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SUMMARY:Draw the Line Toronto: For people\, for peace\, for the planet.
DESCRIPTION:Draw the Line is a cross-country Day of Action taking place on September 20th in communities across Canada to resist Prime Minister Mark Carney’s anti-migrant\, anti-Indigenous\, and fossil fuel-driven policies. The Day of Action coincides with a global week of action calling for climate and economic justice worldwide. \nEvent Details\nDate: September 20th\, 2025 (2:00 PM)\nLocation: Yonge & Dundas\, 1 Dundas Street East\, Toronto\, Canada\nRSVP: Here \nA Message from Draw the Line \nWe refuse to stand by while the government and Canada’s richest corporations hoard wealth\, gut our public services\, fuel climate collapse\, attack migrants\, exploit Indigenous lands\, and prop up a genocide in Palestine. \nThey think that if they can overwhelm and divide us\, we won’t fight back. But climate justice\, migrant justice\, economic justice\, Indigenous rights\, and anti-war movements are uniting to prove them wrong. \nOn Saturday\, September 20th\, we’re drawing the line— for People. For Peace. For the Planet. \nFrom rallies to strikes\, marches to gatherings\, this September 20th\, communities will mobilize across the country and demand that Prime Minister Carney and the Canadian government pick a side: injustice\, violence\, and climate destruction— or a just and safe future for all of us. Read our full demands here. \nThis world is ours to build. This is our line to draw. \nWhy are we mobilizing? \nOnly months into his mandate\, Prime Minister Carney is fast-tracking a billionaires-first agenda— promoting pipelines as “nation-building projects\,” attacking migrants and refugees while scapegoating them\, trampling Indigenous rights\, gutting public services\, oversight and democratic process\, and pouring billions of public dollars into militarism and surveillance. Carney is appeasing Donald Trump\, slashing our public services\, and pandering to corporate interests. If Bill C-2 and C-5 are any indication of what’s to come under a Carney government\, we have our work cut out for us. Draw the Line is an opportunity for us to build a historic alliance to fight back\, and form coalitions that can continue to build beyond September 20th. \nWant to organize Action?\nFill in this form. We will then send you more information via email\, and connect you with one of our regional organizers. \n\n\nImage source: TO350.org
URL:https://www.waterallies.com/event/draw-the-line-toronto-for-people-for-peace-for-the-planet/
LOCATION:Younge & Dundas\, 1 Dundas Street East\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5B 2R8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:SAGE Weaving Connections: Ecocide in Palestine
DESCRIPTION:The event will be the first in a series of workshops dedicated to discussing sustainability and climate problems through an interdisciplinary and socially just lens – addressing environmental injustice around the world. This specific event will be focusing on the ecocide currently taking place in Palestine by Israel (aided by foreign powers)\, and how environmental destruction has been used as a tool for genocide and Indigenous erasure by settler colonialists throughout history. We also hope to connect this to the ecocide that has happened (and still continues to happen) on Turtle Island and across the world.
URL:https://www.waterallies.com/event/sage-weaving-connections-ecocide-in-palestine/
LOCATION:UTMSU Boardroom (second floor)\, 1815 Inner Cir Rd\, Mississauga\, Ontario\, L5L 1C6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:A Lake Story:  Call for Paddlers & Volunteers
DESCRIPTION:On September 27th and 28th the Bentway will be holding a large scale art-installation event as a part of their inaugural Water/Fall festival! They are seeking 500+ volunteers\, for on the water and on land. \nEvent Details\nDate: Sep 27 & 28\, 2025 (Procession at 11am & 4pm)\nLocation: Toronto Waterfront at Biidaasige Park\nVolunteers: Apply here (Free to attend!) \nAbout A Lake Story \nA Lake Story\, a new commission by artist Melissa McGill\, takes theform of a large-scale canoe procession that will write Lake Ontario’s story through colour\, across the sky and water. Featuring 400+ local canoers and paddlers joining us for this memorable performance\, participants will paddle in a coordinated\, slow-moving procession. An epic celebration of Lake Ontario along the Toronto Waterfront\, Melissa McGill’s project maps Toronto’s harbour and waterfront biosphere with the lake’s own vocabulary expressed through its natural colour palette. By giving visual voice to the interconnected relationships above and below the waters\, the project invites us to shift our perspective to participate in and learn from nature’s wisdom and creativity. \nWhat to Expect  \n\nA slow-moving procession of approximately 120 canoes with large\, wind-activated colour field paintings will move through Biidaasige Park and the Eastern Waterfront towards Sugar Beach.\nThe entire experience will last approximately 2 hours from beginning to end.\nTwo performances will take place at 11am and 4pm on September 27/28\nThe experience will be visible from many points along theEastern Waterfront and Biidaasige Park in Oekwemin Minising. A full map of optimal viewing areas will be available in September.\nFor the safety of the canoe participants\, the experience may need to amend its route or adjust starting times in response to high winds or inclement weather. Please follow @thebentway on social media for weather-related updates on the day of each performance.\nWe recommend dressing accordingly for the weather.\n\nDetails for Volunteers: A Lake Story_Paddling Volunteer Call_Poster_ PDF_Aug 7
URL:https://www.waterallies.com/event/a-lake-story-call-for-paddlers-volunteers/
LOCATION:Biidaasige Park\, 51 Commissioners St\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5A 1A6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Reimagining  Education: Black Indigenous Waterways
DESCRIPTION:This special research talk organized by the Black Research Network will spotlight inaugural recipients of the BRN’s Black Indigenous Waterways Fellowship\, Jade Nixon (New York University Provost’s Faculty Fellow) and kara lynch (Associate Professor Emerita\, Hampshire College). Nixon and lynch will share insights into their fellowship work\, exploring decolonial approaches and how their respective practices engage with Black Indigenous histories and relationships. \nThe conversation will be followed by a Q&A session.This event will take place virtually. Please register to attend. Note: This workshop will be recorded and available on our BRN Resources page. \nRegister Here \nAbout the speakers: \n\n\n\n\n\nJade Nixon (she/her) is Afro- and Indo-Caribbean. She is currently a New York University Provost’s Faculty Fellow. Before she joined NYU\, she was the inaugural Black and Indigenous Waterways Research Fellow and completed her PhD at the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. She was born and raised outside of the Caribbean region\, in a city on the outskirts of Tkaronto\, and on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Lake Ontario\, one of what the Anishnaabe call the Five Freshwater Seas\, held her close when she lived far away from the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Now living in Lenapehoking\, she has the joy of calling the islands home. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nkara lynch is a New York-based artist and associate professor emerita of video and critical studies at Hampshire College. A time-based artist\, lynch’s work considers autonomy for Black and Indigenous communities\, specifically through re-memory\, vision and movement. Through various collaborations and solo works\, lynch has fostered conversations about these shared histories\, mainly in the United States. She joined the BRN as its inaugural Artist in Residence (AiR) in 2024.
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