In My Shoes: A Play About Poverty

Friday, June 18, 2010

6:00-8:00 p.m.

The play shares experiences and reflections of people living in poverty in Sault Ste. Marie. The play will be followed by a discussion with the audience.

Location:

Innis Town Hall Theatre

2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

(Nearest subway: St. George)

To view a map, please click here:

http://www.utoronto.ca/townhall/contact.html

To help us plan the food, please register online at:

http://www.rnao.org/Page.asp?PageID=122&ContentID=3237&SiteNodeID=398&BL_ExpandID=

Admission: Free of Charge

Donations will be gratefully received for the Sault Ste. Marie Soup Kitchen Community Centre Theatre Group.

Wheelchair accessible Scent Free

Questions or Want to Register by Phone?

If you have any questions or would like to identify any special needs or would prefer to register by phone, please call Kayla at 416-599-1925 ext. 214 or 1-800-268-7199 ext. 214

Sponsored By:

Association of Ontario Health Centres
Income Security Advocacy Centre
Meal Exchange
Nursing Students of Ontario
Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
Social Planning Network of Ontario
Social Planning Toronto
Voices from the Street

Join us on Saturday June 19th for the RALLY FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE - Sex education matters for youth, maternal health includes abortion!

This is in conjunction with Oxfam's Gender Justice Summit prior to the Toronto G20 meetings.

Rally at 1pm at Pitman Hall, Ryerson University 160 Mutual Street.
March to Ministry of Health/Education 900 Bay Street.

WE DEMAND:
-The support and implementation for the changes to Ontario's sex education curriculum
-Full funding for family planning and safe abortion in Canada's G8 Maternal/Child Health Initiative
-Action on all women's health inequalities and injustices faced globally

Opening drumming by Brenda MacIntyre. Featuring a spoken word performance by RED SLAM and speakers from:
The Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Oxfam Canada
Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics
Planned Parenthood Toronto
LGBT Youthline
and more!

For more information or accessibility requests please contact Jessica Yee, Executive Director of the Native Youth Sexual Health Network at jessica.j.yee@gmail.com

Sign-making will take place Thursday June 17th at 6pm at the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Centre for Multicultural Women at 17 Phoebe Street in conjunction with the Gender Justice mobilization group.

Sponsored by:
Canadians for Choice - Toronto Action Committee
Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention (GAAP)
LGBT Youthline
Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics
Oxfam Canada
Planned Parenthood Toronto
Sam Gindin Chair

People First! We Deserve Better!

Canadian Labour Congress
G8 & G20 Open Forum


Saturday, 19 June 2010, 10:00 – 16:30


Location:  University of Toronto, 1 King's College Circle, Medical
Sciences Building, Room 2158

Moderator:  Barbara Byers, Executive Vice-President, CLC

As part of the People’s Summit activities scheduled for the G8/G20
Summits in Ontario, this open forum will explore the global financial &
economic crisis and highlight Decent Work and the ILO Jobs Pact as the
pillars of labour’s response. Through the analysis and perspectives of
Canadian and international speakers, participants will better understand
how we got here and how we can start to move forward.


Morning Panel:  "The Economic Crisis: How we got there? Who Pays?"
The morning session will examine the global financial & economic crisis
and its impact on workers and jobs in Canada: how it has affected our
communities and social programs (including pensions and employment
insurance) and the effectiveness of measures put in place by the Harper
government. We will also explore what this crisis has meant for working
women and men in Africa and the Americas, including its impact on
economic and social development, and on labour markets and social
protection.

●Victor Baez, General Secretary, Trade Union Confederation of the
Americas (TUCA), Brazil
●Austin Muneku, General Secretary, Southern Africa Trade Union
Coordinating Council (SATUCC), Zambia
●Armine Yalnizyan,  Senior Economist, Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives (CCPA)

Afternoon Panel:  "Labour's Response: Decent Work and the ILO Jobs
Pact"
The afternoon session will explore the labour movement’s response,
which is anchored on the Decent Work Agenda and the ILO Global Jobs
Pact, from both a Canadian and an international perspective. This
session will also examine the links between workplaces and the fight for
universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. We will also
explore decent work as a tool to fight poverty and build international
solidarity, green jobs, and strategies to build a more just society and
quality employment as a key element of the recovery package being
negotiated by G20 governments.

●Kwasi Adu-Amankwah, General Secretary, International Trade Union
Confederation - Africa (ITUC-Africa), Togo
●Ambet Yuson, General Secretary, Building and Woodworkers
International (BWI), Geneva
●Peggy Nash, Assistant to the National President, CAW-Canada
●John Cartwright, President, Toronto & York Region Labour Council

Contact: ontario@clc-ctc.ca or 416-441-3710

Building Solidarity with the Democratic Labour Movement in Mexico.

9-4pm, Registration at 8.30.

The next step in NAFTA and the neo-liberal agenda has been an all-out attack on the independent labour movement in Mexico by the Calderon government. In addition to singling out particular unions for 'attack and destroy', the Calderon government has recently introduced modifications to the federal labour legislation which, if passed, would severely hamper union organizing while significantly strengthening the hand of the employers in relation to their work forces. Several Mexican labour leaders and social activists will be in Toronto to speak about this crisis, outline strategies in response, and seek to build solidarity at a North American level.

Sponsoring Organizations: CEP, USW, CF, ICEM, UNI, IMF

(for details please visit www.g20.torontomobilize.org)

21 - 24 June 2010: Themed Days of Resistance (Build Up)

Reel Solutions - 2010 Peoples Summit Documentary Film series

Sponsored by SmartChange.ca and the 2010 Peoples Summit 

All screenings will take place at the Toronto Underground Cinema 186 Spadina Ave. and will feature speakers, Q&A and actions for the audience. 

Series Passes are $20. Individual screenings are by suggested donation of $8 but nobody will be turned away for lack of funds. The venue is wheelchair accessible. 

For the full schedule and film descriptions visit SmartChange.ca 

Monday June 21

5 pm - Eco-Debt-The Earth Speaks 10 min.

5:15 pm - Pray the Devil Back to Hell  72 min. 

7pm - Poor No More  60 min.   

9pm – Return to El Salvador 67 min. (series pass or $10 admission) 

Tuesday June 22

5pm - H2Oil  81 min.       

7pm -  Gasland  90 min.     

9pm – Return to El Salvador 67 min. (series pass or $10 admission) 
 

Wednesday June 23

5pm - Plunder: The Crime Of Our Time 100 min.

9pm – Return to El Salvador 67 min. (series pass or $10 admission) 
 

Thursday June 24^th

5pm - Six Miles Deep, 43 min.

6pm - Ghosts  53 Min.

7:15 pm - Under Rich Earth  91 min.     

9 pm - Myths for Profit  60 min.

On June 25, please join the Council of Canadians to challenge the G20 and demand trade, water and climate justice!

Featuring:
Maude Barlow, Leo Gerard, Amy Goodman, John Hilary, Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva, Pablo Solon, Clayton Thomas-Mueller and others!

Friday June 25th, 7:00p.m. Doors at 6:00.

Get your tickets fast! General admission.

Tickets available at Massey Hall.

For further information, visit http://www.canadians.org/g20/event.html or call (800) 387-7177 ext. 239.

From June 25th and 27th, 2010, the world’s twenty richest countries (the G8 and G20) will send their ruling elite, along with heads of the IMF and World Bank, to meet in Huntsville and then in Toronto, to talk exploitation, wealth, and greed.
These ‘leaders’ have shredded the public sector and social spending, criminalized the poor, immigrants and racialized communities, continued to plunder Indigenous lands and trash the environment, deported our families and friends, gutted the unions, and closed hospitals and schools while they grant tax cuts to the rich and corporations and boost police and military budgets.

We are the people most severely impacted by this agenda: we are Toronto-based community organizations, people of color, indigenous peoples, immigrants, women, the poor, the working class, queer and trans people, disabled people, and our allies. Toronto's communities are uniting to take back what is ours! Join us on the streets June 25, as we ensure the G20, the G8 and their deadly policies are exposed and challenged!

Some of our organizations demands are:
(To join the organizing and your local campaign demands to this list, email seetheg8onyourstreet@gmail.com or come to planning meeting)

1. Raising social assistance rates by 40% and creating a decent living wage
2. Status for All
3. Stopping the theft and plunder of indigenous lands: indigenous sovereignty now
4. Housing for All
5. Police out of Schools
6. Stop the Social Cleansing of the Downtown East End
7. Access to Social Services Without Fear
8. Provide a Universal Food Supplement
9. Stop Psychiatric Abuse
10. Remove the Cap on Direct Funding for Attendant Care
11. Accessibility Legislation that Means Something Now
12. Stop Police Brutality, Impunity, and Militarization of Communities

*Wheelchair and ASL Accessible

Regular Planning Meetings
Tuesday, at 6:30pm
252 Bloor West, 7th floor