T.O. Greenspiration Events: We are the Many

Sun Apr 17 22:44:30 EDT 2016

We Are The Many 
Makana - music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq3BYw4xjxE&index=1&list=RDxq3BYw4xjxE
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Leap Manifesto: Radical rethink on fossil fuel economy
7 min. video with Avi Lewis on the importance of the LEAP Manifesto. Brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-paWn8eEG7w

The Leap: Time for a reality check - By Naomi Klein
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2016/04/leap-time-reality-check

Here's a good overview / Q&A of the Leap Manifesto
http://us8.campaign-archive1.com/?u=35c65d17252d7512df287bc5a&id=6a3c47ef13&e=d8298d4d90

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This Changes Everything
Watch the full 90 min. doc by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein here.
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/this-changes-everything?cid=April+6

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Dear Premier Notley - Alberta Needs Jobs, Not Pipelines
Premier Notley I urge you to stop the pipeline pushing and start focusing on the solar pushing, the wind pushing, the geothermal pushing, the retrofit pushing, the mass transit pushing, that's where we need you. We need you to help us build the energy system of the 21st century not in expanding the fossil one that every climate scientist on the planet says we need to move rapidly away from.
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/blog/Blogentry/dear-premier-notley-alberta-needs-jobs-not-pi/blog/56116/

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Tell our elected federal officials to reject the risky Energy East pipeline
http://action.environmentaldefence.ca/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=18206

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Pipelines to Nowhere: Energy East, Kinder Morgan make no sense amid global green energy boom, tanking oil market
http://greeneconomyarticles.blogspot.ca/2016/04/pipelines-to-nowhere-energy-east-kinder.html

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After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians
1 hour video with slides of Gordon Laxer’s presentation last week
http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls306.php

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Why you should stop taking your antidepressants
http://nypost.com/2016/04/05/are-antidepressants-making-women-sicker/

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Demilitarization: The Military/Security complex and Canada, Palestine/Israel, and climate change
Mon. April 18, 7 p.m.
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham (at Bloor)
For the Global Day of Action Against Military Spending with Dr. Rand Askalan, Matthew Behrens and Judy Deutsch. Donations: $5/$10/ or pwyc
http://beitzatoun.org/event/demilitarization-the-militarysecurity-complex/

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Wannabe Toxic Free TO
Mon. April 18, 6 - 9 p.m.
CIS Spadina, 215 Spadina, 4th floor
We all encounter toxic chemicals in our everyday lives, but there are many things you and your family can do to reduce your exposure. Join us for our first Wannabe Toxic Free TO (WTF) meetup, where you'll connect with inspiring change agents who will give you tools to take action in your homes and communities. Angela Bischoff one of several speakers. Sponsored by the Women's Healthy Environment Network. 
http://www.meetup.com/WannabeToxicFree/events/229972607/

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Hadwin's Judgement 
Tues.  April 19, 6:15 p.m.
Annette Library, 145 Annette St.
Hadwin's Judgement is a stunning documentary by Sasha Snow based on the award winning book The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant. A special Earth Day screening and discussion brought to you by Green 13.
http://green13toronto.org/event/hadwins-judgement

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Challenging the TPP
Tuesday, April 19, 7 - 9 p.m.
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. (1 street west of Bathurst TTC, South of Bloor)
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade & corporate rights deal among 12 Pacific Rim countries, including Canada. Signed on February 4 2016, member nations now have 2 years to ratify this deal. Very little of the TPP involves trade. Most of it encompasses issues as diverse as how a government regulates corporate activity, what Crown corporations can & cannot do, how long pharmaceutical patents or copyright terms should be, how the Internet is governed, the sharing of personal information across borders, banking & taxation rules, and when a company or investor should be compensated when environmental or public health policies interfere with profits. $5-10 suggested donation Hosted by Reel Activism and the Council of Canadians Toronto chapter. 
http://beitzatoun.org/event/challenging-the-tpp/

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Panama Papers
Tues. April 19, 4:15-5:45 pm.
Balzac's at the Reference Library, 789 Yonge
Lecture/presentation: One more step towards capitalist meltdown, or urgent call to reform capitalism?  Free.
https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/

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#BikesMeanBusiness
Wed Apr 20, 7 pm
Dora Keogh Irish Pub, 141 Danforth Ave
Bike lanes are good for business. But have you ever wondered why? Come out to , our bike-friendly pub night, where local business owners, residents, councillors, and planners come together to discuss the economic impacts of bike lanes on the Danforth. Organized by Cycle Toronto's Danforth Loves Bikes Campaign, this will be an evening full of good discussion, good food and drink, and good times.
https://www.cycleto.ca/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=52345&qid=1978152

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Ontario's Electricity Future - Nuclear or Renewable?
With Angela Bischoff, Ontario Clean Air Alliance
Thur. April 21, 7 p.m.
Big Carrot, 248 Danforth, Carrot Common Room 212. (Stair access only. Entrance beside Book City on the Danforth)
Ontario is at a cross road - we phased out our dirty coal plants (thanks to citizen activism) and now our nuclear fleet is coming to the end of its life in the next decade. We can replace those old nukes with green energy and move ON to a 100% renewable grid, or as the gov't plans, we can rebuild 10 of the aging reactors and extend Pickering, locking us into high cost and high risk nuclear for another 5 decades. We have a choice. 
www.cleanairalliance.org 
close-pckering.ca

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Vegan ROCK
Thursday, April 21, 7 - 11 p.m.
Supermarket, 268 Augusta Avenue (in Kensington Market)
Vegan ROCK! is a fundraiser for the Toronto Vegetarian Association, featuring live music from local musicians, and delicious desserts. Come out and support the TVA, gobble down treats like the cookie monster, listen to great music and keep the positive energy in our community flowing.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vegan-rock-8-tickets-23653879390

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Migration and Poverty
Thur. April 21, 6 p.m.
St. Luke's Church, 353 Sherbourne Street
Speakers: Yogi Acharya and Mac Scott - Why do people migrate? - Do refugees take resources away from other poor people? - What is migrant justice?
http://ocap.ca/node/1273

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Toronto New Urbanism Film Festival
Thur. April 21, 6:30 p.m.
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, U of T
Films being screened throughout this festival, will focus on grassroots initiatives on a wide range of urban issues in the U.S.A and Canada: from recreational to transportation needs, and from economics to healthy living and environmental issues.
http://cnuontario.org/nu-film-festival/

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Echoes of Chornobyl: 30 years later
Fri. April 22, 7:30 p.m.
St. Vladimir Institute, 620 Spadina
On Earth Day, join us in remembering Chornobyl, not only as a place of disaster 30 years ago, but as a place of life, where the land and its people lived, sang, and loved. Live performance of ancient folk songs from the Chornobyl region by Ukrainian Village Voices (NYC), personal stories of the aftermath, and guest speakers Prof. Alex Belyakov (Ryerson) and Angela Bischoff (Ontario Clean Air Alliance). Let's use the 30 year Chornobyl anniversary as an opportunity to confront the question of nuclear energy in our midst, to inform ourselves about what is at stake, and to reflect upon the vitality of the land that sustains us, through art & remembering.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1768826476683489/

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Ukraine, Masks of the Revolution
Friday, April 22 - 7 p.m.
OISE 5-260, 252 Bloor w. (st. George subway) 
[2016, 52 min.] In February 2014, paramilitary groups fought against the police in the streets of Kiev and ousted President Yanukovych. They imposed a new government. According to western media, they were heroes. But they are actually extreme-right militias, heavily armed. The Right Sector, Azov or Svoboda created parallel irregular forces that easily got out of control. In Odessa, in May 2014, they were responsible for a mass killing without facing any charges. 45 people burnt to death. Why have western democracies not raised a voice in protest? Is it because these Ukrainian nationalist militias actually played a significant role in alarger war. The Ukrainian revolution was strongly supported by US diplomacy. In the new cold war that pits Russia against the USA, Ukraine is in contention. This film by Paul Moreira sheds light on this dark corner of world politics.
http://socialistaction.ca/tag/rebel-films/

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Earth Day Adventures in Low-Carbon Living 
Fri. April 22, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave., Toronto (Near St. George and Bloor at Bedford) 
Featuring Tomislav Svoboda, a Toronto doctor who celebrates his ten-year anniversary of not travelling in cars or planes.  How does he do it?  Also, Katie Harper, Project Neutral, brings us ideas for how communities can lower their carbon footprint.
http://tcan.ca/event/earth-day-adventures-low-carbon-living
8 min. video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiHvcFZZlAw 

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Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism 
Fril. April 22, 7 - 9 pm 
Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham 
Book launch. A new generation of activists working for economic and environmental justice, and against war and poverty, confronts critical questions. Why is the world so unjust and crisis-prone? What kind of world should we fight for? How can we win? In this panoramic yet accessible book, Umair Muhammad engages with these and other urgent debates. We need to change the structures of our social system, not our light bulbs. Confronting Injustice seeks to expose the structural roots of the injustices we must confront, and outlines an approach to activism that transcends the hopeless individualism of our time.
http://beitzatoun.org/event/book-launch-confronting-injustice/

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Rally against Deaths & Immigration detention 
Fri. April 22, 1:30 pm  
10 St Mary Street (Yonge & Charles)
Join us at Liberal Party Headquarters for a demonstration of rage, music, art, grief, and remembrance, and with a message loud and clear to the Liberal Government. Immigration detention is indefinite, unjust, and deadly. It must end. For Francisco and Melkioro who both died mysterious and unjustly in immigration detention in one week in March. 
http://bit.ly/1Nh98Mx 

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Marxism 2016: Ideas for real change
Fri.- Sat. April 22-23
Multifaith Centre, U of T, 569 Spadina
Conference on building a better world, talks on the security state, racism, climate justice, workers' resistance and more.
http://marxismconference.ca

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Climate Justice Now
Sat. April 23, 7 p.m.
Multifaith Centre, 569 Spadina Ave. (north of College St.)
Trudeau has promised climate action and respect for First Nations but under his government pipeline projects are in the works that ignore Indigenous rights and threaten the climate. The hope for real change comes from the climate justice movement, led by Indigenous communities defending their territories, pushing to keep fossil fuels in the ground and rapidly transition to a sustainable economy. $10 or pwyc
http://marxismconference.ca

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Karma Food Coop Spring Wellness Fair
Saturday, April 23, noon - 4 pm
739 Palmerston Ave (in the alley)
Karma members share ways for self care through Anarres Natural Health Apothecary with Tracy TieF, Homeopathy with Laura Coramai, Mitzvah Technique with posture specialist Susan Green, and more. Free.
http://www.karmacoop.org

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Climate Justice: How do we LEAP forward?
Sun. April 24, 11:30 - 3 p.m.
Variety Village, 3701 Danforth Ave. (just west of Birchmount Av) 
Featuring Avi Lewis, journalist, filmmaker (This Changes Everything) and one of the drafters of the LEAP Manifesto. Hosted by East End Climate Action 
http://tcan.ca/event/climate-justice-how-do-we-leap-forward

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Off-grid house tour  
Sun. Apr. 24, 2 - 5 p.m.
Hockley Valley/Toronto, ON
You are invited to visit the Ketchum's off-grid house. The house, built 19 years ago, is set into a hillside preventing it from freezing when unoccupied in winter. It generates its own power from photo-voltaic panels and a small wind turbine. It has a year-round indoor garden, a masonry wood-fired heater, two composting toilets and more. For more info, anthonyketchum37 at gmail.com and 416 487 2795.

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Lysistrata & The Temple of Gaia
Sun. April 24, 2 p.m.
427 Bloor St. West, Trinity-St. Paul's United Church & Centre for Faith, Justice & the Arts
Lysistrata and the Temple of Gaia re-imagines the classic Greek comedy by Aristophanes as a sex strike, not to stop a war, but to save a planet. $10 - $20. 
http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lysistrata-the-temple-of-gaia-tickets-21501381210?ref=ebtnebtckt

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Green Majority Radio - Canada's Environmental News Hour since 2006
Every Friday from 11am - noon
CIUT 89.5FM or subscribe on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/green-majority-radio/id941159945
Streaming player along with full show notes each week including references for stories we cover at www.greenmajority.ca

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Shape My City Events
http://shapemycity.ca/events.php

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Beit Zatoun Events
http://beitzatoun.org/events/

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Centre for Social Innovation Events
http://socialinnovation.ca/community/events/listing 

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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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