Sat Nov 21 -  noon-1pm

PYJAMA WALK FOR PEACE AND NONVIOLENCE!

More than 23,000 nuclear weapons worldwide threaten all Life on earth. 1 in 6 people face malnutrition everyday. And military spending is higher than ever. It's...
TIME TO WAKE UP!

*March in your pyjamas!

*Meet at Yonge and Bloor at noon.

*Bring alarm clocks, bells, whistles, pots and pans, banners.

*Walk to the Peace Garden, Nathan Phillips Square.

A part of Canada's World March Days.

PAST EVENTS

Friday October 2

Report on SHINE A LIGHT World March Kickoff event

The rain almost got the better of us in Toronto, but we 'Shined' anyway! We had to cancel plans to use  the big stage and big open space in the Square, and instead set up underneath the entrance to City Hall.

KaDuba got the show going with their west african rhythms, the speakers were all great, Autorickshaw was wonderful, and the final formation of the Symbol of Nonviolence became instead a circle of Nonviolence, which really didn't matter, because once in the circle we carried out a very nice reflection on nonviolence all together, shone our glowsticks and bike lights, and enjoyed the brazilian beats of Mulambo Groove.

Thanks to everyone who came out and a very special thanks to the speakers, performers and all the people who helped make the event happen. Check out the video! (thanks to Jorge Gidi).

Sunday October 4
Film screening presented by the World March
CALL + RESPONSE
(86 min., US, dir. Justin Dillon, 2009. Canadian Premiere.)

There are more slaves today than ever before in human history. CALL + RESPONSE is the story of the world’s 27 million modern slaves -- from the child brothels of Cambodia to the brick kilns of rural India. Directed by musician Justin Dillon, recording artists began to accept his persistent vision that popular music owes a debt to the issue of slavery, connecting the music of the American slave fields to the popular music we listen to today, and demonstrating this connection as a rallying cry for the modern abolitionist movement currently brewing.

Royal Cinema – 9:15pm
Part of the M.U.C.K. Film Festival

Thursday November 5

SILO: SAGE OF THE ANDES
See the story of the man whose ideas and work inspired the World March.
Royal Cinema, 608 College St. - 7pm

In May of 1969, a young man descended from a stone hut in the mountains, with a message. In that distant corner of the Earth, an unholy alliance of church and military dictatorship did their best to silence him. They failed. Reviled and admired, he has inspired social movements, political parties and a spiritual path. But despite his enormous influence he remains widely unknown. It’s time to meet the Sage of the Andes.

A former Senior Producer of The Nature of Things, this is Daniel Zuckerbrot’s tale of a personal spiritual journey and his involvement with the man they call the "Sage of the Andes".

All profits from this screening will go to support the World March for Peace and Nonviolence, the latest action to be inspired by Silo and New Humanism. Silo (aka Mario Rodriguez Cobos), as "thinker of Universal Humanism", will in fact address the Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Berlin this November 11.

Admission by donation; $15.00 suggested.
Sage of the Andes will be preceded by a screening of the award winning short film “Blink of an Eye”.

Thurs Nov 19 - 6pm

The Transformative Learning Centre at OISE (UofT), as part of Canada's World March Days, presents:

Rob Acheson speaking on the initiative for a Canadian Department for Peace.

Given the escalation of violent conflict, the increased threat of nuclear annihilation and lawlessness across our world today, there has never been greater urgency or a better window of opportunity to promote this tremendous initiative in Canada. Such a Department would develop a coordinated and coherent paradigm for a sustainable peace across all government departments. The Minister would advance an agenda for a new architecture of peace by supporting and establishing activities that promote a culture of peace and assertive nonviolence in Canada and the world. CDPI website.

Free

Transformative Learning Centre/OISE
252 Bloor St. West - 7th floor Peace Lounge