Greenspiration News & Events: War is not Green

[Angela Bischoff - OCAA]

 

 

War is Not Green: Call for a Global Peace Moratorium for People and Planet

Sign the call for a global ceasefire and a moratorium on any new weapons production, including and especially nuclear weapons, while establishing a crash program of renewables, mass transit, sustainable farming and tree planting!

https://www.codepink.org/wingpetition 

 

The Magnitude of All Things 

Producer, Jennifer Abbott, draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary in her new documentary. Stories from the frontlines of climate change merge with recollections from the filmmaker’s childhood on Ontario’s Georgian Bay. Free to stream from the comfort of your home before midnight, Earth Day (April 22, 2022)

https://foecanada.org/magnitude-of-all-things/

 

Stop Financing Terror and Genocide

Every dollar paid for Russian energy is a dollar that supports a murderous war. 

https://bloody.energy/ 

 

Easier Ride for Fossils, But $9.1B in Climate Funding as Ottawa Releases 2030 Plan

https://www.theenergymix.com/2022/03/30/easier-ride-for-fossils-but-9-1b-in-climate-action-funding-as-ottawa-releases-2030-plan/

 

Quebec Becomes World’s First Jurisdiction to Ban Oil and Gas Exploration

Quebec became the first jurisdiction in the world to explicitly ban oil and gas development in its territory after decades of campaigning by environmental organizations and citizen groups.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/04/14/news/citizens-officially-win-fight-ban-oil-and-gas-development-quebec 

https://www.theenergymix.com/2022/04/13/quebec-becomes-worlds-first-jurisdiction-to-ban-oil-and-gas-exploration/   

 

6 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy is Not the Way to a Green and Peaceful World

https://energycentral.com/news/6-reasons-why-nuclear-energy-not-way-green-and-peaceful-world

 

What do Canadians really think about climate change?

Canadians overwhelmingly say they are concerned about climate change and opinion is crystallizing at the “very concerned” end of the spectrum.

https://climateaccess.org/blog/what-do-canadians-really-think-about-climate-change-0

 

Ban Thermal Coal Exports - Petition to the Government of Canada

https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-3919

 

Ada'itsx Fairy Creek Diary - the documentary

With over 1,100 arrests, Fairy Creek is the biggest civil disobedience action in Canada aiming to protect the old-growth forest from logging.

https://vimeo.com/695238963     

 

The Ford government is engaging in unprecedented health care privatization

The Ontario Health Coalition & Oxford Coalition for Social Justice hosted this 90 min. webinar with Linda McQuaig and others. 

https://fb.watch/cnWaUAK5qg/ 

 

Capitalism Hits Home: The Business of Mental Health

One out of four American women take antidepressant drugs. Dr. Fraad addresses how mental health is diagnosed and treated. Human suffering and misery have been systematically categorized as disorders for which treatment with medication is needed and prescribed by psychiatrists. She argues that the collusion of medical doctors, insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, driven by their quest for profits, are to blame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFme5mYsFlA

 

Know Your Drugs

How consumers of prescription drugs can be protected from side effects that cause death, disability and disfunction. A cross-Canada tour starting in Halifax, Nova Scotia on April 19, 2022, ending in Victoria, BC. David's personal tragedy provided the basis for the CTV W5 episode The Problem with Pills. His goal is to help Canadians make informed choices about prescription drug use by educating them about Vanessa’s Law and prescription drug safety. Check his site for an event in your hometown.

https://knowyourdrugs.org/tour/ 

 

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Ontario Election Campaigns to Engage with

 

Not One Seat!

A grassroots movement to ensure that Doug Ford wins #NotOneSeat in Toronto.

https://www.notoneseat.ca/ 

https://medium.com/@djdynamicnc/our-plan-to-stop-doug-ford-d21e653a5b3

 

Climate Conversations

If you are interested in hosting or facilitating kitchen-table climate conversations, find out more here. Let's talk about climate and the election!

https://climatefast.ca/

 

All-Candidates Debates in Priority Ridings

Help with ON Debates in crucial ridings, including ridings in Mississauga, Scarborough, Willowdale and Richmond Hill. To volunteer email: 

ondebates at greenpac.ca 

 

Ontario Voters Coalition (OVC) 

Door Knocking in crucial ridings

https://ontariovoterscoalition.ca/ 

 

Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign (OCEC)

Help to mobilize pressure on the parties – and the candidates – to commit to the points in the plan that will help us to slash emissions, protect natural areas, reduce sprawl, and act to protect Indigenous rights. Check out the 12-point Climate Action Plan and sign up here:

Individual sign on: https://www.ontarioclimateemergency.ca/copy-of-sign-on-take-the-pledge 

Group sign on: https://www.ontarioclimateemergency.ca/copy-of-group-sign-on 

 

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Voices from the Movement w/ Celina Caesar-Chavannes

Mon. Apr 18, 7 pm ET

Voices from the Movement is a free online series featuring activists, advocates and community leaders who are collectively trying to reboot our democracy's operating system, to be more inclusive, responsive and meaningful. Hosted by Unlock Democracy Canada.

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtfuioqj4sEt2dqLEBLbALmfaZN9jz4f1X  

Full 2021 Schedule: https://www.unlockdemocracy.ca/voices_from_the_movement 

 

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An Anishinaabe-Muslim Conversation on Conceptualizing Human and Other-Than-Human Relationships

Mon. Apr. 18, 7 p.m. ET

Please join us for this conversation between Anishinaabe scholar Eva Jewell and Islamic scholar Sarra Tlili, on how we might (re)conceptualize human relations with other-than-humans towards love, justice, and care. As always, everyone, regardless of faith or observance, is welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYyP4c8VABHThR5_Rt5y9FQ/live 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83442083132?pwd=dUt3VW1HVEd5d001a3QwblpsOWtVZz09#success 

 

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Everybody has the Right to a Home... that's a Human Right!

Mon. April 18, 7:30 p.m. ET

The United Nations declared housing a human right way back in 1948, yet we remain very far from achieving it. We are in a housing crisis throughout greater Toronto, and in cities and towns across Canada. We face sky-high rents, rampant pricing speculation, aggressive investment schemes, condos left unoccupied, reno-victions and growing homelessness. Our panel of experts will discuss the roots of our housing problems and the possible solutions. Hosted by Cinema Politica Danforth.

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qdu-gqDsvGdR43H59EdFOLQsJMPZqMyu2

 

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War Abolition 101: How We Create a Peaceful World

Apr 18 - May 29

Six-week online course providing participants an opportunity to learn from, dialogue with, and strategize for change with World BEYOND War experts, peer activists, and changemakers from around the world.

https://act.worldbeyondwar.org/war-abolition-101/   

 

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An all-party debate: Health and justice in a climate emergency

Tues. Apr. 19, 7:30 p.m. ET

Ontarians will cast a vote in the provincial election on June 2. To inform voters on each party’s environmental priorities, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) will be co-hosting an all-party virtual debate with the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment’s Ontario Chapter (CAPE-ON) focused on health and justice in a climate emergency. Representatives from provincial parties will share their party’s positions on specific environmental issues, including climate change, urban sprawl and health equity.

https://rnao.ca/news/media-releases/environmental-priorities-on-agenda-during-rnao-and-cape-on-provincial-party 

 

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>From one COP to the next, stay mobilized

Tues. Apr. 19, noon - 1 p.m. ET

How can we work together to keep the 1.5 degree goal alive and build a future based on social justice for current and future generations? We will take stock of the progress made at COP26, examine it in the light of new scientific data and continue the dialogues with the help of our exceptional panelists.

https://climatereality.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vZmxUW7uSMuCgYC5e1HWnA   

 

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Open Streets / Ciclovías. Public Health for All. Meeting as Equals.

Tues. April 19, 11 a.m. ET

When Gil Penalosa was Commissioner in Bogota, he led the creation of the 'new Ciclovia', taking a small program and turning it into the world's largest pop-up park -- 121 km of open streets to people and closed to cars, 52 Sundays and 13 holidays. 1 of 5 resident attends, over a million walk, run, bike, and mostly enjoy presence of each other. Gil is founder and chair of 8 80 Cities, and ambassador of World Urban Parks. He will be joined by Dr. Olga L. Sarmiento, who has worked on multiple research projects of the impact of Ciclovia / Open Streets on mental and physical health, in Bogota and many other cities.

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d8gFaFGiTImcfewhSR_lJQ  

 

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Living in Transapocalyptic Times

Thomas Berry’s Ecozoic Vision - The Basics:  Why it Matters More Than Ever

Tuesdays April 19, 26 & May 3, 10, 10 a.m. – noon Pacific time

How are we to live in a world that is both falling apart and bringing forth something new? What will that new be? Geologian Thomas Berry (1914-2009) proposed an ecozoic future. He wrote that what is radically different about our moment is that for the first time, humans are undergoing a change of geobiological eras, from the terminal Cenozoic era to an emerging Ecozoic era. He offered the latter as promise, as a vision of what could be, not something that is assured. 

https://www.earthliteracies.org/Herman_Greene_Thomas_Berry%E2%80%99s_Ecozoic_Vision 

 

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Fighting the criminalization of Water Protectors

Tues. Apr. 19, 7:30 p.m. ET

In this webinar you will hear the voices of those standing up against criminalization of climate action.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpduCsrz0uG91-c7n1QEv96jpmCbn3tDmI  

 

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Stop 413 - Don't Let the Provincial Government Pave our Future

Wed. Apr 20, 7 p.m. ET

Learn more about why highway-based sprawl sacrifices our future and what we can do. Let’s build, not pave, Ontario’s future — we have better choices. Find out how you can be involved.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83202710738   

 

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Charting the Path to 2030

Wed. Apr. 20, 9:30 a.m. ET

EARTH INDEX is the fundamental metric that measures the speed at which countries (by sector) are reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relative to the speed required to deliver on their commitments.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QRgAtD6nR6CTYw5DrKhseQ

 

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#activistGROOVE 

Wed. April 20, 7:30 - 9:30 pm ET

Tranzac Club, Southern Cross Lounge, 292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto

The SPECIAL INTEREST group plays conscious, politically progressive, and labour-positive songs of protest and hope — music to inspire the struggle for CLIMATE, JOBS, and JUSTICE, and to build the fightback against Doug Ford and all reactionary forces. And you can dance! Pay-What-You-Can. Wheelchair Accessible (Venue and Washrooms)

http://www.thespecialinterestgroup.ca 

 

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Nukewatch Talks

Wed. April 20, 6 p.m. ET

An online gathering with speakers from Nukewatch Quarterly available to discuss and answer your questions about the nuclear news.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88445855400?pwd=QndrT2EvWG5qVzd5TUpQUEdNUG4rdz09#success

 

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Fossil Fuel Treaty: a Bold Feminist Climate Solution for Peace at Stockholm+50

Thursday, April 21, 11 a.m. ET

Join us with leaders of the feminist peace movement to elevate the alternative values which have always been intrinsic to human survival: solidarity, equality, care and compassion, community. Now we can build on these with a new legal norm: a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

https://fossilfueltreaty.org/events/feminist-climate-solution

 

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New Fighter Jets, NATO and the War in Ukraine

Thursday, April 21, 7 p.m. ET

Canada is moving forward with the competition to procure 88 warplanes, at a lifetime cost to taxpayers of $77 B. Purchasing these new jets will entrench fossil-fuel militarism and will do mothering to protect us from a pandemic or the climate and other ecological crises. Featuring Tamara Lorincz of Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, Yves Engler of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and Brent Patterson of the Canada Peace Network, plus discussant Barry Weisleder, Socialist Action.

https://youtu.be/MEwQgEn3s7U

 

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Guidance to Climate Grief Resilience

Thur. Apr. 21, 4 - 5 p.m. ET

Stream the documentary film THE MAGNITUDE OF ALL THINGS at your convenience, then join us on April 21st for a guided climate grief circle. This one-hour workshop begins the process of helping individuals and communities build resilience by creating spaces where people can lean into their painful feelings about the state of the climate crisis and reorient their lives toward meaningful action.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/earth-day-guidance-to-climate-grief-resilience-tickets-307093865017 

 

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Tic Talk Circle - sharing climate grief

Thur. April 21, 7:30 - 9 pm ET

Please spread the word and encourage your friends, peers, like-minded others to join us. The theme for this month is: Our Climate Stories

https://www.kadycowan.com/climatetictalk.html 

 

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The Fourth R: reduce, reuse, recycle, Revolutionize 

A theatrical call to action on the planet's most pressing topic: climate change

Thur. Apr. 21 - Sun. Apr. 24

St Anne's Anglican Church, 270 Gladstone Ave., Toronto

This performance is an interdisciplinary presentation that fuses climate science, dance and video projections together. We cannot wait to celebrate the Earth together and unite in our fight for climate justice with our theatrical, multi-media, high-intensity dance show.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-fourth-r-reduce-reuse-recycle-revolutionize-tickets-288760679967 

 

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Half Earth Socialism

Thur. Apr. 21, noon ET

In their new book, Half Earth Socialism, authors have proposed some radical solutions in the socialist case for addressing our current crisis including:

• re-wild half the Earth to absorb carbon emissions and restore biodiversity

• pursue a rapid transition to renewable energy, paired with drastic cuts in consumption by the world’s wealthiest populations

• enact global veganism to cut down on energy and land use

• inaugurate worldwide socialist planning to efficiently and equitably

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/half-earth-socialism-tickets-314669814887

 

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Join the Global Mobilization to #StopLockheedMartin

April 21 - 28 — at a Lockheed Martin facility, funder, or promoter near you!

Lockheed Martin is by far the largest weapons producer in the world. From Ukraine to Yemen, from Palestine to Colombia, from Somalia to Syria, from Afghanistan and West Papua to Ethiopia, no one profits more from war and bloodshed than Lockheed Martin. We call on people around the world to join the Global Mobilization to #StopLockheedMartin starting on April 21, the same day that Lockheed Martin holds its Annual General Meeting.

https://act.worldbeyondwar.org/stoplockheedmartin/

 

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Earthday Events around Ontario - Yours to Protect

April 22 - 24

Find a local enviro event near you - dozens of events from Ottawa to Windsor.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=12QbylfIGV2SiPKIij2-Bbf5HpNrk6C2I&ll=43.60295120791306,-79.65585025&z=7 

 

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Earth Day Online Workshop for kids 8 - 12 years old

Fri. April 22, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. ET

Relay Education presents a workshop on the conservation of energy and renewable energy sources with a focus on wind and solar power. Students will learn about uses of electricity, over-consumption and its impact on biodiversity.

https://relayeducation.com/events/earth-day-workshop/ 

 

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Call in Sick on Earth Day

Fri. April 22

Insomnia? Stress? Anger? Climate change is already affecting us, and more and more of us are experiencing these symptoms because of it. It’s called eco-anxiety. The 2022 Earth Day campaign produced by the creative agency Sid Lee highlights this little-known mental illness that is gaining traction and the ways we can remedy together! On April 22, call in sick for Earth Day. Let's take care of ourselves and our planet by taking action together. #CallinSickforEarthDay #RemedyTogether #EarthDay2022

https://earthday.ca/april-22/campaign/ 

 

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Nature in The Race to Zero

Fri. Apr. 22, 8 a.m. ET

We need to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century to keep the global temperature below 1,5°C. While the focus has primarily been on reducing fossil fuel dependency, there is no viable route to limiting global warming and building resilience without urgently protecting, managing, and restoring nature. Join us to learn how nature-based solutions can help us deliver a third of the greenhouse gas reductions needed by 2030 to meet the Paris Agreement.

https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/nature 

 

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Town Hall with the Federal Housing Advocate - The Right to Housing in Action

Fri. Apr. 22, 1 p.m. ET

Join us for the first ever Town Hall with the newly-appointed Federal Housing Advocate, Marie-Josée Houle. This event will be hosted by the National Right to Housing Network (NRHN), in partnership with the Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network (WNHHN). https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WuRw-j0YTUea50JfvuIkGQ 

 

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Not One Seat! Campaign Kickoff

Sat. April 23, 3 p.m. ET

Not One Seat is a grassroots coalition of concerned Ontarians working to ensure that Doug Ford is a one-term Premier, and we have a three-pronged plan to deliver. Learn more at our campaign kickoff.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApd-uvpjooGtaLfEQaguXemAg1zgtWSdHR 

www.NotOneSeat.ca  

 

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Earth Defenders in Latin America and Canada

Sat. Apr. 23, 4:30 p.m. ET

An inspiring conversation with women water defenders from across the Americas:

- Sleydo’ (Molly Wickham) of the Gidmit’en Clan in Wet’suwet’en territory, British Columbia, Canada

- Patricia Gualinga of the Kíchwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku and the Amazonian Women Collective in Ecuador

- Afro-Colombian defender Yuvelis Morales of the Committee for the Defence of Water, Life and Land in Puerto Wilches, Colombia

Hosted by Amnesty International.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9JlHVXG4R5WnQIvnYxVFIA 

 

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Symposium on Rocky Flats: Impacts on the Environment and Health 

Sat. April 23, all day

>From 1952 until 1989 the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant in Colorado produced plutonium triggers for atomic weapons. This Symposium will span topics ranging from the history of Rocky Flats, contamination issues still plaguing the area, legal issues, critical analyses of epidemiological studies, and effects of radiation on the genome and epigenome.

https://www.psrcolorado.org/symposium-on-rocky-flats-2022  

 

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Institute in Peace, Health and Sustainability with the Pegasus Institute

May 24-June 10 - Peace through health. - Decolonizing Humanitarian Action: Challenges and Dilemmas. - Environment and Human Health

https://www.mcgill.ca/summerinstitute-globalhealth/courses/institute-peace-health-and-sustainability

 

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https://www.democracynow.org/   

 

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