T.O. Greenspiration Events: Peace from the Ground Up
Angela B Toronto
greenspi at web.ca
Mon Jun 8 00:08:48 EDT 2015
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Include climate change in the leaders' debates
A petition to CBC, CTV, Shaw/Global, Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, Google Canada, TVA
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/CBC_CTV_Macleans_Include_climate_change_as_a_Canadian_federal_election_debate_topic/edit
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Tell Mr. Harper to Log off – Ban mass surveillance today
An Amnesty International Campaign. Sign the petition and watch the powerful 1 min. video
http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1770&ea.campaign.id=36786&ea.url.id=412518
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A Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Free World is Possible: How to Power a Warming Earth Without Oil, Coal and Nuclear
Democracracy Now video and transcript
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/6/5/a_fossil_fuel_free_world_is?autostart=true
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Checking in on the Missing Annex Bike Lanes
We looked at the status of the long-awaited Annex bike lanes, which could see a pilot project begin in 2016.
http://torontoist.com/2015/06/checking-in-on-the-missing-annex-bike-lanes/
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Bike Lanes on Bloor-Danforth
The First Forty Years (of Inaction) - By Albert Koehl
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6flhtyqSSiyZ2VJREg0X0FySDQ/view
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We shouldn't push dubious 'pink Viagra' pills on women and call it emancipation
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/05/women-sex-viagra-flibanserin-fda-research
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GreenPAC's goal is to make environmental concerns politically relevant by recruiting, nominating, electing, and supporting environmental champions in the 2015 federal election.
Please consider filling out GreenPAC's survey – it took me about 5 min.
http://www.greenpac.ca/count_me_in_ontario_clean_air_alliance
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Tear Down the Gardiner East
Call and Stop a Very Expensive Mistake - An overview with links from TEA (Toronto Environmental Alliance)
http://www.torontoenvironment.org/call_and_stop_a_very_expensive_mistake?utm_campaign=cw_june_5_15&utm_medium=email&utm_source=toenviro
Build the cheaper Gardiner Boulevard and send savings to transit and cycling - a message from TTC Riders and Cycle Toronto
http://www.ttcriders.ca/gardiner-east-expressway-savings-should-go-to-transit-and-cycling/
New poll shows Torontonians are in support of Gardiner East teardown
https://www.change.org/p/toronto-city-council-remove-the-gardiner-expressway-east/u/10956153?tk=vKb80OyLsBXLBWGnBclCEri-cWvbs9KF_vB9uM0iHvo&utm_source=petition_update&utm_medium=email
Send a letter to your Councillor here:
http://togethertoronto.ca/campaigns/gardiner
Sign the petition here:
https://www.change.org/p/toronto-city-council-remove-the-gardiner-expressway-east
Here’s Councillor Josh Matlow’s well thought out position on the Gardiner
http://joshmatlow.ca/
Here’s Councillor Joe Cressy’s take - "Cities around the world – from New York to San Francisco, Madrid to Seoul – have decided to remove their downtown elevated expressways. Do we join them in planning for the future, or continue to maintain a city of the past?"
https://nowtoronto.com/news/gardiner-transit-catch-22-waterfront/
And Councillor Paula Fletcher’s position - "I will not support spending half a billion dollars to keep 2 kilometres of roadway elevated to save 3 minutes of travel time for 3% of commuters."
http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=2d62749882e2b95305afbebde&id=6f43e59179&e=5a9e937c2f
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Canada’s Cultural Genocide
2 min. video
https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/568962853245226/?fref=nf
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National Aboriginal History Month - Toronto Events
http://bit.ly/1eXffpc
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The Making Ontario's Roads Safer Act (Bill 31) was unanimously passed at Queen's Park last week
This modernization to the Highway Traffic Act includes provisions that will make Ontario's roads safer for all road users, including people on bikes. Bill 31 includes:
• 1m safe passing law when passing people on bikes
• Allowance of traffic control signals specific to bikes and contra-flow bike lanes
• Increased fines for "dooring" people on bikes and distracted driving
• Allowance of cycling on paved shoulders of a highway that is divided into two separate roadways
http://news.ontario.ca/mto/en/2015/06/ontario-passes-legislation-to-improve-road-safety.html?utm_source=ondemand&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=p
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Designer Bike Vests by Girrrilla
http://www.anniethompson.ca
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Changing the world and just trying $#!% since 2004 - The Centre for Social Innovation
8 min. video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtrtURiz97Y&feature=iv&src_vid=wUtRFV1LXe0&annotation_id=annotation_3350235313
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UP Express (Union Pearson diesel trains) puts communities in peril
Great new 1 min. video starring Cheri DiNovo as the damsel in distress and petition
http://www.ttcriders.ca/new-video-up-express-puts-communities-in-peril/
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Alberta oil sands: A paradigm of deception
Benefits of a Government project (in this case tarsands), with no consideration of costs, becomes misleading advertisement
http://www.ecopolitics.ca/alberta-oil-sands-a-paradigm-of-deception-2/
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Support NoJetsTO's Boat Protest Crowdfunding
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nojetsto-boat-protest#/story
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Bike Month
May 25 – June 25
A celebration of cycling in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area with hundreds of community events including rides, races, tours, festivals, and more.
www.bikemonth.ca/events
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Imperilled Landscapes Photo Exhibit
May 15 – June 14
Dylan Ellis Gallery, 1840 Danforth Avenue (between Coxwell and Woodbine)
Tour a visual chronicle of what we are losing due to global warming. Exhibit features fleeting images of: Pond Inlet’s melting ice and permafrost, endangered waterways of Mai Po Mangrove Nature Reserve (Hong Kong) and Melbourne’s Sugarloaf Reservoir (Australia). See how Arctic sea ice is melting, sea levels are rising and droughts are parching urban watersheds — putting wilderness and nearby communities at risk. After 25 years collaborating with top leaders to advance solutions that slow global warming, award-winning Toronto photographer Philip Jessup is taking action with art by telling the visual story of our imperiled planet to inspire change. Closing party Sun. June 14 - 2 - 4 p.m.
http://eastendarts.ca/event/imperiled-landscapes-photo-exhibit/2015-05-26/
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Colombia: Peace from the Ground Up
Monday, June 8, 7 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St (Bathurst & Boor)
An evening on the frontlines with four incredible women are doing their part to advance human rights, justice and peace in Colombia. The evening will feature several short films and a panel discussion. The conflict in Colombia is raging on, and human rights defenders are caught in both the cross hairs and the cross-fire. In 2014, against the backdrop of peace talks between the government and FARC guerrillas, the We Are Defenders Program reported that attacks on defenders actually rose over 70% from the previous year -- 55 activists were assassinated, and 41 were the victims of attempted assassinations. Attacks against women human rights defenders grew at an especially alarming rate; last year 221 cases were reported -- 2.6 times the 85 cases recorded in 2013.
http://beitzatoun.org/events/
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The New Urban Agenda
Book launch with author Bill Freeman
Mon. June 8, 6 - 8 p.m.
Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay
City planning in the GTHA has been mired in political grandstanding for the past decade, The New Urban Agenda offers a plain language solution to the issues plaguing the GTHA.
https://www.dundurn.com/books/new_urban_agenda
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Disruption: climate justice film screening and discussion
Tues. June 9, 7 p.m.
United Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street (near College and Spadina)
Disruption is a documentary about the threat of climate change, and the hope of the climate justice movement, as it documents the organizing of last year's People's Climate March. Join a free film screening, and update about the campaign against Line 9--in the lead up to the July 5 March for Jobs, Justice and the Climate (www.jobsjusticeclimate.ca)
https://www.facebook.com/events/963760577001454/
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More than Honey
Annette Library, 145 Annette Street
Tues. June 9, 6:15 p.m.
Free screening and discussion "An unprecedented global examination of endangered honeybees spanning from California to Switzerland, China and Australia. With all the hallmarks of a great nature documentary, the film employs the latest in cinematic technology to observe phenomena undetectable by normal eyesight, beautifully portraying the dramatic story of the disappearance of millions of bees in the last decade."1 Colony collapse disorder, diseases of honeybees, and the effects of insecticides will be addressed. Dr. Anne Bell will discuss threats to bees and what we can do about it. Presented by Green 13 and the Annette Library.
www.green13toronto.org
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Jeff Rubin on The Carbon Bubble
Tuesday, June 9, 7 - 9:30 p.m.
Royal Ontario Museum, Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre, Level 1B (Avenue Road and Bloor)
Join the renowned Canadian economist and popular commentator, Jeff Rubin, in conversation on oil depletion and its economic repercussions. Rubin discusses his new book, The Carbon Bubble and what will happen to us when it bursts. $20
http://www.rom.on.ca/en/activities-programs/events-calendar/rom-speaks-jeff-rubin-the-carbon-bubble
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A Most Remarkable Outreach to Refugees: A Report from the Churches in Germany
Tues. June 9, 7 p.m.
Church of the Holy Trinity, (behind Eaton’s Centre, off Bay and Dundas)
The Canadian Sanctuary Network, Jewish Refugee Action Network, and Kairos Canada invite you to attend a conversation with Hanns Thomae, former director of Refugee Outreach for the Evangelical Church in Berlin and Brandenburg and member oft he ecumenical network and with Rita Kantemir-Thomae, one of the first members of parliament of the Green Party and activist for migrant and refugee rights.
• How have the churches and faith groups encouraged the German Government to accept an unprecedented number (80,000 since 2011) of Syrian refugees?
• Why have 220 churches offered sanctuary to refugees?
• What are the problems and possibilities in the new German outreach to refugees?
• What hope is there for migrants and refugees who are desperate enough to cross the Mediterranean?
https://www.facebook.com/events/1580210418910410/
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Greener Electricity Generation
With Angela Bischoff, Ontario Clean Air Alliance
Wed. June 10, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
Toronto Reference Library Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium (Bloor and Yonge)
Ontario is at a crossroads - our aging nuclear power fleet needs to either be replaced or rebuilt. We're about to rebuild 10 reactors on the shores of Lake Huron and Lake Ontario, locking us into nuclear for decades and costing tax payers more than $100 billion. Are there safer, greener and lower cost alternatives to meeting all of Ontario's electricity needs? How could we move on to a 100% renewable future? Free.
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT193971&R=EVT193971
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Bill C-51 and You
Wed. June 10, 7 p.m.
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (at Bloor)
Disruption: the true aim of C-51 is legalizing ‘dirty tricks’. In much of the media and popular discourse, the focus is on surveillance as in the “surveillance state”. However, surveillance is but the simpler, more benign cousin to a much greater threat. By paving the road to legal “disruption”, sometimes devastating in effect, C-51 brings the full force of what spy agencies in western democracies call “dirty tricks” to potentially the doorstep of any Canadian. Tactics (eg. persistent surveillance) and technologies (eg. mini drones) once reserved for use in theatres of military operation have, through mission creep, gradually been rolled out to “disrupt” people in the domestic environment within Canada. Canadians need to fully recognize the forms of disruption, how to deal with its effects, and what to do and what not to do if caught in a disruption dragnet.
http://beitzatoun.org/events/?mc_cid=011fdde323&mc_eid=98329828f0
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Eyewitness to Irish Resistance
Wed. June 10, 7pm
United Steelworkers' Hall, 25 Cecil Street
With Rory O'Neill - Socialist Student Organizer from Dublin, Ireland. The austerity agenda in Ireland is pushing to privatize water, and reinforce longstanding barriers to sexual and reproductive freedom. But there have been mass protests against water privatization, a recent historic vote in support of equal marriage, and a rising movement against anti-abortion laws. Join a discussion with Rory on the resistance in Ireland and what lessons we can learn. Organized by the Toronto Centre Branch of the International Socialists.
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Criminalizing Hate: The Limits of Speech in Canada - Debate
Thursday, June 11, 7:30 p.m.
Thomas Lounge, Oakham House, 63 Gould St. (Corner of Gould and Church Streets, Ryerson campus)
https://cjfe.org/take_action/events/cjfe-annual-general-meeting-2015-and-hate-speech-laws-debate
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Settlers: the Mythology of the White Proletariat (Reading Group)
Thur. June 11, 6 - 8 p.m.
Centre for Women and Trans People, U of T, 563 Spadina Ave Room 100
The Education Workers Action Committee (EWAC) is hosting a public reading group of J. Sakai's book, "Settlers: the Mythology of the White Proletariat." The book covers the history of the race and class formations in North America, as well as the development of labour movements in the context of settler colonialism, slavery and imperialism.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1442601229377187/
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Nuclear Precipice: Ukraine, Russia, and patterns of U.S. Hegemony
Friday, June 12, 7 pm
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (at Bloor)
What is the background of the ethnic conflict in Ukraine? Can the Ukraine situation lead to a Russia/US confrontation involving nuclear weapons? According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the world is again at a precipice with threats of nuclear war and climate disaster. Join a panel of three speakers exploring these questions and in context of western / US hegemony.
http://beitzatoun.org/event/nuclear-precipice-ukraine-russia-and-patterns-of-u-s-hegemony/
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Safe Rail Communities: Public Town Hall
with Special Guest and Moderator Naomi Klein
Friday, June 12, 7 - 9:30 p.m.
YMCA, 20 Grosvenor Street (near College and Yonge)
Since March 2014, Safe Rail Communities has been advocating for greater safeguards and transparency with respect to the transportation by rail of dangerous goods, particularly volatile crude oil.
Despite the tragic loss of 47 lives during the July 6th, 2013 rail disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Canadians have witnessed two more fiery crude oil derailments in 2015. These derailments occurred within three weeks of each other, and both just outside the same town of Gogoma in northern Ontario. Each of these explosive derailments, as well as those of 2014, demonstrate that Minister Raitt’s response to the situation has been largely ineffective.
http://bit.ly/1SLX6dD
www.saferail.ca
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Jack Layton Summer Leadership School 2015
Building Skills for Change. A unique opportunity to develop your leadership capacities for transformative change.
June 12, 13,14, 20, 21
Learn more about content and how to register here:
http://rememberingjacklayton.ca/jack-layton-summer-leadership-school-2015/
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CEDAW and Indigenous Women’s Activism
Using Women’s Human Rights Mechanisms to Challenge Colonial States in Canada, Guatemala and Beyond
Saturday, June 13, 4 - 7 p.m.
Innis Town Hall, U of T, 2 Sussex Ave
This event will focus on the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) as a tool for activism through highlighting groundbreaking work being done by indigenous women’s organizations that is changing the international discourse of women’s human rights. The panel will cover:
· CEDAW Inquiry Procedure on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada, the recently published report on the inquiry and where to take it from here
· Guatemalan Indigenous women’s activism using CEDAW, in particular Tzununija’s call for a new CEDAW General Recommendation recognizing the specific forms of intersectional discrimination experienced by indigenous women around the world
· International women’s human rights activism and how to move forward and build linkages across borders
https://eventbrite.ca/event/17170986884/
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World Naked Bike Ride
Sat. June 13, noon
Coronation Park, 711 Lake Shore W
Cycle as bare as you dare to protest oil dependency.
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Seed Library Workshop and Seed Exchange
Sat. June 13, 10:30 am-noon.
Yorkville Library, 22 Yorkville (near Bloor and Avenue Rd.)
Seed saving and Gardening 101 Workshop. Free.
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It’s Time for Change - Fair Vote Canada and Proportional Representation
Sat. June 13, 1:30 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor W., Room 4-414 (St. George subway)
Lecture by Fair Vote Toronto co-chair Joyce Hall. Free.
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Jobs Justice and Climate rally in Toronto July 5th
Sign up here: jobsjusticeclimate.ca
https://www.facebook.com/events/438675142973059/
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Radical Nonviolence: a Camp for Young Peacemakers
August 24th - 30th
Camp NeeKauNis (130 KM north of Toronto on the shores of Georgian Bay)
Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers) is thrilled to announce that from August 24th to 30th, 2015 we will be gathering at Camp NeeKauNis to build community and share skills on these topics and more. Radical means “rooted” and this camp will help us all to discover and strengthen our roots in nonviolence. This is an exciting opportunity, bringing together a number of extremely skilled facilitators with experiences building nonviolent direct action strategies in Canada, serving on Christian Peacemaker Teams in conflict situations like Iraq, working in prisons using Alternatives to Violence Program and much more. The camp will involve brief presentations (no more than 30 minutes at a time) and a lot of group work, discussions, role plays, and interactive learning. The camp is open to anyone over the age of 16. Non-Quakers are welcome! The full fee for the week of camp including all meals and accommodation in a cabin is $525.
quakerservice.ca
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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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