T.O. Greenspiration Events: Age of Rage

Sun Oct 28 23:16:47 EDT 2018

Elizabeth May makes an impassioned speech during emergency climate change debate - 10 min. video

https://www.facebook.com/GreenPartyofCanada/videos/702600486769516/UzpfSTU5MDkzMDg4MDoxMDE1NTQ3NjQ4NTI5NTg4MQ/ 

Or read the transcript

https://below2c.org/2018/10/climate-emergency-response-must-follow-emergency-debate/ 

A Carbon Tax Rebate in Every Mailbox as Trudeau Unveils Federal Backstop

https://theenergymix.com/2018/10/23/a-carbon-tax-rebate-in-every-mailbox-as-trudeau-unveils-federal-backstop/ 

Canada: Carbon Price Now!

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/carbonpricenow/?buLrXbb&v=111781&cl=15266861919&_checksum=b4b60a0ca9f0211421f8d03b92d354cd5fdae580bbe5594ec8709537884600e5

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Call on Minister Freeland to suspend arms transfers to Saudi Arabia

https://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1770&ea.campaign.id=48341&utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=utm_jamalkhashoggi&utm_content=SaudiArabia+Khashoggi-Signersfollowup&ea.url.id=1557479&forwarded=true

Tell Prime Minister Trudeau and Minister Freeland - stop Saudi arms sales

https://act.leadnow.ca/tell-stop-saudi-arms-sales/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast2018-10-28

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The City we Desire. The City we Deserve. The City we Fight for.

We invite all residents of Toronto/Tkaronto to build a city of social justice & solidarity. A city where we are connected. A city that is taking responsibility for climate action. A decolonized city. In signing this platform, we commit to working together to build this vision, and to dream together for more.   

https://www.citywefightfor.org/   

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The Anthropocene – special exhibit

On till Jan 6th, 2019

AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario, Dundas and McCaul

A major new contemporary art exhibition that tells the story of human impact on the Earth through film, photography, and new experiential technologies. From the collective of photographer Edward Burtynsky and filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier.

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/events/2018/9/28/anthropocene    

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Bike City Exhibit

Showcasing 13 bicycles, archival photographs, early advertisements and artifacts from private and public collections, the new exhibit, Bike City, tells the story of the bicycle and its impact on Toronto, past, present and future. The exhibit is on display until November 17, 2018, at the Market Gallery on the second floor of the St. Lawrence Market at 95 Front St. E

http://dandyhorsemagazine.com/blog/2018/07/19/the-story-of-the-bicycle-and-its-impact-on-toronto-at-bike-city-exhibit/   

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The State of the Union: Alt-Right: Age of Rage

Mon. Oct. 29, 3:30 p.m. and Tues. Nov. 6, 4 p.m.

Bloor Hot Docs, 506 Bloor W.

Get a front-line primer on the growing political polarization of America in the wake of the Trump presidency. One year into the election, the Alt-Right is on the rise and civil rights groups like the shadow collective Antifa and the NAACP are fighting back. Immersing us in both sides of the battle, filmmaker Adam Bhala Lough follows white supremacist leader Richard Spencer and his most resolute adversary, anti-fascist activist Daryle Lamont Jenkins, exposing the social turmoil spreading across the country. As tensions between the right and the left reach an all-time high, the two sides square off during the tragic events at the 2017 Charlottesville riots. Trigger warning: everything.

https://boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/WebSales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=77422~fff311b7-cdad-4e14-9ae4-a9905e1b9cb0&epguid=6395d239-7dd9-47d4-a22f-81a783873e12&ep=1 

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Community Vigil: Fair Labour Laws Save Lives

Mon. Oct. 29, 5:30 - 7 p.m.

Keele and York (main entrance to York U)

On Friday we received the tragic news that a 4th temp agency worker has died at a Fiera Foods related bakery. This is the same food processing company where 3 temp agency workers previously lost their lives, prompting an undercover investigation by Toronto Star's Sara Mojtehedzadeh. We are calling for a community vigil at the intersection which is very close to the location of the plant where this worker was killed. Please bring candles and flowers with you if possible.

https://www.facebook.com/events/190843711807605/

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The Global Movement to end Nuclear Weapons 

With Dr. Tilman Ruff, ICAN Ban the Bomb - New Hope for a New Generation

Tuesday Oct. 30, 7-9 p.m.

North York Civic Centre 5100 Yonge Street, Council Chamber

Founding chair of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (!CAN- 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Tilman Ruff speaks on the promise of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons & the hopes and challenges for nuclear weapons-free future. With 2017 ICAN Nobel Laureate Setsuko Thurlow & the Nobel Peace Prize medal. https://www.facebook.com/events/345333336012292/   

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Stand up to the Ontario Chamber of Commerce

Wed. Oct. 31, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Outside the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, 180 Dundas St W (E. of University)

We cannot let corporate greed take away the most basic protections we won through grassroots organizing. Join us in getting the word out that the Chamber is spinning lies about the impact of decent work on the economy to justify their call for the full repeal of our newly won rights. When the Chamber of Commerce campaigns against Bill 148, they are campaigning to make it easier for bosses to fire workers whose childcare has fallen through or who have to stay home sick when they have the flu.

https://www.15andfairness.org/ontario_chamber_of_commerce_oct24   

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"Nsastaadiwin, Wiiji’nakiindwin awii Mina Wiijiinding": Understanding, Working Together to Peace and Harmony 

Wed.-Thur. Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 9:30 am - 4 pm

North York Civic Centre, Council Chambers, 5100 Yonge Street, Lower Level

With a goal of building understanding and connections to advance reconciliation in Toronto, let's come together to become more knowledgeable about the ongoing impacts of Canadian colonialism, and explore from a trauma-informed and anti-oppressive lens) how we can integrate Indigenous values and approaches into policy development and service delivery. 

https://tkaronto_reconciliation.eventbrite.ca

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Environmentalists, what are we fighting for? With Graham Saul 

Thur. Nov. 1, 5 - 7 p.m.

Spadina Theatre at Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd (just north of Bloor)

Graham challenges us to identify what connects the disparate struggles that constitute today’s environmental movement. And he challenges us to articulate how to move forward in a hopeful and inspiring way.

https://bit.ly/2AxstGZ

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Advocacy Reloaded: Upping your game in Ontario's new political reality

Thur. Nov. 1, 1 - 5 p.m.

CSI Spadina, Meeting Room F, 192 Spadina

With a Conservative government now in place in Ontario, sustainability companies and advocates need to find a way to put the issues that matter to their businesses, their members and frankly to all of us back on the public and political agenda. Join us to learn essential communication principles, strategies and tactics that will help put environmental and social issues back on the provincial policy agenda. This is designed to be an interactive workshop with lots of opportunity to share best practices and to network.

https://www.showpass.com/advocacyworkshop/ 

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Diaspora Film Festival

Nov. 1 - 4 

Carlton Cinema and Ryerson University

DFF provides Toronto audiences with an opportunity to experience the cultural mosaic of the present world through the medium of cinema.

http://diasporafilmfest.com/ 

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No Hate in Toronto: Protest Steve Bannon and David Frum

Fri. Nov. 2, 5 - 9 p.m.

Roy Thompson Hall, 60 Simcoe

Steve Bannon and David Frum have been invited to the Munk Debates in Toronto to have a chummy chit chat. The Bannon-Frum Toronto Welcoming Committee invite all people concerned with the rise of white nationalism and imperialist war to gather at the steps of Roy Thomson Hall to show their solidarity and outrage to those harmed by the hateful ideas of Bannon and Frum. We will welcome them with the faces they fear the most: the faces of Muslims, Black people, Indigenous peoples, Arabs, trans* people, queers, women, feminists and if you are part of the Axis of Evil, come on down!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1401207076681549/  

And sign the petition: https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/no-hate-in-toronto-cancel-steve-bannon-at-munk-debate  

Call The Munk Debates advisors and demand they cancel white supremacist war mongers, Steve Bannon and David Frum. https://act.leadnow.ca/munk/

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Killing Gaza

Friday, Nov. 2, 7 p.m.  

OISE, 252 Bloor St. W., Rm 5-150  

In Killing Gaza, journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal documented Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza. Yet this film is much more than a documentary about Palestinian resilience and suffering. It is a chilling visual document of war crimes committed by the Israeli military, featuring direct testimony and evidence from the survivors. Stephen Ellis is BDS activist and socialist and will speak following the film. $4 donation. Part of the Rebel Film Series presented by Toronto Socialist Action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J8LYuf7x3A 

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EcoFair at the Barns 

Sunday, November 4, 11 am - 4 pm 

Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St near St Clair W

The EcoFair is a free, family-friendly event that informs and inspires greener choices in our homes and communities.  Learn about and celebrate the exciting programs, products and services of over 40 environmental not-for-profit organizations and eco-friendly businesses.

http://www.EcoFairToronto.org 

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For the best Canadian climate and energy news, subscribe to the Energy Mix newsletter

http://theenergymix.com/ 

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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)

https://hotdocscinema.ca/ 

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NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing

https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/ 

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Subscribes, unsubscribes and submissions: angela at cleanairalliance.org

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