Our chapter is part of the People's Assembly Toronto event happening this Saturday. Fourteen communities across the country will hold Assemblies to collectively make climate justice a reality. We hope to see you on Saturday at this historic event!
- Tara Seucharan.
Dear People's Assembly Participants,
First some inspiring news! Back in June, we established the model of the People's Assembly here in Canada. Now, thanks to national promotion of the idea through the Council of Candians, there be 14 People's Assemblies happening across the country this December. With your continued participation, the Toronto Assembly on Dec 4th will easily be the largest and most ambitious of these national Assemblies.
The second Toronto People's Assesmbly will occur on Saturday December 4th and will run from 9:30am-5pm. It will be held at Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George St in room SS2118. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. As this is a grassroots community effort we will be asking a PWYC donation at the door to help cover costs. All contributions are welcome and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
The main question we will address is how we can work together to create a stronger and more united movement for Climate Justice in Toronto. As with last time, we will employ a horizontal process and use a combination of breakout and plenary discussion. Taking your input from the First Assembly, we will aim to create more focus and be more action-oriented in our discussions.
Because we are going to be making food to share with you throughout the day, we highly encourage everyone to pre-register by sending an email to peoplesassembly.toronto@gmail.
If you would like to volunteer, we have plenty of need for extra hands to help cook, set-up and perform various tasks throughout the day on Dec 4th. For further details on how you can help, please contact us at peoplesassembly.toronto@gmail.
You can also help us build the Assembly by joining us on Facebook and inviting your friends to join us. You can also download all our outreach materials for printing or electronic distribution here. If everyone took a moment to tell 5-10 friends about the Assembly, it would go a long way to growing our movement!
The killing of the Climate Change Accountability Act in the Senate last week by unelected Conservative Senators makes what we are trying to do all the more important. It is clear that our government is recklessly opposed to taking real action on climate change will be going to the UN Climate Talks in Cancun only to promote false solutions and to protect the doomsday-esque Tar Sands gigaproject. If we want to realize the goal of Climate Justice we must band together. Only as a united movement can we hope to have enough power to create the just solutions that will combine our ongoing quest for social justice with effective action to prevent catastrophic climate change.
See you at the Assembly!
Brett Rhyno
on behalf of the People's Assembly on Climate Justice
http://torontopeoplesassembly.
peoplesassembly.toronto@gmail.
647-869-6496
First some inspiring news! Back in June, we established the model of the People's Assembly here in Canada. Now, thanks to national promotion of the idea through the Council of Candians, there be 14 People's Assemblies happening across the country this December. With your continued participation, the Toronto Assembly on Dec 4th will easily be the largest and most ambitious of these national Assemblies.
The second Toronto People's Assesmbly will occur on Saturday December 4th and will run from 9:30am-5pm. It will be held at Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George St in room SS2118. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. As this is a grassroots community effort we will be asking a PWYC donation at the door to help cover costs. All contributions are welcome and no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
The main question we will address is how we can work together to create a stronger and more united movement for Climate Justice in Toronto. As with last time, we will employ a horizontal process and use a combination of breakout and plenary discussion. Taking your input from the First Assembly, we will aim to create more focus and be more action-oriented in our discussions.
Because we are going to be making food to share with you throughout the day, we highly encourage everyone to pre-register by sending an email to peoplesassembly.toronto@gmail.
If you would like to volunteer, we have plenty of need for extra hands to help cook, set-up and perform various tasks throughout the day on Dec 4th. For further details on how you can help, please contact us at peoplesassembly.toronto@gmail.
You can also help us build the Assembly by joining us on Facebook and inviting your friends to join us. You can also download all our outreach materials for printing or electronic distribution here. If everyone took a moment to tell 5-10 friends about the Assembly, it would go a long way to growing our movement!
The killing of the Climate Change Accountability Act in the Senate last week by unelected Conservative Senators makes what we are trying to do all the more important. It is clear that our government is recklessly opposed to taking real action on climate change will be going to the UN Climate Talks in Cancun only to promote false solutions and to protect the doomsday-esque Tar Sands gigaproject. If we want to realize the goal of Climate Justice we must band together. Only as a united movement can we hope to have enough power to create the just solutions that will combine our ongoing quest for social justice with effective action to prevent catastrophic climate change.
See you at the Assembly!
Brett Rhyno
on behalf of the People's Assembly on Climate Justice
http://torontopeoplesassembly.
peoplesassembly.toronto@gmail.
647-869-6496
