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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1723 ... December 17, 2018
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Brazil: Fascism on the Verge of Power?

Jörg Nowak

The extreme right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the Brazilian presidential elections on 28 October in the second round with a margin of

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Every day 25 orangutans are lost in Borneo. These gentle, intelligent creatures are no match for the bulldozers and chainsaws that flatten their homes to make way for palm oil plantations.

There's one thing fuelling this destruction: the companies driving demand for cheap palm oil. We have a plan

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The free and open Internet is in greater danger today than ever before.

Paov—I wanted to make sure you saw this email. Canada's free and open Internet is at risk, but you can help us save it. And if you donate now, your gift will be DOUBLED by

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If you have a minute to answer a few questions, we'd be so grateful.

Can you spare a couple minutes to help choose our direction in Canada for 2019?

We want to make sure we're working on the campaigns that you care about most.

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Left Streamed — Recorded in Toronto, 12 November 2018

Remembering the Metro Days of Action

As Ontario faces a new round of neoliberal attacks on workers, the poor, racialized, and other marginalized communities it is important to draw lessons from past struggles.

For two days in October 1996, Toronto was shut

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PAOV, you’ve had an incredible year.

In 2018, you stood up for what you believe in, you took action on the issues that matter to you, and your actions made a real difference.

Together with the rest of the Leadnow community, you’ve achieved wins that no one thought were possible…

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Orangutans need you.

With your help we can make every big company in the world stop buying palm oil that destroys our rainforests.

We’ve got big plans - can you chip in CA$94 to save the orangutan in 2019?

If you've saved your payment information with SumOfUs, your donation will go

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The future of the Internet is up for review — let’s get it right.

Paov,

Do you want faster, affordable Internet access no matter where you are in Canada? More choice of providers and lower prices? Strong Net Neutrality protections that keep our...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1722 ... December 14, 2018
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The Political Revolution Goes to Work

Jane Slaughter

The term "political revolution" is an odd one. Bernie Sanders never said that voting for him or building his campaign would overthrow capitalism

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Norieen Yaakob of the Temiar tribe of Malaysia barely survived running away from her residential school. She was found 47 days after fleeing her school; five other children died.


Dear friend,
Will you help us end the horror of Factory Schools?

Plus, how courts can change the world, justice for Palestinians, and more.

This year, the Open Society Foundation for South Africa celebrates its 25th anniversary . When Open Society Foundations Founder and Chair George Soros first visited the country, while it was still under the apartheid system, South Africa was the…

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Last chance to fill out our community survey.

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Next February, a group of inspiring climate organizers are bringing back Powershift, a weekend long summit for young people across Canada

Friends,

Last Friday, I joined a few dozen others on a cold Montreal morning to greet Justin Trudeau and Canada’s Premiers with a simple message: Canada needs its own

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End indefinite isolation

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BREAKING: Procter & Gamble’s villainous palm oil partner, FGV, has been sanctioned over multiple human rights violations, including trafficking and forced labour.

It’s the evidence we need to force big brands to get rid of conflict palm oil once and for all!

Tell Procter & Gamble and other big companies: clean conflict

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1721 ... December 13, 2018
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GM Oshawa: Making Hope Possible

Sam Gindin

The once unimaginable -- the end of GM Oshawa -- seems on the verge of becoming the new reality. If there is any lesson to be

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Fighting for compassion and choice

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All through this year, SumOfUs members like you have taken the fight to some of the biggest and worst behaved companies in the world.

Your passion and commitment to fight for people and planet over profit has made huge changes and touched people all over the world. You’ve given

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1720 ... December 12, 2018
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Siloed Thinking, Climate, and Disposable People

Judith Deutsch

Thinking in siloes about the climate and about our planet's people puts us at risk of increasing climate disruption and massive loss of

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Demand police accountability

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The tar sands are flailing. Now what? r1 An unprecedented winning streak. Uncompromising champions. No wonder the tar sands are flailing. ...

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1719 ... December 11, 2018
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The Homelessness Crisis Deepens Across North America

John Clarke

As an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) in Toronto, I am only too aware of how much worse the

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The future of the Internet is up for review — let’s get it right.

Hi Paov,

The government of Canada is reviewing the laws that govern our communications systems, including the Internet, and this is our best chance to put the public interest...

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7 days to #fundthefuture

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It’s crunch time. The Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare is about to report back to the government.

Big Pharma and insurance industries are spending big bucks to lobby for a “fill-in-the-gaps" model. Let’s make sure that we challenge their self-serving efforts.

You can write to the Chair

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1718 ... December 10, 2018
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Premonitions: Fragments of a Culture of Revolt

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AK Thompson’s newest book, Premonitions: Selected Essays on the Culture of Revolt , is focused on strategic and analytical insights about how our social movements

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A tiny township needs your help to protect its precious water from Nestlé. Legal costs are spiralling and Nestlé is still trying to bully the community into backing down.

The residents of Osceola are asking for your support: a donation from you today -- no matter how small -- will help

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Carbon offsets for Indigenous rights?!? r1 Make a decisive commitment to climate change resistance. Donate to RAVEN and offset your carbon emissions. ...

Left Streamed — Recorded in Toronto, 12 November 2018

The State of Mining Today

The Mt. Polley tailing dam tragedy in BC took place in August 2014, spilling 25 million cubic meters of toxic waste. On November 5, Brazilians commemorate the 3rd anniversary of an even bigger catastrophe at Mariana, Brazil,

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A batch of freshly roasted Nicaragua coffee is available by 1 lb bag at $14. Pick up at Allen's, 254 Moss Street. Phone ahead 384-0477.
Savor this fine fragrant coffee as winter skies gather.

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Big media corporations are lobbying for copyright taxes, and we’re running out of time to stop them.

Paov,

Corporations are lobbying Parliament for a greedy wish list of revisions to the Copyright Act.

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Nestlé is sucking up a tiny township’s water supply.

Now the community are heading to court to protect their most precious resource.

But they’re facing spiralling legal costs and Nestlé’s bullying tactics. So they need your help to keep their fight going.

Will you please chip in CA$93 to stop

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1717 ... December 7, 2018
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Taking on the GM Shutdown: Unifor, Oshawa and Community Control

Socialist Project Steering Committee

General Motor’s plan to end production at its Oshawa plant at the end of 2019 is a

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Cadbury is supporting deforestation by refusing to commit to sourcing only sustainably grown cocoa beans.

Tell Cadbury to make a commitment to agroforestry, go deforestation-free worldwide, and help bring back the rainforests!

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‘Twas a few weeks before Christmas, and all through the trees
Not a creature

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With an election in 2019, we need a plan, and we need it now.

Friends,

Yesterday, Catherine Mckenna – Canada’s Environment Minister – announced that by 2020, Canada would have a new, more ambitious climate target. This is good news, especially since McKenna and Justin Trudeau have been using Stephen Harper’s ridiculously

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What should our priorities be in 2019?

Dear Paov,

What do YOU think OpenMedia should work on next year? When it comes to fighting censorship, out of control surveillance and sky-high cell phone bills, our best ideas come from our incredible community members, like you. OpenMedia...

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Right now, the Chinese government is detaining a million people in internment camps -- just because they’re Muslim. And yet Google is developing a censored search engine for China, legitimising the government’s brutal human rights record.

Tell Google to cancel the project now.

Sign the petition

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Right now at least

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1716 ... December 6, 2018
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The Far Right, the Hard Right, and Our Fight Against Them

David Camfield

The massacre of worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh by a far-right shooter and the election of fascist

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PIPE UP Network

Dear Paov --

This is a reminder that the party we've all been waiting for is tomorrow at 4:30PM ! We are so excited to wrap up 2018 with you! There will be music, food, storytelling, and more! So please bring yourself and a dish to share

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A jury ruled that Monsanto's toxic weedkiller caused Dewayne Johnson’s terminal cancer. Tell Bayer to drop the appeal and pay Johnson the compensation he deserves!

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A jury recently ruled that Monsanto and its pesticide, glyphosate, caused Mr. Dewayne Johnson’s terminal cancer. But instead of accepting responsibility, the company is

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1715 ... December 5, 2018
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Oshawa and Postal Workers: Big and Small Lies We Accept

Harry Glasbeek

In 1979, Canada’s postal union (CUPW) bargained and bargained with the employer. Eventually, having exhausted all possibilities, it made

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Are you ready to take the fight against Monsanto to the next level? Thousands of people have cancer after using Monsanto’s toxic weedkiller RoundUp. We want to help them access their legal rights to bring Monsanto & Bayer to justice, and stop glyphosate for good.

Can you please chip in CA$92

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It was the largest and longest CPP meeting in its entire 20 year history

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I have some incredible things to tell you. I was at the last public meeting for the CPP Investment Board last week and I'm so proud to report that, because of members like you, the

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Justice for Hassan Diab

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1714 ... December 4, 2018
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Yellow Vest Protest Movement: Inequality and the Hollowness of the French Regime

Richard Greeman

Ignored by French President Emmanuel Macron, distorted by the media, courted by the Right, snubbed by the

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Giant oil corp Husky responsible for yet another oil spill

Oil giant Husky just spilled 250,000 litres of oil directly into the ocean -- the largest spill in Newfoundland's history.

It’s time the federal government ends all offshore oil extraction into the Atlantic.

Sign the Petition

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Oil giant Husky finally

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Dear Friends of SJS,

Reminder: Participate in the 2018 Vote on Electoral Reform

The deadline for ballots was extended until 4:30 pm on Friday, December 7, 2018

While it may be too late to get your ballot in the mail, in Greater Victoria, you can drop off your ballot at:

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Friends,

Last night, when Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced her plans to temporarily cut oil production in the province, she missed a golden opportunity. 1 Instead of rationalizing this decision as a convoluted way to increase demand for Alberta oil in the long term, I wish Premier Notley could

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PIPE UP Network

Dear Paov --

We would like to invite you to join us on December 6th at Yarrow Community School for PIPE UP Network’s annual Festive Party!

It has been a whirlwind of a year, and with 2018 coming to a close we would like to have

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1713 ... December 3, 2018
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The Climate Report that Trump Tried to Bury

Under the Global Change Research Act of 1990, the U.S. Global Change Research Program, composed of 13 agencies headed by the National Oceanic

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Left Streamed — Recorded in Toronto, 24 October 2018

Amazon Is the New Factory:
Warehouse Labour in the Digital Economy

Between your Amazon home delivery and Jeff Bezos’ bottom line is a platform-based system that organizes a massive workforce, speeds up work, and contributes to making jobs more precarious and unstable.

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Solidarity with CUPW:
Against the PC-Liberal Clampdown

The Socialist Project expresses solidarity with the courageous actions across Canada in defence of the postal workers’ right to strike this morning.

We are proud that a number of our members participated in the pickets that shut down the Canada Post sorting facility

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A jury ruled that Monsanto's toxic weedkiller caused Dewayne Johnson’s terminal cancer. Tell Bayer to drop the appeal and pay Johnson the compensation he deserves!

A jury ruled that Monsanto's toxic weedkiller caused Dewayne Johnson’s terminal cancer . To avoid paying compensation and keep other glyphosate victims from coming forward, its

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This Sunday is our LAST big day of calling to win Pro Rep for BC. Will you join us in Victoria at 1PM to help make get-out-the-vote calls?

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I can’t quite believe it. This Sunday is our last big day of action to bring proportional representation (Pro Rep)

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This referendum is a nail biter. Every poll puts the two sides neck in neck, with Too Close to Call predicting that if the ballots were counted on November 24 , the NO side would win by just 2%. But the important news is: The ballots from ridings where people are

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1712 ... November 30, 2018
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Doug Ford’s War on Ontario’s Poor

John Clarke

Ontario’s recently elected Tory government, headed by right wing populist, Doug Ford, did not wait very long to incorporate into its reactionary agenda,

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Dear Friends of SJS,

Equity and Human Rights is currently accepting nominations for the annual Provost’s Advocacy and Activism Award in Equity and Diversity. These awards recognizes the achievements of individuals or groups in the University community (current students, faculty, or staff, and alumni) who demonstrate dedication to the advancement

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