T.O. Greenspiration Events: No More Fukushimas

Sun Mar 6 21:45:13 EST 2016

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Tooker, Le Monde à Bicyclett (Song)

http://greenspiration.org/tooker-le-monde-a-bicyclett-song/

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The Case for Optimism on Climate Change 

Al Gore TED Talk – 25 min. video

http://www.ted.com/talks/al_gore_the_case_for_optimism_on_climate_change#t-1
54582

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Carnival of the Commons Planning Meeting 6.0

Mon. March 7, 7-9 pm

1992 Yonge St., 3rd floor

Ongoing planning for our celebration of the Common on May 15. An outdoor,
family-friendly information fair connecting the Line 9 pipeline to climate
change, and the community with the environment. Entertainment, food,
information tables, and many people building communities.

http://tcan.ca/event/planning-meeting-carnival-commons-line-9-festival 

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Not Who We Are - Fundraising Screening for Regal Road Refugees Welcome

Mon. March 7, 6:15 pm 

Bloor Hots Docs Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)

Join us for a screening of a film called “Not who we are” portraying the
lives of five women refugees, from different socio-educational backgrounds.
In Lebanon they struggle against life’s daily brutality and try to rebuild
lives shattered by war. They provide us with a glimpse into their daily
hardships as well as their strength, resilience and survival instinct.

http://regalroadrefugees.wix.com/donate

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Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai 

Free screening & discussion

Tuesday, March 8, 6:15 pm.

Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane Street

Listen to the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari
Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement
to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy—a
movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration.
Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement. 

http://green13toronto.org/event/taking-root-vision-wangari-maathai-free-scre
ening

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It's a Girl!

Tues. March 8, 6:45 - 8 pm. 

North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge

International Women's Day screening of a documentary about the practice of
killing or abandoning baby girls in many parts of the world. Free. 

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Gardens of the World

Tues. March 8, 7:30 pm

Scarborough Village Community Centre 3600 Kingston

Scarborough Garden & Horticultural Society meeting and talk by Martin
Galloway.

http://www.gardenontario.org

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ECO Trivia Night - with TREC Education

Tuesday, March 8, 7 - 9 pm 

The Firkin on King, 461 King St. W

If you love mediocre movie impressions, multiple choice questions and know
the difference between a Nissan leaf and a leaf on a tree, this is the event
for you!
http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/eco-trivia-night-7-tickets-21226703642?mc_eid=8ea
4ab9e24
<http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/eco-trivia-night-7-tickets-21226703642?mc_eid=8e
a4ab9e24&mc_cid=4f2893e040> &mc_cid=4f2893e040 

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Animal Rights Academy

Tuesdays 7-9 pm, U of T

A free university lecture series on animal rights philosophy and related
readings. Please check the lecture schedule for full details. Also, videos
of past lectures are archived here.

http://animalrightsacademy.org/

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2030 Town Hall: COP21 and What it Means for Ontario

Wed., March 9, 5:30 - 8:30 pm

Queen-Richmond Centre West, 134 Peter St.  

COP 21 in Paris marked a significant refocussing of Canada´s commitment to
combat climate change, to be followed by a landmark First Ministers meeting
in Vancouver on March 3 to begin the development of a National Framework on
Climate Change. Hon Glen Murray will provide an update on what COP 21 and
the National Framework means for Urban Centres in Ontario.

bit.ly/1p0dFHT

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Islands of Decolonial Love: Exploring Love on Occupied Land

International Women’s Day Lecture with Leanne Betasamosake

Wed., March 9, 6 - 8 pm

Room 1160, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street, U
of T

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a gifted writer who brings passion and
commitment to her storytelling and who has demonstrated an uncommon ability
to manage an impressive range of genres from traditional storytelling to
critical analysis, from poetry to the spoken word, from literary and social
activism.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1002484316491590/

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Bloor Street Bike Lanes Public Drop In #2

Wed, March 9, 4 - 8 pm

Trinity-St.Paul´s Centre, Gym, 427 Bloor W.

The City of Toronto is proposing a pilot project to install bike lanes on
Bloor Street West between Shaw Street (east of Ossington Avenue) and Avenue
Road. A pilot project will allow us to demonstrate and study the impacts and
benefits of bike lanes on Bloor Street. There are various possible design
options for bike lanes that are being considered.  Join us for our second
public event where you can view the preferred design in detail and speak
with the project team.

http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=18ccded2f6711510VgnV
CM10000071d60f89RCRD 

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Shifting The Market

Wed., March 9, 8-9 am

CSI Spadina, 215 Spadina

Join us for a candid conversation between TD Bank’s Chief Environment
Officer Karen-Clarke-Whistler and Mike Morrice, Executive Director of
Sustainability CoLab, where Karen will offer her personal insights as one of
Canada’s sustainability thought-leaders operating within the financial
sector.

http://sustainabilitynetwork.ca/events/green-economy-perspectives-presents-k
aren-clarke-whistler-shifting-the-market/#rsvp 

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Art As Social Change – with Mel Chin

Wed. March 9, 6:30 p.m.

OCAD University, 100 McCaul St. 

Mel Chin, born in Houston, Texas, has become internationally synonymous with
"art as social change", creating over the past thirty years an exceptional
body of often political and activist work that provokes greater social
awareness and responsibility. Free.

https://www.facebook.com/events/548850265291705/?active_tab=highlights

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Why Should I Care about the Black Lives Matter movement?

Wed March 9, 7 - 9 pm 

Rose and Crown, 2335 Yonge

Have we, as Canadians, set the bar low for race relations? When the Black
Lives Matter movement is mentioned here, a common response is that at least
Canada isn’t as bad as the States. And yet we we have an extremely high
unemployment rate amongst black youth, black Torontonians are stopped by
police up to 17 times as frequently as other groups, unarmed black men have
been beaten by the police, and the black community is under-represented in
leadership positions. Free

http://whyshouldicare.ca/event/why-should-i-care-about-the-black-lives-matte
r-movement/

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Digging up justice: When mining reaches the university

Thursday, March 10, 6 - 9 pm

Workshop discussion on extractivism. Canadian mining companies are funding
university research, despite accusations of human rights violations and
environmental degradation across Latin America. Open invitation to graduate
students, activists, scholars and the general public to a
workshop-discussion on corporate involvement with university research. The
event will provide a platform to learn more and contribute to critical
conversation on an issue that involves us all in unexpected ways. 

http://beitzatoun.org/event/digging-up-justice/?mc_cid=eb58d73a22
<http://beitzatoun.org/event/digging-up-justice/?mc_cid=eb58d73a22&mc_eid=98
329828f0> &mc_eid=98329828f0

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Beyond Memory / Más allá de la Memoria: Traces of the Past in Struggle for
the Future

Thursday, March 10. 6 – 9 pm

YWCA Toronto. 87 Elm Street

For its 2016 Baptista Lecture, CERLAC is delighted to host a panel
discussion on the use of archives of the violent past in struggles to make a
better future in Central America with:

- Gustavo Meoño: Coordinator, Historical Archive of the National Police of
Guatemala

- Carlos Henríquez Consalvi: Director, Museum of the Word and the Image, El
Salvador

- Diana Carolina Sierra: History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan

Reception and exhibition "1932" to follow. Refreshments provided by El
Maizal

bit.ly/1QE5hF7

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Lessons from Fukushima for Ontario - 5 years after the worst nuclear
disaster

Film Screening + Panel Discussion at 3 Locations in Toronto and Pickering

March 10, 11 & 13

Film: A2-B-C, directed by Ian Thomas Ash, 2013 

Panels: The risks of Ontario’s nuclear reactors, emergency plans, and plans

to rebuild our aging nuclear fleet

Speakers:

Erica Stahl, Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA)

Shawn-Patrick Stensil, Greenpeace Canada

Angela Bischoff, Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA)

About A2-B-C:

Since the nuclear disasters in Fukushima, Japan, in March 2011, local
childhood thyroid cancer cases have risen to about 20-50 times above normal.
Citing a lack of transparency in the official medical testing of their
children and the ineffectiveness of the decontamination of their homes and
schools, the children’s mothers take radiation monitoring into their own
hands. The film has won 12 awards internationally. 71 min. English
subtitles. www.a2documentary.com <http://www.a2documentary.com> 

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Fri. March 11, 7 – 9 p.m.

Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham, Toronto (Bathurst subway station)

Suggested Donation: $5-10

https://www.facebook.com/events/806452062832978/

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Sun. March 13, 1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Beach United Church, 140 Wineva Ave.

By donation.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1696146407291800/

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This series is sponsored by: Canadian Environmental Law Association, Durham

Nuclear Awareness, Greenpeace and Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

For more info: angela at cleanairalliance.org
<mailto:angela at cleanairalliance.org> 

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Suffragette

Fri. March 1, 7 p.m.

OISE, 252 Bloor, Room 5-260

Rebel Films screening of the 2015 film by Sarah Gavron starring Carey
Mulligan, Meryl Streep and others. Followed by discussion with Cherie
MacDonald. $4 donation requested. 

http://socialistaction.ca/

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Permaculture Design Jam

Fri. March 11, 10 am - 5 pm

For people interested in exploring how to apply permaculture skills to their
design ideas and projects. Bring your projects to work on for the day and
we'll give you feedback and coaching. This will be followed by an optional
dinner potluck (5:30pm) and “Permaculture Circle” (7:30pm) conversation.

bit.ly/20OKnrM

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Tomorrow Starts Today - Conference 2016

Sun., March 13, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Tomorrow Starts Today is a youth conference empowering young people in the
city-building process. Through inspiring talks and interactive workshops, we
hope to educate and equip high school students with knowledge and tools to
push for positive change in their communities.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tomorrow-starts-today-conference-2016-tickets-21
359345377 

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Food & Clothing Share

Sundays 12 - 3 pm

Carlton & Sherbourne

Join us on Sunday's at Allan Gardens in Toronto, in front of the Greenhouse
for a freshly made meal and sharing of clean, donated weather appropriate
clothing to the street community. Please bring clean clothing, personal
hygiene products, blankets or sleeping bags. Come and join us for a good
meal, get to know some of Toronto's Street Community friends.

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Honoring the Life of Bertha Cáceres

Sun. March 13, 2 pm.

Holy Trinity Church, West side of Eaton’s Centre, off Bay, South of Dundas 

We condemn the assassination of Berta Cáceres, general coordinator and
co-founder of the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations
of Honduras. Berta was assassinated. Organized by the Latin American and
Caribbean Solidarity Network. 

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http://beitzatoun.org/events/

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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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