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WEAR: World Ethical Apparel Roundtable

WEAR aims to remove that barrier by providing the most relevant, up-to-date content, through our many engaging sessions and in a format that allows for deeper participation and collaboration.

Since 2014, WEAR has succeeded in bringing together diverse perspectives from across the entire fashion system. Our intimate format allows for meaningful connections and breakthrough learning that lead to a clear path to action.

Our theme for 2019 is Purpose Meets Progress, which is a celebration of the incredible efforts and advancements coming from every corner of the industry.

We know perfection doesn’t exist, and that as long as we have a purpose and are making progress, we can collectively turn things around before it’s too late.

Federal Elxn Debate Viewing Party with CJTO!

Join CJTO to watch the official federal election debate together! We’ll be gathering with some food, lively political heckling, and watching the federal leaders talk about (or rather, not talk about) the climate. Come by, bring a friend, and join us!

**Access Notes**
720 Spadina Ave (Suite 202) 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!

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Revolution – Friend’s House

Please join us for another Toronto Climate Film Festival screening hosted by ClimateFast and Greenpeace Canada.

After four years and fifteen countries, acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Rob Stewart brings us on an adventure 3.5 billion years in the making. Revolution is an ambitious and optimistic adventure in the evolution of life on earth to the revolution that all ages from across continents are engaged in to save our planet.

Following the screening Lyn Adamson, who knew Rob Stewart and is co-chair of ClimateFast, will speak on climate activism at a crucial time. She will introduce the Kitchen Table Climate Conversation campaign, designed to bring our communities together to address our climate challenges with the knowledge and tools we need to make a difference.

The screening will open with a short video documenting the impact of development on the Beaver Lake Cree nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG4-kjguKws.

Tickets are PWYC and donations will be gratefully accepted! Any donations which exceed our costs will be donated to ClimateFast and Greenpeace.

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!

UN Climate Summit: Youth Speak Out!

September 23 is the day of the UN Climate Summit in New York City. In Toronto, we bring you a panel of seven speakers on the Youth Emergency Platform for Climate Justice.

From ClimateStrike Canada – Emergency Platform for Climate Justice

We, as citizens, therefore call upon all political parties and politicians to create and commit to a science-based and human rights focused Emergency Plan for Climate Justice that limits global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

We would like to see the following demands included in their Emergency Plan for Climate Justice:

1. Bold Emissions Reductions Targets: Legislate greenhouse gas emission reductions of 65% by 2030, reaching net zero emissions by 2040.

2. Separation of Oil and State: Reject all new fossil fuel extraction or transportation projects, eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, and price pollution.

3. A Just Transition: Transition to renewable energy and sustainable transportation infrastructure while guaranteeing opportunity for fossil fuel workers in the new economy.

4. Environmental Rights: Enshrine in law, the fundamental right to a healthy environment. This would include, but is not limited to, the right to safe air, clean water, and healthy soil.

5. Indigenous Rights: Commit to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in full.

6. Conservation of Biodiversity: Maintain and protect old growth forests, restore cut blocks, reduce habitat fragmentation and strengthen the protection of at risk species.

7. Protection for Vulnerable Groups: Recognize Canada’s disproportionate role in the climate crisis and subsequent responsibility for the protection of the most vulnerable. Include the addition of climate displacement as a basis for refugee status. Provide climate aid to lower and middle-income countries, as well as Arctic Canada, which disproportionately experiences the impacts of the climate crisis.

You can register and donate $5 – $20 on-line or pay what you can (pwyc) at the door.

Co-sponsored by Greenpeace and Fridays for Future

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]

U of T Trash Team Urban Litter Challenge

Please sign up through the link : https://www.shorelinecleanup.ca/cleanups/ykmqg

Join the U of T Trash Team’s inaugural Urban Litter Challenge and help us prevent litter in our watershed from entering Lake Ontario and connected tributaries. Teams will wander the neighbourhood surrounding St. George Campus while keeping track of what is collected. Prizes will be awarded during a celebratory lunch at the conclusion of the cleanup.

***Supplies are provided but to help keep waste minimal, please bring a pair of gardening gloves and a reusable water bottle (refill stations will be available) ***

The cleanup runs rain or shine, so dress for the weather! See you there.

Register in advance at https://www.shorelinecleanup.ca/cleanups/ykmqg

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