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Climate Strike Concert

On September 27th, Toronto will see its biggest strike and march for climate justice. It is hosted by Fridays For Future Toronto, who invites adults to join youth strikers in solidarity, and is backed by the S27 Coalition, a diverse group of activists, union members and individuals just like yourself.

We can no longer continue with business as usual. This is a crisis. Our governments need to treat the climate crisis like the emergency it is.

Schedule:

10:00 Pre-Strike Street Mural 4 Climate Action – south end of the Queen’s Park grounds near the Sir John A. Macdonald Statue 11:00 – Rally at Queen’s Park

11:45 – 1.5 Minute of Silence to remember those who have already lost their lives to the climate crisis

12:00 – March. Route: east on Wellesley; south on Bay; west on Queen; north on University back to Queens Park.

2-3:30 – Concluding Rally and Music Performances

Speakers include:

Beze and Vanessa Gray from Aamjiwnaang First Nation

Cody Looking Horse, a young indigenous activist who was at Standing Rock

Carolynne Crawley, a Mi’kmaq food justice advocate

Dianne Saxe, the former Environmental Commissioner of Ontario

Sonam Chokey, Students for a Free Tibet speaking about the meltdown of the Himalayas and Tibet

Maya Menezes from No One is Illegal and The Leap;

Fridays for Future youth

Performers include:

Bangerz Brass

Moscow Apartment

Wolf Saga

Lido Pimienta

Jim Creegan (Bare Naked Ladies) with Mike Evin

Nai Musicians

Bring your own water bottle!

Help us make this a zero-waste event – take away your own litter!

Accessibility:

There will be an access van (2 wheelchairs, 5 ambulatory) for those who need it.

There will also be ASL interpreters for the rally.

The S27 Coalition is a self-organizing group headed up by Climate Justice TO and includes individuals representing Indigenous Climate Action; Toronto Environment Alliance; ClimateFast; Toronto350; Rising Tide Toronto; People’s Climate Movement; Greenpeace; David Suzuki Foundation; The LEAP; Toronto & York Region Labour Council and union members; TTC Riders; $15 and Fairness; Artists for Real Climate Action; Canadian Union of Postal Workers; Kairos Canada; Artists for Climate, Migrant Justice, and Indigenous Sovereignty; Disability Justice Network of Ontario; Elementary Teachers of Toronto; Extinction Rebellion Toronto; Indigenous Environmental Justice Project; No One Is Illegal TO; Students Say No; Parents for Future, and others.

Official demands for the strike can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GAF-G2Fhj0Usn95Z5fQIyk4dfJR4zi8wp04FLyxtFLg/edit?usp=sharing

Climate Action Song Circle

Sing for climate action.

Nothing builds connection and inspiration more than singing together.

In preparation for the Sept 27 Climate Strike rally and march, let’s gather to share songs calling for climate action and community and justice.

The songs we sing in this circle will become the songs we will be singing on the march.
All welcome!

Take the Plant – Save the Planet

Creating Good Jobs, Making Sustainable Products, Challenging Climate Change

GM’s bosses are closing the auto plant in Oshawa, but workers want to create good jobs and produce green and sustainable energy products.

Join us for a discussion with Linda McQuaig (author and journalist), James Hutt (LEAP), Rebecca Keetch (autoworker, Green Jobs Oshawa) and Fred Hahn (CUPE Ontario). Show solidarity with Green Jobs Oshawa.
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Make Public Ownership of the Oshawa Plant an Election Issue,
Support Green Jobs Oshawa!

GM Oshawa was once the home of the largest auto facility on the continent. GM no longer wants it, aside from a small project that might at most, provide 300 jobs. But workers do, and they have plans for it. The Oshawa plant could create many more good, sustainable jobs, by converting the facility into a manufacturing hub for electric vehicles and other sustainable energy products. This requires that governments step in, and have democratic public ownership replace corporate ownership and make products that challenge climate change. To make this possible we need to show solidarity with Green Jobs Oshawa, the worker-led movement leading this campaign. We need to build a worker-green alliance grounded in concrete struggles, making the idea of Just Transition, something real. In the upcoming federal election, we need to push politicians and their parties beyond platitudes about climate change and green jobs. Here is a concrete opportunity to really do something about it. This requires placing, to the extent we can, a radical transformation of economic structures and power, led by workers, on the public agenda.

Sponsored by Socialist Project, Green Jobs Oshawa, and The LEAP

Poster For Oct 7th Global Rebellion

Let’s spread the word across the city! 👊

Meet up with other rebels in the courtyard in front of the Greenpeace Building.

Please bring tape, paintbrushes, staple guns, wheat paste if you have them. We will have some, but this is a very ad-hoc low-organization postering meet up.

You can also just pick up posters and bring them back to your neighbourhood.

Ideal to bring a buddy.

Zero Waste Café with PlasticFreeTo

Are you looking to learn more about reducing your carbon footprint as a Torontonian? Have you ever felt isolated speaking with friends about environmental concerns? Are you looking to make a difference but aren’t sure where to start?

This month we have Plasticfree Toronto coming to Climate Ventures and talking about the Zero Waste lifestyle.

Consider it as a space where Torontonians can meet other people concerned about their personal impact, discuss issues and solutions.

This event is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required
RSVP to: [email protected]

Climate Justice Toronto Organizing Meeting

Join us at our biweekly Climate Justice Toronto organizing meeting on Monday September 30th from 6-8:30 PM (5:30 for new folks!)

We have less than 11 years, according to the IPCC report, to completely transform our economy and society to avert further climate catastrophe. Yet Canadian governments refuse to take meaningful systemic action, and instead opt to spend billions in public money to fund more pipelines while doling out billions more for dead-end corporate welfare subsidies. Meanwhile, those at the frontlines of the climate crisis, namely Indigenous, racialized, and poor communities, are being neglected by decision-makers.

Climate Justice Toronto (CJTO) is organizing to unite young people from all movement backgrounds in the GTA to send a message to our governments and the broader public: the only people who will be making decisions about our future is us, the people affected, and especially the most marginalized among us. Through solidarity and alliance-building, direct action, creative storytelling, and electoral organizing, we will forge a just transition towards a decarbonized economy, and a Green New Deal for all.

DATE: Monday Sept 30, 2019
TIME: 6:00-8:30 PM (5:30 orientation for new folks!)
LOCATION: 720 Spadina Avenue, Suite 202 (Workers’ Action Centre)

**Access Notes**720 Spadina Ave (Suite 223) is located on the second floor of a building with two powered doors at sidewalk-grade level. There are two elevators. There are men’s, women’s and single-stall all-gender washrooms on the 2nd floor with manual doors that are opened with keys. The nearest TTC station is Spadina which has elevators on the Line 2 Bloor-Danforth platform. Please message us if you have any questions or concerns!

How to stay connected:
Like us on Facebook (@ClimateJusticeTO).
Follow us on Instagram (@ClimateJusticeTO).
Follow us on Twitter (@CJusticeTO).
Email us with your name, email, phone number, and postal code to be added to our listserv for official communications ([email protected])

UofT Global Climate Strike Rally: No TMX, No TMT!

On September 20th and 27th, millions of people all around the world are walking out of their workplaces, classes and homes to demand an end to the age of fossil fuels. Meanwhile, UofT’s administration continues to be complicit in the climate crisis and in violence against Indigenous peoples, from its continued investment in the fossil fuel industry to its support for the Thirty Metre Telescope project threatening the sacred mountain Mauna Kea.

Join the UofT climate strike coalition at 11am on September 20th to bring the global climate strike action to the doorsteps of Simcoe Hall. From the fossil fuel industry driving pipelines through Indigenous territories, to the TMT project on Mauna Kea, to Ford’s cuts to education here in Ontario and the UofT admin’s own failure to address the campus mental health crisis, universities such as UofT are helping to perpetuate the crisis that makes our future unlivable. This week, students are pushing back!

Keep watching for updates as we publish our demands this week!

This event is part of a series of climate strike events and actions at UofT. Find the full list here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/383965738951770/

Heading for Extinction (and what to do about it)

The planet is in ecological crisis: we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction event this planet has experienced. This includes us 💀Scientists believe we may have entered a period of abrupt climate breakdown. This is an emergency, and we have a short window to turn it around.

In this public talk, climate speakers from Extinction Rebellion will share the latest climate science on where our planet is heading, discuss some of the current psychology around climate change, and offer solutions through the study of social movements.

RSVP here (tickets are FREE): http://bit.ly/2kPSGLV

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