Community Events - David Suzuki, Isreali Apartheid Week, The Fight for True Farming
David Suzuki's 'If you were Prime Minister' Tour presents:
A conversation with
Dr. David Suzuki with Stephen Lewis
Winter Garden Theatre (Yonge at Queen)
Monday February 12 ~ 7:30pm ~ Doors at 7pm
$20 / $15 Students
This is the biggest tour of David Suzuki’s life and it comes at a time when voters are saying the environment is their number one election issue.
"The good news is, there are all sorts of solutions out there," Suzuki says. "The bad news is, our political leaders don't seem to be looking at them. Our job as citizens is to make sure they listen. That's what this tour is all about."
www.ticketmaster.ca ~ 416-872-5555
Box Office: Winter Garden Theatre - 189 Yonge Street - 11 to 5pm. (mon to sat)
ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK, Toronto, Ontario
February 12-17, 2007
www.endisraeliapartheid.net
For the third consecutive year, Israeli Apartheid Week will take place in Toronto from February 12-17, 2007. This year we continue to work towards building a collective understanding of the Zionist ethnic cleansing, colonization and occupation of Palestine. The series of events will include nightly talks and presentations from some of the leading activists and analysts in the anti-apartheid movement such as Bonita Lawrence, Joel Kovel, Walter Lehn, and Jamal Zahalka. The week will culminate in a day of action on February 17th as part of the growing boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign against Israeli Apartheid.
The apartheid analysis put forward during Israeli Apartheid Week in previous years has played an important role in raising awareness and disseminating information about Zionism, the Palestinian liberation struggle, as well as the connections with the Aboriginal sovereignty struggle on Turtle Island and the South African Anti-Apartheid movement.
Rapidly spreading on a global scale, this year, Israeli Apartheid Week will be taking place simultaneously in Toronto, Montreal, New York, Oxford, Cambridge and London.
As Israel and its global backers like "Canada" and the "United States" tighten the strangulation hold on the Palestinian people in an attempt to provoke Palestinian infighting; and while the Israeli military continues its brutal daily assault on Palestinian life, it is crucial that people in the rest of the world wake up to the apartheid nature of the Israeli state, and realize that it is our collective responsibility to expose and isolate this racist regime until apartheid is dismantled.
Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) Proudly Presents:
Israeli Apartheid Week 2007
Monday Feb 12
7:00 pm
"Apartheid: Turtle Island, South Africa, Palestine"
Speakers: Bonita Lawrence, Shaheen Ariefdien, Hazem Jamjoum
Moderator: Judy Rebick
Location: Ryerson University (Main Building) LIB 72
Directions: 350 Victoria Street. Exit at Dundas Station. Walk East on Dundas, and then North on Victoria Street)
Tuesday Feb 13
12:00pm
Film Screening: "Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance"
Location: Sidney Smith (room 2128)
Directions: 100 St. George Street (Exit from St. George subway Station and walk South a little past Harbord)
7:00pm
"The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"
Speakers: Azada Rahi, Zac Smith, Issam Al Yamani
Moderator: Kole Kilibarda
Location: University of Toronto, Tanz Neuroscience Building, Room 6/7 (Theatre)
Directions: 6 Queen's Park Crescent West (On the North-East Corner of College and Queen's Park (right next to Queen's Park Subway Station)
Wednesday Feb 14
12:00pm
RALLY AGAINST RACIST POLICE INACTION AND IMPUNITY!
Hundreds of Indigenous women have been murdered or have gone missing over the last 30 years. Today we come together to demonstrate against the complicity of the colonizer state and its institutions - police, RCMP, coroners offices and the courts, in the ongoing genocide against First Nations. Indigenous communities are over-policed and indigenous girls make up the fastest growing prison population yet their deaths go uninvestigated and their killers unpunished.
Organized by NO MORE SILENCE
Location: Outside Police headquarters at Bay and College
Directions: Exit at College Subway Station and walk half a block west.
7:00pm
"Apartheid in Present-day Palestine"
Speakers: Walter Lehn, Jon Elmer, Nimer Sultany
Moderator: Zein Ayoub
Location: University of Toronto, Tanz Neuroscience Building, Room 6/7 (Theatre)
Thursday Feb 15
7:00pm
"Ideologies of Genocide and Apartheid"
Speakers: Gabi Piterberg, Joel Kovel
Moderator: Navid Anvari
Location: University of Toronto, Tanz Neuroscience Building, Room 6/7 (Theatre)
Friday Feb 16
7:00pm
"Debunking the Myth of Israel as a Democracy"
Speaker: Jamal Zahalka
Moderator: Rafeef Ziadah
Location: OISE Auditorium (Ontario Institute of Secondary (Education)
252 Bloor Street West, Next to St. George Subway Station (exit on Bedford Street),
Saturday Feb 17
1:00pm
BOYCOTT CHAPTERS/INDIGO DAY OF ACTION
Please join CAIA and allies to protest Israeli Apartheid and highlight the support it receives from the Heseg Foundation. Please visit www.caiaweb.org for more information about Heseg and the Chapters/Indigo connection.
Organized by the Coalition against Israeli Apartheid
Location: Israeli Consulate at 180 Bloor Street West
St. George Subway Station and walk East on Bloor St.
Premiere Video Screening of:
"The Fight For True Farming" (2005) - 90 mins.
GENEaction General Meeting
Wed, February 14, 7:30pm
Metro Hall, 55 John St, Room No. 303. south of King St.
Cost: Donations Welcomed - $2 to $5 Suggested or PWYC
Who's trying to control our Food Supply and Why?
And why are they also trying to sell us "GMO Terminator Suicide Seeds"?
The shocking truth that affects both Farmers and Food Consumers.
Filmmaker/Director: Eve Lamont
Produced by: N.Hubert, S. Van Brabant (Rapide Blanc) & C. Loumede(ONF)
In this documentary, crop and animal farmers in Quebec, the Canadian West, the US Northeast and France offer solutions to the social and environmental scourges of factory farming. Driven by the forces of globalization, rampant agribusiness is harming the environment and threatening the survival of farms.
The proliferation of GMO crops is a further threat to biodiversity as well as to farmers' autonomy.
In Europe as well as North America, a current of resistance bringing together farmers and consumers insists that it is possible--indeed imperative--to grow food differently.
The Fight for True Farming is a film of grim lucidity but also irrepressible hope.
http://www.nfb.ca/trouverunfil
<http://nfu.ca/seedsavercampaig
<http://biotech.indymedia.org>]
<www.banterminator.org>
<http://www.etcgroup.org
<http://www.activistmagazine
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