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Mar 25, 2026 - FilmSocial: Norma Rae

When: March 25th, 7pm (Doors open at 6:30pm.)
Where: Eyesore Cinema, 1176 Bloor St W

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is very pleased to present Norma Rae (1979) as the next film in the FilmSocial series of socialist film screenings.

Set in a small-town Southern textile mill, the film follows Norma Rae (Sally Field), a courageous worker and single mother, who becomes politically active in her workplace after meeting Reuben Warshowsky (Ron Liebman), a charismatic New York labour organizer who arrives in town to confront crushing employment conditions at the factory and help workers form their own union. After her father dies suddenly on the mill floor, Norma is thrown deeper into the struggle, risking her job, relationships, and community standing to confront the bosses and organise her often-reluctant coworkers.

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Mar 24, 2026 - The Radical Labour of Care

When: Tuesday March 24th, 2pm
Where: George Brown Polytechnic, 200 King St. E., St James Campus, Room SJA 455E

How can we reimagine the systems that continue to fail the city's most vulnerable people through radical approaches to care? In an increasingly hostile and unaffordable city where housing, healthcare, and other basic needs are increasingly inaccessible, this Transformation Cafe explores the everyday/night labour of care work through decolonial and intersectional feminist perspectives.

Featuring Claire Dion Fletcher, an Indigenous midwife, leader, and educator; Lorraine Lam, a crisis outreach worker, case manager, and advocate in Toronto's Downtown East; and Grissel Orellana, the Program Director of the Latinx Womyn's Program at the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape, this conversation will examine how panelists intervene in state cruelty by identifying the gaps and harms within systems that claim to provide care, and how to build practices of mutual aid, community safety, and collective survival.

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Mar 24, 2026 - Hands Off Our Education

When: March 24rd, 1:30pm
Where: Queen's Park

Join CFS Ontario // FCÉÉ Ontario, CUPE Ontario, and Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) (outside of working hours), as Ontarians say NO to the cuts, NO to privatization - and YES to supporting students.

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Mar 23, 2026 - Countering Hate By Building Worker Power

When: March 23rd, 7pm
Where: USW Hall, 25 Cecil St

Join the Toronto & York Region Labour Council, the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Community Solidarity Toronto, and allies from Toronto City Council and community in an important discussion to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Following years of rising racist, xenophobic, and hateful sentiments and movements in Canada and the world over, this year's IDERD will focus on unifying working people of all backgrounds around a common platform which builds worker power and rejects hate.

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Mar 23, 2026 - Democratic Socialism and Marxism

When: Monday March 23rd, 4pm
Where: York University, Ross Bldg S701

Booklaunch: Analytical Marxism and Democratic Socialism in the 21st Century. Revisiting G.A. Cohen

Discussion with editors Ben Burgis and Matt McManus, and contributors Lesley Jacobs and Christine Sypnowich.

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Mar 23, 2026 - Defend Our Schools

When: March 23rd, 11:30am
Where: Queen's Park

When education fails children with disabilities, it fails everyone. Autistic students are the canary in the coal mine, warning us of the accelerating collapse of Ontario's public education system.

Join the Ontario Autism Coalition as they head to Queen's Park to demand that the Ford government repeal Bill 33 and stop the underfunding of education and related social services.

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Mar 22, 2026 - Labour Zionism and the struggle for Palestine

When: March 22nd, 1pm

Forum with labour activists and academics, Dan Freeman-Maloy, Larry Haiven and Elizabeth Ha, to discuss the history of Zionist organizing in Canada, including in the labour movement, and how this informs Labour for Palestine's organizing today.

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Mar 21, 2026 - Unblock Cuba

When: March 21st, 3pm
Where: 24 Cecil St

US threats to impose tariffs on any other country that sends oil to Cuba has so far impeded Mexico.

Join this evening of solidarity.

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Mar 21, 2026 - Performance: "Two Birds One Stone"

When: Saturday, March 21st, 2pm
Where: Small World Centre, 180 Shaw St.

When Palestinian theatre maker Rimah Jabr moved to Toronto she became friends with Natasha Greenblatt, a Jewish Canadian playwright. They decided to make a play together... and it's mostly true. Two Birds One Stone asks complicated questions about identity, privilege, and the search for home. First created in 2016, Natasha and Rimah are now returning to their autofictional play with the support of director, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Common Boots Theatre. What does it mean to tell these stories, together, in the face of genocide?

Tickets are free, but please register here (in person and zoom).

Mar 20, 2026 - Justice for Hassan Diab

When: March 20th, 8pm

Hear from Professor Hassan Diab and his lawyer, Don Bayne, about how Diab experienced two decades of injustice and imprisonment for a crime he did not commit. Learn more about how you can become involved in the campaign.

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Mar 20, 2026 - Concert for Marcelo Puente

When: Friday, March 20th, 7pm
Where: Transac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave

An evening to celebrate the life and legacy of Marcelo Puente.

For those familiar with the Chilean solidarity community in Toronto, you may know of Marcello Puente who passed away recently. He performed years ago at the fabled Trojan Horse Cafe and, of course, at various events marking the anniversary of the 1973 coup.

Featuring: Jeronimo Acuña, Constanza Duran, Nano Valverde, Nancy White, Claudio Saldivia, Fotis Tubanos and members of Companeros, Heather Chetwynd, Alejandra Alvarado, Oriana Barbato, Stefanos Xatzistefani, Ken Kakoullis, Sikuris St. Lawrence, Juan Dino Toledo, Pablo Gutierrez, Hector Alvarado, George Vasiliou, and more...

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Mar 19, 2026 - Flyer for better transit

When: Thursday, March 19th, 5:30pm (also Saturday, March 21st at 2pm)
Where: Bathurst Station

We'll be handing out flyers and talking to riders at Bathurst Station about the federal by-election and advocate to the by-election candidates on how they can take action to call on the federal government to invest in a better TTC. No experience required, just show up!

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Mar 17, 2026 - Women in the Labour Movement

When: Tuesday, March 17th, 7pm

Join TWHP to hear Peggy Nash talk about the new book Women United - Stories of Women's Struggles for Equality in the Canadian Auto Workers Union.

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Mar 5, 2026 - Art exhibit: Cum Grano Salis

When: March 4 - 28 (Opening reception, Saturday, March 7th, 2pm)
Where: Red Head Gallery, 401 Richmond St, W

Elaine Whittaker with participating artists Mathew Borrett, Teri Donovan, Tracy Gorman, Kelley Aitken, Kaz Ogino, Heidi Breier, Kat Honey, Kai Kan, Kim-Lee Kho, and Jim Nason.

Cum grano salis (Latin for 'with a grain of salt') is an expression of skepticism. In an era saturated with images, data, and competing truths, the potential for exaggeration and distortion is greater than ever. Doubt is integral to how we perceive and interpret the world today. We move continuously between trust and mistrust, truth and fabrication, constantly pausing to reassess what we have just seen, heard, or absorbed.

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