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Toronto Climate Film Festival:
Connecting Militarization and the Climate

Toronto Climate Film Festival - www.tcff.ca, or www.climatefast.ca

May 24, 6 pm - Friend House, 60 Lowther Ave.

Hunters and Bombers - a film about the Innu struggle to end low-level flight testing by NATO over Nitassinan

Al Jazeera - Militaries are fuelling the climate crisis: All Hail the Planet

DISCUSSION WITH - Speaker Dr. Tamara Lorincz, on Canada's military budget and impacts on Canada's northern & Indigenous communities

Dr. Tamara Lorincz will speak about her research on the climate and environmental impacts of militarism and war. She recently completed her PhD at the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University. The title of her dissertation is "In the Line of Fire: Military Emissions, the National Security Exemption and NATO Expansion in Climate Governance." She has a Masters in International Politics & Security Studies and a Law degree and MBA specializing in environmental law and management. Lorincz has attended several climate summits to promote "Demilitarization for Decarbonization" and "Peace for Climate Justice." She's a long-time environmentalist, feminist and peace activist. She is also a member and researcher with the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom-Canada, and a fellow with the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute.

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Join us on Zoom on Sunday, May 24th at 8:15pm for Tamara's presentation. To join, click the link below:

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The listening links for the films we'll be showing: NFP - Hunters and Bombers (1991) https://www.nfb.ca/film/hunters_and_bombers/ and Al Jazeera 2024 - All Hail the Planet https://www.aljazeera.com/video/all-hail/2024/11/18/we-cant-fight-the-climate-crisis-without-fighting-militarism-all-hail

We'll also show the trailer for '1.5 Degrees of Peace' film by award-winning filmmaker Kasha Sequoia Slavner and a trailer for Emergence and Raffle for Seth Klein - A Good War

ACTION ALERT

There is an imminent deportation of 11 Canadians who were abducted by Israel from the Canadian Boat to Gaza and taken to Ashdod. Four or five will arrive in Toronto in the next few days and we need greeters for the airport. Please contact miriamswell@hotmail.com if you are available as an airport greeter.

SHUT DOWN CANSEC

🗓 May 27th-28th, 2026
⏰ 6:00pm-8:00pm ET

📍 EY Centre, Ottawa, ON

Ottawa-based organizers and activists are calling for 1,000 supporters to stand up against CANSEC, the largest weapons trade show in North America. CANSEC is an annual event where the largest and most profitable weapons companies in the world strike deals alongside delegations from 60+ countries including Israel, the Philippines, and Saudi Arabia.

Exhibitors include: Lockheed Martin, the biggest weapons company globally and primary manufacturer of the F-35 stealth fighter jet; Elbit Systems, the biggest supplier to the Israeli Occupation Forces that produces the series of deadly Hermes drones used to target and kill Palestinians, and Canadian-based Roshel that produces light armoured vehicles used by both Israel and ICE.

What are we hoping to achieve?

Our goal is to grow the community response to Canada's complicity in the global arms trade bringing together civil society organizations from various movements together–climate justice, migrant justice, labour rights, justice for Indigenous peoples, and Palestine solidarity groups. Since Israel's genocide in Gaza has spread, more and more community members are joining the fight to turn the tide against blind and willful adherence to a racist Zionist foreign policy.

Endorse SHUT DOWN CANSEC and join us May 27th and 28

To get involved, we would like to invite you to a meeting to learn more about the campaign and our plans this year.
We encourage your organization and members to endorse the May 28 protest and sign onto our open letter.

States present at CANSEC remain firmly entrenched in war crimes, rights abuses, and the theft and irreversible destruction of land. We must continue using our collective power to take action against the weapons industry whose profits soar as innocent people are killed.

Toronto CANSEC Protests

Actions are happening in Toronto to protest the CANSEC Conference taking place in Ottawa. This year we wanted to ensure actions were happening in Toronto to create greater awareness of this conference for weaponry, war, death and destruction to make Canadians across the country more aware of this diabolical conference.

1. May 27 11-12 noon NATO Office Toronto 48 Yonge St https://www.google.com/maps/search/Toronto+48+Yonge+St?entry=gmail&source=g

2. May 28 11-12 noon Munk School of Global Affairs 315 Bloor St. West https://www.google.com/maps/search/315+Bloor+St.+West?entry=gmail&source=g

Join 1000 Women+ for Peace
Care not Warfare!

VOW & WILPF-Canada Campaign

Canadian Voice of Women for Peace in partnership with Women's International League for Peace and Freedom are calling out to all Canadian women and gender diverse folks to sign our open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Minister of Women & Gender Equality, Rechie Valdez, to cut military spending and invest in a green, peace care economy.

#carenotwarfare #1000women #cutmilitaryspending #movethemoney

SIGN THE LETTER HERE

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