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Jan 15, 2026 - Higher Education Organizing Meeting

When: January 15th, 6:30pm
Where: College Street United Church, 502 Bathurst St

Building on our first successful meeting in November, we're forging ahead with our sectoral-wide organizing strategy in the higher education sector. Our second organizing meeting, which will be held on January 15th, is focused on creating a Solidarity Pact for higher education workers. Sean Smith - a former activist and organizer with the Toronto Airport Workers Council - will be joining us to discuss what a solidarity pact is, how Toronto Airport Workers used it as an organizing tool, and how we can develop something similar to build our collective power across the education sector.

The purpose of January's meeting is threefold: (1) understanding what a Solidarity Pact is and how it can help us develop unity across the sector; (2) begin constructing our own Solidarity Pact; and (3) strategize ways we can use our Solidarity Pact as an organizing tool across the higher education sector.

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Jan 14, 2026 - Performance: The Battle for a Shorter Working Day

When: January 14, 15, and 16th, 7:30pm
Where: Steelworkers' Hall, 25 Cecil St

There was a time when workers sweated through ten or twelve-hour working days. How did we end up with more time off the job? By unions demanding it, again and again.

It all began in 1872. That year a movement for a nine-hour day burst onto the public stage in cities and towns across central Canada. Toronto was the site of one of the most famous incidents in that campaign when the printers went on strike against almost all the city's newspapers.

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Jan 13, 2026 - Indigenous Perspectives on the Global Critical Minerals

When: Tuesday, January 13th, 10am

The first webinar in this series will bring together five Indigenous speakers from around the world to discuss global, regional, and local fights for justice related to the global push for "critical minerals" extraction. Panelists will discuss specific harms and rights violations they are facing, what a "just" energy transition might look like, and what civil society groups working on related issues should know.

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Jan 10, 2026 - No To Hate!

When: January 10th, 12:30pm
Where: Nathan Phillips Square

The anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant group "Canada First" are bringing their hate to Nathan Phillips Square on January 10th. This far-right group, inspired by UK fascist Tommy Robinson, is part of a growing threat around the world. They blame immigrants for crises in housing, jobs and social services, instead of pointing the finger at the true causes - failed government policies that prioritize profit over people. Say no to these hate groups poisoning our communities and our streets with their white supremacist, anti-immigrant and Islamophobic rantings. On January 10th, we say Solidarity not scapegoating! No to racism and Islamophobia!

Organized by Community Solidarity Toronto, which includes Toronto & York Region Labour Council, Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Toronto East Anti-hate Mobilization, Steelworkers Toronto Area Council and more.

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Jan 10, 2026 - Anti-Eviction Movement in Venezuela

When: January 10th, 12pm

As a part of our "Building an Anti-Imperialist Neighbourhood Struggle" Public Educational Series, please join us to hear from Rigel Sergent, Spokesperson, Movimiento de Inquilinas e Inquilinos, anti-eviction movement in Venezuela. They are a part of their parent organization: Movimiento de Pobladoras y Pobladores, combative Chavista platform for urban struggle, that occupies unused urban land.

We will also be joined by Blanca Eeekhout, who has previously served as the Minister of People's Power for the Communes and Social Movements of Venezuela, a leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and is the current president of the Instituto Simón Bolívar for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples (ISB), which advocates for peace, solidarity, and human rights in Venezuela!

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