Spring

Toronto Spring Organizing Meeting
2024-04-25 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | 720 Spadina Ave, #202, Toronto, Ontario, 720 Spadina Ave, suite 202, Toronto, Ontario, M5S2T9, Canada
Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting!
We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements.
This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring.
This is an in-person meeting at 720 Spadina Ave (near Spadina station), Room #202. We ask everyone to wear a mask. Doors will be open for light refreshments at 5:30pm and the meeting starts at 6:00pm.
Please email info@springmag.ca with any questions. See you there!

Ottawa Spring Meeting
2024-04-21 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | Atelier d’innovation sociale, 95 Clegg St, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1C4, Canada
Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, April 21st at 1:00pm at Atelier D’Innovation, 95 Clegg Street!
We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. We will also discuss building a local Ottawa chapter of the Spring Socialist Network.
This meeting is open to anyone who is interested in getting involved. It is a great chance to meet like-minded socialists and organize together!
Please email info@springmag.ca with any questions.
See you there!

vancouver: Postering for Palestine & Sudan
2024-04-14 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Vancouver) | Bon Cafe, 4909 Main St, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5W 2R2, Canada
In honour of Sudan Action Weekend April 13th-15th, we are postering for Palestine and Sudan on Sunday, April 14 at 11:00am! Come out and join us in ornamenting the streets of so-called vancouver with messages of solidarity! Bring a friend!
We will be meeting in front of Bon Cafe at 33rd & Main Street, “vancouver”! Masks mandatory, KN95s provided.

vancouver Spring Organizing Meeting
2024-04-07 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Vancouver) | Ontario
Join us on Sunday, April 7 at 1pm over Zoom for our vancouver chapter organizing meeting!
We meet on the first weekend of every month, alternating betwen in-person and online. This month we’re online!
Join us in making real plans toward Palestinian liberation, disability justice, abolition, Indigenous sovereignty, migrant rights, housing for all, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, workers’ power, and the end of capitalism! We will be discussing how all of us are taking part in on-the-ground struggles of today while also learning from the people who came before us. Come gather with us to build a fighting unified, multi-racial, multi-national movement on the west coast of so-called canada!
Please email info@springmag.ca with any questions. Register by clicking here.

Picket Visit: Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel
2024-03-30 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel, 7551 Westminster Hwy, Richmond, British Columbia, V6X 1A3, Canada
Workers at Sheraton’s Vancouver Airport Hotel have been ON STRIKE for over nine months! Come out this Saturday and join them on the picket line to support their powerful stand off fighting against some of the biggest billionaires of so-called canada: the Lalji family.
See you on March 30th at 10:00am! Meet at King Edward Station at 9:30am if you want to travel there together!

Toronto Spring Meeting
2024-03-28 18:00 - 20:00, 2024-02-22 17:30 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting!
We will be discussing key political issues as weel as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements.
This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring.
This is an in-person meeting at 720 Spadina Ave (near Spadina station), Room #202. We ask everyone to wear a mask. Doors will be open for light refreshments at 5:30pm and the meeting starts at 6:00pm.

Ottawa Spring Meeting
2024-03-17 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | Atelier d’innovation sociale, 95 Clegg St, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1C4, Canada
Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, March 17th at 1:00pm at Atelier D’Innovation, 95 Clegg Street!
We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. We will also discuss building a local Ottawa chapter of the Spring Socialist Network.
This meeting is open to anyone who is interested in getting involved. It is a great chance to meet like-minded socialists and organize together!
Please email info@springmag.ca with any questions.
See you there!

Hamilton Spring Socialist Network Meet & Greet
2024-03-03 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, 51 Stuart Street, Hamilton, Ontario, L8L 1B5, Canada
Frustrated at a world of war, genocide, and an economy that only benefits the rich?
If you live in Hamilton or the surrounding area, join the Spring Socialist Network on Sunday, March 3rd at 2pm for a meet and greet with like-minded socialists in the region. The meet and greet will take place at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (51 Stuart St, Hamilton, ON).
We hope to discuss movement building and continue organizing efforts for the Hamilton area.
Light refreshments will be provided! Small donations welcome.
Hope to see you there!

Vancouver Spring Meeting
2024-03-02 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | Coal Harbour Community Centre, 480 Broughton St, Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Come join Spring as we talk about organizing around workers’ solidarity, freeing Palestine, abolition, Black liberation, Indigenous sovereignty, migrant rights, disability justice, housing for all, 2SLGBTQIA+ equality and how all of these fights and more intersect with one another! We will meet at the Coal Harbour Community Centre (480 Broughton St, Vancouver) on Saturday, March 2nd at 2pm. Bring a friend!
Note: The community centre is a little hidden behind construction right now, but it’s still open and there are no noise issues. The venue and room are wheelchair accessible!

Lessons from the Québec Common Front
2024-02-25 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Join Spring on Sunday, February 25 at 5:00 pm ET / 2:00pm PT / 6:00pm AT for a conversation with Benoit Renaud, a Québec education worker and socialist, about lessons we can learn from the Québec labour movement.
In November and December, over half a million workers in Québec went on strike for 11 days to defend decent wages and public services.
This was the largest strike in Québec’s history. They have won a tentative agreement that includes wage increases of more than 17% over 5 years with a 6% increase in the first year, retroactive to April 1, 2023. They also won a number of important provisions to improve working conditions and the quality of public services.
Votes on the tentative agreement will continue until February 19, and the Front commun has said strikes will resume if the deal is rejected.
To register, please click here. Please email info@springmag.ca with any questions.

Ottawa Spring Organizing Meeting
2024-02-17 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Atelier d’innovation sociale, 95 Clegg St, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1C4, Canada
Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, February 17th at 11:00am at 95 Clegg Street!
We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. We will also discuss building a local Ottawa chapter of the Spring Socialist Network.
This meeting is open to anyone who is interested in getting involved. It is a great chance to meet like-minded socialists and organize together!
Please email info@springmag.ca with any questions.
See you there!

Halifax Organizing Meeting
2024-02-08 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Halifax) | Veith House, 3115 Veith St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3K 3G9, Canada
Join the Spring Socialist Network’s Kjipuktuk/Halifax branch organizing meeting on Thursday, February 8th at 5pm, happening at Veith House (3115 Veith St)!
We will be discussing pressing political issues and strategizing about how we can build the power to oppose oppression and take on the bosses.
This meeting is open to all Spring members in the HRM and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring.

Spring Reading Group: Teamster Rebellion
2024-02-04 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Join Spring’s Labour Caucus for a reading group and discussion of Farrell Dobbs’ classic book, “Teamster Rebellion.”
The book chronicles the 1934 union organizing and activity of Teamsters Local 574 in Minnesota, of which Dobbs was a key rank-and-file leader. In the face of fierce strikebreaking efforts, repression, and brutal police violence, the workers organized a strike that would go down as a watershed moment in labour history.
We will be meeting in two sessions over Zoom:

Sunday, January 14, 7pm ET / 4pm PT / 8pm AT (Chapters 1-6)
Sunday, February 4, 7pm ET / 4pm PT / 8pm AT (Chapters 6-13)

All are welcome! To register, click here. If you need a copy of the book or if you have any questions, please email info@springmag.ca.

Toronto Spring Organizing Meeting
2024-01-25 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | 720 Spadina Ave, #202, Toronto, Ontario, 720 Spadina Ave, suite 202, Toronto, Ontario, M5S2T9, Canada
Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting!
We will be discussing key political issues as well as Palestinian liberation, socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements.
This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring.
This is an in-person meeting at 720 Spadina Ave (near Spadina station), Room #202. We ask everyone to wear a mask. Doors will be open for light refreshments at 5:30pm and the meeting starts at 6:00pm.

Ottawa Spring Organizing Meeting
2024-01-20 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | National Arts Centre, 2nd floor, 1 Elgin St, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5W1, Canada
Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Saturday, January 20th at 11:00am, on the second floor of the NAC (1 Elgin St).
We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. We will also discuss building a local Ottawa chapter of the Spring Socialist Network.
This meeting is open to anyone who is interested in getting involved. It is a great chance to meet like-minded socialists and organize together!
Email info@springmag.ca if you have any questions.
See you there!

Nova Scotia Phone Zap
2024-01-08 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Halifax) | Ontario
In solidarity with the call from the Atlantic Canadian Palestinian Society to do Mass Call Mondays, the Halifax branch of Spring is hosting a lunchtime phone zap on Monday, January 8 at noon.
Join us in calling on our elected provincial & federal officials to demand an arms embargo on Israel and a permanent ceasefire in Palestine.
Register at tinyurl.com/nsphonezap or email us at info@springmag.ca

Spring Toronto Holiday Party
2023-12-15 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Paupers Pub, 539 Bloor St W, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1Y5, Canada
Happy holidays, comrades! Join us on Friday, December 15th for our Toronto Spring Holiday Party at Paupers Pub, 539 Bloor Street West, 2nd floor, 6pm.
This is a chance to connect with people in Spring and supporters. We will have our annual trivia contest. All are welcome!

Spring Labour Caucus
2023-12-03 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Join the Spring Labour Caucus for this meeting of socialists in the labour movement.
We will be discussing how to build rank and file support for Palestine solidarity. As workers continue to face reprisal and backlash for expressing their support for Palestine, we need to build strong rank and file bases within our unions to leverage our power as workers to say no to genocide and no to occupation.
Members and non-members welcome! Click here to register.

Nova Scotia Phone Zap for a Permanent Ceasefire!
2023-11-30 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
On Thursday, November 30 at noon AT, join us for a Nova Scotia phone zap demanding a permanent #CeasefireNOW
A phone zap is an action where we collectively call our MPs and government cabinet ministers to raise our demands. It’s an easy and fun way to add pressure to our elected officials. We will all jump on Zoom where we will learn more about the demands and call our MPs together.
The action will be under an hour. Please invite your friends and contacts. You can register by clicking here.

Toronto Spring Meeting
2023-11-29 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | 720 Spadina Ave, #202, Toronto, Ontario, 720 Spadina Ave, suite 202, Toronto, Ontario, M5S2T9, Canada
Join Spring’s Toronto chapter organizing meeting!
We will be discussing key political issues as well as socialist strategy and tactics, building winning campaigns, and how to be effective socialist organizers in movements.
This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring.
This is an in-person meeting at 720 Spadina Ave (near Spadina station), Room #202. We ask everyone to wear a mask. Doors will be open for light refreshments at 5:30pm and the meeting starts at 6:00pm.

Building mass action for Palestine solidarity: Lessons from the UK
2023-11-26 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Despite vicious attacks from the media and politicians, Palestine solidarity has become a mass movement in the UK. Multiple demonstrations in London have drawn out over 250,000 people. The November 11th march had close to a million people attend. Large actions are continuously happening across the UK demanding the government support a ceasefire.
Shabbir Lakha is an officer with the Stop the War Coalition, which is playing a key role in organizing the movement. Join Spring for a discussion with Shabbir about how Stop the War and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign have strategically built a mass movement for Palestine.
This meeting is on Zoom. Click here to register.

Spring Ottawa Art Build
2023-11-24 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | 233 Gilmour St, 233 Gilmour St, Ottawa, Ontario
OTTAWA: Come join us this Friday at 6:30 to help us make banners and signs for the ‘National March on Ottawa for Palestine’. Snacks and supplies will be provided but feel free to bring any materials you’d like to use!!
Friday, Nov 24, 6:30pm
233 Gilmour St., 6th floor boardroom

Spring Ottawa Organizing Meeting
2023-11-19 10:30 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Equator Coffee NCA-CNA, 1 Elgin St, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5W1, Canada
Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, November 19th at 10:30am at Equator Coffee at the NAC (1 Elgin St).
We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. We will also discuss building a local Ottawa chapter of the Spring Socialist Network.
This meeting is open to anyone who is interested in getting involved. It is a great chance to meet like-minded socialists and organize together!
Hope to see you there!
(Email info@springmag.ca if you have any questions).

Palestine Solidarity Materials-Making Party (Toronto)
2023-11-12 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | 720 Spadina Ave, #202, Toronto, Ontario, 720 Spadina Ave, suite 202, Toronto, Ontario, M5S2T9, Canada
Join Spring’s Toronto chapter to make signs for Palestine!
The Ceasefire NOW! Toronto action will be taking place on Sunday at 1pm. Join us before the action begins to make signs, staple placards, and prepare other materials to make our support and solidarity with visible! Afterwards, we will travel together to the march (Nathan Phillips Square).
Our event will run from 9am to 12pm on a drop-in basis (no need to stick around for the entire time, though you’re welcome to do so!). Coffee, snacks, and some materials will be provided.
All are welcome!

Spring Labour Caucus
2023-11-11 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Join the Spring Labour Caucus for this meeting of socialists in the labour movement.
We will be talking about how we can be effective organizers in our trade unions and how we can build a fighting labour movement. We will be discussing the lessons from workers’ struggles during this ongoing “Red Hot Labour Fall” and opportunities to keep building a fighting working class in the weeks ahead and coming year.
Members and non-members welcome. Click here to register.

Spring Reading Group - Palestine: The Case for Revolution
2023-11-05 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | Ontario
Join Spring on Sunday, November 5 at 7pm ET / 4pm PT / 8pm AT over Zoom for a reading group discussion on Anne Alexander’s article, “Ending apartheid in Palestine: The case for a revolutionary strategy.”
With the Palestinian working class having to organize under constant violence for decades at the hands of the perpetually funded and armed Israeli occupation apparatus, and with sources of Israeli funding and machinery not directly dependent upon the exploitation of Palestinian labour, Alexander argues that fighting back against apartheid will require the revitalization and cooperation of revolutionary movements across the Arab world — not to forsake the Palestinian liberation movement, but to expand and deepen it.
Click here to register for the reading group, and click here to access the reading.

Palestine Solidarity Materials Making Party (Toronto)
2023-11-04 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Toronto) | 720 Spadina Ave, #202, Toronto, Ontario, 720 Spadina Ave, suite 202, Toronto, Ontario, M5S2T9, Canada
Join Spring’s Toronto chapter on Saturday, November 4 at 10am to make signs for Palestine!
On Saturday afternoon, the 100K March for Gaza will be taking place in Toronto as part of the National Day of Action for Palestine. Join us before the action begins to make signs, staple placards, and prepare other materials to make our support and solidarity with visible! Afterwards, we will travel together to the march (outside 361 University Avenue).
All are welcome!

Ceasefire NOW: How can we stop the genocide in Gaza? - Toronto Meeting
2023-11-02 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Toronto) | 720 Spadina Ave, 2nd floor, Toronto, ON, 720 Spadina Ave, 2nd floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Join the Toronto chapter of Spring for this urgent meeting about how we can build the power to stop the unfolding genocide in Gaza. We will be hearing from three speakers, followed by an organizing discussion.
The speakers:
*Dania Majid, Palestinian activist, lawyer with the Arab-Canadian Lawyers Association
*Suzanne Weiss, Holocaust survivor, author, activist
*James Clark, Spring Magazine
This meeting is open to all Spring members in the GTA and anyone who is interested in getting involved with Spring.
This is an in-person meeting at 720 Spadina Ave (near Spadina station), Room 223. We ask everyone to wear a mask. Doors will be open for light refreshments at 5:30pm and the meeting starts at 6:00pm.

Ottawa Spring Organizing Meeting
2023-10-29 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | Happy Goat Coffee, 145 Main Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Do you live in Ottawa? Are you interested in socialism and want to build strong local movements? Join us for our Ottawa Spring Meeting on Sunday, October 29th at 12:00 pm at Happy Goat Coffee, 145 Main Street.
We will be discussing socialism and how we can be part of building strong social movements in Ottawa. We will also discuss building a local Ottawa chapter of the Spring Socialist Network.
This meeting is open to anyone who is interested in getting involved. It is a great chance to meet like-minded socialists and organize together!
Hope to see you there!
(Email info@springmag.ca if you have any questions).
