T.O. Greenspiration Events: Sacred and Living

Angela Bischoff greenspi at web.ca
Sun Nov 6 22:24:46 EST 2016 

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Canada could face “20 Standing Rocks,” said a Mohawk chief in response to the Justin Trudeau government’s revelation Thursday it doesn’t plan to include consent as part of its consultation approach with First Nations on major resource projects.
http://ecocidealert.com/?p=22127

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Banks need to stop financially supporting the Dakota Access Pipeline now
#NoDAPL In solidarity with Standing Rock 3 women lock-down within TD's main office downtown Toronto, demand an admission to TD's complicity in the violence again Indigenous water protectors. Divest from TD (Toronto Dominion Securities bank), the 7th largest investor of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
https://actions.sumofus.org/a/banks-need-to-divest-from-the-dakota-access-pipeline-now/?akid=24203.1002063.Qux4pc&rd=1&source=fwd&t=2
http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=bea2118e5fbd4c044bf5737ee&id=fd9620274c&e=b220d71037

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Fantastic and heart breaking doc on climate change by Leonardo DiCaprio
Watch it online here: 
https://www.youtube.com/user/NationalGeographic

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Opioids: Tonight with John Oliver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkDBle9fHhQ&feature=youtu.be

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This flu season, let’s immunize ourselves from the annual infection of exaggerating relative risk reductions 
How effective is the flu shot?   
http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2015/10/this-flu-season-lets-immunize-ourselves-from-the-annual-infection-of-exaggerating-relative-risk-reductions/

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Animal Liberation Currents has Launched
The digital magazine of animal liberation politics is here! We will be providing regular, in-depth coverage of animal liberation politics and struggle, campaign dialogues, engagement with fundamental theoretical debates, and offer detailed analysis of strategy. The first articles are online now! You can find us at:
animalliberationcurrents.com
facebook.com/alcurrents
twitter.com/alcurrents

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What I know and still don't know about the Scarborough subway
On a transit debate where there have always been questions over a lack of facts
https://www.thestar.com/news/city-hall-blog/2016/10/what-i-know-and-still-don-t-know-about-the-scarborough-subway.html

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Furnished Room, Shared Apartment 
Seeking house-mate to share my bright quiet 2nd floor apartment in a two story corner house on Vaughan Rd. near Oakwood.  Close to transit, great bicycle routes to downtown, basement bike storage. Large comfortable bedroom. Well equipped kitchen, living/dining room to share, reclining tub in the bathroom. Wood floors, lots of windows. To share with environment and peace activist, prefer vegetarian. $600, parking available. January 1st.  Furnished (or semi if you prefer).  
Contact Lyn Adamson 416-731-6605, lyn.adamson9 at gmail.com

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Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival
Nov. 4 - 12
At Revue Cinema (400 Roncesvalles), Art Gallery of Ontario's Jackman Hall (317 Dundas West) and Workman Arts (651 Dufferin).
Festival devoted to movies about mental health and recovery, plus a free mind games arcade and more. $12 (some pwyc available for those on fixed incomes), opening night $15-$35.
http://www.rendezvouswithmadness.ca

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How to participate in the review of federal EA processes
Webinar
Mon. Nov. 7, 4 - 5:30 p.m.
Join this workshop on the federal government's review of environmental assessment processes. Tune in to hear expert panelists describe the expert review of environmental assessment processes and learn about leading-edge solutions to key issues about how government makes decisions that affect Canadians and the environment, and how you can be involved in this important review. 
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5159715977035833604

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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Nov. 4 - 10
Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor (at Bathurst)
When Donald Trump says, “This election is rigged”—he should know. His friends are rigging it. Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palest busted Jeb Bush for stealing the 2000 election by removing black voters from Florida’s electoral rolls. Now, Palast is back to take a deep dive into the Republicans’ dark operation, Crosscheck—designed to steal votes by this November. This real life detective story is told in a film noir style with animations (from the cartoonist behind Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit comic books), secret documents, hidden cameras and a little help from some familiar Law & Order: Special Victims Unit detectives!
http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=57969~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&

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Winterizing Your Home 
Annette Library – 145 Annette Street
Tues. November 8, 6:30 p.m.
Greg Labbe of BlueGreen Group will talk about ways you can get your home ready for winter. He’ll cover the elements of a typical Junction/High Park homes with a balance of theory and practice. His presentation will focus of ways to lower energy costs for the winter and make their living spaces more comfortable. 
http://www.green13toronto.org/event/winterizing-your-home-part-our-fragile-planet-series

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TransPacific Partnership Town Hall - Stop the TPP
Tuesday November 8, 7 pm
Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard St. W.
The TransPacific Partnership (TPP) threatens tens of thousands of Canadian jobs, will lead to higher prescription drug costs and threaten our health care system. CLC President Hassan Yussuff and Council of Canadians Chair Maude Barlow are on tour to expose this dangerous deal. Learn what the TPP will mean for Canada, for Toronto and how
to stop it.
https://www.facebook.com/events/309318342771342/

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Live Broadcast: America Votes 
Tues. Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m.
Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W (at Bathurst)
The American presidential election has been a dramatic contest and the results have never mattered more to us just north of the border, and around the world. On the evening of November 8th, you are invited to view the results of one of the most important elections in modern history on our big screen. Join hundreds of passionate observers and raise a glass to the election of America's first female president—or drown your sorrows as a bully becomes the leader of the free world. Regardless of the result, our bar will stay open long past the closing of the polls so you can share a monumentally important moment in world history, as it happens. Tickets: FREE (limit two per person) are available at the box office.
http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=56390~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&

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Spies, Police, Two New "National Security" Laws & You
Tues. Nov. 7, 7 p.m.
T.O. Reference Library, 789 Yonge, Hinton Learning Theatre
Andrew Mitrovica, veteran investigative journalist, returns to talk about how Ottawa has introduced two new laws that will give Canada's spies and police new powers, resources, and money that will have profound impact on the lives of all Canadians.
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Em=1&Entt=RDMEVT266240&R=EVT266240

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A Wall Is Just A Wall: Fighting Immigration Detention Under Trudeau Liberals - Teach-In
Wed. Nov 9, 6 pm - dinner and music, 7 – 9 p.m.
Friends House, 60 Lowther Street
Join immigration detainees and community leaders to discuss prison abolition, immigration detention, racism, and organizing to win under the Trudeau Liberals. The event will include comments by award winning journalist Desmond Cole, indigenous activist Peggy Shaughnessy, recently released immigration detainees and more. We will have dinner and poetry, and the event is child friendly, wheelchair accessible and we are working to confirm ASL interpretation. 
RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1063829503729825/
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/99

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Toward This Generation’s New Left: Impediments and Possibilities
by Richard Sandbrook, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Toronto
Wednesday November 9, 7 - 9 pm  
Room 52 of University College (basement, east wing), 15 King’s College Circle, U of T
All are welcome. Bring a friend.

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The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War
Wed, Nov 9, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
StudioBar, StudioBar 824 Dundas Street W.
Join historian Ian McKay and journalist Jamie Swift for the Toronto launch of their book. The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, and even politicians who had supported the war interpreted its meaning over the decades. This subtle, fast-paced work of public history—combining scholarly insight with sharp-eyed journalism, and based on primary sources and school textbooks, battlefield visits and war art—explains both how and why peace and war remain contested terrain in ever-changing landscapes of Canadian memory.

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Bursting at the Seams: Gala Screening and Premiere 
With OCAP outside Mayor Tory’s home
Thursday November 9, 6:30  - 8:30 p.m.
One Bedford Road (just outside St. George subway station)
In collaboration with a few key allies, OCAP (Ontario Coalition Against Poverty) made a short film on the conditions of brutal overcrowding within Toronto's homeless shelter system. We are going to show the film outside the building where Mayor John Tory lives in somewhat better circumstances. The crisis is being compounded by a concerted drive by City Hall to move shelters out of the City core to make way for more upscale redevelopment. Come out, see the film and support the fight for the right to shelter. Food provided.
Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/QOL3bp9ue04
https://www.facebook.com/events/899643060167710/

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Engaging the Judicial System to Create Change
Thursday, November 10, 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St. Room 2111, U of T
This workshop will present one activist's recent experiences (and victories) with filing complaints through social justice tribunals and other quasi-judicial tribunals, with a focus on the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Topics to be covered include: building a strong case, working effectively with lawyers, media considerations, and self-care throughout the process.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/engaging-the-judicial-system-to-create-change-tickets-27195028061

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National Security Framework Town Hall Consultation on Bill C-51
Thursday, November 10, 7 - 9 p.m. 
Scadding Court Community Centre, 707 Dundas St. West
MP Adam Vaughan is hosting a community discussion as part of the Government of Canada's consultation on national security and reform of Bill C-51. He’s inviting your opinions and ideas on Canada's national security laws and policies to keep you safe and to safeguard our values, rights and freedoms. A number of topics will be covered during the meeting. In addition, a consultation survey and supporting materials are available online here: https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cnslttns/ntnl-scrt/index-eng.aspx Please RSVP your attendance here. http://avaughan.liberal.ca/events/ or by emailing Adam.Vaughan.C1D at parl.gc.ca.  If you're not able to attend, you can also contribute to the general discussion online at https://www.canada.ca/en/services/defence/nationalsecurity/consultation-national-security.html until December 1, 2016. 

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Treaties: Sacred And Living
Thur. Nov. 10, 8 - 10 a.m.
Church of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor W
Ontario Regional Chief Isadore Day talks about treaties as living and binding over breakfast provided by Toronto Council Fire Cultural Centre. Free
http://www.theredeemer.ca/Page/AIWG.html#AIWGEvents

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Hands On: Women, Climate, Change 
Fri. Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m. 
Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth (Chester subway)
Hands-on profiles five women from four continents tackling climate change through policy, protest, education and innovation. The film powerfully demonstrates how women are transferring knowledge and local networks into hands-on strategies. Film and discussion with OCAA's Angela Bischoff and others.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1812653462340210/

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The Free State of Jones
Friday, November 11, 7 pm
OISE, 252 Bloor W, Rm. 5-280
In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history. To lead off the discussion is veteran socialist Jason Baines, a leader of NDP Momentum.
https://socialistaction.ca/2016/09/21/rebel-films-fall-2016-schedule/

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Make Moon Cycle Beads: Natural contraception
Fri. Nov. 11, 7 - 9 p.m.
Anarres Natural Health Apothecary, 749 Dovercourt Road NE corner at Bloor
What's up with hormonal contraception, and what alternatives are available? We'll check out the Fem Cap, the Caya Diaphragm, Cycle Beads, The Standard Days Method plus vegan contraceptive gels Contragel Green and Caya Diaphragm Gel.. You'll make and take home a customized set of Moon cycle beads to help you conceive, or NOT conceive, or just keep in touch with your body’s rhythms. $15 includes vegan soup. RSVP 647 827 6968
http://www.anarreshealth.ca/workshop/diy-vegan-body-care-workshop-soirees

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We Are All Treaty People: The Court Case Of The Creatures
Fri. Nov. 11, 7 - 9 p.m.
Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W
Dramatic reading with Billy Merasty, Jani Lauzon, David S Craig & musicians Tony Quarrington and Len Udow, focused on the effect of development on our lakes and rivers and on First Nations Peoples. 7-9 pm. Free.

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Do Not Resist
Nov. 11 - 23
Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. (at Bathurst)
Do Not Resist offers a powerful response with its fast-paced exposé of the militarization of US police departments.
http://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=57986~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&

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Activist Media Archives Symposium - De/Materializing Bodies
Saturday, Nov. 12, 10 am – 5 pm, Film Screening 7 pm
80 Gould St.,Vari Hall, ENG 103, 245 Church St.
The Symposium will bring together 24 artists/activists/academics from across North America to discuss and interrogate the affective relationship between materiality, archives, and cultural practice. Within Canada, much archival material documenting or by marginalized groups is dematerial(iz-ed/ing); we will consider both why this is occurring and how we can create/have created new archival practices to reincorporate lost records, voices, affects and bodies. As part of the symposium, we are pleased to host the Toronto premiere of the film "A Truth To Be Told: The 60's Scoop in the Splatsin Community" (Canada 2016). The film's producer, Dr. Raven Sinclair, will speak to the ways in which this film has rematerialized the lived experience of colonialism for Indigenous communities in Canada. Cost: Symposium: $50 faculty, $25 students, free for unwaged.
Email: thestudioformediaactivism at gmail.com
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/activist-media-archives-dematerializing-bodies-tickets

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Unfree Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada
Discussion & Book Launch with Aziz Choudry, Adrian Smith, Sedef Arat-Koç & Deena Ladd
Sat. November 12, 5 - 6:30 pm
Workers' Action Centre, 720 Spadina Ave, 2nd floor
Over the past decade, Canada has experienced considerable growth in labour migration. Moreover, temporary labour migration has replaced permanent immigration as the primary means by which people enter
Canada. Utilizing the rhetoric of maintaining competitiveness, Canadian employers and the state have ushered in an era of neoliberal migration alongside an agenda of austerity flowing from capitalist crisis. Labour markets have been restructured to render labour more flexible and precarious, and in Canada as in other high-income capitalist labour markets, employers are relying on migrant and immigrant workers as "unfree labour." This book explores labour migration to Canada and how public policies of temporary and guest worker programs function in the global context of work and capitalist restructuring.
https://www.facebook.com/events/349250028755127/

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A Climate of Peace?
Sunday, November 13, 7 - 9 pm (Doors open at 6:30pm)
Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (St. George TTC Bedford exit, 1 block North),
Increasingly, climate change is being recognized as the biggest threat to our collective security. In a time when military budgets vastly outpace government spending on environmental initiatives, we take a look at key films focused on the interconnectedness of our climate and the goal of peace and stability.
http://www.tcff.ca/about/
	
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Drop, Swap & Shop
Sun. Nov. 13, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview
Drop off unwanted electronics, swap for new treasures and shop at the Etsy Maker’s Market. $2. 
https://www.evergreen.ca/blog/entry/drop-swap-shop-faqs/

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

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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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