
Toronto Reference Library Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium, Bloor and Yonge
Drawing on the recent book A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice this talk will explore how Tar sands "development" comes with enormous environmental and human costs. Co-editor Stephen D'arcy will share stories of struggle from scientists to Indigenous activists.
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT180936&R=EVT180936

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Day-to-Day Experiences of Ongoing Poverty and Homelessness in Northern Ontario.
Tues.  March 17, 7 - 9 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St (at Bathurst subway station) 
Darlene Necan is the spokesperson for off-reserve members of the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen no.248. For over a decade she has struggled to address the lack of housing for off-reserve members. Darlene is working to address her own homelessness by building a house on her family’s land in Savant Lake.  Recently, she was issued a stop-work order by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and now faces charges and steep fines. Forced to face another harsh winter without her own home, she has been looking for housing in the city. Darlene is speaking out about how the welfare system makes daily life next to impossible.
http://beitzatoun.org/event/ongoing-poverty-and-homelessness-in-northern-ontario/

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Great Lakes Common Workshop: Becoming Great Ancestors
Tues. March 17 and April 2, 5 - 6:30 pm.
Centre for Social Innovation, 720 Bathurst
We are hosting a 90-minute workshop that answers 2 questions: "What makes this Great Lakes Commons initiative different from most water protection and awareness efforts -- what are the seeds of change?" and "How can a water-commons approach help overcome the many challenges for broad and meaningful public engagement?" The workshop will be an inquiry into these questions and a vibrant space for critical and creative expression. We will be comparing various water ethics, while also dwelling on the value of: gratitude, belonging, boundaries, and caution. RRSP through this form and tell us which of the 2 dates suites you best. 
http://www.greatlakescommons.org/
http://bit.ly/18uFijZ

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Occupy Economics Workshop
Tuesday March 17, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St. (near Spadina and College)
Topic: Monetizing the surplus under the condition of Marxian expanded reproduction. With Dix Sandbeck. Free and open to all.
info at occupyeconomics.ca

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Just Eat It
Tues. March 16, 6 - 9 p.m.
Hart House, Debates Room, U of T
Conscious Activism Documentary Series screening features Grant Baldwin & Jen Rustemeyer's film about food waste and the environmental consequences it has spurred. Free.
foodwastemovie.com

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Animal Rights Academy - with Vittoria Lion
Tues. Mar. 16, 7 - 9 p.m.
University College 15 King's College Circle, U of T
http://animalrightsacademy.org

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Toronto Green Drinks
Wed. Mar. 18, 6 - 9 p.m.
Grace O’Malley’s, 14 Duncan (King and University)
We have a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, students, government and business . Come along and you'll be made welcome. Just say, "are you green?" and we will look after you and introduce you to whoever is there. It's a great way of catching up with people you know and also for making new contacts. Everyone invites someone else along, so there’s always... a different crowd, making Green Drinks an organic, self-organising network. These events are very simple and unstructured, but many people have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity.
https://www.facebook.com/events/948736361823941/

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Pax Christi Toronto and Development and Peace welcome Solidarity Visitor Fr. Jesus Alberto Franco
Wed. march 18, 7 p.m.
830 Bathurst, Catholic Info Centre (Bathurst and Bloor)
Development and Peace invites you to hear Fr. Alberto Franco from our Colombian Partner Justicia Y Paz speak about his human rights work in Colombia. He has over 20 years of experience standing up for the rights of campesinos, afro-colombians and indigenous and has had his life threatened several times for his work and has been featured by Amnesty International as recently as February 2013 <https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/AMR23/007/2013/en/>.
For more info: Luke Stocking - lstocking at devp.org, 4156-922-1592 x 225
http://justiciaypazcolombia.com/
www.devp.org

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Education and Mobilization in Contested Mexico
Wed. March 18, 5 - 8 p.m.
YWCA Toronto, Nancy's Auditorium, 87 Elm St. (Dundas and Yonge)
On September 26, 2014, students from the Ayotzinapa Teachers' College were attacked by police and gunmen in the town of Iguala. Three were killed, dozens injured and 43 student-teachers were taken away, never to be seen again. This atrocity is part of a landscape of violence and impunity carried out through alliances among elements of the Mexican state and organized crime. In response, a national movement of resistance has emerged. This panel of experts on contemporary Mexico explores the context surrounding these events including the rise of drug violence, long standing popular movements among teachers and students, meaningful democracy, and the links between powerful interests in licit and illicit industries.
https://www.facebook.com/events/368969026638924

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Above All Else
Thursday, March 19, 6:30pm
Bloor Hotdocs, 506 Bloor Street West (at Bathurst)
In this dramatic, firsthand account of activists on the front line of the climate fight, one man risks it all to stop the tar sands of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from crossing his land. Shot in the forests, pastures, and living rooms of rural East Texas, Above All Else follows David Daniel, a retired stunt man and hire wire artist, as he rallies neighbors and activists to join him in a final act of brinkmanship: a tree-top blockade of the controversial pipeline. What begins as a stand against corporate encroachments on one man’s land becomes a rallying cry for climate protesters across North America. 
http://planetinfocus.org/salon-vert-2/

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Put Away Your Research and Talk to your Neighbour: Why Talking is Vital to Building a Greener Toronto
With Franz Hartmann, Executive Director, Toronto Environmental Alliance
Thur. March 19, 4:10 p.m.
Rm. UC 179, University College, 15 King's College Circle, U of T
This talk will examine two distinct "theories of change" that are being practised by the environmental community in Toronto. Franz will argue that effective environmental advocacy requires a much greater emphasis on "one-on-one" communications with people. Franz will draw on over 8 years of campaign experience at the Toronto Environmental Alliance as well as 25 years of studying and participating in environmental advocacy. Not surprisingly, Franz will end with a "call to action" and present "tools" people can use to more effectively advocate for the environment and human health. 
http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/Events/Put.aspx

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Solidarity Across Borders: Campesino Resistance in the Dominican Republic
Thursday, March 19, 7 – 9 p.m.
Multifaith Centre, 569 Spadina Ave.m, Rm KP108 , U of T
Three people will speak about their personal and professional experiences as activists in the Dominican Republic. The night will be themed broadly around the following topics: the impacts of Canadian resource extraction on natural spaces, peoples and politics in the Dominican Republic; sustainable energy, agriculture, and eco-tourism as modes of empowering local communities; and allyship across borders, examining the impacts of volunteering and international partnerships.
https://www.facebook.com/events/777446515675007

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Symphony of the Soil
Thur. March 19, 7 p.m.
Big Carrot, 348 Danforth, Rm 212
Screening of the documentary about the relationships and mutuality between soil, water, the atmosphere, plants and animals. Free. 

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Rally Against Police Violence in Toronto
Thur. Mar. 19, noon - 1 p.m.
40 College Street, Police Headquarters (1block west of Yonge Street)
Stand with those organizing against police violence and speak out against the racial profiling and brutality that continues to plague our neighborhoods and communities. Our struggles to be free from racist police harassment and violence has caused many studies to be discussed and press conferences to be held, but in the neighbourhoods, nothing has changed – police still harass, intimidate, illegally search, arrest, brutalize and murder our people. Enough is enough! 
For information: eliminatepoliceviolence at gmail.com
Organized by the Network for the Elimination of Police Violence

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Transforming Power, Violence and Oppression
Thur. Mar. 19, 7 - 9 p.m
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham
Kathy Moorhead Thiessen talks about her work with Christian Peacemaker Team in Iraqi Kurdistan, a region thrown into turmoil by the rise of the radical extremist group ISIS. $5/pwyc.
http://beitzatoun.org/events/

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Pride
Friday, March 20, 7 p.m.
OISE, Room 5-280, 252 Bloor St. W
U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984. Based on a true story, the film depicts a group of lesbian and gay activists who raised money to help families affected by the British miners’ strike in 1984, at the outset of what would become the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign.[7] The National Union of Mineworkers was reluctant to accept the group’s support due to the union’s public relations’ worries about being openly associated with a gay group, so the activists instead decided to take their donations directly to Onllwyn, a small mining village in Wales, resulting in an alliance between the two communities. Guest speaker Tim McCaskell’s history in queer liberation and social justice issues goes back to the 70’s. A founder of Aids Action Now. Presently a prominent activist in Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.
http://socialistaction.ca/rebel/

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WaterDocs
March 20-28
AGO (Art Gallery of ON), Jackman Theatre, Dundas and McCaul
A documentary film festival about all things water, Water Docs presents features and shorts, discussions with special guests and filmmakers, and opportunities to take action to protect water. The festival informs, educates and activates our audiences about water and water issues. The likelihood of having enough clean, fresh water is diminishing everywhere. Ontarians can no longer afford to be complacent about water. Attitudes and practices must change – now, not ten years from now. So, for the love of water, come join us!
http://ecologos.ca/waterdocs-2015/

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Ontario Climate Action Network Training and Strategy Day
Sat. March 21, 12:30 - 5 p.m.
Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto (near Bloor and St. George)
In 2015, we have a chance to make a difference -  here in Ontario we have a minister for the environment and climate change, Glen Murray, who is currently developing a long-term action strategy for Ontario.  See Provincial discussion paper and community consultation dates http://www.ontario.ca/environment-and-energy/climate-change-consultation#consultation   We need to get the MPPs at Queen’s Park on board!  Come and learn how to talk to your MPP and build this campaign for climate action in Ontario.  Make the most of your climate activist efforts. Cost: $10 or pay what you can. 
For more info or to register: cathy_lacroix at hotmail.com
http://pricecarbonnow.org/ontario-climate-action-network
Hosted by Citizens Climate Lobby – Ontario, Ontario Climate Action Network (OCAN), supported by Greenpeace

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Socialism and Social Movements
Sat. March 21, 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Wynchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke Ave. (Bathurst and Lawrence)
One day educational conference organized by Ideas Left Out.
Please register in advance: $5-$25 sliding scale (includes on site lunch, with vegetarian and gluten-free options):
ideasleftout at gmail.com

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Chocosol Chocolate - Tasting, Talk and Tour
Sat. March 21, 12:30, 2 & 3:30 pm.
ChocoSol Traders 1131 St Clair W,
Social enterprise/learning community that embraces ethical practices, ecological sustainability, and the slow food movement.  $20.
https://www.universe.com/events/chocosol-chocolate-tasting-talk-tour-tickets-toronto-SY3R8

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How to Reduce Your Water Footprint
Sunday March 22, 11:30 a.m.
BMO Atrium, Evergreen Brickworks
Talk with environment journalist and author Stephen Leahy
http://yourwaterfootprint.me/2014/11/18/upcoming-events-and-appearances/

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Hot Docs
Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)
http://bloorcinema.com/

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NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing
https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/

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